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+We are happy to announce version 1.4.9 of the "tkImg" package

+(formerly known as "Img").

+

+This package enhances Tk, adding support for many image formats.

+

+Changes compared to version 1.4.8:

+  - Added new format "flir" for reading FLIR infrared images.

+  - Code cleanup for image formats supporting 16-bit or 32-bit channels.

+

+Changes compared to version 1.4.7:

+  - Upgrade to libpng 1.6.35.

+  - Bug fix for reading animated GIF's.

+  - Bug fix for RAW format handler regarding AutomaticGainControl.

+

+Changes compared to version 1.4.6:

+  - Upgrade to libpng 1.2.28, zlib 1.2.11.

+  - Added nmake files according to TIP 477: nmake build system reform

+  - Unified test scripts.

+  - Bug fix for SGI format handler.

+  - Enhanced RAW format handler with AutomaticGainControl algorithmn.

+

+Changes compared to version 1.4.5:

+  - Fixed bug #85: Tk panic on exit when pixmap images have been created.

+  - Fixed bug #87: png darker in 1.4.5.

+  - Changed behaviour of gamma handling:

+    Read: If no gamma is stored in PNG file, no gamma is set.

+          Previous behaviour was to set it to 0.45.

+    Write: No gamma value is written to PNG file.

+           Previous behaviour was to set it to 1.0.

+  - Added 2 new PNG format options "-verbose" and "-gamma".

+

+Changes compared to version 1.4.4:

+  - Upgrade to libjpeg-9.2.0, libpng-1.6.21

+  - Workaround for reading progressive JPEG images on Windows.

+  - Performance optimization under Windows for "-format window".

+

+Changes compared to version 1.4.3:

+  - Upgrade to libpng-1.6.19, libtiff-3.9.7

+  - Disable jbig support, as this generally cannot be relied upon (Bug #81)

+

+Changes compared to version 1.4.2:

+  - Bug fix when writing GIF images.

+  - Bug fix when reading greyscale PNG images with alpha channel.

+  - Added target install-libraries to install without documentation generation.

+

+Changes compared to version 1.4.1:

+  - Will build correctly on more platforms (TEA upgraded

+    to latest version 3.9)

+  - Upgrade to zlib 1.2.8, libjpeg-8d

+  - Added format option "-alpha" to PNG reader to be compatible with Tk 8.6.

+  - Bug fixes in various parsers to avoid core dumps when specifying a

+    wrong format option.

+

+Changes compared to version 1.4:

+  - Will build correctly on more platforms (TEA upgraded

+    to version 3.9)

+  - Upgrade to zlib 1.2.7, libpng-1.4.12, libtiff-3.9.4, libjpeg-8c

+

+

+Source and binary distributions can be downloaded from:

+    http://sourceforge.net/projects/tkimg/

+

+The most recent info is always available at:

+    http://sourceforge.net/projects/tkimg/

+

+See the README on how to build and use the packages.

+

+For PNG, JPEG and TIFF support the supporting packages have to be

+build and installed. See the file README for more in-depth

+explanations.

+

+For postscript you need Ghostscript (version 2.6 or higher) to be

+available on your system.

+

+Many thanks to the following people (alphabetical):

+

+Roger E Critchlow Jr <rec@elf.org>

+  BMP improvements.

+Nick Ing-Simmons <nick@ni-s.u-net.com>

+  XBM write function, perl-Tk port and many other useful

+  suggestions.

+Andreas Kupries <a.kupries@westend.com>

+  Testing on Linux, and supplying original "makefile.vc"

+  files for the Windows port.

+Ioi K. Lam <ioi@eng.sun.com>

+  Pixmap image type (imgPmap.c, imgUnixPmap.c, imgWinPmap.c),

+  many functions of which are used in imgXPM.c as well.

+Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

+  Wrote the JPEG handler (but I'm responsible for the

+  dynamical loading part).

+Lolo <lolo@pcsig22.etsimo.uniovi.es>

+  Original GIF87 write function.

+Ashok P. Nadkarni

+  nmake build system

+Paul Obermeier <obermeier@users.sourceforge.net>

+  Bugfixes and several new formats.

+Larry Virden <lvirden@cas.org>

+  Bug reports and other useful remarks.

+Mario Weilguni <mweilguni@sime.com>

+  Many improvements to imgXPM.c.

+

+Enjoy,

+    Jan Nijtmans    (nijtmans@users.sourceforge.net)

+    Andreas Kupries (andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net)

+    Paul Obermeier  (obermeier@users.sourceforge.net)