Wordsmith GIF limitations in cjpeg.1/djpeg.1

diff --git a/cjpeg.1 b/cjpeg.1
index 9d09b810c302fe3cd187e15d224fa1a345f6fe86..d1dc30412e52e44070f1810a2f1d368890ece58b 100644 (file)
--- a/cjpeg.1
+++ b/cjpeg.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH CJPEG 1 "17 December 2015"
+.TH CJPEG 1 "17 February 2016"
 .SH NAME
 cjpeg \- compress an image file to a JPEG file
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -337,11 +337,11 @@ Independent JPEG Group
 This file was modified by The libjpeg-turbo Project to include only information
 relevant to libjpeg-turbo, to wordsmith certain sections, and to describe
 features not present in libjpeg.
-.SH BUGS
+.SH ISSUES
 Support for GIF input files was removed in cjpeg v6b due to concerns over
 the Unisys LZW patent.  Although this patent expired in 2006, cjpeg still
 lacks GIF support, for these historical reasons.  (Conversion of GIF files to
-JPEG is usually a bad idea anyway.)
+JPEG is usually a bad idea anyway, since GIF is a 256-color format.)
 .PP
 Not all variants of BMP and Targa file formats are supported.
 .PP

diff --git a/djpeg.1 b/djpeg.1
index 17296abd6052b3180369ababe27bb1b2dad1898b..293939bfa2f6dc1a9e92727a5137a3bcb848d894 100644 (file)
--- a/djpeg.1
+++ b/djpeg.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH DJPEG 1 "26 June 2015"
+.TH DJPEG 1 "17 February 2016"
 .SH NAME
 djpeg \- decompress a JPEG file to an image file
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -281,8 +281,10 @@ Independent JPEG Group
 This file was modified by The libjpeg-turbo Project to include only information
 relevant to libjpeg-turbo, to wordsmith certain sections, and to describe
 features not present in libjpeg.
-.SH BUGS
-To avoid the Unisys LZW patent,
-.B djpeg
-produces uncompressed GIF files.  These are larger than they should be, but
-are readable by standard GIF decoders.
+.SH ISSUES
+Support for compressed GIF output files was removed in djpeg v6b due to
+concerns over the Unisys LZW patent.  Although this patent expired in 2006,
+djpeg still lacks compressed GIF support, for these historical reasons.
+(Conversion of JPEG files to GIF is usually a bad idea anyway, since GIF is a
+256-color format.)  The uncompressed GIF files that djpeg generates are larger
+than they should be, but they are readable by standard GIF decoders.