Our never-lazy project coordinator, Angelo Naselli, worked hard these holidays to package a new release of libkdcraw, and.... here it is libkdcraw-0.1.3 :)

Let's see new features ...

New features

Updated dcraw to 8.80

• New cameras: Hasselblad H3D, Olympus E-3, Canon EOS 40D, Canon PowerShot G9, Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III, AVT F-080C, Nikon D3, Nikon D300, Nikon Coolpix S6, Panasonic DMC-FZ18, Sony DSLR-A700
• New option -m number_of_passes : After interpolation, clean up color artifacts by repeatedly applying a 3x3 median filter to the R-G and B-G channels.
• Licence is GPL compatible again

Updated dcraw to 8.81

• New cameras: Canon G7, Fuji FinePix S9100/S9600, Olympus SP560UZ, Panasonic DMC-L10

Hi to all,
from today new kipi-plugins 0.1.5 is out.

NEW FEATURES

PrintWizard

• Wizard GUI review
• Added exif management
• Prints exif date-time info
• Font, color and size of captions
• Added an option to to print without margins (full-bleed)
• Added 10x13.33cm into a4 (provided by Joerg Kuehne)
• Added full size A4 printing (one photo per A4 page)
• Added A6 size to get the old configuration for 10x15cm page
• Changed page size to real 10x15cm instead of A6 (need to set up right page size on kprinter)
• Added a new page size 13x18cm (need to set up right page size on kprinter)
• Each photo can be printed more than once

PicasaWebExport

New plugin to export pictures to Picasa web service (by Vardhman Jain).

SlideShow

Dropped imlib2 dependency

It's release time, after libkdcraw, libkexiv2 has been released.
Let's see what's new ...

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ADVICE

API Changed : Kexiv2 destructor is now virtual.
Krazy Code Checker fix

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Bugs fixed from B.K..O.
001 ==> 137750 : color mode2 nikon d70s not recognized as adobe rgb
002 ==> 149267 : digiKam crashes after finding gif,avi,txt and so on.
003 ==> 148182 : Iptc.Application2.Keywords appends always the 0-byte.

New libkdcraw 0.1.2 is finally released

New features

• updated internal dcraw from 8.60 to 8.77. API changed.
• add new chromatic aberration reduction options (patch from Guillaume Castagnino).

Final release is out, you can get it from sourceforge.

What has changed into 0.1.4 release:

NEW FEATURES

HTMLExport

Option to specify whether the original images should be included

HTMLExport

Support for theme variants

HTMLExport

New theme: "frames", by Rüdiger Bente

HTMLExport

New theme: "cleanframes", by Beth and Robert Marmorstein

HTMLExport

New theme: "classic", simulating the output of the old HTML Gallery plugin

SlideShow

Skip to next or previous image by a right or left click

SlideShow

Skip to next or previous image by mouse wheel scrolling

SlideShow

Images can be sorted/added/removed manually.

SlideShow

Progress indicator printing doesn't depend on file name printing anymore.

General

Moved Exiv2Iface class to a new shared library named libkexiv2 used by kipi-plugins and digiKam.

ImageViewer

initial import of new OpenGL based image viewer.

RAWConverter

Port plugin to libkdcraw shared library.

Printwizard

Printwizard can print 8 photos per page (A4).

MPEGEncoder

Avoid to pass to img2mpg script unmanaged file path.

GPSSync

New plugin to export GPS locations from pictures to Google Maps / Google Earth.

Maintainer: Markus Leuthold

The KIPI Imageviewer is a very fast and powerful tool for displaying images

The purpose of this plugin is to have a tool which lets you perform actions such as zooming or proceeding to the next image very fast. Therefore, all actions are accessible by keyboard shortcuts or mouse gestures.

NEW FEATURES

HTMLExport

Option to specify whether the original images should be included

HTMLExport

Support for theme variants

HTMLExport

New theme: "frames", by Rüdiger Bente

HTMLExport

New theme: "cleanframes", by Beth and Robert Marmorstein

HTMLExport

New theme: "classic", simulating the output of the old HTML Gallery plugin

SlideShow

Skip to next or previous image by a right or left click

SlideShow

Skip to next or previous image by mouse wheel scrolling

SlideShow

Images can be sorted/added/removed manually.

SlideShow

Progress indicator printing doesn't depend on file name printing anymore.

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BUG FIXING from B.K.O :

001 ==> 140477 : SendImages : Ability to rename images being sent via email.
002 ==> 143450 : SlideShow : Skip to next or previous image by a right or left click
003 ==> 138880 : TimeAdjust : digiKam 0.9rc2 - 0.9.1rc1 setting file date to exif doesn't work.
004 ==> 140890 : TimeAdjust : The preview does not display date and time properly for Japanese locale.
005 ==> 144185 : TimeAdjust : Adjust date-time tool should remember previous fixed date.
006 ==> 146799 : SlideShow : digikam 0.9.2 crashes when exiting - slideshow error

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NOTE
Restored all localizations except Danish and Portuguese ones, wich still cause compiling errors.

NEW FEATURES
API changed:

• KDcraw destructor is now virtual.
• Added DcrawSettingsContainer destructor.
• Separate embedded JPEG preview extraction and half decoding methods to get a preview of RAW pictures.

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BUGS FIXED from B.K.O:
001 ==> 145482 : libkdraw compile fails on Cygwin.

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Known problem
Removed localization to allow installing with libkdcraw0 together

Today is born a new way to keep in touch with KIPI developers.
A place where users and developers can work together to enhance KIPI-Project's software.

You're welcome to #kde-imaging IRC channel on Freenode!

NEW FEATURES

General

Moved Exiv2Iface class to a new shared library named libkexiv2 used by kipi-plugins and digiKam.

ImageViewer

initial import of new OpenGL based image viewer.

RAWConverter

Port plugin to libkdcraw shared library.

Printwizard

Printwizard can print 8 photos per page (A4).

MPEGEncoder

Avoid to pass img2mpg script unmanaged file path.

GPSSync

New plugin to export GPS locations from pictures to Google Maps / Google Earth.

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BUG FIXING from B.K.O :
001 ==> 139264 : General : Prefer Exif DateTimeOriginal for image date/time (DateTimeDigitized and DateTime only used as fallback)
002 ==> 139074 : SendImages : Format missmatch at sendimages.cpp ('int' vs. 'size_t').
003 ==> 140132 : MetadataEdit : Comments should sync to IPTC Caption First.
006 ==> 138241 : SendImages : A patch that adds support for the Claws Mail MUA.
007 ==> 140865 : RAWConverter : Plugin does not work (image can not be converted).
008 ==> 141528 : JPEGLossLess : Remove confirmation dialog for image rotate.
009 ==> 141530 : JPEGLossLess : Use Rotate left/right instead of degrees.
010 ==> 142848 : GPSSync : Timezone needs to go to GMT +13.
011 ==> 140297 : GPSSync : GPS kipi plugin truncates input coordinates, introducing inacuracy.
012 ==> 143594 : GPSSync : Bad Interpolation in correlate gpssync.
014 ==> 139793 : GPSSync : KML google export import.
015 ==> 142259 : GalleruExport: Export to Gallery 2.2-RC-1 fails.
016 ==> 135945 : FLickrExport : Tags with spaces are exported as multible tags.
017 ==> 146084 : SlideShow : Slide show interface suggestions.
018 ==> 145771 : MPEGEncoder : Gnome Desktop crashes and restarts when select Cancel option for Mpeg Slideshow plugin

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NOTE
KIPI-Plugins documentation has been temporary removed in Beta 1 due to compiling problems.