GraphicsMagick 1.1.9 released

GraphicsMagick 1.1.9 is the latest 1.1.X release and is completely 
compatible with prior 1.1.X releases.

Usually we don't add substantial new features into branch releases but 
this time around we added a new 'benchmark' subcommand which may be 
used to measure the performance of any of the other commands (e.g. 
'convert').  We also dramatically speeded up (by 2-9X!) image rotation 
by 90 or 270 degrees.

To download the latest GraphicsMagick, follow the "download" link at 
the top of the page at http://www.graphicsmagick.org/.  Downloading 
from SourceForge will offer the best performance.

The following are the changes in this release vs 1.1.8:

   Bugs Fixed:

     o In mogrify command, don't remove file name based on random junk in
       memory.
     o Fixed memory leak when reading MPC files.
     o Fixed crash when writing MIFF format and depth is not expected 8/16/32/.
     o Find latest Ghostscript under Windows which identifies itself as
       "GPL Ghostscript".
     o In mogrify command, don't leak memory in the case where the image
       file contains multiple frames.
     o Fixed crash in PNG and JPEG coders when the image to be written is
       part of an image list.
     o PNG reader errors are now properly reported to the user.
     o TIFF output can now be written to a pipe or other non-seekable
       destination.
     o Support writing PDF with CCITT compression.

   Feature Improvements

     o Added a new 'benchmark' command which can be used to perform
       benchmarking on any other command.
     o Image rotate in clockwise (90 degrees) or counter-clockwise (270
       degrees) direction is now 2-9X faster than before.
     o The -version option now includes a list of supported features.
     o For Windows MinGW-based build, find Ghostscript fonts installed
       under C:/Program Files/.

Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
[email protected], http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
GraphicsMagick Maintainer,    http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/


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