Release Notes

Note

For a detailed list of changes, have a look at the ChangeLog.

Release 1.3.1

Bugfix for a NullPointerException in the Info-class. The parser could not deal with empty lines within image-properties.

Added support for ImageMagick's compare-command
Update of ImageMagick's commandline options
Rework of the Info class: the implementation prior to 1.3.0 had a number of flaws and shortcomings. If the image contained more than one scene, the constructor requesting basic attributes would fill the attributes from the first scene, whereas the constructor requesting full attributes would fill the attributes from the last scene. In addition, Info.getImageWidth() and Info.getImageHeight() didn't return the image width and height, but the page width and height (although for most images this is identical). With the new implementation, these bugs were fixed and all attributes of all scenes are available. Please read the API-documentation for details.
Support more image-formats for BufferedImages. If you installed the JAI-extensions you gain support for CMYK-images through the JAI-tiff-plugin.

Support ImageMagick's read-modifier for image-placeholders
Support parallel processing of images. This feature will efficiently use your multi-processor computer (note that this is mainly useful for desktop-applications). Note that the im4java-API for parallel processing is not yet considered as stable. This depends on feedback and bug-reports. I am not overly optimistic that I found and fixed all bugs and race-conditions.
The interface org.im4java.process.ProcessListener is deprecated and is replaced with org.im4java.process.ProcessEventListener. Transition should be easy, since the interfaces are very similar. This change was necessary to support parallel processing. The old interface will be removed with the first release after beginning of 2011.
Fixed a serious bug in the implementation which could lead to deadlocks under Windows (thanks to Jaroslav Snajdr for pointing this out and providing a patch).
The binary-distribution now contains two versions of the im4java-jar: one for JRE 1.6, one for 1.5.
The source-distribution will again contain all generated java-source-files.

Relaunch of the project-web, adding a lot of documentation
Refactored Test.java
All tests now work under Windows
Added script-generator
Support the environment-variable IM4JAVA_TOOLPATH to set the searchpath for tools externally
Removed generated files (including doc) from the source distribution
Removed source from the binary distribution

Source-generation now supports more than one interface-definition-file
Added support for GraphicsMagick. You can hard-code GM-usage, but if you stick to the common subset of IM and GM commands, you can switch to GM at runtime by setting the system-property im4java.useGM=true.
Added support for jpegtran
Added some utility-classes in org.im4java.process
ImageCommand now sends stdout to System.out as default
Incompatible change to IdentifyCmd: output is not captured by default anymore. To capture output, use the new class org.im4java.process.ArrayListOutputConsumer. See org.im4java.test.Test.testIdentify() for an example.