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+ <title>DS9 Version 1.5 Release Notes</title>
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+<img alt="" src="../sun.gif" align="middle" height="98" width="100">Version
+1.5 Release
+Notes</h3>
+<ul>
+ <h4> <b>Version 1.5</b></h4>
+ <ol>
+ <li> <tt>Fixed problem with Windows style Open file dialog box</tt></li>
+ <li> <tt>Now supports following coords systems:</tt></li>
+ <ul>
+ <li> <tt>Image (was Logical)</tt></li>
+ <li> <tt>CCD (was Physical)</tt></li>
+ <li> <tt>Detector (was Mosaic Physical)</tt></li>
+ <li> <tt>Amplifier</tt></li>
+ <li> <tt>WCS</tt></li>
+ </ul>
+ <li> <tt>New version of Doug Mink's WCS libs</tt></li>
+ <li> <tt>Fixed minor problems with interactive Pan Mode</tt></li>
+ <li> <tt>Added "Source TCL" file support</tt></li>
+ <li> <tt>Open Mosaic Image command</tt></li>
+ <br>
+ <tt>Will open multiple fits files as a mosaic.</tt> <br>
+ <tt>Supports following patterns:</tt> <br>
+ <tt>*#.fits</tt> <br>
+ <tt>*_#.fits</tt> <br>
+ <tt>*.IM*.fits</tt> <li><tt>Open Mosaic Segment command</tt></li>
+ <li> <tt>Fixed minor problem with zscale and high energy data</tt></li>
+ <li> <tt>The Magnifier now Works!</tt></li>
+ <br>
+ <tt>There are two algorithms available (under Preferences)</tt> <br>
+ <tt>Magnification can be selected via preferences</tt>
+ <ol>
+ <li> <tt>Fast (and less Accurate)</tt></li>
+ <li> <tt>More Accurate (and slower)</tt></li>
+ </ol>
+ <li> <tt>Improvements to Dialogs</tt></li>
+ <li> <tt>Now supports (unoffical)FITS data size -16 (unsigned
+short)</tt></li>
+ <li> <tt>Support for byte swapped processors</tt></li>
+ <li> <tt>Support large images &gt; 8k x 8k</tt></li>
+ <li> <tt>Loading images are now 10x faster</tt></li>
+ <li> <tt>Supports BLANK Fits keyword</tt></li>
+ <li> <tt>&nbsp;Menu Short Cuts have been added (use Alt key, such
+as
+Alt-f for
+Frame menu)</tt></li>
+ <li> <tt>Horizontal and Verticle Graphs now work in all modes (not
+just Crosshair)</tt></li>
+ <li> <tt>ds9 will accept fits files via STDIN (ie. $ cat foo.fits
+|
+ds9 -file
+-&nbsp; )</tt></li>
+ <li> <tt>command line argument support (ie. $ds9 -? for list)</tt></li>
+ <li> <tt>crosshair position is more accurate</tt></li>
+ <li> <tt>added new scales: 'ln' and 'log'.</tt></li>
+ <ol>
+ <li> <tt>ln --&nbsp; SAOimage natural log based algorithm</tt></li>
+ <li> <tt>log--&nbsp; IRAF log base 10 algorithm</tt></li>
+ </ol>
+ <li> <tt>Support for Postscript printing (Level 1 and Level 2)</tt></li>
+ <li> <tt>Blinking is now supported</tt></li>
+ </ol>
+</ul>
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