PEL 0.9.1 Released

Hi guys,

Finally... tonight I made a new release. I got tired of
referring
people to the Subversion repository all the time 

The slow release cycle is due to me working on other
projects. I'm
actually not using PEL for something right now, so it has
become a low
priority project for me.  Therefore, if you think PEL is
cool, then
please consider joining the project to work actively on it. 
Send a
mail to this list...


In any case, the release notes follow:

PEL Version 0.9.1  December 19th 2006
*************************************

Notes:

Added setExif(), getExif(), and clearExif() methods as a
convenient
and recommended way of manipulating the Exif data in a
PelJpeg object.
Improved PelEntryTime to deal with timestamps in the full
range from
year 0 to year 9999. Removed PelTag::getDescription()
because the
descriptions were out of context. A new example demonstrates
how to
resize images while keeping the Exif data intact. Added a
Japanese and
updated the French and Danish translations.

Changes:

* The constructors of PelJpeg and PelTiff can now take an
argument
  which is used for initialization. This can be a filename
(equivalent
  to calling loadFromFile()), a PelDataWindow (equivalent to
load()).
  The PelJpeg constructor will also accept an image
resource.

* Added PelJpeg::setExif(). This method should always be
used in
  preference to PelJpeg::insertSection() and
PelJpeg::appendSection().
  One should actually not be using appendSection() unless
one is very
  sure that the image has not been ended by a EOI marker.

* Added PelJpeg::getExif().  This method is the new
preferred way of
  obtaining the PelExif object from a PelJpeg object. 
Updated the
  examples and code to make use of it.

* An example of how to resize images while keeping the Exif
data
  intact is given in resize.php.

* The PelTag::getDescription() method is no more. The
descriptions
  were taken directly from the Exif specification and they
were often
  impossible to translate in a meaningful out of context
because they
  had references to figures and tables from said
specification.

* Fixed bug in edit-description.php which still called the
constructor
  of PelIfd in the old pre-0.9 way.

* Updated documentation of PelIfd to make it clearer that it
can be
  used as an array because it implements the ArrayAccess SPL
(Standard
  PHP Library) interface.

* Added Japanese translation by Tadashi Jokagi.

* Update by David Lesieur of the French translation.

* Rewrote entry for version 0.9 in NEWS to highlight the API
  incompatible changes made from version 0.8.

* Renamed test.php to run-tests.php and implemented a simple
search
  functionality for finding the SimpleTest installation.

* Rewrote make-release.sh script to work with Subversion.


-- 
Martin Geisler  ---  <mgeislermgeisler.net>  ---  http://mgeisler.net

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