IMAGE PLUS VERSION 1.0 Image Plus uses the image palette if the image contains a palette if not then the windows system palette is used. The system palette is further determined by the video driver used. For instance if you are using a video driver that supports 256 colors than your system and all the software that uses the system palette (barring any restrictions that the software or hardware may have) will support 256 colors. This is important because most of the software available uses the system palette. True color 24 bit graphic files do not contain a palette and therefore always use the windows system palette. When you are in the 256 color (8 bit) mode bear in mind that there can be only one hardware palette active at a time. Image Plus gets around this by using a pseudo (fixed) 24 bit palette when you are using the "multi screen" option and an 8 bit video driver. If you choose a video driver above 8 bits the individual image palette will be used. Since the pseudo palette cannot exactly match every image palette it is recommended that you use a video driver above 8 bits when manipulating the image palette. Bear in mind that display hardware and software from one company may be drastically different from another. A graphics accelerator is highly recommended when using a color setting of (8 bits) 256 colors or higher. It is also prudent to select a setting higher than 8 bits when using/viewing graphic files above 8 bits. Image Plus supports all the popular raster file images such as bmp, pcx, gif, dib, rle, dcx, eps, jpg, pct, tga, wmf, tif And wpg. You may also convert formats using the "Save As" menu option. Image Plus provides "TWAIN" support for scanning. The Laplacian property provides a Sobel Image processing function to sharpen an image. This is a matrix operation that works with 8 and 24 bit images. The Dialation property provides a Sobel Image processing function to increase the size of image features in an image. This is a matrix operation that works with 8 and 24 bit images. The RobertsCross property provides a Sobel Image processing function to find edges in an image using the Roberts method. This is a matrix operation that works with 8 and 24 bit images. The EdgeDetect property provides a Sobel Image processing function to enhance all lines in an image. This is a matrix operation that works with 8 and 24 bit images. The HorzEdgeDetect property provides a Sobel Image processing function to enhance all horizontal lines in an image. This is a matrix operation that works with 8 and 24 bit images. The VertEdgeDetect property provides a Sobel Image processing function to enhance all vertical lines in an image. This is a matrix operation that works with 8 and 24 bit images. The Pos45EdgeDetect property provides a Sobel Image processing function to enhance all 45 degree lines in an image. This is a matrix operation that works with 8 and 24 bit images. The Neg45EdgeDetect property provides a Sobel Image processing function to enhance all -45 degree lines in an image. This is a matrix operation that works with 8 and 24 bit images. Halftone is used to convert color images to monochrome (black & white) using a halftone dithering technique. Image Plus setup places the following files in the Windows\System directory if you uninstall copy these files to a disk and delete them from your hard drive. THREED.VBX CMDIALOG.VBX VBRUN300.DLL MSOLE2.VBX MSOLEVBX.DLL ACCUVB16.VBX IPLUS.INI (Windows Directory) Image Plus supports OLE2 using (MDI) multiple document interface allowing you to open several objects on one screen regardless of format. You may toggle the objects to the clipboard as needed or edit them with a click of the right mouse button without creating another file. You may also save frequently used OLE2 objects as a Image Plus File (*.ipf). Note you must have SHARE.EXE added to the autoexec.bat file to use OLE2. If you have applications that support OLE (most apps support OLE1) and OLE is not working correctly than you need to re-register your apps in the registration data base. To do this rename your "reg.dat" file in the windows directory, exit windows and restart, your apps are now re-registered for OLE1. For OLE2 registration make sure that file extension (.reg) is associated with regedit.exe. You can check this by selecting associate under the file menu in File Manager and type (reg) in the extension box. You should see regedit.exe as the association. If you don't then you must make the association before continuing. With reg in the extension box choose browse, in the windows directory select regedit.exe and press OK. Check the association before continuing. If you have applications that support OLE2 and your OLE is not working correctly than your registration data base is probably corrupt, this is not uncommon when installing OLE2 apps. To correct this follow the procedure above for OLE1 then using the "RUN" command type "REGEDIT" you will see the apps that are registered. Delete the empty lines (if any) and all your OLE2 apps (such as Corel4, Visio 2.0 etc.), make sure that you delete OLE2 apps only. In your windows\system directory locate the file "OLE2.REG" and double click it, you should now see a dialog box indicating that OLE2 is successfully registered. You need to execute all of your OLE2 apps to complete registration. I strongly recommend that you execute all your OLE2 apps before leaving windows. Copyright 1994 by Image Plus All Rights Reserved. Portions of this program are Copyright by Accusoft Corporation.