Ann: Generic Image Decoder v.02

[gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com]

Hello,

I have the pleasure to announce the second release of GID - the Generic Image Decoder.

URL: http://gen-img-dec.sf.net/

New in V.02
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GID is now able to inform about image orientation, e.g. JPEG EXIF tag which is usual on digital cameras
See the To_BMP demo for an example of how this information is used to rotate target image.

About GID
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The Generic Image Decoder (GID) is an Ada package for decoding a broad
variety of image formats, from any data stream, to any kind of medium,
be it an in-memory bitmap, a GUI object, some other stream, arrays of
floating-point initial data for scientific calculations, a browser
element, a device,...
Animations are supported.

Features
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* Standalone (no dependency on other libraires, bindings,...)
* Unconditionally portable code: OS-, CPU-, compiler- independent code.
* Multi-platform, but native code built
* Task safe
* Endian-neutral
* Use of generics and inlining at multiple nesting levels for fast execution
* Free, open-source

Currently supported formats are: BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, TGA.

Enjoy!
Gautier