H5utils release notes

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Here, we describe what has changed between releases of the h5utils package. You can also refer to the NEWS file in the h5utils distribution (or the ChangeLog file for a more detailed listing).

Contents 1 h5utils 1.12.1 2 h5utils 1.12 3 h5utils 1.11.1 4 h5utils 1.11 5 h5utils 1.10.1 6 h5utils 1.10 7 h5utils 1.9.1 8 h5utils 1.9 9 h5utils 1.8 10 h5utils 1.7.2 11 h5utils 1.7.1 12 h5utils 1.7 13 h5utils 1.6 14 h5utils 1.5.1 15 h5utils 1.5 16 h5utils 1.4 17 h5utils 1.3.4 18 h5utils 1.3.3 19 h5utils 1.3.2 20 h5utils 1.3.1 21 h5utils 1.3 22 h5utils 1.2.3 23 h5utils 1.2.2 24 h5utils 1.2.1 25 h5utils 1.2 26 h5utils 1.1 27 h5utils 1.0

h5utils 1.12.1

6/24/09

• Use octave-config, if available, to detect octave-plugin installation path (thanks to Debian bug report #516453 for suggestion).

h5utils 1.12

6/12/09

• The vertical axis in h5topng is now reversed to correspond to what most people seem to expect: increasing coordinates correspond to "up" and "right" in the image, rather than "down" and "right" in the image as in previous versions.
• Fixed failure in h5tovtk -2; thanks to Karen Lee for the bug report.
• Fixed installation of h5read.oct for Octave 3.x.

h5utils 1.11.1

4/28/08

• Fixed failure to find colormap files in h5topng 1.11 (due to changes in autoconf 2.60); thanks to bug report from Jiangjun Zheng.

h5utils 1.11

4/24/08

• h5tovtk no longer reverses the dimensions; thanks to Andreas Wilde for the suggestion.
• Fix compilation failure with HDF5 1.8.

h5utils 1.10.1

9/20/06

• Fixed build problem on Cygwin due to missing ".exe" extension. Thanks to Ken Hill for the bug report.

h5utils 1.10

9/2/05

• Added h4fromh5 utility. (NCSA seems to be no longer shipping the HDF5/HDF4 conversion tools with the latest HDF5 release.)
• Added dkbluered color map, which is similar to bluered but uses a somewhat wider range of colors.

h5utils 1.9.1

8/5/04

• Fix h5topng compilation failure with some non-C99 compilers; thanks to Maarten van Reeuwijk for the bug report.

h5utils 1.9

7/12/04

• Added new h5math utility, which creates and combines HDF5 datasets using a user-specified mathematical expression. (Requires GNU libmatheval to be installed.)
• h5topng: Matlab-like start:end or start:step:end notation for slice indices, to allow a whole sequence of slices to be output as a sequence of PNG images.
• h5topng: if contour/overlay dataset does not have same dimensions as output data, it is periodically "tiled" over the output.

h5utils 1.8

5/22/04

• New -A and -a options for h5topng to allow translucent overlays from one file onto another (an alternative or complement to the -C contour-overlay option).
• h5topng uses 24-bit direct color by default (use -8 option for old 8-bit behavior).
• h5topng uses columns/rows for x/y by default (use -T to swap), the opposite of the old behavior.
• There is no default -z 0 slice dimension in h5topng/h5totxt any more. You must specify a slice for 3+ dimensional data in h5topng. h5totxt dumps the whole data file by default unless one or more slices are specified.
• Support specifying multiple slice dimensions for 4+ dimensional datasets, with new "-t" option to indicate final dimension.
• Slices are also supported now in h5tovtk and h5tov5d.
• New -. option in h5totxt to specify number of significant digits; output 16 digits by default instead of 6, previously.

h5utils 1.7.2

7/15/02

• Fixed C++ compilation problem for g++ 3.x in h5read Octave plugin; thanks to Josselin Mouette for the patch.

h5utils 1.7.1

3/16/02

• Fixed array overrun in h5topng that caused a floating-point exception on Alphas; thanks to Marin Soljacic for the bug report.

h5utils 1.7

3/9/02

• h5topng now supports multiple, user-definable color tables, a number of which are provided. Incompatible change: the -c option now has the syntax: -c colortable. The old behavior corresponds to the included "bluered" colortable, invoked via: -c bluered.
• New -R option for h5topng to use a consistent color scale for all specified files.
• New -0 option for h5topng and h5totxt that shifts the origin of the slice coordinates to the dataset center.
• Added h5tovtk program to output VTK (Visualization ToolKit) data files.
• Support -T (transpose dimensions) option in h5tov5d.
• Fixed bug in h5topng that caused extra rows/columns of garbage pixels to be written at the edges of images when scaling was used.
• When compiling the h5read Octave plugin, respect the CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS environment variables. Thanks to Max Colice for the bug report.
• Fixed problem when --without-h5tov5d and --without-h5fromh4 are used. Thanks to Nikola Ivanov Nikolov for the fix.

h5utils 1.6

1/17/01

• Don't build h5fromh4 if the superior h4toh5 tool (from HDF5 1.4) is present. Also added --{with,without}-h5fromh4 option to configure to force whether h5fromh4 is built.

h5utils 1.5.1

12/9/00

• Support manually disabling Octave plugin support (configure --without-octave) in case of C++ problems.
• Support Vis5d+ and Debian HDF header file locations.

h5utils 1.5

7/9/00

• Added h5fromh4 program to convert HDF4 datasets to HDF5 format.
• Added -S s option to h5topng as a shortcut for -X s -Y s.

h5utils 1.4

5/28/00

• Added h5fromtxt program to convert text input to an HDF5 dataset.

h5utils 1.3.4

1/31/00

• Improved -C contour plotting in h5topng.
• Fix in h5topng man page (thanks to Christoph Becher).

h5utils 1.3.3

1/30/00

• Bug fix in h5topng (would sometimes output solid black images). Thanks to Karl Koch for the bug report.

h5utils 1.3.2

1/28/00

• Added h5topng -Z option to center color scale on zero.
• Now support h5topng -C filename:dataset.

h5utils 1.3.1

1/27/00

• Bug fixes in dataset name-handling, especially when using h5tov5d to join multiple datasets into one output file.

h5utils 1.3

1/21/00

• You can now specify individual datasets within a file by using filename:dataset instead of just filename with h5topng, h5totxt, and h5tov5d.

h5utils 1.2.3

1/20/00

• Fixed minor bug in 'h5totxt -h'.

h5utils 1.2.2

1/12/00

• Makefile now includes CPPFLAGS in the compiler flags, making it easier to use header files in non-standard locations. (CPPFLAGS is the proper place to put -I flags for the configure script.)

h5utils 1.2.1

1/1/00

• Modified -o option of h5tov5d to join datasets into a single Vis5d file.

h5utils 1.2

12/31/99

• Added h5tov5d program for converting to Vis5d format.
• Improved installation; h5read.oct now goes into the sitewide Octave plugins directory, and things work correctly when only some of the utilities are compiled.

h5utils 1.1

12/6/99

• Added h5totxt program for exporting 2d slices of HDF5 files to text suitable for importing into a spreadsheet.

h5utils 1.0

11/22/99

• Initial release.