TIFF CHANGE INFORMATION
This document describes the changes made to the software between the
previous and current versions (see above).
If you don't find something listed here, then it was not done in this
timeframe, or it was not considered important enough to be mentioned.
The following information is located here:
MAJOR CHANGES:
- Replace runtime endianess check with the compile time one.
- Added support for the new predictor type (floating point
predictor), defined at the TIFF Technical Note 3.
- Added Support for custom tags, passed by value.
Added support for all DNG tags.
CHANGES IN THE SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION:
- Applied patch from Patrick Welche (all scripts moved in the
'config' and 'm4' directories).
- SConstruct, libtiff/SConstruct: Added the first very preliminary
support for SCons software building tool (http://www.scons.org/).
This is experimental infrastructure and it will exist along with the
autotools stuff.
- port/lfind.c: Added lfind() replacement module.
CHANGES IN LIBTIFF:
- tif_dir.c: When prefreeing tv->value in TIFFSetFieldV
also set it to NULL to avoid double free when re-setting custom
string fields as per:
http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=922
- tif_dir.c: Fixed up support for swapping "double complex"
values (128 bits as 2 64 bits doubles). GDAL gcore tests now
pass on bigendian (macosx) system.
- libtiff/{tif_dirread.c, tif_dirinfo.c}: Do not upcast BYTEs to
SHORTs in the TIFFFetchByteArray(). Remove TIFFFetchExtraSamples()
function, use TIFFFetchNormalTag() instead as per bug
http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=831
Remove TIFFFetchExtraSamples() function, use TIFFFetchNormalTag()
instead.
- tif_print.c: Fixed printing of the BYTE and SBYTE arrays.
- tif_write.c: Do not check the PlanarConfiguration field in
the TIFFWriteCheck() function in case of single band images (as per
TIFF spec).
- libtiff/{tif_dir.c, tif_dir.h, tif_dirinfo.c, tif_print.c}:
Make FieldOfViewCotangent, MatrixWorldToScreen, MatrixWorldToCamera,
ImageFullWidth, ImageFullLength and PrimaryChromaticities tags custom.
CHANGES IN THE TOOLS:
- tiffcp.c: Fixed WhitePoint tag copying.
CHANGES IN THE CONTRIB AREA:
- tiffdump.c: Added support for TIFF_IFD datatype.
- addtiffo/{tif_overview.c, tif_ovrcache.c, tif_ovrcache.h}:
Make overviews working for contiguous images.
Last updated $Date: 2005-09-12 13:49:01 $.