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- MagniPaint V3.3
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- (C) Copyright 1991-93 By Blueview Software.
- All Rights Reserved.
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- DISCLAIMER
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- Blueview Software will not be liable for any damage that may
- result from the use of this program. This program comes with NO
- WARRANTY written or implied. Use this program at your own risk :)
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- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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- IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines
- Inc. Windows is a registered trade mark of Microsoft Inc.
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- REQUIREMENTS
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- IBM Compatible Machine
- Mouse
- VGA/SVGA card
- DOS 3.3 or higher (or any Compatible DOS)
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- LICENSING
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- You are granted a 30 day evaluation period to use MagniPaint,
- if you find that MagniPaint is a valuable tool and expect to use it
- beyond the evaluation period, then you are expected to register. The
- cost of registering MagniPaint is $20.00. U.S. ($24.00 Cdn) See
- ORDER.TXT.
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- CUSTOMER SERVICE
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- If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions,
- Blueview Software can be contacted through several means.
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- BBS - Baudeville BBS (416) 283-0114
- - Leave message to NICK ONOUFRIOU in the main conference.
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- Shareware Conferences - RIME, INTELEC, NANET, CITY2CITY, FIDONET,
- and ILINK. Leave message to NICK ONOUFRIOU.
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- Internet: nick.onoufriou@bville.gts.org
- nick.onoufriou@canrem.com
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- Fido net-mail: 1:250/304
- 1:229/15
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- Surface Mail - Blueview Software
- 2300 Lawrence Ave. East BOX 80551
- Scarborough, Ontario
- CANADA M1P 2R0
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- NOTE: All mail _will_ be answered. If you do not receive a reply
- within a few days please try again, mail does get lost.
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- INTRODUCTION
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- MagniPaint is a graphic editor for creating and manipulating
- small graphic images. MagniPaint is capable of handling graphics up
- to 100 X 100 pixels in size with 16 or 256 colors. The popular PCX
- format is supported along with the BMP and ICO format used
- by MS Windows programs.
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- GETTING STARTED
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- If you have not yet tried the program, please try it now, this
- will allow you to get a better understanding for the proceeding
- information.
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- The MagniPaint display is divided into five areas, the top
- left corner contains the actual size image of the icon, the far
- right contains a zoom image of the icon, the lower left contains
- a box with the 'MP' letters, above that is the tool box, and at the
- lower right is the color box. All drawing and editing is done in
- the zoom area.
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- SELECTING COLORS
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- To select a color move the mouse pointer in color box area,
- point to one of the colors and press the left mouse button.
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- SELECTING TOOLS
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- To select any of the tools move the mouse pointer in the tool
- box area, point to one of the tools and press the left mouse
- button.
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- TOOL DESCRIPTION
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- -Open : Read image file
- (see USING THE FILE REQUESTER)
- (see CHANGING FORMATS)
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- -Save : Save Image to file
- (see CHANGING FORMATS)
- (see USING THE FILE REQUESTER)
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- -Dot : Point where to plot dot, press left mouse
- button.
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- -Line : Point where to plot the starting end of
- the line and press left mouse button, move pointer
- to extend the line, release button.
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- -Square : Point where to plot the starting corner
- of the square and press left mouse button, move
- pointer to expand the square, release button.
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- -Filled Square : Same as square.
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- -Circle : Point where the centre of the circle
- will be and press left mouse button, move pointer to
- expand the circle, release button.
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- -Filled Circle : Same as circle.
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- -Spray : Point where to spray dots and press left mouse
- button, release button.
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- -Size : Changes the size of the zoom area.
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- -Mode : Switches graphic modes (640X480X16 OR 640X480X256)
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- -Paint : Point to area that you want painted and press left
- mouse button, release button.
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- -Undo : Removes the last thing you plotted.
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- -Grid : Toggles the grid in the zoom box.
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- -CLR : Clears the display.
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- -Exit : Allows you to exit the program.
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- -View : Allows you to view your image in different
- resolutions.
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- -Clip : Point where to mark the starting corner
- of the clip area and press left the left mouse
- button, move pointer to expand the clip area, release
- button.
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- -Open : Reads file into the clipped area.
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- -Save : Saves image area that is clipped.
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- -HFLIP : Flips the image horizontally
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- -VFLIP : Flips the image vertically.
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- -Up : Scrolls the image up.
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- -Down : Scrolls the image down.
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- -Left : Scrolls the image to the left.
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- -Right : Scrolls the image to the right.
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- CHANGING FILE FORMATS
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- By moving the mouse pointer over the SAVE or OPEN gadget and
- pressing the RIGHT mouse button you are given a list of file
- formats. Select a format and press the OK gadget.
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- BMP - Windoes BMP format
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- ICO - Windows Icon Format
- Remember when saving in this format that only
- the first 32 X 32 pixels starting from the
- left top corner will be saved. If you clip save
- the file and its less than 32 X 32 the image
- will be padded to 32 X 32.
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- PCX - Used By PC Paintbrush and other popular
- programs. Images that are larger than 100 X 100
- pixels will be truncated.
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- A NOTE TO REGISTERED USERS
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- Thank you for registering MagniPaint. Your key file (MP.KEY)
- should be placed in the same directory as your MP.EXE file in order
- to deactivate the registration reminders. Your key file is encoded with
- your name and address and should not be redistributed in any form. Please
- disregard the next paragraph if you have already registered MagniPaint.
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- REGISTERING MAGNIPAINT
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- Why should you register MagniPaint?
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- When you register MagniPaint your letting us know your using
- this program and would like to see similar programs released
- by this method. It also allows us to devote more time
- making the program better if we are provided with an incentive to
- do so. Upon registering you will receive the latest and greatest
- version of MagniPaint and a 'KEY' file that removes the reminders
- for registration from the current and any future versions of the
- program.
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- If you have decided that this program is worth registering please
- print a copy of ORDER.TXT or VISAORDR.TXT and fill it out.
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