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Caliph & Emir 0.9.20 Released

This release features JPEG, PNG and SVG (if Batik is in classpath) export of semantic descriptions from within Caliph. Furthermore structured text annotations can now be copied to free text by using the F8 key. Some icons and their handling within IconCache has changed. Loading of images in Caliph is now much faster.

In Emir search results can now be visualized using the main menu. Several bug fixes have been applied, log4j library is no longer needed, so the package size was reduced and the swing-layout and metadata-extractor libraries have been updated.

Changes:

General:
- Updated metadata-extractor library
- Updated swing-layout library to 1.0 from Netbeans RC 2
- Updated test data to new thumbnail and added DominantColor
- Updated build.xml for automatic release
- Updated windows launchers to new libraries
- Added three new icons to IconCache
- Fixed error in Sufffix Tree
- Added ColorStructureDescriptor (Unusable, too slow.)
- Updated help.

Caliph:
- Stripped some unneccessary System.out output
- Removed log4j library, changed to java.util.logging
- Close preview dialog on ESC
- Added option to copy the structured text anntation
to the free text annotation field with F8
- Fixed the bug that file was not saved on -s
within text fields.
- Removed button from structured text description panel
- Fixed bug in ImageLoader (Loading of images was too slow,
had to be scaled down)
- Changed Icon for help, now with transparency.
- Changed parts of the icon handling.
- Added option to export semantic descriptions as JPG and PNG images
- Added SVG export (only if libraries are present)

Emir:
- Added a general config panel (not shown yet)
- Made configuration look more appealing (not shown yet)
- Added some configuration dialogs, not shown yet.
- Added some configuration dialogs, not shown yet.
- Implemented option to visualize search results.
- Made EmirConfiguration Java 1.5 (autoboxing, for each).
- Added new menu for clustering, saving and visualizing results
- Added tooltip for result entries
- Added new startup exceoption wrapper.
- Fixed bug in DatabaseRetrievalEngine (too big images could not
be loaded)