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<p><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.
<ul>

<li>Support for Wireless BitMap, used in WAP - Wireless Access Protocol,
was contributed by Milan Votava.</li>

<li>
ImageMagick 5.0 uses substantually less memory than previous versions.
If the the memory requirements exceeds 80 mega-bytes, all subsequent image
operations are performed on disk to conserve memory.</li>

<li>
ImageMagick 5.0 utilizes memory-mapped I/O on machines that support it.
This feature can be a substantual speed-up for image operations.</li>

<li>
As of version 4.2.9, ImageMagick now has native blob support.</li>

<li>
Thanks to Glenn Randers-Pehrson ImageMagick now supports the MNG image
format.</li>

<li>
Thanks to Bob Friesenhahn ImageMagick now has a C++ wrapper:
<a href="http://www.simplesystems.org/Magick++/">Magick++</a>.</li>

<li>
ImageMagick has a delegate subsystem that allows image formats not directly
supported by ImageMagick to be seamlessly added via a delegate configuration
file.</li>

<li>
PerlMagick includes 300+ regression tests invoked with <tt>make test</tt>.</li>

<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>.</li>

<li>
ImageMagick supports the <a href="http://www.kodak.com/US/en/drg/productsTechnologies/prodTechFlashPix.shtml">FlashPix</a>
image format under NT/Win95.</li>

<li>
<a href="ftp://www.wizards.dupont.com/pub/ImageMagick/perl">PerlMagick</a>
now works on NT and Win95 computers.</li>

<li>
Support for TrueType fonts is now available as a delegate within
<b>ImageMagick</b></li>

<li>
Create 3-D web screamers with
<a href="ftp://www.wizards.dupont.com/pub/ImageMagick/perl">ScreamerMagick</a>.</li>

<li>
Convert or manipulate images directly from a Web page with
<a href="ftp://www.wizards.dupont.com/pub/ImageMagick/perl">MagickStudio</a>.</li>

<li>
Text is now aliased when rendering Postscript.</li>

<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>.</li>

<li>
<a href="http://starship.skyport.net/crew/zack/pymagick/">PythonMagick</a>
is an object-oriented Python interface to the ImageMagick routines.</li>

<li>
<a href="perl.html">PerlMagick</a> is an object-oriented Perl interface
to the ImageMagick routines.</li>

<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>).</li>
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