Announcing GraphicsMagick 1.0 Beta1

We are proud to announce the availability of GraphicsMagick 1.0 Beta1.
GraphicsMagick 1.0 Beta1 has these user-visible changes since the
Beta0 release:

  * gm montage works again (it was totally broken in Beta0), and we
    have added a test to prove that it is working.

  * The ConstituteImage and DispatchImage functions were broken in
    various ways.  These functions are now working perfectly, and we
    have added a comprehensive test to prove it.

  * Built-in tilde expansion and file globbing (wildcarding) are now
    working correctly.  For example "miff:~user/myfile.miff" and
    "tiff:subdir/foo*" should work as expected.  For those who are
    not aware, the built in file globbing can be used to work around
    operating system command line length limits.  Directory globbing
    ("subdir/foo*/bar*.???") is not yet supported.  Using a subrange
    specification ("foo.miff[2-5]") currently de-activates globbing.

  * Signal handlers are added to InitializeMagick which invoke
    DestroyMagick (cleaning up resources) if the user aborts the
    program via CONTROL-C or some other signal.  The signals
    SIGHUP, SIGINT, SIGQUIT, SIGABRT, SIGTERM, SIGXCPU, & SIGXFSZ
    are registered.  If your program uses these signals, then it
    should perform its own signal mappings *after* invoking
    InitializeMagick and arrange to reliably call DestroyMagick
    itself. This puts a lid on the most common reason for leaked
    temporary files.

  * Bugfixes to new -ordered-dither and -random-threshold options.

  * A utilities demo (similar to the PerlMagick and Magick++ demo's)
    has been added under the utilities subdirectory and may be
    invoked via 'make check'.

GraphicsMagick 1.0 Beta1 is released in order to obtain user feedback
prior to the final release. GraphicsMagick 1.0 Beta1 passes 100% of
its tests when compiled for Q:8, Q:16, and Q:32 quantum depths, on all
operating environments and CPUs which are available to us.

Please see the page http://www.graphicsmagick.org/www/download.html to
download GraphicsMagick 1.0 Beta1 from the ftp.graphicsmagick.org beta
directory, Sourceforge, or use one of these quick links:

Base portable sources
ftp://ftp.graphicsmagick.org/pub/GraphicsMagick/beta/GraphicsMagick-1.0-Beta1.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp.graphicsmagick.org/pub/GraphicsMagick/beta/GraphicsMagick-1.0-Beta1.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.graphicsmagick.org/pub/GraphicsMagick/beta/GraphicsMagick-1.0-Beta1.zip

Windows sources (25MB big!)
ftp://ftp.graphicsmagick.org/pub/GraphicsMagick/beta/GraphicsMagick-1.0-Beta1-windows-source.zip

Windows Statically-compiled Utilities, including ImageMagickObject
ftp://ftp.graphicsmagick.org/pub/GraphicsMagick/beta/GraphicsMagick-1.0-Beta1-Q8-windows-utils.exe
ftp://ftp.graphicsmagick.org/pub/GraphicsMagick/beta/GraphicsMagick-1.0-Beta1-Q16-windows-utils.exe

Windows Utilities, DLLs, VC++ 7.0 link-libraries, headers, and PerlMagick
ftp://ftp.graphicsmagick.org/pub/GraphicsMagick/beta/GraphicsMagick-1.0-Beta1-Q8-windows.exe
ftp://ftp.graphicsmagick.org/pub/GraphicsMagick/beta/GraphicsMagick-1.0-Beta1-Q16-windows.exe

Thanks,

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





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