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CHANGES ======= 1. New version of libtiff (beta 3.016). Includes html documentation. 2. Compiled netpbm. Removed pbmplus. 3. Includes jpeg and tiff header files (duh!). 4. Includes giftrans and giftool (giftool is shareware! if you decide to use it, see: http://www.homepages.com/) b.bum <bbum@friday.com> ImageTools for NEXTSTEP ======================= Enclosed in this archive are the latest releases (known to bbum, anyway) of the IJG's JPEG implementation, the PBMPLUS package of image conversion tools, and Sam Leffler's LIBTIFF. A more detailed description of each is included below (mostly ripped from the READMEs-- see the READMEs for more information about each package). All utilities in libtiff were built using libjpeg. All utilities in PBMPLUS were built against the latest version of libtiff. The PBMPLUS distribution includes a version of libtiff from late 1991; the source to that version appears in a compressed form in the source tree for PBMPLUS, but the included PBMPLUS source has been modified to use the latest version of libtiff. Send me mail if you have any problems with this package! b.bum <bbum@friday.com> ------------------------------------------------------------------- The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG software Release 5b (15-Mar-1995) ------------------------------------------------------------------- This package contains C software to implement JPEG image compression and decompression. JPEG (pronounced "jay-peg") is a standardized compression method for full-color and gray-scale images. JPEG is intended for compressing "real-world" scenes; cartoons and other non-realistic images are not its strong suit. JPEG is lossy, meaning that the output image is not necessarily identical to the input image. Hence you must not use JPEG if you have to have identical output bits. However, on typical images of real-world scenes, very good compression levels can be obtained with no visible change, and amazingly high compression levels are possible if you can tolerate a low-quality image. --------------------------------- TIFF Software Release v3.4beta004 --------------------------------- This is software provides support for the Tag Image Format (TIFF). Included is a library, libtiff, for reading and writing TIFF, a collection of tools for doing simple manipulations of TIFF images, and documentation on the library and tools. A random assortment of TIFF-related software contributed by others is also included. The library, along with associated tool programs, should handle most of your needs for reading and writing files that follow the 5.0 or 6.0 TIFF spec. There is also considerable support for some of the more esoteric portions of the 6.0 TIFF spec. -------------------------------- Extended Portable Bitmap Toolkit Distribution of 10dec91 -------------------------------- PBMPLUS is a toolkit for converting various image formats to and from portable formats, and therefore to and from each other. The idea is, if you want to convert among N image formats, you only need 2*N conversion filters, instead of the N^2 you would need if you wrote each one separately. In addition to the converters, the package includes some simple tools for manipulating the portable formats.
These are the contents of the former NiCE NeXT User Group NeXTSTEP/OpenStep software archive, currently hosted by Netfuture.ch.