1 2000-11-30 Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>
5 Allow extra image_info() arguments to pass through to the
6 image format handlers. This make the histogram and
7 color palette returns functional again.
9 Distribute a copy of lib/Image/Info.pm so that search.cpan.org
14 2000-11-13 Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>
18 Support for even more image formats added by Jerrad Pierce:
20 - Added support for ASCII and BMP/DIB/RLE
22 - Palettes are only returned if requested (see documentation)
24 - Added Luminance Histogram for ASCII, XBM, XPM
28 2000-11-10 Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>
32 Avoid direct hardcoding of image file magic and doc by
33 generating lib/Image/Info.pm in Makefile.PL
35 XBM/XPM/SVG support contributed by
36 Jerrad Pierce <belg4mit@mit.edu>/<webmaster@pthbb.org>
41 2000-10-31 Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>
45 GIF parsing fixes from Ralf Steines <metamonk@yahoo.com>:
47 - GIF 'DisposalMethod' and 'UserInput' now show proper values.
49 - GIF 'TransparencyIndex' now appears in the info hash.
51 - GIF anims with local color tables don't fail anymore
52 (table size calculation bug).
54 - Added: GIFs marked as 87a which contain graphics control
55 extension blocks don't fail anymore, GIF is parsed anyway
56 but $info->{warn} contains 'GIF 89a extensions in 87a'.
60 2000-10-18 Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>
64 IO::String is now a PREREQ module.
66 Added PPM/PGM/PBM support
68 Improved documentation.
70 Standardized on how "resolution" is expressed. The field in
73 All comments are now found as "Comment" tag.
75 Pick up data about thumbnails embedded in JPEG Exif files.
79 2000-08-24 Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>
83 Passing a reference to a scalar as argument to img_info()
84 indicates that this scalar contains raw image data. If you
85 want to use this feature, you need to install the IO::String
90 2000-01-04 Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
94 Renaming of keys for things that are common across file
95 formats. Common things now use lowercase keys.
97 Better support for JPEG JFXX chunks
99 Better determination of color_type for JPEG
101 Partial support for App14-Adobe chunks in JPEG
103 Support sBIT chunks for PNG
107 1999-12-25 Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
111 Eliminated Image::TIFF::Exif. The TIFF module now knows about
112 the Exif tags by itself.
114 Errors are returned as a hash too.
116 Start on Image::Info POD
118 Various tweaks to the reported info keys for JPEG/PNG/GIF.
120 Support Netscape's Loop extention to GIF.
122 Support ColorTable dump for GIF and PNG.
124 Support FileMediaType/FileExt for all image formats.
126 Report number of repeated chunks in PNG_Chunks values.
130 1999-12-22 Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
134 Removed external OO interface. The main interface is now
135 an plain function called image_info() that returns one or
136 more hashes. One hash per image found in the file.
138 Exif/TIFF integer that are codes representing something else
141 TIFF Rational values are reduced to plain integers when
146 Added some test scripts
149 1999-12-19 Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
151 Release 0.01 (now Image-Info)
153 New common framwork that can support many image formats.
161 1999-12-14 Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
163 First try, released as Image-Exif-0.01