pfstools for HDR images Files

Release Notes
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pfstools 1.8.3

This realease brings an updated "pfsview", which is now 100% QT4
application. Some cosmetic problems as well as "Fit window to content"
have been fixed. Other minor fixes are listed below.

     	* fixed: pfsdisplayfunction properly interpolates display LUT
	* fixed: bug #3080304 - configure uses non-portable test(1) syntax
	* fixed: bug #1766263 - pfsinhdrgen fails silently on pfsin failure. - partially
	* fixed: pfsview the entire code converted from qt3 to qt4 (fixes bug #3127946)
	* fixed: "Fit window to content" works again in pfsview
	* added: window icon in pfsview
	* added: improved image file saving in pfsview


pfstools - README 
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pfstools is a set of command line (and one GUI) programs for reading,
writing, manipulating and viewing high-dynamic range (HDR) images and
video frames. All programs in the package exchange data using unix
pipes and a simple generic HDR image format (pfs). The concept of the
pfstools is similar to netpbm package for low-dynamic range images.

pfstools offers also a good integration with GNU Octave and
matlab. pfstools can serve as a matlab or Octave toolbox for reading
and writing HDR images or simply to effectively store large matrices.

pfs in not just another format for storing HDR images (and there are
already quite a few of them). It is more an attempt to integrate the
existing HDR image formats by providing a simple data format that can
be used to exchange data between applications.

If you use the software for your research work, please consider citing
the paper:

Rafal Mantiuk, Grzegorz Krawczyk, Radoslaw Mantiuk and Hans-Peter Seidel.
High Dynamic Range Imaging Pipeline: Perception-motivated Representation
of Visual Content.
In: Proc. of Human Vision and Electronic Imaging XII. 649212.

@inproceedings{mantiuk:2007:hvei,
 author = {Mantiuk, Rafa{\l} and Krawczyk, Grzegorz and Mantiuk, Rados{\l}aw and Seidel, Hans-Peter},
 editor = {Rogowitz, Bernice E. and Pappas, Thrasyvoulos N. and Daly, Scott J.},
 title = {High Dynamic Range Imaging Pipeline: Perception-motivated Representation of Visual Content},
 booktitle = {Human Vision and Electronic Imaging XII},
 publisher = {SPIE},
 year = {2007},
 volume = {6492},
 number = {649212},
 series = {Proceedings of SPIE},
 address = {San Jose, USA},
 month = {February},
}

The paper is an introduction to both pfstools and HDR imaging in
general. It can be downloaded from:

http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/resources/pfstools/papers/mantiuk07hdr_pipeline.pdf

        
1. Compilation
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1.1 To build from a 'tar' archive:

> ./configure <options>

for example following command will configure PFS tools to be installed
in user's 'local/' directory:

> ./configure --prefix=$HOME/local --with-octave-dir=$HOME/local/lib

then compile

> make

and install

> make install

NOTE: When you specify a different compiler using for example
CXX=g++-3.2, libtool may incorrectly interpret compiler and use gcc
instead of g++ to link the pfs library. This results in reallocation
error in programs that link dynamically to that library. 

NOTE: Automake 1.6 or later is required!
        
1.2 To build from CVS:

> ./reconf

or

> libtoolize
> aclocal
> autoheader
> automake --add-missing
> autoconf

then proceed as for the 'tar' archive distribution. You may
need to experiment with different versions of automake, aclocal and
autoconf (automake-1.9, aclocal-1.9 and automake2.50 work on Debian).

2. Directory Layout
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doc - documentation
src - all sources go there
  pfs          - pfs library
  fileformat   - readers and writters for various file formats
  octave       - GNU Octave scripts and libraries
  matlab       - matlab mex sources and functions
  pfsview      - qt application for viewing hdr images and other data
                 that can be stored in the pfs stream
  pfsglview    - similar as pfsview, but uses OpenGL & GLUT instead of Qt
  visualc      - (CVS only) preliminary project files for compiling under
                 MS Visual C++ (only a few commands)


3. Dependencies
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Some of the pfs tools require external libraries to be built. As
reusing as much of existing code as possible is quite reasonable, it
also causes quite a lot of problems when linking with several
libraries that come in different versions. To alleviate some of such
linking problems, the configure script of the pfs tools disables
compilation of those applications for which the external libraries can
not be found. Consequently, some of the pfs applications may not be
installed after 'make install', even though the compilation was
successful.

A list of external libraries and applications that depend on them:

libtiff  - pfsintiff, pfsouttiff
libpbm   - pfsinppm, pfsoutppm
        http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/
ImageMagick++ - pfsinimgmagick, pfsoutimgmagick
        http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php
jpeghdr - pfsinjpeghdr, pfsoutjpeghdr
        jpeghdr library can be found on the DVD included with the book
        "High Dynamic Range Imaging: Acquisition, Display, and
        Image-Based Lighting" by Erik Reinhard, Greg Ward, Sumanta
        Pattanaik and Paul Debevec. (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in
        Computer Graphics)       
openexr libraries - pfsinexr, pfsoutexr
        http://www.openexr.com/
        
octave, octave-forge - pfsstat, pfsoctavergb, pfsoctavelum
        Note: testing or stable release is required.  Currently pfstools
        do not compile with development Octave releases.

mkoctfile (for building Octave's modules) - pfsread.oct,
           pfswrite.oct, pfstransform_colorspace.oct, and others
libqt    - pfsview
        http://www.trolltech.com/
dcraw - pfsindcraw
        http://www.cybercom.net/~dcoffin/dcraw/
opengl - pfsglview
matlab, mex - matlab scripts and mex sources


3. Documentation
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First check the list of frequently asked questions in
./doc/faq.txt. Then browse relevant manual pages, which accompany each
program. The documentation for the pfs library API can be generated
with DoxyGen or found in the header files. If you want to include
reading or writing of pfs streams in your applications, refer to
./doc/pfs_format_spec.pdf.