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PostView 1.0 Manual
Copyright Ralph Schmidt 1993
Additional Artwork Mick Hohmann
Internet: laire@uni-paderborn.de
IRC: laire
ZNet: laire@Hsp.zer
Fido: Ralph Schmidt 2:242/55.16@Fidonet",$a
SMail: Ralph Schmidt
Kleiner Hellweg 4
4796 Salzkotten
Germany
This software is Gift(Poison)ware
Greetings go to
Michael van Elst,Petra Zeidler,MichaelS,Timmer(sorry for the Bolts:-B)
and ScottE for some help with PostView.
UDance, Guardian(Andrew Denton...i have no clue why i have added
you to this list(Inside joke)), (Closed Lips)Bill Coldwell,
CWolf(Thank you for your great DynamiCache),Aikido,JohnW,
Tron , Ill, mau(sorry that i forgot you) and all the IRC friends
for some nice hours.
Greetings also go to my closer friends Dirk Leschner and Frank Jakobs.
P.S. Gift means poison in german....
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
! !
! PostView NEEDS the post.library that is based in the PostV1.7.lha archive !
! !
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My experience with docs in general have convinced me to release only
ultra short docs because nobody RTFM.......so why waste your time and
my energy?:-B
o PostView Background Story
Christmas 1992 i needed to look at some specs that were only available
as PS files and after some time with the Post V1.7 Viewer i was so
frustrated that i started to write a new Previewer. I hope you like it.....
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PostView uses the post.library, so don't blame me for any parse-problems:-B
Read the post.library docs for copyrights and any additional informations.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!If you use PostView from the WB the post.library error output is written !
!into NIL:. If you want to see the output you must specify an output file.!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Color Handling:
On the WB PostView uses the default colours so you can get uncorrect
coloured pictures. If you open it on a Screen with »4 Colour CMYK«
active you should get a correct Colour output.
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Options:
o XSize sets the width of the PS-Bitmap
o YSize sets the height of the PS-Bitmap
o XDpi sets the XDpi.
o YDpi sets the YDpi.
o DEPTH sets the depth of the bitmap. Only maximal 2 planes are supported
by the post.library yet.
o DXSize sets the width of the PS-Display window
o DYSize sets the height of the PS-Display
o MemVLen read post.library docs
o MemFLen read post.library docs
o MemLLen read post.library docs
o MemHLen read post.library docs
o Black & White = 1 Bitplane
o 3 Colour RGB = 3 Bitplane
o 4 Colour CMYK = 4 Bitplane
o Window sets display-window mode on so the window is opened on
the WB.
o Screen sets screen-window mode on so the window is opened on
Custom screen.
o ScreenPost sets screen-window mode on so the window is opened on
Custom screen with original Post colourmap.
o Chip Ram sets chipram bitmap mode on.
o Public Ram sets publicram bitmap mode on.
This can lead to slower refresh times.
o Refresh sets refresh mode, so the display-window is refreshed
on every PS-Bitmap change.
o No Refresh sets refresh mode off
o Centre sets centre mode on, so the display-window area is centred
on the image position.
o No Centre sets center mode off
o Colour defines post.library colour mode
o Init can be used to define several Init.ps files.
o ErrFile sets the post.library report window/file.
o ScreenX sets the Custom screen width.
o ScreenY sets the Custom screen height.
o ScreenDepth sets the Custom screen depth.
o ScreenID sets the Custom screen display name.
o NoAutoScroll turns Custom screen autoscrolling off
Command Window Gadgets:
See Options explanations
o Load File loads a postscript file and start the parser. You can run
unlimited parser instances.
Display Window Gadgets:
o the Times Image starts the next page.
o the Printer Image starts the printer.device.
o the Disk Image is used to save the page.
o the Centre Image is used to centre the page.
o the Arrows can be activated by the cursor keys.
SHIFT and CTRL increase the scrolling offset.
Menu:
o Selects a new Custom screen display mode.
o Calculates the width and height values by the DPI values.
o Calculates Dpi values by the width and height values.
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To Do: o Faster FillMem(Movem optimized...i want it out as fast as possible
and i'm sooooooooo lazy)
o Centreing is sooo slow...instead of readpixel use direct Bitmap
checks.....though it's acceptable on an a4000:-B
Nice time while exploring all the obvious functions and if you're one
of these creatures that enjoy to read manuals,nevermind:-B
There's always another time......
Regards....
RELEASE NOTES
+ PostView and Post dithering difference bug is not found yet
and i have no clue why .....
+ PrintPage problems not fixed yet....i plan to add a printer
config requester
PostView 1.1
- Illegal Size check to avoid 0 bitmap sizes
PostView 1.1 BETA 2
- GFX Garbage with Centreing now really fixed
- Two of the memory integer gadets were switched
- Accepts now .icons files to load a ps file
- FILE/K option added
- Fixed Default ScreenID...was set by accident on an AA only MonitorID...
- File Directory is now also current directory for that process
PostView 1.1 BETA 1
- SaveIff Colour Bug removed
- ASL-Filerequester uses now the directory again
- Add »Screen-Post« option to get an original Post-Colour screen
- DPI/Size Calculation(Menu) fixed.
- Refresh problem/crash probably solved...i couldn't reproduce it
with the new version
- Gfx Garbage with Centreing in a special condition
PostView 1.0 - Initial Release