Updated ImageTasks

[Abey Mullassery]

I have updated the Image Tasks with some new tasks, fixes and changes. Please 
update the external.xml with the attached snippet. I would like to contribute 
this set of Image tasks to the Ant project.

Regards,


Abey Mullassery
http://www.mullassery.com

P.S. I am trying to include the PMIW as a jakarta-commons module so that the 
common functionality can be used by the Jakarta Image Taglibs and the Jakrta 
Ant Image Tasks.



      <subsection name="Image">
        <p>Image task generates and transforms images. It exposes the
        imaging capability available in Java2D, Java Advanced Imaging,
        ImageIO, etc., as set of nested elements.</p>

        <p>Image transformations such as &quot;resize&quot;
        (scale),&quot;overlay&quot; (one image on another),
        &quot;border&quot; (add a border), &quot;text&quot; (text on
        image), &quot;crop&quot; (a sub-image of a bigger image),
        &quot;rotate&quot;, &quot;grayscale&quot; (change a color
        image to shades of gray).<br/>
        Now it supports transparency (making images translucent), a 
        bestfit option for Resize, simple support for images within 
        a security-constraint, a preliminary support (if pjatools.jar 
        is available) for saving files as GIF and some other fixes</p>

        <p>IMPORTANT: You will need the PMIW (Poor Man's Imaging Wrapper) jar 
        for all the operations and the pjatools jar for GIF encoding/ saving 
        support</p>

        <table class="externals">
          <tr>
            <th>Compatibility:</th>
            <td>Ant 1.4</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>URL:</th>
            <td><a
                
href="http://www.mullassery.com/software/ANT/";>http://www.mullassery.com/software/ANT/</a></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>pmiw jar</th>
            <td><a
                
href="http://www.mullassery.com/software/PMIW/";>http://www.mullassery.com/software/PMIW/</a>
                (Poor Man's Imaging Wrapper)</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>pjatools jar</th>
            <td><a
                
href="http://www.eteks.com/pja/en/";>http://www.eteks.com/pja/en/</a>
                (pjatools for GIF encoding support)</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>Contact:</th>
            <td><a href="http://www.mullassery.com";>Abey Mullassery</a></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>License:</th>
            <td>Apache Software License</td>
          </tr>
        </table>
      </subsection>

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