[Image-SIG] ANN: PIL 1.1.4 beta 1 (win32)
Fredrik Lundh
fredrik@pythonware.com
Sat, 26 Apr 2003 12:13:57 +0200
PIL 1.1.4 beta 1 installers for Windows are now available
from:
http://effbot.org/downloads#pil
I've prepared installers for Python 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3 (beta 1).
A list of changes can be found below:
...and a draft handbook can be found here:
http://effbot.org/books/imagingbook/
The source release will be available within a few days (I'm
waiting for certain contributors to provide me with improved
build files for certain non-windows/non-unix platforms...)
enjoy /F
*** Changes from release 1.1.3 to 1.1.4 ***
(see http://effbot.org/zone/pil-changes-114.htm )
(1.1.4 beta 1 released)
+ Added experimental EXIF support for JPEG files. To extract EXIF
information from a JPEG file, open the file as usual, and call the
"_getexif" method. If successful, this method returns a dictionary
mapping EXIF TIFF tags to values. If the file does not contain EXIF
data, the "_getexif" method returns None.
The "ExifTags" module contains a dictionary mapping tags to tag
names.
The "_getexit" interface will most likely change in future versions.
+ Fixed a bug when using the "transparency" option with the GIF
writer.
+ Added limited support for "bitfield compression" in BMP files
and DIB buffers, for 15-bit, 16-bit, and 32-bit images. This
also fixes a problem with ImageGrab module when copying screen-
dumps from the clipboard on 15/16/32-bit displays.
+ Added experimental WAL (Quake 2 textures) loader. To use this
loader, import WalImageFile and call the "open" method in that
module.
(1.1.4a4 released)
+ Added updated SANE driver (Andrew Kuchling, Abel Deuring)
+ Use Python's "mmap" module on non-Windows platforms to read some
uncompressed formats using memory mapping. Also added a "frombuffer"
method that allows you to access the contents of an existing string
or buffer object as if it were an image object.
+ Fixed a memory leak that could appear when processing mode "P"
images (from Pier Paolo Glave)
+ Ignore Unicode characters in the BDF loader (from Graham Dumpleton)
(1.1.4a3 released; windows only)
+ Added experimental RGBA-on-RGB drawing support. To use RGBA
colours on an RGB image, pass "RGBA" as the second string to
the ImageDraw.Draw constructor.
+ Added support for non-ASCII strings (Latin-1) and Unicode
to the truetype font renderer.
+ The ImageWin "Dib" object can now be constructed directly from
an image object.
+ The ImageWin module now allows you use window handles as well
as device contexts. To use a window handle, wrap the handle in
an ImageWin.HWND object, and pass in this object instead of the
device context.
(1.1.4a2 released)
+ Improved support for 16-bit unsigned integer images (mode "I;16").
This includes TIFF reader support, and support for "getextrema"
and "point" (from Klamer Shutte).
+ Made the BdfFontFile reader a bit more robust (from Kevin Cazabon
and Dmitry Vasiliev)
+ Changed TIFF writer to always write Compression tag, even when
using the default compression (from Greg Couch).
+ Added "show" support for Mac OS X (from Dan Wolfe).
+ Added clipboard support to the "ImageGrab" module (Windows only).
The "grabclipboard" function returns an Image object, a list of
filenames (not in 1.1.4), or None if neither was found.
(1.1.4a1 released)
+ Improved support for drawing RGB data in palette images. You can
now use RGB tuples or colour names (see below) when drawing in a
mode "P" image. The drawing layer automatically assigns color
indexes, as long as you don't use more than 256 unique colours.
+ Moved self test from MiniTest/test.py to ./selftest.py.
+ Added support for CSS3-style color strings to most places that
accept colour codes/tuples. This includes the "ImageDraw" module,
the Image "new" function, and the Image "paste" method.
Colour strings can use one of the following formats: "#f00",
"#ff0000", "rgb(255,0,0)", "rgb(100%,0%,0%)", "hsl(0, 100%, 50%)",
or "red" (most X11-style colour names are supported). See the
documentation for the "ImageColor" module for more information.
+ Fixed DCX decoder (based on input from Larry Bates)
+ Added "IptcImagePlugin.getiptcinfo" helper to extract IPTC/NAA
newsphoto properties from JPEG, TIFF, or IPTC files.
+ Support for TrueType/OpenType fonts has been added to
the standard distribution. You need the freetype 2.0
library.
+ Made the PCX reader a bit more robust when reading 2-bit
and 4-bit PCX images with odd image sizes.
+ Added "Kernel" class to the ImageFilter module. This class
allows you to filter images with user-defined 3x3 and 5x5
convolution kernels.
+ Added "putdata" support for mode "I", "F" and "RGB".
+ The GIF writer now supports the transparency option (from
Denis Benoit).
+ A HTML version of the module documentation is now shipped
with the source code distribution. You'll find the files in
the Doc subdirectory.
+ Added support for Palm pixmaps (from Bill Janssen). This
change was listed for 1.1.3, but the "PalmImagePlugin" driver
didn't make it into the distribution.
+ Improved decoder error messages.
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