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GraphicsMagick News
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This file was last updated on April 29, 2008

Please note that this file records news for the associated development
branch and that each development branch has its own NEWS file. See the
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1.2 (April 29, 2008)
====================

Security fixes:

  * Fixes for CERT security alert TA04-217A described at
    "http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA04-217A.html".
  * AVI, BMP, & DIB security fixes.
  * PSD security fixes.
  * P7 format security fix.
  * Fix EXIF IFD stack overflow vulnerability.
  * SGI security fix for RLE encoding (CVE-2006-4144)
  * XCF security fix (CVE-2006-3743)
  * PALM heap overflow fix (CVE-2006-5456)
  * DCM security fix (CVE-2006-5456)
  * Fix for shell command injection in delegate code via file names)
    (CVE-2005-4601).  Delegate execution is much more secure now.
  * Don't use filenames as printf specifications (CVE-2006-0082).
  * Fix integer overflow in DCM coder (CVE-2007-1797).
  * XWD integer overflow fix (CVE-2007-1797).
  * Implementation has replaced usage of strcpy, strcat, and strncat
    with the more security conscious strlcat and strlcpy.
  * DCM, DIB, XCF, XBM, and XWD security fix for integer overflow
    vulnerability (IDefense 09.19.07).
  * Do not access X11 or invoke convenience or stealth delegate programs
    based on the file extension. In particular, these file extensions are
    rejected for consideration as a format specifier: 'autotrace',
    'browse', 'dcraw', 'edit', 'gs-color', 'gs-color+alpha', 'gs-gray',
    'gs-mono', 'launch', 'mpeg-encode', 'print', 'scan', 'show', 'win',
    'xc', and 'x'.

Bug fixes:

  * The configure script now searches for a web browser in the order
    mozilla, firefox, and finally netscape.
  * When the user specifies the -units option, the current image
    resolution values are now re-scaled to match the new units.
  * Properly determine Ghostscript font location for Ghostscript 8.0 and later.
  * GraphicsMagick now successfully builds and passes all tests under
    Digital Unix 5.1, using the vendor compiler.
  * Ghostscript sometimes displays an error message and fails, yet it
    returns a success error code to GraphicsMagick. Verify that
    Ghostscript has updated the output file before attempting to use it.
  * Fixed a configure script syntax error when testing for trio.
  * When requesting a list of formats, all of the modules in the module
    search path are considered. Previously only the modules in the same
    directory as the LOGO module were listed.
  * Ensure that an image clip mask is respected by the negate algorithm.
  * The BMP writer was sometimes writing incorrect BMP v4 files.
  * Support reading and writing large PCX files.
  * The Red Hat source RPM was failing to install the -config scripts
    with execute permissions.
  * Fixed a bug which could cause possible truncation while cloning the
    image cache.
  * Ensure that MIFF files indicate the compression which was actually used.
  * Properly handle errors from libtiff so that corrupted images are not
    output.
  * Fix for stripped-TIFF reader. Discard extra samples beyond alpha in
    scanline TIFFs.
  * Endian option now controls TIFF byte-order rather than bit-order.
  * TIFF writer can now write to pipes and other non-seekable output
    destinations.
  * JBIG writer was writing empty files for some libjbig releases.
  * Improved handling of corrupt GIF files.
  * Handle large SUN format images.
  * Properly compute image depth for 16-bit SGI image files.
  * For the gmdisplay program, ensure that only RGB data is sent to Windows.
  * Many memory leak fixes.
  * PDF writer is fixed so that Ghoscript 8.5 doesn't warn about the output.
  * PDF writer now writes proper output with CCITT compression.
  * Properly use fseeko() and ftello() if they are available.
  * Fixed a infinite loop bug in the XWD reader.
  * Fix minor memory leak in ProfileImage().
  * Fixed -level command parsing when a percent symbol is supplied within the
    argument rather than at the end.
  * Fix pixel scaling problem caused by floating point
    rounding error (noticed under AIX).
  * Fixed a memory leak in the GIF coder in the error return path.
  * Fix for SourceForge bug id 1353744 "MagickGetQuantumDepth doesn't work".
  * Fix for SourceForge bug id 1315109 "segfault in InitializeMagick(NULL)".
  * Fix for SourceForge bug id 1391421 "problem doing resize on 273x1 JPEG".
  * Fix for SourceForge bug id 1510075 "Failed to write PDF with JPEG compression".
  * Fix for SourceForge bug id 1572357 "GetOnePixel definition appears incorrect".
  * Fix for SourceForge bug id 1576616 Fix includedir variable in pkg-config files".
  * Fix for SourceForge bug id 1173713 "segfault in ModifyCache".
  * Fix for SourceForge bug id 1431805 "clip art wpg files cause access violation
    in graphics magick".
  * Fix for SourceForge bug id 1743141 "Affine matrix option parsing".
  * Fix for SourceForge bug id 1625477 "Memory leak reading layered PSD Image".
  * Fix for SourceForge bug id 1878992 "literal square brackets in file
    name cause large delay and bug id 1783209 "converting runs slowly
    when subimage is specified".
  * Fix for SourceForge bug id 1883527 "compression of tiff-file has no effect".
  * Successfully read files in the form "file[123]".
  * Fix reading 12-bit grayscale JPEG.
  * Set image depth appropriately when importing image from X11 display.
  * Fix map resource tracking.
  * Fix reading recent variants of ImageMagick's MIFF format.
  * Output bilevel TIFF meeting the TIFF Class F specification.

New Utilities:

  * A 'benchmark' subcommand is now available to benchmark the
    performance of any other arbitrary subcommand (e.g. 'convert').

Feature improvements:

  * LZW compression is now enabled by default.
  * Support industry-standard subsampling notation like "4:2:2".
  * If gm is executed under a traditional alternate name (e.g.
    convert), it will invoke the appropriate sub-command. This allows
    use of hard links, symbolic links, or just copying 'gm' to the
    desired sub-command name in order to achieve 100% ImageMagick 5.5.2
    utility compatibility.
  * Provide the --enable-magick-compat option when configuring to install
    ImageMagick utilities compatibility links.
  * Identify -verbose output includes normalized (0.0-1.0) statistics.
  * Identify and convert now print "pixels per second" rates to help
    evaluate performance.
  * Added the identify +ping option to force reading the complete file.
  * The display program now supports the +progress option to disable any
    visual progress indication (and hourglass cursor) while loading images.
  * Support writing grayscale TGA files.
  * Provide explicit support for Rec 601 and Rec 709 grayscale spaces.
  * Include some support for a log RGB space based on the 2.048 density
    range as defined for the Cineon Digital Film System.
  * Added utilities command-line support for industry standard subsampling
    notation like 4:4:4 and 4:2:2.
  * Use MAGICK_IOBUF_SIZE to tune the size of the I/O buffer.
  * Use -type Bilevel, Grayscale, TrueColor, or TrueColorMatte to
    influence the type of image that Ghostscript returns.
  * Use '-define tiff:fill-order={msb2lsb|lsb2msb}' to control TIFF bit
    fill order.
  * The -version option now dumps a feature list as well as the build
    options.
  * The -endian option now supports the option 'native'.
  * A -monitor is added to enable progress monitoring for the command line
    utilities.
  * Use the -output-directory option to 'mogrify' to send output files to
    the specified directory.
  * Use the -create-directories option in conjunction with
    -output-directory and 'mogrify' to create any necessary subdirectories.
  * A Pixels resource limit is added.  Use '-limit Pixels value' to limit
    the maximum number of pixels in an image to 'value'.
  * The already supported option '-type Optimize' is now honored by
    formats that need to choose a subformat based on the properties of
    the image. Grueling tests of many/all pixels are not performed
    unless '-type Optimize' is supplied.
  * Added a a -set option to the composite, convert, display, mogrify,
    import commands in order to allow setting an image attribute.
  * Display utility no longer defaults to reading from standard input if
    stdin is not a tty.
  * May now be configured to use the umem memory allocation library
    available in Solaris 9, Update 3 and later, or from the portable umem
    project.

Coder additions/improvements:

  * Replaced existing DPX "support" with all-new DPX support conforming
    to the SMPTE 268M-2003 standard.
  * Cineon reader completely rewritten.
  * TIFF coder is completely re-written. Now supports reading and
    writing RGB, CMYK, and grayscale, scanline-oriented TIFF images
    with arbitrary (1 to 32 bits) depth. Includes support for tiled
    TIFF, floating point TIFF, LogLuv TIFF, BigTIFF, arbitrary depths,
    and associated alpha.
  * TIFF coder now supports retrieving and saving XMP profiles.
  * MATLAB support is much improved and supports writing as well.
  * WPG reader now supports CTM translations.
  * ART format now supports writing.
  * Support 32-bit raw RGB images.
  * Support 32-bit raw CMYK images.
  * Support 32-bit raw gray images.
  * JP2 coder reads images in YCbCr colorspace and retrieves an embedded
    ICC ICM color profile if present.

API enhancements:

  * Added ExportImageChannel() and ImportImageChannel() APIs to support
    exporting and importing pixel regions with an arbitary range of (1
    to 32) bits per quantum.
  * Added image leveling methods for Magick++.
  * Generalized GetImageAttribute() support for retrieving wildcarded
    attributes so that an identify -format specification like
    ``"%[dpx:*]"`` works as expected.
  * Incorporated changes changes necessary so that GraphicsMagick can
    work with the Ch C/C++ interpreter from SoftIntegration at
    http://www.softintegration.com/.
  * Added MagickAllocFunctions() to allow the API user to replace the
    underlying memory allocator functions.
  * Added MagickMalloc() and deprecated AcquireMemory().
  * Added MagickCloneMemory() and deprecated CloneMemory().
  * Added MagickMallocArray() to safely allocate N items of size S.
  * Added MagickRealloc() and deprecated ReacquireMemory().
  * Added MagickFree() and deprecated LiberateMemory().

Performance improvments:

  * The DispatchImage() and ConstituteImage() functions incorporate
    special case code for BGR, BGRO, BGRP, RGB, RGBO, and I formats (8
    bit only) in order to improve performance dramatically.
  * When writing very large JPEG images, don't enable Huffman compression
    since doing so requires libjpeg to buffer the entire image in memory.
  * When using the 'identify' -verbose option, -verbose must be specified
    twice in order to obtain the color count.  This makes normal use of
    -verbose much faster.
  * Significantly improved read/write speed for bilevel and gray images.
  * TIFF I/O is considerably faster.
  * Postscript writer is 10-15X faster.
  * PNM formats writer is 10-100X faster.
  * Rotate by 90 or 270 degrees is 2-9X faster.

Windows-specific improvements/changes:

  * For the MinGW and Cygwin builds, the Magick++ library is forced to
    build as a static library since otherwise C++ exceptions don't work.
  * MinGW cross-build is available from a Linux or FreeBSD host.
  * Determine location of Ghostscript fonts only once in order to improve
    performance.
  * Updated bzip2 to 1.0.4.
  * Updated Jasper library to version 1.900.1.
  * Updated jbigkit to 1.6
  * Updated lcms to 1.17
  * Updated libpng to 1.2.27.
  * Updated libtiff to 3.8.2
  * Updated zlib to 1.2.3.
  * Libtiff supports LZW compression.
  * X11 is no longer part of the default build and will not be included
    in the distributed install packages (but can still be built).
  * Find latest Ghostscript which idenfies itself as "GPL Ghostscript".
  * Use GlobalMemoryStatusEx(), if available, to determine how much
    physical memory is available. Important for large-memory machines.
  * Fixed NTreaddir() so that it does not write beyond its buffer.
  * Fixed opendir() emulation function so it can't overwrite the stack.
  * FlashPIX library sources are no longer distributed in the Windows
    source package and building FlashPIX is disabled by default.
    FlashPIX may still be built by adding the library (separately
    distributed).
  * Fix bitmap handle leak in CropImageToHBITMAP() and ImageToHBITMAP().

1.1 (Released April 4, 2004)
============================

Bug fixes:

  * Semaphore fix which is necessary for proper multi-threaded operation.
  * Configure script fix to ensure that -lfpx is not supplied to the C
    compiler during subsequent tests since this fails on some systems.
  * Fix for East and West gravity computations.
  * System error reports (errno) associated with an exception are now
    correctly obtained from the context existing when the exception was
    thrown rather than the context of the reporting function.
  * JNG encoder fix. Files were being written with incorrect
    alpha_sample_value in the header. These can be repaired by reading
    them into GM 1.1 and rewriting them.
  * XPM fix to module registration.
  * PSD fix for index calculation when QuantumDepth>8.
  * Validate that geometry specifications only include allowed
    characters.
  * SGI fix to save compression type while writing.
  * EXIF attributes were not being retrieved when requested.
  * Fix for bug when reading an image via a user-provided file
    descriptor.
  * The reported image magick string is now always that of the original
    input file (it was sometimes being reported as the format produced by
    an intermediate delegate program).
  * Fixes to color profiling of CMYK images.
  * Memory leak fixed in DrawClipPath().
  * Arc drawing is fixed.
  * Command-line parsing bug under Linux due to Linux's sscanfs
    inability to parse strings like "0x1" as "%fx%f" is fixed.
  * Scaling of 5 and 6-bit colors was slightly incorrect in BMP, AVI,
    DIB, and TIM datastreams.
  * GM utility now reports an error rather than silently returning if
    an unsupported sub-command is provided.
  * TIFF coder was writing 16-bit per sample RGB images incorrectly on
    little-endian CPUs.

Performance improvements:

  * Texture tiling is now 7X faster.
  * Color profile processing speed improvements for colormapped images.

Utilities enhancements:

  * For Unix, 'gm version' now includes a dump of the configure and
    build parameters.
  * Logging of thrown exceptions is now supported. Use '-debug
    exception'. This is useful to learn when and where errors are
    reported.
  * The -define option is added in order to support supplying
    additional options to coders without needing to add additional
    command line options or structure members.
  * The output of 'gm identify -verbose' now provides a nice dump
    of EXIF data.
  * The -sampling-factor option now accepts as many HxV pairs as
    there are JPEG components.  Omitted ones default to 1x1.
  * The convert and montage commands now support an -operator command to
    perform arithmetic and bitwise operations on specified image channels.

Coder additions/improvements

  * The META coder supports wide characters for the IPTC and 8BIM
    formats.
  * The XTRN coder now supports wide characters.
  * An "IMAGE" coder is provided which provides access to a large
    number of images (derived from XFig) suitable for use as patterns,
    or as test images.
  * The "PATTERN" coder now returns an image pattern tiled to size
    (equivalent results to TILE:IMAGE:pattern). This is for ImageMagick
    compatibility.
  * The CINEON coder now supports reading and writing images in CINEON
    "CIN" linear gray and RGB formats. The read support is still very
    weak, but it works for common images.
  * The JPEG coder now estimates the original JPEG quality and sampling
    factors and will reuse these options when writing JPEG if the image
    is of the same type and the option "-define JPEG:preserve-settings"
    is supplied.
  * The JPEG-2000 coder now supports all Jasper library arguments using
    command line syntax similar to '-define jp2:rate=0.5'.
  * Reading and writting compressed SVG (SVGZ) is now supported.
  * The TXT coder now observes depth when writing.
  * The TIFF coder now outputs colormapped images with 1, 2, 4, and 8
    bits per sample in order to provide much smaller file sizes for
    images with very few colors.
  * Many TIFF coder enhancements. Now reads colormapped and grayscale
    images at arbitrary (even odd) bits-per-sample sizes. Now properly
    supports an opacity channel (at any bits-per-sample value) for
    grayscale images. Bilevel grayscale images are treated similar to any
    other grayscale image unless CCITT FAX3/FAX4 compression is
    requested. Now allows the user to specify an arbitrary
    bits-per-sample value for grayscale images (even odd values) using
    "-define tiff:bits-per-sample=value". Now automatically stores the
    image as TrueColor RGB pixels if the image compression is set to JPEG.
    TIFF files are now written in using the TIFF library's default endian
    order rather than always big endian.
  * The WPG coder now renders embedded WMFs.
  * The PS3 coder is completely re-written to work much better and
    support more features (see ChangeLog).

Code structure enhancements:

  * Error handling has been improved and validated through testing.
    Some errors were being lost, unnecessarily ignored, or reported as
    something else entirely.
  * The number of error text messages to be maintained has been reduced
    by consolidating similar messages.
  * The memory allocator functions have been replaced with similar
    macros in order to eliminate warnings with GCC 3.3, avoid
    accidentally casting away const, and allow memory debuggers to
    report memory allocations and frees against the correct functions.
    The previously-used functions remain in the library for the purpose
    of compatibility.
  * <magick/xwindow.h> no longer depends on magick_config.h defines.
  * The text string localization code has been replaced with a simpler
    version written by Bill Radcliffe.
  * Added key,value "map" APIs (somewhat similar to C++'s <map>) for
    internal use.

API enhancements:

  * Incorporated John Cristy's Wand API's in a new GraphicsMagickWand
    library.
  * API definition is no longer dependent on types which vary in size
    (e.g. size_t) depending on large file compilation options.  This means
    that applications may now be compiled without any special large file
    options and still work properly with the library.
  * Thrown exceptions (ExceptionInfo structure) now include source
    file, source line, function name, and current system error number.
  * The GetMagickInfoArray() function is added to replace use of
    GetMagickInfo() for code which needs to access the coder list. This
    is necessary since invoking GetMagickInfo() may re-order the coder
    list, causing problems for code which traverses the list. Using
    GetMagickInfo() to access individual list elements is safe.
  * Added the CopyException function to support copying exception info
    from one structure to another.
  * Added the ReplaceImageInList function to replace an image in an
    image list.
  * Added the DrawPeekGraphicContext function to access the current
    DrawInfo structure in the drawing context stack. Use of this
    function is not recommended since it voilates proper programming
    practices. It is added to support the Wand API's.
  * GetImageDepth() now returns an integral value between 1 and
    QuantumDepth and is no longer limited to the values 8, 16, and 32.
  * SetImageDepth() supports setting the image modulus depth to any
    integral value between 1 and QuantumDepth. This effects the effective
    numeric precision, not the storage depth, since the quantum storage
    type is still a Quantum.
  * GetImageChannelDepth() supports retrieving the modulus depth for a
    specified channel.
  * SetImageChannelDepth() supports setting the modulus depth for a
    specified channel.
  * ProfileImage is updated to handle alpha channels and grayscale
    images.
  * Added GetImageProfile() to retrieve a CMS profile from an image.
  * Added SetImageProfile() to attach a CMS profile to an image without
    adjusting the image pixels.
  * Added DeleteImageProfile() to remove a CMS profile from an image.
  * ConstituteImage() and DispatchImage() now support 'T' (transparency),
    'O' (opacity), and 'P' (pad) options.
  * CompositeImage() now supports CopyCyanCompositeOp,
    CopyMagentaCompositeOp, CopyYellowCompositeOp, and
    CopyBlackCompositeOp, composition operators.
  * GetColorHistogram() obtains a color histogram for the image.
  * QuantumOperatorImage() and QuantumOperatorRegionImage() support
    arithmetic and bitwise operations on specified image channels.
  * The semaphore.h header is no longer installed or included in the
    API headers since these functions are private interfaces.
  * Configure using --enable-symbol-prefix or define
    PREFIX_MAGICK_SYMBOLS to use the C preprocessor to prefix all library
    symbols with "Gm". This prevents library symbol conflicts with other
    libraries.

PerlMagick fixes:

  * Adjusted a number of function option names so that they match the
    documentation.
  * Memory leak fixed.
  * Reading files (e.g. GIF) via a file descriptor is fixed.

Build improvements:

  * The TRIO library may be used to provide a replacement for vsnprintf
    if the C library doesn't provide it.  This improves security on old
    systems.
  * Configure only configures for C & C++ languages.
  * Configure now does a better job of figuring out how to build a
    thread-safe library across multiple operating systems.
  * Configure incorporates a new mmap() test which tests the
    functionality which is needed so that mmap() is not unnecessarily
    rejected on a number of systems. This improves performance for large
    files on those systems.
  * Configure/build fixes for IBM's AIX operating system.

Windows-specific improvements:

  * The static install package now uses the "uninstalled"
    configuration so that it does not depend on the Windows registry in
    order to run. This allows files from the static install package to
    be copied to another computer without running an installer.
  * The executable search path is extended at run-time to include the
    directory where the CORE DLLs reside in order to ensure that they
    are found.
  * Adding the -t option to VisualMagick configure enables building
    all of the coders into one library in order to save build time and
    simplify linkage.
  * The XTRN coder now supports wide characters.
  * LCMS library updated to version 1.10.
  * GMDisplay displays a checkerboard pattern behind transparent images.
  * Support is provided for issuing log messages to the Windows standard
    logging system.
  * Project files are now provided for use with Borland C++ Builder 6.0.
  * Updated LCMS version to 1.12.
  * Updated FreeType version to 2.1.5.
  * Updated JBIG-KIT to version 1.5.
  * Updated libpng to version 1.2.5.
  * Updated libwmf to version 0.2.8.2.
  * Updates zlib to version 1.2.1.
  * ActivePerl 5.8.1 Build 807 now supported.
  * GraphicsMagick now compiles using Visual Studio .NET 2003.

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1.0 (Released in May, 2003)
===========================

GraphicsMagick support services:

  * Master web site at "http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/".
  * Mailing lists, bug tracking, and forums available via
    "http://sourceforge.net/projects/graphicsmagick/".
  * CVSWeb via "http://cvs.graphicsmagick.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/".
  * CVS via cvs.graphicsmagick.org (find instructions at
    "http://www.graphicsmagick.org/www/cvs.html").
  * FTP via "ftp://ftp.graphicsmagick.org/pub/GraphicsMagick".

Project maintenance improvements:

  * ChangeLog conforms to the GNU standard and all CVS commits include
    useful log messages.
  * CVS commit messages posted to graphicsmagick-commit mail list.
  * CVS commit messages contain CVSWeb URL references.

Footprint changes from ImageMagick:

  * Library -lMagick renamed to -lGraphicsMagick.
  * Library -lMagick++ renamed to -lGraphicsMagick++.
  * Utilities consolidated into a single 'gm' utility (e.g. use 'gm
    convert').
  * Script Magick-config renamed to GraphicsMagick-config.
  * Script Magick++-config renamed to GraphicsMagick++-config.
  * Headers installed under ${PREFIX}/include/GraphicsMagick.
  * PerlMagick namespace renamed from "Image::Magick" to "Graphics::Magick".
  * Pkgconfig files GraphicsMagick.pc and GraphicsMagick++.pc are
    installed in $libdir/pkgconfig to assist pkg-config users.
  * Coder modules installed to lib/GraphicsMagick-1.0/modules-Q8/coders.
  * Filter modules installed to lib/GraphicsMagick-1.0/modules-Q8/filters.

Many performance enhancements:

  * Default QuantumDepth is 8 since this is adequate for most purposes
    and more efficient than 16.
  * The Magick++ demo (compiled with QuantumDepth=8 and -O2) runs about
    1.8X faster under SPARC/Solaris than the same demo with ImageMagick
    5.5.4.
  * Colorspace transformations are much faster.
  * Grayscale/monochrome image handling is much faster.
  * PseudoClass image handling is faster.
  * Text annotations using FreeType are much faster.
  * Image file I/O is much faster.
  * RLE-compressed MIFF reading much faster.

Code structure enhancements:

  * All utility support functions moved to magick/command.c in order to
    significantly reduce link dependencies, allowing statically-linked
    programs to be smaller.
  * Use of MogrifyImage() elminated except for by utilities.
  * Re-builds due to changes to <magick/image.h> reduced by splitting the
    header into multiple headers.
  * ISO C '99 typedefs (gm_int16_t, gm_uint16_t, gm_int32_t, gm_uint32_t,
    gm_int64_t, gm_uint64_t) are available for use.

Feature enhancements:

  * Module loader always enabled for shared builds to allow extension.
  * Loading of arbitrary filter modules (via -process option) supported
    under Unix as well as Windows.
  * SVG coder allows specifying size and initial background color.
  * JPEG-2000 coder (JP2) updated to work with Jasper 1.7.
  * HWB and HSL image colorspace translation support.
  * JNG/MNG/PNG format support tracks ImageMagick version.
  * BMP encoder can write 16-color indexed BMPs now as well as 2-color
    BMPs (not restricted to monochrome).
  * TIFF decoder now includes optimized support for tiled and stripped
    TIFF.
  * The -random-threshold option (RandomThresholdImage()) is added to
    threshold an image to bilevel using random thresholding.

Major bug fixes:

  * 100% successful test completion at all quantum depths (8/16/32).
  * A temporary file management subsystem is added to ensure that all
    temporary files are removed before program exit. Temporary files are
    created and used in a secure fashion to avoid the possibility that a
    "trojan" temporary file (e.g. a symbolic link, or a file containing
    unsafe content) is created before a delegate has the chance to write
    to it. The environment variable MAGICK_TMPDIR allows the user to
    specify where temporary files are created without altering where
    other programs create their temporary files. Temporary filenames are
    created in 8+3 format to hopefully be more acceptable to ralcgm.
  * When dithering is disabled, don't dither when converting to a
    PseudoClass, grayscale, or monochrome image. Disabling dithering
    may cause these translations to be much faster.
  * PICON format works with BLOBs.
  * No longer removes input file when pinging a FlashPIX file.
  * Arc drawing and texture fill fixes from ImageMagick.
  * Sample, scale and affine fixes from ImageMagick.
  * MIFF colormaps are now scaled properly while reading.
  * CMYK translation works for QuantumDepth=32.
  * ConstituteImage now works properly for grayscale images.
  * Built-in tilde expansion and filename globbing now works properly.
  * InitializeMagick now registers signal handlers to ensure that
    resources are released before program exit.  This helps avoid
    temporary file leaks due to the user using "CONTROL-C".
  * The installed <magick/magick_config.h> header now only contains
    the few definitions required by the API headers.  This should
    significantly reduce or eliminate conflicts with other package
    headers.

Windows platform enhancements:

  * Configure updated for Visual C++ 7.0.
  * OLE object (ImageMagickObject) re-written to work with Visual C++ 7.0
  * New function, CropImageToHBITMAP(), to return a region of the image
    as a Windows HBITMAP.
  * Use vsnprintf to format strings under Windows (safer).

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On November 19, 2002, GraphicsMagick was created as a fork of
ImageMagick, several days before the ImageMagick 5.5.2 release.

The objectives of GraphicsMagick are to:

  * Use an open development model.
  * Encourage new developers to join the project.
  * Avoid unnecessary source code "churn".
  * Establish and preserve a stable API.
  * Use efficient coding practices which result in fast code.
  * Improve memory efficiency.
  * Use a release process which assures a working product.
  * Maintain an accurate ChangeLog.


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| Copyright (C) 2003 - 2008 GraphicsMagick Group

This program is covered by multiple licenses, which are described in
Copyright.txt. You should have received a copy of Copyright.txt with this
package; otherwise see http://www.graphicsmagick.org/www/Copyright.html.


