Changes in Python Imaging Library 1.1.4

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PIL 1.1.4 final was released on May 10, 2003.

Errata for PIL 1.1.4.

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Changes from release 1.1.3 to 1.1.4

(1.1.4 final released)

• Fixed ImageTk build problem on Unix.

(1.1.4b2 released)

• Improved building on Mac OS X (from Jack Jansen).
• Improved building on Windows with MinGW (from Klamer Shutte).
• If no font is specified, ImageDraw now uses the embedded default font. Use the “load” or “truetype” methods to load a real font.
• Added embedded default font to the ImageFont module (currently an 8-pixel Courier font, taken from the X window distribution).

(1.1.4b1 released)

• Added experimental EXIF support for JPEG files. To extract EXIF information from a JPEG file, open the file as usual, and call the “_getexif” method. If successful, this method returns a dictionary mapping EXIF TIFF tags to values. If the file does not contain EXIF data, the “_getexif” method returns None.
  The “ExifTags” module contains a dictionary mapping tags to tag names.
  This interface will most likely change in future versions.
• Fixed a bug when using the “transparency” option with the GIF writer.
• Added limited support for “bitfield compression” in BMP files and DIB buffers, for 15-bit, 16-bit, and 32-bit images. This also fixes a problem with ImageGrab module when copying screen- dumps from the clipboard on 15/16/32-bit displays.
• Improved building on Mac OS X (from Jack Jansen).
• Added experimental WAL (Quake 2 textures) loader. To use this loader, import WalImageFile and call the “open” method in that module.

(1.1.4a4 released)

• Added updated SANE driver (Andrew Kuchling, Abel Deuring)
• Use Python’s “mmap” module on non-Windows platforms to read some uncompressed formats using memory mapping. Also added a “frombuffer” method that allows you to access the contents of an existing string or buffer object as if it were an image object.
• Fixed a memory leak that could appear when processing mode “P” images (from Pier Paolo Glave)
• Ignore Unicode characters in the BDF loader (from Graham Dumpleton)

(1.1.4a3 released; windows only)

• Added experimental RGBA-on-RGB drawing support. To use RGBA colours on an RGB image, pass “RGBA” as the second string to the ImageDraw.Draw constructor.
• Added support for non-ASCII strings (Latin-1) and Unicode to the truetype font renderer.
• The ImageWin “Dib” object can now be constructed directly from an image object.
• The ImageWin module now allows you use window handles as well as device contexts. To use a window handle, wrap the handle in an ImageWin.HWND object, and pass in this object instead of the device context.

(1.1.4a2 released)

• Improved support for 16-bit unsigned integer images (mode “I;16”). This includes TIFF reader support, and support for “getextrema” and “point” (from Klamer Shutte).
• Made the BdfFontFile reader a bit more robust (from Kevin Cazabon and Dmitry Vasiliev)
• Changed TIFF writer to always write Compression tag, even when using the default compression (from Greg Couch).
• Added “show” support for Mac OS X (from Dan Wolfe).
• Added clipboard support to the “ImageGrab” module (Windows only). The “grabclipboard” function returns an Image object, a list of filenames (not in 1.1.4), or None if neither was found.

(1.1.4a1 released)

• Improved support for drawing RGB data in palette images. You can now use RGB tuples or colour names (see below) when drawing in a mode “P” image. The drawing layer automatically assigns color indexes, as long as you don’t use more than 256 unique colours.
• Moved self test from MiniTest/test.py to ./selftest.py.
• Added support for CSS3-style color strings to most places that accept colour codes/tuples. This includes the “ImageDraw” module, the Image “new” function, and the Image “paste” method.
  Colour strings can use one of the following formats: “#f00”, “#ff0000”, “rgb(255,0,0)”, “rgb(100%,0%,0%)”, “hsl(0, 100%, 50%)”, or “red” (most X11-style colour names are supported). See the documentation for the “ImageColor” module for more information.
• Fixed DCX decoder (based on input from Larry Bates)
• Added “IptcImagePlugin.getiptcinfo” helper to extract IPTC/NAA newsphoto properties from JPEG, TIFF, or IPTC files.
• Support for TrueType/OpenType fonts has been added to the standard distribution. You need the freetype 2.0 library.
• Made the PCX reader a bit more robust when reading 2-bit and 4-bit PCX images with odd image sizes.
• Added “Kernel” class to the ImageFilter module. This class allows you to filter images with user-defined 3x3 and 5x5 convolution kernels.
• Added “putdata” support for mode “I”, “F” and “RGB”.
• The GIF writer now supports the transparency option (from Denis Benoit).
• A HTML version of the module documentation is now shipped with the source code distribution. You’ll find the files in the Doc subdirectory.
• Added support for Palm pixmaps (from Bill Janssen). This change was listed for 1.1.3, but the “PalmImagePlugin” driver didn’t make it into the distribution.
• Improved decoder error messages.