News

28th December 2008

Imaging 0.26.2 Released!

New release of Imaging library is here.

• [*] Delphi 2009 and Lazarus 0.9.26 compatibility fixes. New project files for Delphi 2009 added. Kylix and CLX stuff removed.
• [+] New canvas methods: flood and boundary fills, color channel fills, color level adjustment, histogram calculation.
• [+] Animated GIF support rewritten and it now properly animates all tested GIFs (several thousand, true color ones too).
• [+] Added new Extras/Contrib directory with Imaging modifications, extensions, demos, etc. contributed by users (now with ExtraGIF, NIF loader, and HqResampler).
• [*] Changed LINK defined symbols that control which file formats will be automatically registered.
• [+] PSD images with alpha channel are now saved as layers to get proper transparency when opened in Photoshop.
• [*] Changed conditional compilation of ImagingComponents unit to properly work with LCL widget sets other than Win32 and GTK.
• [*] Removed linking against libstdc++ library in JPEG 2000 headers in Unix (replaced with libc and Pascal functions).
• [F] Fixed problem with loading of progressive JPEGs (out of memory) when using FPC Win32.

You can download 0.26.2 at Downloads page. Further information about the latest version can be found on Documentation page.

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4th December 2008

Version 0.26.2 Info And More Homepage Updates

Imaging 0.26.2 will be released in few weeks. You can expect Delphi 2009 and Lazarus 0.9.26 compatibilty changes, more canvas methods, GIF and PSD format support extended, and few bug fixes (mainly JpegLib's problem with progressive Jpegs using FPC in Windows). You can check the progress in this forum thread.

New section called Users was added to Imaging homepage. It lists applications and libraries that utilize Imaging for some image related tasks. If you are a developer of a project using Imaging and want your project listed here please contact me or post in this forum thread.

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24th September 2008

Homepage Update

Imaging homepage was slightly redesigned. Expect some more changes in the near future.

New release 0.26.2 is few months away. You can check the progress in this forum thread.

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27th August 2008

Imaging 0.26.0 Released!

New Imaging release is here after long delay. Planned 0.24.4 release was changed to 0.26.0 because much more was added that originally intended. Here is detailed "what's new" list:

• [+] New data formats using 3Dc compression added: ifATI1N and ifATI2N. DDS file format updated to be able to load and save images in this format. OpenGL and Direct3D extensions were updated to allow creating textures in these formats.
• [+] Canvas class was extended with many new methods and effects. They include image drawing with blending (custom blending factors), filtered image stretching, nonlinear filters (min, max, median), point transforms (contrast, brightness, gamma, threshold), and blended rectangle filling.
• [+] New unit ImagingBinary.pas added with morphologic operations on binary images.
• [+] XPM file format loader was added to Extras extensions.
• [E] LCL Imager and Image Browser demos were extended with new functionality provided by canvas class (blending, filters, morphology, etc.).
• [*] Updated OpenJpeg library (JPEG 2000) to version with my CDEF patch that saves JP2 files with alpha properly.
• [*] Changed some file format loaders/savers to be more thread safe so more images can be loaded concurrently..
• [F] Many bugs in library fixed (GIF, BMP, and PNM loaders, ConvertSpecial, linear filters, ...).

You can download 0.26.0 at Downloads page. Further information about the latest version can be found on Documentation page.

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6th June 2008

Update Info

I've been quite busy finishing my studies so it is a while since the last info here. You can expect new Imaging 0.2x release within one month. There will be new data and file formats, and load of bug fixes. More info in this forum thread.

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