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From: jimf@SABER.COM
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Xloadimage version 2.0 available
Message-ID: <9009252217.AA22582@armory>
Date: 25 Sep 90 22:17:37 GMT
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As soon as I finish ftp'ing it, xloadimage version 2.0 will be
available on expo.lcs.mit.edu in /contrib/xloadimage.2.0.tar.Z.  Older
versions and patches have been removed.

Version 2.0 contains the following enhancements and modifications:

	* There is now a single Makefile for a variety of different
	  target environments.
	* New readers for MacPaint, FBM, CMU, Utah RLE and XWD image
	  formats.
	* PGM and PPM support added to PBM loader.
	* Gamma equalization option.
	* Smoothing option.
	* Rotation option.
	* G3 FAX support was modified to cut down on false positive
	  identifications.
	* Stdin can now be used as the image source.  This change also
	  included caching that improves normal performance.
	* Color slideshows now work.
	* Icon titles use an abbreviated titlebar title
	* The resource class name was changed from XLoadImage to
	  xloadimage to be more predictable.
	* Several options now propagate to all images following them
	  if the -slideshow option is specified.
	* Miscellaneous fixes to several existing loaders.

For those who do not have ftp access, I can email you the update or
you can watch comp.sources.x.  Unfortunately the distribution is
changed enough that patches would have been clumsy to deal with as
well as quite large.  For these reasons version 2.0 is not available
as a patch from 1.06.  If you ask for an emailed distribution, be
aware that the shar distribution is 375k now, up from 180k in version
1.06.

Happy hacking,

jim frost
saber software
jimf@saber.com