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libjpeg-turbo note: This file has been modified by The libjpeg-turbo Project |
to include only information relevant to libjpeg-turbo, to wordsmith certain |
sections, and to remove impolitic language that existed in the libjpeg v8 |
-README. It is included only for reference. Please see README-turbo.txt for |
+README. It is included only for reference. Please see README.md for |
information specific to libjpeg-turbo. |
@@ -36,7 +36,6 @@ TO DO Plans for future IJG releases. |
Other documentation files in the distribution are: |
User documentation: |
- install.txt How to configure and install the IJG software. |
usage.txt Usage instructions for cjpeg, djpeg, jpegtran, |
rdjpgcom, and wrjpgcom. |
*.1 Unix-style man pages for programs (same info as usage.txt). |
@@ -48,9 +47,9 @@ Programmer and internal documentation: |
structure.txt Overview of the JPEG library's internal structure. |
coderules.txt Coding style rules --- please read if you contribute code. |
-Please read at least the files install.txt and usage.txt. Some information |
-can also be found in the JPEG FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) article. See |
-ARCHIVE LOCATIONS below to find out where to obtain the FAQ article. |
+Please read at least usage.txt. Some information can also be found in the JPEG |
+FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) article. See ARCHIVE LOCATIONS below to find |
+out where to obtain the FAQ article. |
If you want to understand how the JPEG code works, we suggest reading one or |
more of the REFERENCES, then looking at the documentation files (in roughly |
@@ -62,7 +61,7 @@ OVERVIEW |
This package contains C software to implement JPEG image encoding, decoding, |
and transcoding. JPEG (pronounced "jay-peg") is a standardized compression |
-method for full-color and gray-scale images. JPEG's strong suit is compressing |
+method for full-color and grayscale images. JPEG's strong suit is compressing |
photographic images or other types of images that have smooth color and |
brightness transitions between neighboring pixels. Images with sharp lines or |
other abrupt features may not compress well with JPEG, and a higher JPEG |
@@ -129,7 +128,7 @@ with respect to this software, its quality, accuracy, merchantability, or |
fitness for a particular purpose. This software is provided "AS IS", and you, |
its user, assume the entire risk as to its quality and accuracy. |
-This software is copyright (C) 1991-2012, Thomas G. Lane, Guido Vollbeding. |
+This software is copyright (C) 1991-2016, Thomas G. Lane, Guido Vollbeding. |
All Rights Reserved except as specified below. |
Permission is hereby granted to use, copy, modify, and distribute this |
@@ -167,11 +166,11 @@ ltmain.sh). Another support script, install-sh, is copyright by X Consortium |
but is also freely distributable. |
The IJG distribution formerly included code to read and write GIF files. |
-To avoid entanglement with the Unisys LZW patent, GIF reading support has |
-been removed altogether, and the GIF writer has been simplified to produce |
-"uncompressed GIFs". This technique does not use the LZW algorithm; the |
-resulting GIF files are larger than usual, but are readable by all standard |
-GIF decoders. |
+To avoid entanglement with the Unisys LZW patent (now expired), GIF reading |
+support has been removed altogether, and the GIF writer has been simplified |
+to produce "uncompressed GIFs". This technique does not use the LZW |
+algorithm; the resulting GIF files are larger than usual, but are readable |
+by all standard GIF decoders. |
We are required to state that |
"The Graphics Interchange Format(c) is the Copyright property of |
@@ -190,8 +189,8 @@ The best short technical introduction to the JPEG compression algorithm is |
Communications of the ACM, April 1991 (vol. 34 no. 4), pp. 30-44. |
(Adjacent articles in that issue discuss MPEG motion picture compression, |
applications of JPEG, and related topics.) If you don't have the CACM issue |
-handy, a PostScript file containing a revised version of Wallace's article is |
-available at http://www.ijg.org/files/wallace.ps.gz. The file (actually |
+handy, a PDF file containing a revised version of Wallace's article is |
+available at http://www.ijg.org/files/Wallace.JPEG.pdf. The file (actually |
a preprint for an article that appeared in IEEE Trans. Consumer Electronics) |
omits the sample images that appeared in CACM, but it includes corrections |
and some added material. Note: the Wallace article is copyright ACM and IEEE, |
@@ -247,9 +246,7 @@ ARCHIVE LOCATIONS |
The "official" archive site for this software is www.ijg.org. |
The most recent released version can always be found there in |
-directory "files". This particular version will be archived as |
-http://www.ijg.org/files/jpegsrc.v8d.tar.gz, and in Windows-compatible |
-"zip" archive format as http://www.ijg.org/files/jpegsr8d.zip. |
+directory "files". |
The JPEG FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) article is a source of some |
general information about JPEG. |