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┌────────────────────────────────┐
│ Major Features of PowerView │
└────────────────────────────────┘
PowerView by Innovatix sets new standards for PC based image viewing
software. This file lists most of the major features, and when applicable
compares them to those found in other viewers such as QPEG, VPIC, CSHOW,
and GDS.
* Over 160 Video Cards painlessly supported. Innovatix has licensed
SciTech Software's UniVBE VESA driver and directly incorporated it
into PowerView. First time setup is quick and simple. PowerView
loads the driver automatically, removing the need for the user to
manually load it. The user needs no knowledge of what video card
they have; the configuration program painlessly determines it for
them.
Compare this to GDS, VPIC, and QPEG which support far fewer cards
and require the manual setup of cumbersome driver files and
rtechnical knowledge of the users video setup.
* Fastest Image Viewing of Any Program, More Supported Formats and
variations than CSHOW, VPIC, QPEG or GDS. PowerView recognizes
and handles Macintosh headers that choke other viewers.
PowerView displays the following file formats faster than *any* PC
program we know of:
.JPG - baseline DCT and extended sequentialDCT based modes,
with or without a JFIF marker
with the following sampling factors/colorspaces:
YH2V2, CbH1V1, CrH1V1 (the most popular)
YH1V2, CbH1V1, CrH1V1
YH2V1, CbH1V1, CrH1V1
YH1V1, CbH1V1, CrH1V1
YH1V1, (256 color grayscale)
CMYK, 1:1:1:1 (or 1x1, 1x1, 1x1, 1x1)
CMYK, 4:1:1:4 (or 2x2, 1x1, 1x1, 2x2)
** PowerView displays .JPG files 40%-60% faster than QPEG (the former
speed champ) _with_ better image quality than QPEG
PowerView also has a "Highest Quality" DCT for maximul Jpeg Quality
that is almost as fast as QPEG with its poor quality DCT.
.GIF - All Types GIF87a and limited GIF89a support
Views GIF images with a Macintosh fork header
** Compare PowerView's .GIF speed to GDS, VPIC, QPEG or CSHOW.
PowerView is faster than any other DOS based .GIF viewer period.
.TIF - 2 color grayscale/palettised, 16 color grayscale/palettised,
256 color grayscale/palettised, 24 bit true color,
and 32 bit CMYK
Compression: None, Macintosh PackBits, and LZW
Horizontal differentation, or "predictors", are supported
.PCX - 2, 8, 16, 256, and 16M color
.BMP/ - 2, 16, 256, and 16Mcolor, compressed or uncompressed
.RLE Windows and OS/2 1.x versions
.LBM/ - 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, and 256 color,
.IFF/ compressed or uncompressed, enhanced or unenhanced,
.BBM 6 bit extra-halfbright mode, greyscale images
.MAC - All Types (with or without a Macintosh fork header)
.TGA - 256 color, 15 bit, 16 bit, 24 bit, and 32 bit,
compressed or uncompressed
.RAW - Uncompressed video memory image, 256 color, 15/16/24 bits
* PowerView's User interface is superior to QPEG,GDS, CSHOW, VPIC and
all the rest. Clear, Simple and Powerful. A mouse is helpful, but
not required. Logical pull down menus and dialogs. A Full screen
file list that's fully customizable. Helpful status messages keep
the user informed. History lists and programmable keys let you
aaccess your preferred functions and directories.
While processing, the user is _Never_ left wondering what is going on.
* Simply put, PowerView is the most robust, crash-proof viewer ther is.
Bad and corrupted images are gracefully handled by PowerView.
These same images cause QPEG, GDS, VPIC and others to crash and
lock up the system.
QPEG, GDS and others are *easily* crashed by bad images.
* PowerView Sets the new standard for image color reduction and
dithering, both in quality and speed. PowerView resizes,
color reduces, dithers and anti-alises images faster and with
higher quality output than any other viewer.
- Just try taking a true color image and reducing it to 16 colors!
You'll become a believer.
- Just look at Walnut Creek's Travel Adventure CD-ROM. Compare the
reduced .GIFs on the CD-ROM with those you can make with PowerView.
PowerView does a better job the imaging software used to create
the CD-ROM.
* PowerView has Super Features while Viewing an Image.
These are some of the features available when viewing an image.
- Software & hardware scrolling/panning of large images
- Image Processing:
Red, Green, and Blue balancing
Gamma Adjust & Two kinds of Brightness Adjust
Color Saturation and Hue Adjust
Color Component Swap, Invert, and Color/B&W toggles.
Contrast adjust
- Palette Animation for Fractals
- Pop-up info on Current image
- 8 bit DAC support for higher percision
* ZOOM MODE! With EMS memory, PowerView can zoom *any* image and
smoothly pan the image at 30fps on a 386/25.
- Four Zoom Factors from 320x200 to 80x50 can be dynamically selected
- All image processing functions are fully available in Zoom Mode
* IMAGE SAVING! PowerView can save out any image, modified or unmodified,
in the following formats:
.GIF (2-256 colors)
.PCX (2-256 colors, 16M colors)
.BMP (2-256 colors, 16M colors)
.TIF (2-256 colors, 16M colors)
.TGA (2-256 colors, 64K colors, 16M colors)
.JPG (16M colors) (Registered version)
Options let you automatically assign filenames or specify them
on the fly and eliminate unused palette entries.
* Full .JPG Saving Control!
PowerView lets you adjust the following .JPG saving factors:
- Image Quality
- Image Smoothing
- Adaptive Quantization
- 4 Sampling Factors
- Optimal Huffman Codesets
- Chromanance Discrimination
* Printing. Support for PCL and Postscript laser printers.
(Registered Version Only)
* PowerView's Image Cache brings up *instant* information about the
image files you are browsing. Instead of having to rescan each
file to find out its resolution and size, PowerView keeps that
information in it's image cache for instant acces.
PowerView can also CREATE local image caches, storing all of
the image information for quick Access.
When it comes to viewing CD-ROMs, this feature *radically*
improves the overall performance of the viewer.
* PowerView has Short and Long description support. Many CD-ROMs
keep description information in a separate text file. PowerView
recognizes this, and makes the description availble to you while
you browse the images.
PowerView uses the 00_Index.TXT file, which is found on numerious
CD-ROMs.
Try viewing Travel Adventure, or the very Popular GIF's Galore
CD-ROM and turn on description information. New CD-ROMs will
be taking full advantage of this feature.
* PowerView's Recursive File Search lets you scan your hard disk or
Network for image files that you may not even know are out there.
* PowerView's Gamma Correction allow you to view Images made on a
Macintosh correctly on your PC. Walnut Creek's Travel Adventure
CD-ROM is a great example. With QPEG, CSHOW, GDS, VPIC and all
the rest, the images look to dark, and there is nothing you can
do about it. With PowerView, just turn on the Gamma Correction
and you'll see what they were suppose to look like.
* Windows and OS/2 Support! PowerView recognizes when Windows or
OS/2 is running and adjusts itself accordingly. For maxiumum
flexability, the user can further instruct PowerView to operate
in a maximum compatability mode or to take better advantage of
the hardware while under Windows or OS/2.