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The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG software
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- README for release 9 of 13 -Jan-2013
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+ README for release 9b of 17 -Jan-2016
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This distribution contains the ninth public release of the Independent JPEG
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Group's free JPEG software. You are welcome to redistribute this software and
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and other members of the Independent JPEG Group.
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IJG is not affiliated with the ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG1 standards committee
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- (also known as JPEG, together with ITU-T SG16).
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+ (previously known as JPEG, together with ITU-T SG16).
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DOCUMENTATION ROADMAP
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This package contains C software to implement JPEG image encoding, decoding,
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and transcoding. JPEG (pronounced "jay-peg") is a standardized compression
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- method for full-color and gray-scale images.
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+ method for full-color and grayscale images.
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This software implements JPEG baseline, extended-sequential, and progressive
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compression processes. Provision is made for supporting all variants of these
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fitness for a particular purpose. This software is provided "AS IS", and you,
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its user, assume the entire risk as to its quality and accuracy.
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- This software is copyright (C) 1991-2013 , Thomas G. Lane, Guido Vollbeding.
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+ This software is copyright (C) 1991-2016 , Thomas G. Lane, Guido Vollbeding.
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All Rights Reserved except as specified below.
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Permission is hereby granted to use, copy, modify, and distribute this
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but is also freely distributable.
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The IJG distribution formerly included code to read and write GIF files.
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- To avoid entanglement with the Unisys LZW patent, GIF reading support has
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- been removed altogether, and the GIF writer has been simplified to produce
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- "uncompressed GIFs". This technique does not use the LZW algorithm; the
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- resulting GIF files are larger than usual, but are readable by all standard
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- GIF decoders.
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- We are required to state that
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- "The Graphics Interchange Format(c) is the Copyright property of
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- CompuServe Incorporated. GIF(sm) is a Service Mark property of
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- CompuServe Incorporated."
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+ To avoid entanglement with the Unisys LZW patent (now expired), GIF reading
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+ support has been removed altogether, and the GIF writer has been simplified
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+ to produce "uncompressed GIFs". This technique does not use the LZW
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+ algorithm; the resulting GIF files are larger than usual, but are readable
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+ by all standard GIF decoders.
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REFERENCES
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Communications of the ACM, April 1991 (vol. 34 no. 4), pp. 30-44.
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(Adjacent articles in that issue discuss MPEG motion picture compression,
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applications of JPEG, and related topics.) If you don't have the CACM issue
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- handy, a PostScript file containing a revised version of Wallace's article is
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- available at http://www.ijg.org/files/wallace.ps.gz . The file (actually
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+ handy, a PDF file containing a revised version of Wallace's article is
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+ available at http://www.ijg.org/files/Wallace.JPEG.pdf . The file (actually
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a preprint for an article that appeared in IEEE Trans. Consumer Electronics)
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omits the sample images that appeared in CACM, but it includes corrections
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and some added material. Note: the Wallace article is copyright ACM and IEEE,
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France.
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The JPEG standard does not specify all details of an interchangeable file
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- 1.02. JFIF 1.02 has been adopted as an Ecma International Technical Report
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- and thus received a formal publication status. It is available as a free
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- http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/techreports/E-TR-098.htm.
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- A PostScript version of the JFIF document is available at
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- http://www.ijg.org/files/jfif.ps.gz. There is also a plain text version at
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- http://www.ijg.org/files/jfif.txt.gz, but it is missing the figures.
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+ format. For the omitted details we follow the "JFIF" conventions, version 2.
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+ JFIF version 1 has been adopted as Recommendation ITU-T T.871 (05/2011) :
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+ Information technology - Digital compression and coding of continuous-tone
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+ still images: JPEG File Interchange Format (JFIF). It is available as a
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+ free download in PDF file format from http://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-T.871.
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+ A PDF file of the older JFIF document is available at
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+ http://www.w3.org/Graphics/JPEG/jfif3.pdf.
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The TIFF 6.0 file format specification can be obtained by FTP from
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ftp://ftp.sgi.com/graphics/tiff/TIFF6.ps.gz. The JPEG incorporation scheme
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The "official" archive site for this software is www.ijg.org.
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The most recent released version can always be found there in
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directory "files". This particular version will be archived as
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- http://www.ijg.org/files/jpegsrc.v9 .tar.gz, and in Windows-compatible
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- "zip" archive format as http://www.ijg.org/files/jpegsr9 .zip.
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+ http://www.ijg.org/files/jpegsrc.v9b .tar.gz, and in Windows-compatible
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+ "zip" archive format as http://www.ijg.org/files/jpegsr9b .zip.
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The JPEG FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) article is a source of some
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general information about JPEG.
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Joint Video Team (MPEG & ITU) meeting in Geneva, Switzerland.
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Thank to Thomas Richter and Daniel Lee for inviting me to the
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- ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG1 (also known as JPEG, together with ITU-T SG16)
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meeting in Berlin, Germany.
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FILE FORMAT WARS
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- The ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG1 standards committee (also known as JPEG, together
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- with ITU-T SG16) currently promotes different formats containing the name
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- "JPEG" which is misleading because these formats are incompatible with
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- original DCT-based JPEG and are based on faulty technologies.
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+ The ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG1 standards committee (previously known as JPEG,
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+ together with ITU-T SG16) currently promotes different formats containing
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+ the name "JPEG" which is misleading because these formats are incompatible
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+ with original DCT-based JPEG and are based on faulty technologies.
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IJG therefore does not and will not support such momentary mistakes
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(see REFERENCES).
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(In any case, our decoder will remain capable of reading existing JPEG
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image files indefinitely.)
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- Furthermore, the ISO committee pretends to be "responsible for the popular
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- JPEG" in their public reports which is not true because they don't respond to
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- actual requirements for the maintenance of the original JPEG specification.
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+ The ISO committee pretends to be "responsible for the popular JPEG" in their
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+ public reports which is not true because they don't respond to actual
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+ requirements for the maintenance of the original JPEG specification.
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+ Furthermore, the ISO committee pretends to "ensure interoperability" with
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+ their standards which is not true because their "standards" support only
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+ application-specific and proprietary use cases and contain mathematically
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There are currently different distributions in circulation containing the
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name "libjpeg" which is misleading because they don't have the features and
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are incompatible with formats supported by actual IJG libjpeg distributions.
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One of those fakes is released by members of the ISO committee and just uses
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the name of libjpeg for misdirection of people, similar to the abuse of the
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name JPEG as described above, while having nothing in common with actual IJG
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- The other one claims to be a "derivative" or "fork" of the original libjpeg
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- and violates the license conditions as described under LEGAL ISSUES above.
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- We have no sympathy for the release of misleading and illegal distributions
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- derived from obsolete code bases.
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+ libjpeg distributions and containing mathematically incorrect code.
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+ The other one claims to be a "derivative" or "fork" of the original libjpeg,
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+ but violates the license conditions as described under LEGAL ISSUES above
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+ and violates basic C programming properties.
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+ We have no sympathy for the release of misleading, incorrect and illegal
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Don't use an obsolete code base!
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+ According to the UCC (Uniform Commercial Code) law, IJG has the lawful and
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+ legal right to foreclose on certain standardization bodies and other
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+ institutions or corporations that knowingly perform substantial and
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+ systematic deceptive acts and practices, fraud, theft, and damaging of the
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+ value of the people of this planet without their knowing, willing and
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+ intentional consent.
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+ The titles, ownership, and rights of these institutions and all their assets
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+ are now duly secured and held in trust for the free people of this planet.
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+ People of the planet, on every country, may have a financial interest in
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+ the assets of these former principals, agents, and beneficiaries of the
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+ foreclosed institutions and corporations.
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+ IJG asserts what is: that each man, woman, and child has unalienable value
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+ and rights granted and deposited in them by the Creator and not any one of
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+ the people is subordinate to any artificial principality, corporate fiction
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+ or the special interest of another without their appropriate knowing,
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+ willing and intentional consent made by contract or accommodation agreement.
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+ IJG expresses that which already was.
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+ The people have already determined and demanded that public administration
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+ IJG has secured the value for all concerned free people of the planet.
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+ A partial list of foreclosed institutions and corporations ("Hall of Shame")
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Version 9 is the second release of a new generation JPEG standard
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+ and is the first true source reference JPEG codec.
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More features are being prepared for coming releases...
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Please send bug reports, offers of help, etc. to jpeg-info@jpegclub.org.
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