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-Note: to change the version, you have to hack both Makefile and lib/Makefile.
-
-Version 3.0:
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-
-New features:
-* Incorporated Sirtaj Kang's changes to make both static and shared libs.
-* All the utility and library docs are HTML now.
-* The library and relevant utilities are now fully GIF89-aware.
-* Functions for drawing text and boxes on saved images are documented.
-* The distribution is now issued under a simple X-Consortium-style license.
-* Can now generate package RPMs and LSM automatically.
-* Home page with Web-acessible documentation at http://www.ccil.org/~esr/giflib
-
-Bug fixes:
-* Fix giftext to not core dump on a null extension record.
-* Incorporate Philip VanBaren's change to prevent a core dump in gifasm.
-
-Version 2.3:
--------------
-1. Fixed a core-dump bug in gifcomb revealed by the ELF environment in Linux
- 1.2.13.
-
-Version 2.2b:
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-1. Added gifburst tool.
-
-Version 2.2
------------
-1. Linux is supported.
-
-Version 2.1
------------
-1. Added the gifovly tool, which supports making a composite from several GIF
- images.
-
-2. Used gifovly to implement a full-fledged pasteup program in shell. It's
- called gifcompose and lives in the util directory.
-
-3. Added a copy of the GIF89 standard to the doc directory (gif89.txt);
- also a description of the preferred compression method (lzgif.txt).
-
-Version 2.0
------------
- With this version, development was taken over from Gershon Elber by Eric
-S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>. Note that I, esr, have pretty much
-adhered to Gershon's coding style, even though it's quite baroque and DOS-
-headed by my standards.
-
-Library Improvements
-
-1. New DGifSlurp() and EGifSpew() library entry points allow all GIF-bashing
- to be done in core on machines with sufficient memory. Writing code to
- slice'n'dice multiple GIFs in non-sequential ways is now much easier (send
- kudos and brickbats to esr, small unmarked bills preferred).
-
-2. The interface has changed somewhat. Members in the GifFileType structure
- have been renamed and regrouped. This was required for support of the
- SavedImages member (which enables the new functions mentioned in 1). Also,
- there is a new data type for allocated color maps and routines to handle
- it conveniently.
-
-3. Some minor bugs have been fixed. Most notably, the DGif code now correctly
- handles the possibility of more than one code block per extension record,
- as per the GIF spec. It's not clear, however, that anyone ever has or
- ever will use this feature for anything...
-
-New Tools and Options
-
-4. A brand new, ultra-spiffy tool `icon2gif' is included. It assembles named
- GIFs with editable text color map & icon raster representations to produce
- multi-image GIFs usable as graphical resource files. It can also dump most
- GIFs in the same text-only form it parses. This makes it easy to edit GIFs
- even if you don't have a graphics editor.
-
-5. The gifclip utility supports a new `-c' (complement) option that allows you
- to perform an `inverse clip', removing horizontal or vertical bands from an
- image.
-
-6. The gifclrmp utility supports a new `-t' switch for shuffling color index
- values.
-
-7. A new tool `gifcolor' generates test pattern from colormap input.
-
-New Documentation and Examples
-
-8. The documentation has been overhauled completely and translated out of the
- dialect spoken by the estimable Mr. Elber into something like standard
- English :-).
-
-9. Two source code files gifspnge.c and giffiltr.c have been added to the
- util directory. These are GIF copiers that exercise the I/O routines,
- provided as skeletons for your applications. Read the comments in them
- for more info.
-
-10. The util Makefile for UNIX has been improved. It now uses the cc/gcc -s
- option rather than strip(1). There are now separate install productions,
- so you can test new versions in util before installation for production
- (the top-level make script still does an install).
-
-
-Version 1.2
------------
-1. GIFFIX - a new tool to attempt and fix broken GIF images. Currently fix
- images that has EOF prematurely by padding with the darkest color.
-2. Make GIF2BGI display as much as it can considering the mem. avail.
-3. Add -q flag to all tools for quite running scan line number mode.
-4. Fix a (minor!?) bug in the GIF decoder when encountering code 4095.
-5. New tools (RGB2GIF and GIF2RGB) to convert GIF to/from 24 bits RGB images.
-6. New tool GIFROTAT to rotate a gif image by an arbitrary angle.
-7. GifRSize was updated to resize by an arbitrary factor.
-
-Version 1.1
------------
-1. GIF2BGI - a new utility to display GIF images using Borland's BGI drivers
- (if you have one...)
-2. TEXT2GIF - Converts plain text into GIF images.
-3. GIF2IRIS - SGI4D display program for GIF images.
-4. GIF_LIB naming convension has been modified to make sure it has unique
- names (see gif_lib.h).
-5. Support for SGI4D gl and X11 window grabbing has been added to the
- library. SGI4D input is quantizied into 8 bits.
- Also support for EGA/VGA devices has been added as well.
- see Dev2gif.c module.
-6. Support for the new gif89a format has been added.
-
-Enjoy,
-
-Gershon Elber
-gershon@cs.utah.edu
-
-Eric S. Raymond
-esr@snark.thyrsus.com