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<B>ImageMagick</B> is continually being enhanced.  Check this section
periodically to see what enhancements have been added.  See
<a href="Changelog.html">Changelog</a> for past enhancements and bug fixes.
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<li> ImageMagick has a delegate subsystem that allows image formats not
directly supported by ImageMagick to be seamlessly added via a delegate
configuration file.
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<li> PerlMagick includes 300+ regression tests invoked with <tt>make test</tt>.
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<li> ImageMagick now automatically invokes <a href=http://www.pgp.com/>pgpv</a>
to decrypt a PGP encrypted image when the filename ends in <tt>.pgp</tt>.
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<li> ImageMagick supports the <a href=
"http://www.kodak.com/US/en/drg/productsTechnologies/prodTechFlashPix.shtml">
FlashPix</a> image format under NT/Win95.
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<li> <A HREF="ftp://www.wizards.dupont.com/pub/ImageMagick/perl">PerlMagick</a>
now works on NT and Win95 computers.
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<li> Support for TrueType fonts is now available as a delegate within
<b>ImageMagick</b>
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<li> Create 3-D web screamers with
<A HREF="ftp://www.wizards.dupont.com/pub/ImageMagick/perl">ScreamerMagick</a>.
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<li> Convert or manipulate images directly from a Web page with
<A HREF="ftp://www.wizards.dupont.com/pub/ImageMagick/perl">MogrifyMagick</a>.
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<li> The Macintosh port has two enhancements: 1) the binaries are FAT and
2) ImageMagick can now read PICT images.
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<li>Text is now aliased when rendering Postscript.
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<li> Subimages can now be specified in any order.  For example,
<tt>image.miff[3,2]</tt>, <tt>image.miff[11-1]</tt>, or
<tt>image.miff[1,2,2,3]</tt>.
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<li> <A HREF="http://starship.skyport.net/crew/zack/pymagick/">
PythonMagick</A> is an object-oriented Python interface to the
ImageMagick routines.
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<li> <A HREF="perl.html">PerlMagick</A> is an object-oriented
Perl interface to the ImageMagick routines.
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<li> Added a new format, <tt>PLASMA</tt>,  a plasma fractal image.
Specify the base color as the filename (e.g. <tt>plasma:blue-yellow</tt>).  Use
<tt>fractal</tt> to initialize to a random value (e.g. <tt>plasma:fractal</tt>).
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