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author | William Joye <wjoye@cfa.harvard.edu> | 2016-10-27 20:28:26 (GMT) |
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committer | William Joye <wjoye@cfa.harvard.edu> | 2016-10-27 20:28:26 (GMT) |
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diff --git a/tkimg/ANNOUNCE b/tkimg/ANNOUNCE new file mode 100644 index 0000000..89de1e7 --- /dev/null +++ b/tkimg/ANNOUNCE @@ -0,0 +1,79 @@ +I'm happy to announce version 1.4.2 of the "tkImg" package +(formerly known as 'Img"). + +This package enhances Tk, adding support for many other Image formats. + +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 + +This version only works with Tcl/Tk 8.3 or higher (tested up to +8.6.1). If you are using Tk8.2 or lower, please stick with tkImg1.3 +(which is still available). + +Currently there are three identical source distributions: + tkimg142.zip (for Windows) (about 7.4 Mb) + tkimg1.4.2.tar.gz (for Unix) (about 6.6 Mb) + tkimg1.4.2.tar.bz2 (for Unix) (about 4.9 Mb) + +All these files 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): + +Paul Obermeier <obermeier@users.sourceforge.net> + Bugfixes and all new formats. +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. +Larry Virden <lvirden@cas.org> + Bug reports and other useful remarks. +Mario Weilguni <mweilguni@sime.com> + Many improvements to imgXPM.c. + +Enjoy, + Jan Nijtmans + email: nijtmans@users.sourceforge.net + url: http://purl.oclc.org/net/nijtmans/ + + Andreas Kupries, ActiveState Corp + email: andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net (private) + akupries@shaw.ca (private) + andreask@activestate.com (work) + url: http://www.purl.org/NET/akupries/ |