READ_GAMMA. Prior to 1.6.0 switching off READ_GAMMA did unpredictable things
to the interfaces that use it (specifically, png_do_background in 1.4 would
simply display composite for grayscale images but do composition
with the incorrect arithmetic for color ones). In 1.6 the semantic
of -DPNG_NO_READ_GAMMA is changed to simply disable any interface that
depends on it; this obliges people who set it to consider whether they
really want it off if they happen to use any of the interfaces in
question (typically most users who disable it won't).
management system (CMS). In practice it is not possible to obtain cHRM
information reliably using just the end-point tags because they do not exist
in the vast majority of profiles. Instead it is necessary to run the endpoints
through the ICC colorimetric intent transform (as described in the v4
spec). Since this is likely to be too much code inside libpng for too
little gain (it implies a fairly complete CMS implementation) the code
has been changed to allow an external CMS to be used. This code is
temporarily disabled until a suitable set of test cases using one or more
external CMS implementations have been implemented.
type rules. By the ANSI-C standard the new types should be identical to the
previous versions, and all known versions of gcc tested with the previous
versions except for GCC-4.2.1 work with this version. The change makes the
ANSI-C rule that const applied to an array of elements applies instead to the
elements in the array moot by explicitly applying const to the base
elements of the png_icc_matrix and png_icc_vector types. The accidental
(harmless) 'const' previously applied to the parameters of two of the
functions have also been removed.
Glenn thought the "adopted" were typos and changed them all to "adapted".
This reverts the spelling and adds parenthetical comments when each
word first appears in png.h.
fixed Cygwin+MSVC build errors. The ICC profile handling now includes more
checking. Several errors that caused rejection of the profile are now
handled with a warning in such a way that the invalid profiles will be
read by default in release (but not pre-RC) builds but will not be
written by default. The easy part of handling a cHRM chunk is written,
where the ICC profile contains the required data. The more difficult
part plus guessing a gAMA value requires code to pass selected RGB values
through the profile.
option to pngtest. The "--relaxed" option turns off the benign errors that are
enabled by default in pre-RC builds. makepng can now write ICC profiles
where the length has not been extended to a multiple of 4, and pngtest
now intercepts all libpng errors, allowing the previously-introduced
"--strict test" on no warnings to actually work.
