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- Added ANTIALIAS downsampling filter for high-quality "resize"
and "thumbnail" operations. Also added filter option to the
"thumbnail" operation; the default value is NEAREST, but this
will most likely change in future versions.
- Fixed plugin loader to be more robust if the __file__
variable isn't set.
- Added seek/tell support (for layers) to the PhotoShop
loader. Layer 0 is the main image.
- Added new (but experimental) "ImageOps" module, which provides
shortcuts for commonly used operations on entire images.
- Don't mess up when loading PNG images if the decoder leaves
data in the output buffer. This could cause internal errors
on some PNG images, with some versions of ZLIB. (Bug report
and patch provided by Bernhard Herzog.)
- Don't mess up on Unicode filenames.
- Don't mess up when drawing on big endian platforms.
- Made the TIFF loader a bit more robust; it can now read some
more slightly broken TIFF files (based on input from Ted Wright,
Bob Klimek, and D. Alan Stewart)
- Added OS/2 EMX build files (from Andrew MacIntyre)
- Change "ImageFont" to reject image files if they don't have the
right mode. Older versions could leak memory for "P" images.
(Bug reported by Markus Gritsch).
- Renamed some internal functions to avoid potential build
problem on Mac OS X.
- Added DL_EXPORT where relevant (for Cygwin, based on input
from Robert Yodlowski)
- (re)moved bogus __init__ call in BdfFontFile (bug spotted
by Fred Clare)
- Added "ImageGrab" support (Windows only)
- Added support for XBM hotspots (based on code contributed by
Bernhard Herzog).
- Added write support for more TIFF tags, namely the Artist,
Copyright, DateTime, ResolutionUnit, Software, XResolution and
YResolution tags (from Greg Couch)
- Added TransposedFont wrapper to ImageFont module
- Added "optimize" flag to GIF encoder. If optimize is present
and non-zero, PIL will work harder to create a small file.
- Raise "EOFError" (not IndexError) when reading beyond the
end of a TIFF sequence.
- Support rewind ("seek(0)") for GIF and TIFF sequences.
- Load grayscale GIF images as mode "L"
- Added DPI read/write support to the JPEG codec. The decoder
sets the info["dpi"] attribute for JPEG files with JFIF dpi
settings. The encoder uses the "dpi" option::
im = Image.open("file.jpg")
dpi = im.info["dpi"] raises KeyError if DPI not known
im.save("out.jpg", dpi=dpi)
Note that PIL doesn't always preserve the "info" attribute
for normal image operations.