FreeImage 3.10 Released

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

FreeImage 3.10 Released

SourceForge - FreeImage: 3.10.0 released

"FreeImage is an Open Source library project for developers who would like to support popular graphics image formats like PNG, BMP, JPEG, TIFF and others as needed by today's multimedia applications. FreeImage is easy to use, fast, multithreading safe, compatible with all 32-bit versions of Windows, and cross-platform (works both with Linux and Mac OS X).

Thanks to it's ANSI C interface, FreeImage is usable in many languages including C, C++, VB, C#, Delphi, Java and also in common scripting languages such as Perl, Python, PHP, TCL or Ruby.

The library comes in two versions: a binary DLL distribution that can be linked against any WIN32 C/C++ compiler and a source distribution. Workspace files for Microsoft VS.Net 2003 and VS.Net 2005 are provided, as well as makefiles for Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris 9.

What's new for FreeImage ?
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Release 3.10.0 comes with two new HDR formats, JPEG2000 and OpenEXR, as well as the now famous 'Fattal tone mapping algorithm'.

To Linux users: the library now make use of the gcc 'visibility' option, so that previous incompatibilities reported with some libraries such as GTK should now belong to the past.

What else ?
This release brings some new palette and color manipulation functions as well as numerous bug fixes reported by our users. Lastly, the library has been updated with the new libtiff (3.9.0), libpng (1.2.23), OpenEXR (1.6.1) and OpenJPEG (1.2.0) libraries. FreeImage is also distributed with an updated VB6/VBA wrapper.

As usual, check the changes log for full details (especially for bug fixes) and check also the updated FreeImage documentation.

Where can I find FreeImage ?

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FreeImage can be downloaded from:
http://freeimage.sourceforge.net" [Post Leached in Full]