I am happy to announce availability of Imagero version 1.9.0:

New Features:
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- reading of Wang Annotations
- extended XMP support (exporting IPTC/EXIF/TIFF metadata as XMP)
- using ICC Profiles for reading CMYK images.
- reading OS2 Bitmaps and Bitmaps without BitmapFileHeader

- all known bugs were fixed.

New licensing options:
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* Imagero TRY - same as BASIC, but restricted to 100 images
   (i.e. application must be restarted after 100th image)
* Imagero BASIC - same as META, but without write/edit access
   to metadata and without methods which requires Java 2
* Imagero META - full version with read/write access to metadata,
   reading images as BufferedImage and professional quality converting
   CMYK images to sRGB color space with ICC Profiles

About Imagero
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Imagero is java library to read image files.
It supports many popular image formats:

*  BMP 1, 4, 8, 16, 24 and 32 bit uncompressed; 4 and 8 bit compressed
* GIF
* TIFF 1, 4, 8, 16, 32, 48 and 64 bit per pixel;
  bilevel , grayscale , palette , RGB , CMYC , Cie Lab , YCrCb color
spaces;
  CCIT1D , G3 , G4 , ZIP , JPEG , LZW and PackBits compression
* PNG , JNG , MNG
* JPEG inclusive CMYK and 12-bit grey
* PSD 1, 8, 16 bits per channel;
  bilevel , grayscale , duotone , palette , RGB , CMYC and Cie Lab color
spaces;
  uncompressed and PackBits compressed
* PBM , PGM , PPM
* TGA
* read embedded images from EPS , EPSI , EPSF

Supported RAW files:

* MRW
* CRW , CR2, THM,
* NEF,
* DCR,
* DNG

Other Features:
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* read thumbnails
* read metadata
* edit metadata
  [any metadata contained in ImageResourceBlock ( PSD , JPEG , TIFF ) and
  ImageFileDirectrory entry ( TIFF , NEF , DNG , DCR ) can be edited]
* get image width and height
* get number of images, contained in file
* define an area to read
* add a ProgressListener
* estimate JPEG compression/quality
* read an image channel
* set a scale factor
* set subsampling ( JPEG only)
* read an image (or channel) directly into an array
* read as BufferedImage
* easy IPTC / EXIF handling with MetadataEditor
* MetadataUtils simplifies many common tasks
* High-speed TIFF manipulating
* (new) professional quality CMYK reading (using ICC Profiles) - only with
Java 1.2 and later
* (new) reading Wang Annotations
* (new) export IPTC/EXIF/TIFF metadata to XMP

Imagero works with java1.1 and later.