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- <<GVIEW / GV>> ver. 0.61
- Author: Tamotsu Tobita
- NIFTY:PBC02026 TOBITA
- NIKKEIMIX : tobita
- Copyright (c) 1992,1993 by Tamotsu Tobita. All rights reserved.
-
- Translation of the document: Masafumi Matsuda
- NIFTY:PAG01265 (FQLD)
- PCVAN:BQJ68494 (QLD-SIG)
- CompuServe:74060,1265
- Internet:matsuda@uthscsa.edu
-
- This utility is a viewer of graphic files under the operation of MS Windows.
- You will find this very useful especially when you use a high resolution
- display.
-
- GVIEW.ZIP contains GV.EXE, GV.HLP, README.JPN and README.ENG.
- README.JPN is the original documentation written by Japanese.
- If you have a DOS/V by IBM or a Toshiba T series personal computer
- with "JSYS", you can display README.JPN properly.
-
- ** GV.HLP is only for Japanese. English version is not ready.
-
- >Features
- A graphic file viewer on Windows
- This program changes palettes, when viewing 16 color data file, on VGA
- (IBM-PC compatible) or on PC9801 by option.
- Graphic formats include most prevalent graphic formats used in Japanese
- computer networks, including GIF and JPEG format.
-
- Among them, you to enjoy real colors, even if you are using fixed
- palette environment like VGA or PC9801. (You know that under usual
- circumstances, 16 color palettes are fixed in Windows. However this program
- changes the palette.)
-
- >CPU
- This program was compiled by Borland C++ v3.1 using PC9821Ap.
- The operation was confirmed by the following computers:
- PC-9821Ap
- IBM-PC compatible with VGA, SVGA
- PC-9801RA2
- J-3100 SGT
- PC-H98
- PS/55Z XGA
- FM TOWNS model SF
- under the control of Windows ver.3.0/3.1
-
- >How to use
- GV [<CPU option>] [/FP[+|-]] [/PG <Pager>] [/EXT=<TYPE>]
- [/ZM <ZoomRate>] [/AS <AspectRatio>] [/AA[+|-]] [/WD <DataDir>]
- [/ICON[+|-]] [/UC[+|-]] [/QT{-|={0|1|2}}] [/DT[+|-]] [/VI[+|-]]
- [/C={16|256}] [/ESC[+|-]] [/APT={W|H|I|D}] [/BMP[+|-]] [/AL[+|-]]
- [/OD[+|-]]
- [<DataFile>]
-
- <CPU option>
- { /98 | /98N | /98E | /98E0 | /98EA | /GA | /VGA }
- <TYPE>
- { MAG | MKI | Q4 | JPG | GIF | PIC | XBM | X | BMP | ALL }
-
- Please start this program from Windows. You may select options from the
- menu given by this program later. Also you may start this program associated
- with the graphic file by giving the name of <DataFile>. Pleases use <Data
- File> (name of the file) at the end of the options.
-
- To make relations, please describe in WIN.INI in Windows as follows;
-
- [Extensions]
- GIF=GV.EXE ^.GIF
-
- When you display the graphic data, you may use drag & drop feature.
- Drag the file from the file manager and drop on GV (icon).
-
- >Graphic formats
- 1. MAG: MAKI02 format developed by Maki-chan NET
- 2. MAKI: MAKI01A, MAKI01B format developed by Maki-chan NET
- 3. Q4: Q4 format developed on PCVAN and NIFTY by the QLD-group
- 4. JPEG: JFIF format by JPEG
- 5. GIF: GIF format developed on CompuServe.
- 6. PIC: format developed by Mr. Yanagisawa for X68K (Sharp)
- 7. XBM: Bit map format used in X Windows
- 8. X: Modified XBM format developed by JUNET
- 9. BMP: Bit map format used in MS Windows 3.0 OS/2
- 10. Automatic mode: Identifying the format by the suffix shown above
-
- Details of the display of the formats
- MAG
- Partial pictures are displayed as follows:
- 1) When no pictures are shown before the partial picture, it is shown
- normally.
- 2) When the number of planes of the color is different from that of
- the picture shown before, it is shown normally.
- 3) When the specified position is out of the range of the picture shown
- before, it is shown at the position where normally displayed.
- 4) When the size of data is more than 640 x 400, it is shown normally.
- 5) Otherwise, the partial picture data is displayed at the specified position
- on the previous picture as a mixed graphics.
-
- Q4
- BAT file included in the Q4 graphic data is neglected.
-
- JPEG
- JFIF data format is displayed.
-
- This software is based in part on the work of the Independent JPEG Group.
-
- GIF
- GIF87a and GIF89a(one file one graphic only) formats are displayed.
- Basically GIF87a is the format that this program supports.
-
- The Graphics Interchange Format(c) is the Copyright property of
- CompuServe Incorporated. GIF(sm) is a Service Mark property of
- CompuServe Incorporated.
-
- PIC
- You can change the aspect ratio. This program supports the following
- types; 0x00/0x01/0x03/0x11/0x21/0x52/0xC2/0x0F/0X1F/0XFF and 16/256/
- 4096/32K/64K colors. This program does not support partial display.
-
-
- BMP
- Depend on the window versions, the color shown might be different. (For
- example, NEC Windows and EPSON Windows even used on the same computer,
- give you different results.)
- This program didn't correct these differences.
-
- >Other features
- Basically this program is only used to show the graphic data. This program
- doesn't support the picture format conversion. Besides this program can
- do more on graphics displayed.
- 1) Copy/Paste with Clipboard (DIB,Bitmap)
- 2) Data save using BMP format.
- 3) Multiple graphic data can be shown by drag & drop
- 4) Right or left rotation
- 5) Linked display with multiple graphic data (auto/manual)
- 6) Automatic window size adjustment
- 7) Information of comments on the graphics data
- 8) Display of the document file
- 9) Display of the information of environment
-
- Copy/Paste
- Copy to the clip board is based on the copy of both DIB and Bit mapped
- formats simultaneously. You may paste using DIB (prior) or Bit mapped
- formats.
-
- Data Save by BMP
- Number of colors will be the same number which you used to show data.
- When you want to save 256 colors using 16 color machine, you have to use
- 256 color, which is not beautiful.
-
- Drag & Drop
- You can select multiple files. Use left button on the mouse to show the
- menu.
- Next Data:
- Previous Data:
- DATA List...:
- Double click of the left button enable you to precede the file.
-
- Rotation
-
- Link
- When you want to link the graphic data next to the picture already shown,
- you may use this feature. The size of the picture should fit to the
- size of the previous picture already shown. When you want to add the
- picture to the left side, you should remember that the horizontal size of
- the picture has limitation. You may use this feature especially when you
- display several Q4 formatted data files.
-
- Auto adjustment of the size
- To adjust the window size on the available screen size, you may use this
- feature. This feature is useful especially after the rotation or the
- movement.
-
- Comment display
- Information on the graphic data are shown. These include data size,
- number of colors and comments appeared in the header of the graphic file
- (header in MAG format, /*comment*/ in XBM format).
-
- Document display
- Document written on the DOC or Q4D file on the same directory can be
- shown using "notepad.exe" etc. (you may specify it.) When you link
- several graphics, the common part is used as the name of the document
- file.
-
- >More options
- I am sorry! You find the forbidden options that depend on the machines.
- 1) PC98(N) (/98, /98N)
- When the graphic data consist of 16 colors (palettes) and are shown in
- the active window, palettes are chosen from 4096 colors. You should
- use this option when you use PC9801 and NEC Windows.
- 2) PC98(E.0) (/98E, /98E0)
- When the graphic data consist of 16 colors (palettes) and are shown in
- the active window, palettes are chosen from 4096 colors. You should
- use this option when you use PC9801 and EPSON Windows ver.3.0.
- (The palettes used in EPSON Windows are different from those of NEC Windows.)
- 3) PC98(E.A) (/98EA)
- When the graphic data consist of 16 colors (palettes) and are shown in
- the active window, palettes are chosen from 4096 colors. You should
- use this option when you use PC9801 and EPSON Windows ver.3.0A.
- (The palette used in EPSON Windows differ between the versions.)
- 4) GA1024i (/GA)
- When the graphic data consist of 16 colors (palettes) and are shown in
- the active window, palettes are chosen from 16 million colors. You should
- use this option when you use PC9801 and GA1024i under fixed palette
- window driver.
- 5) VGA (/VGA)
- When the graphic data consist of 16 colors (palettes) and are shown in
- the active window, palettes are chosen from 262144 colors. You should
- use this option when you use IBM-PC VGA.
- (The color adjustment may not good in this version.)
- 6) OTHERS (default)
- Under this default option, graphics data are shown dependent to the
- graphic driver used in the windows.
- 7) Fixed Palette (/FP)
- The above modifications of palettes information are good only when the
- picture is in active window. However when this option is on, the
- information of palettes is good when the picture is not in active
- window.
-
- Other options are good in every machine.
- 8) Pager option for document display (/PG<pager>)
- Please specify the name of the program which is used to display the
- document file with path name. Default is "notepad.exe".
- 9) Setting the default file type (/EXT=<TYPE>)
- This option determine the graphic data file type at the beginning of this
- program. <TYPE> can be the format which this program support and ALL.
- When you don't select this option, the <TYPE> is MAG.
- 10) Zoom option (/ZM <ZoomRate>)
- from 10% to 999%
- 11) Aspect Ratio (/AS <AspectRatio>)
- from 50 to 250
- 12) Auto aspect setting (AA[+|-])
- for PIC format
- 13) Directory option at start (/WD <DataDir>)
- assign the directory for data of GV
- 14) Icon option (/ICON[+|-])
- Start together with ICON
- 15) Re-drawing option when non-active (/UC[+/-])
- When this option is on and GV.exe is in non-active window, this option
- forces the re-drawing of the picture by adjusting the colors as truly as
- possible (Slow).
-
- 16) Reduction of colors (/QT{-|={0|1|2}})
- - or 0 : no reduction
- 1: one pass
- 2: two pass
-
- 17) Dithering option (/DT[+|-])
-
- 18) Number of colors (/C={16|256})
- If the number of colors assigned is more than the number of colors, there
- is no reduction of colors.
-
- 19) Language option
- usually use the information of WIN.INI
-
- 20) ESC key option to end GV (/ESC[+|-])
- Please don't use ESC key During drawing.
- 21) Assign the aspect ratio (/APT={W|H|I|D})
- W: adjustment of width to have a good aspect ratio.
- H: adjustment of height to have a good aspect ratio.
- I: adjust the aspect ratio to enlarge the picture.
- D: adjust the aspect ratio to shrink the picture.
- 22) bit map option (/BMP[+|-])
- Quicker format of the internal data. When - (off), you can save memory.
- 23) Image option on saving (/VI[+|-])
- When you save the data, you use the same zoom and aspect ratio, if +.
- 24) Link option (/AL[+|-])
- Automatic link taking advantage of the name of the file according to the
- following rules.
- The program recognize the last one or two characters of the file name to
- link the data file.
- RULES:
- UP-DOWN:
- xxxxU.ext + xxxxD.ext
- or
- xxxxU.ext + xxxxS.ext
-
- UP-MIDDLE-DOWN:
- xxxxU.ext + xxxxM.ext + xxxxD.ext
- or
- xxxxU.ext + xxxxM.ext + xxxxS.ext
- LEFT-RIGHT:
- xxxxL.ext + xxxxR.ext
- LEFT-MIDDLE-RIGHT
- xxxxL.ext + xxxxM.ext + xxxxR.ext
- 2 x 2:
- xxxxUL.ext + xxxxUR.ext + xxxxDL.ext + xxxxDR.ext
- or
- xxxxUL.ext + xxxxUR.ext + xxxxSL.ext + xxxxSR.ext
-
- 25) Document option (/OD[+|-])
- You will see the document of the data and graphics at the same time
-
- Initialization File:
- You can also define the options using this file.
- Machine{ PC98 | PC98N | PC98E.0 | PC98E.A | GA1024i | VGA | Others }
- Pager=<name of the command for pager>
- Format={ mag | mki | q4 | jpg | gif | pic | xbm | x | bmp | ALL }
- Dithering={ ON | OFF }
- Quantize={ ON | OFF }
- QuantizePass={ 1Pass | 2Pass }
- Color={ 16 | 256 }
- CPU={ 286 | 386 }
- AspectRate=<50 - 250>
- AutoAspect={ ON | OFF }
- ZoomRate=<10 - 999>
- FixPalette={ ON | OFF }
- UpdateColor={ ON | OFF }
- Language={ Japanese | English }
- GaSwitch=<0 - F (GA1024i number for interrupt)>
- WorkDirectory=<name of directory for data files>
- PushESCExit={ ON | OFF }
- UseBMP={ ON | OFF }
- ViewImage={ ON | OFF }
-
-
- Menu Command
-
- (F)ile/
- (O)pen...: File open. You will see the dialog box.
-
- Save (A)s...: File save using BMP format. You will see the dialog box.
- When displayed by 256 colors, the BMP format is for 256 colors.
- When displayed by 16 colors, the BMP format is for 16 colors.
- When ViewImage is ON, the display image will be saved as it is.
- Save (C)onfig: save the present status to the initialize configuration file
- E(x)it: Exit from GV
-
- (E)dit/
- (C)opy: copy the data to the clip board.
- Copy View(I)mage: copy the data as the image shown.
- (P)aste: Display the data in the clip board.
- Cl(e)ar: clear the data from the memory of GV.
- (A)utoResize: Resize the window to have the largest window.
- (Z)oom...: zooming of the data (10 - 999)
- (R)otate/
- { (L)eft | (R)ight }
- Rotation of the data to left or right
- (L)ink/
- { (T)op... | (B)ottom... | (L)eft... | (R)ight... }
- Link the data toward the specified direction.
-
- (I)nfo/
- (P)icture...: Information of the data shown
- size, comment etc.
- (D)ocument...: Display the additional information files
- DOC/Q4D/TXT files
- D(i)splay...: Information about the hardware of display.
-
- (O)ptions/
- (E)nvironment...:
- Machine
- { PC98_N | PC98_E.0 | PC98E.A | GA1024i | VGA_16 | OTHERS}
- Please don't mistake to select the one you are using.
- 286CPU
- When selected, 80386 commands will not be used to show JPEG file.
- Fixed Palette
- For PC98/VGA/GA1024i
- GA1024i SW
- I/O assignment for GA1024i
- Update Colors
- Re-display to make the color of the data same, using the palettes
- of the other window. This may slow down the operation.
- Push ESC->Exit
- ESC option on
- Language
- { (J)apanese | (E)nglish }
- Use Bitmap
- Use faster internal format.
- (Q)uantize...:
- Quantization :on or off
- Method : 1 pass or 2 passes
- Colors : number of colors used
- Dithering : on or off
- (A)spect Ratio...:
- Aspect Ratio (50 - 250)
- Auto Adjust to CG (PIC only)
- (D)ata Info...:
- Directory : data file
- Format : format assignment
- Pager : Pager to read the document
- Save View Image : Save option
- (H)elp
- HELP file is for JAPANESE USE ONLY in this version.
- (I)ndex...:
- (C)ommand...
- (H)elp usage...
- (A)bout GV...
-
- >BUG
- Please inform the bugs to the author.
-
- >Limitations
- Some features of this program have not been well tested. Please send the
- report to the author when you try them.
- 1. MAKI01B 8color 200line format
- 2. Auto judgment of CPU (286 or not)
-
- This program does not paste the logical palettes. Therefore data exchange
- might be in failure, when the application does not copy the DIB to clip
- board.
-
- The drawing speed of JPEG graphic data is a kind of slow (;_;).
-
- >Modifications in the next version
- The following modifications are under consideration for the next version.
- Please give the advice.
-
- 1. quicker depicting of JPEG graphic data (if possible)
- 2. PI format (please give me more information, too m(o)m )
- 3. RGB, Q0 format support
- 4. PICT format support
- 5. TIFF format support
- 6. Auto-continuous display by timer
- 7. Display of the data using the whole screen
- 8. GIF89a format (especially for comment)
- 9. Modification (sharpness, darkness etc.)
- or adjustment or correction of the data
- 10. Utilization of Icon
- 11. Script
- 12. Format auto identification by the header of the data
-
-
- >COPYRIGHT
- Please keep the following instructions:
- 1) Don't change the copyright information. The author, Tamotsu Tobita,
- reserves all rights. Mr.OB and Mr.YUIPO in Yamagata Univ. also have
- the copyright of GV.HLP. Mr.PAO is the copyright holder of ICON of
- GV.exe.
- 2) You can freely distribute this software by BBS. However you should
- keep in mind the followings:
- a) Distribute as the original is.
- b) Don't forget to distribute the document together. When you re-
- distribute this program, I will appreciate your notice.
- c) Don't ask any money for this software.
- d) If you want to distribute this software for the commercial purpose,
- please contact the author before.
- 3) The author is not responsible for any damages caused through the usage
- of this program. Therefore it is your responsibility to use this
- program. The author dose not have any responsibility to fix the bug.
- The author does not have any responsibility for version up.
-
- >Acknowledgment from the author
- I really appreciate Mr.Woody RINN who kindly showed me the documents of
- MAG and MAKI format (MAGBIBLE, MKBIBLE). Without these documents I could
- not start to make this program. Please distribute this program to MAKI-
- chan NET.
- Thank you for the GIF87 documents made by Mr. Shindou (SHU). This document
- is really a comprehensive explanation of GIF format.
- Mr. YUIPO was kind enough to help me to test palette manager.
- The information of Q4 format is obtained from XLD45.exe (XLD45.c) written
- by MAJYO. Thank you for this information, Mr. Yuuichi (SYSOP of FQLD1 in
- NIFTY SERVE).
- I thank Mr. Yanagisawa for his publication of PIC format.
- I would like to express my thanks to those who contributed the information
- of bugs and suggestions in FGALAV, FQLD and FWINF forums, especially to
- the people in QLD forum (FQLD).
- Please give the author the information of the bugs or advises. I would like
- to develop better version of this program.
-
- Tamotsu Tobita
- NIFTY:PBC02026 TOBITA
- NIKKEIMIX : tobita
-
- >Environment for development
- PC-9821Ap(memory 8MB)
- GA-1280A(high resolution board)
- CR-5500
-
- MS-DOS ver.5.00A
- MS-Windows v.3.1 (NEC)
- Borland-C++ v.3.1
- WXII-Win V1.16
- FJ editor v.0.99d
- WXII+ v.2.52
-
- >History of modifications (version up)
- V0.61 1993/08/20
- Drag& Drop for multiple files
- Re-Draw of the selected file
- Japanese Menu
- Auto Link
- Document display with the picture
- Image save / copy
- Next file by left mouse button (double click)
- Document display by right mouse button (double click)
- PIC format (0x01:88VA/8Bit,0x0f:8Bit)
- PIC format ( 8/4 bits)
- PIC format (0x21:88VA/8Bit) and Drag&Drop
- To return to standard palette during menu selection in 98 option.
- Cannot escape during the loading of the data.
- Quit from the hang up during large JPEG display.
- Bug Fix: aspect ratio in PIC
- Bug Fix: UseBMP
- Bug Fix: BMP
- V0.60a 1993/07/02
- Support PIC(X68K) 4bit format (0x00)
- Aspect ratio option
- Saving memory option
- Correction of the aspect ratio setting when rotation
- ESC option
- Bug Fix: reduction of color
- V0.60 1993/06/13
- Color reduction was supported in all the formats.
- Support no reduction of color
- PIC(X68K) support
- Support Drag & Drop for MS-Windows 3.1
- Menu -> title (loading status)
- option method and save method changed
- +/- option and numeric option support
- initialize file format modified
- Palette change inactivated when the operation of ICON
- Bug Fix: JPEG 0 comment data
- Bug Fix: MAG partial saving and method of calculation
- Bug Fix: Window size during rotation
- V0.59d 1993/05/21 (closed)
- not clear the screen when drawing
- TXT files were accepted as document file.
- Bug Fix: MAG format (lines)
- Bug Fix: BMP paste
- Bug Fix: for the file name with Chinese characters
- Bug Fix: Drag & Drop in MS-Windows 3.1J
- V0.59c 1992/12/14
- Data directory
- GIFs with MAC header were accepted.
- Bug Fix for GIF format
- V0.59b 1992/12/13
- Loosen the rule for MAG
- More GIF formats were supported
- V0.59a 1992/11/25
- Bug Fix: ending
- V0.59 1992/11/15
- Help file
- BMP file save (officially)
- Drag & Drop support
- Dialog box for file open and file save
- Comment display for JPEG
- More options (ICON, ZM, AS)
- Bug Fix: link and cancel
- Bug Fix: Scroll and re-draw when Zoom, Aspect rate other than 100.
- Bug Fix: Q4, MAG, 200LINE MAKI file
- Bug Fix: directory
- V0.58x 1992/09/07 (test version)
- Improvement of JPEG display speed.
- Add "Japan" to the language selection
- GA1024i I/O address switch option added.
- Return to normal display mode on the modification of the size of
- maximized window.
- BMP file save
- Bug fix: directory
- Bug fix: VGA
- V0.57a 1992/08/13
- Bug fix: assignment of file, when starting up.
- V.0.57 1992/08/05
- fixed some bugs of options
- V.0.57 1992/07/23 TEST version for USA CIS
- added the feature of enlargement and shrinking of the picture
- English mode
- adjusted to the initialization file
- correction of the aspect ratio
- added more formats of JPEG which can be displayed
- switches to Japanese/English mode according to WIN.INI information
- auto-decision of 286CPU
- Default of full color machine became Others
- consideration of non-preemptive multitask (in part)
- fixed the bug which reserved wrong spaces for display of Q4 info.
- V.0.56a 1992/07/01
- fixed bugs of menu check
- fixed bugs of command line option input
- V.0.56 1992/06/27
- added JPEG format
- added VGA option
- added the option to change the data type at the beginning
- added the feature to link graphics
- improved to display Q4 format using RGB palette file.
- added to display more information on Q4 format (date and RGB file
- information)
- added OS/2 bitmap format
- improved the acceptance of the name of document files at the
- multiple graphic display using link option.
- fixed the bug that occurred at showing some Q4 files.
- fixed the bug that could not set the name of the document file when
- data file was pointed
- fixed the bug that occurred at the rotation of the picture which
- had odd number of line or row.
- V.0.55a 1992/06/03
- added the option for EPSON Windows ver.3.0A
- V.0.55 1992/06/01
- added Q4 format
- added link feature
- added and improved the auto adjustment of window size and its
- algorithm
- partial GIF89a display enabled
- added the feature to read documents
- added the feature to re-draw the non-active windows
- improved the timing to change the logical palette
- improved the menu structure
- fixed the bug that occurred when XBM file does not have cr at the end.
- V.0.54 1992/05/12
- completed the action with palette manager
- added MAKI format
- added the option for EPSON Windows (PC98(E)) officially
- added the PC98 palette options
- added the feature that adjust the window side
- changed the name of window to show the file name instead of GV
- added the CPU information with MAG data
- fixed the bug that induced malfunction to show MAG file without
- comments
- fixed the bug that displayed wrongly the partial picture of MAG
- fixed the bug that skipped to read extended block of GIF file
- fixed the bug that worked wrongly with interlaced GIF file
- fixed the bug that occurred with 8 color files
- fixed the bug that calculated the wrong size of bit map size
- V.0.53 1992/04/11
- accepted GIF87a graphic format
- enable to display partial save MAG graphic data
- fixed the bug with 8 color display of MAG again.(_o_).
- fixed the bug that hide the files without archive attributions
- changed the timing of the change of PC98 palette at the multiple
- graphics display
- added the option for GA1024i
- added the option for EPSON Windows (PC98(E))
- tested the palette manager
- V.0.52a 1992/04/05
- fixed the bug that erase the comments at rotation.
- fixed the bug that took the wrong number of the palette with PC98
- fixed the bug with 8 color display of MAG digital graphics
- V.0.52 1992/04/03
- fixed the bug that kept open the resources
- added the capability of rotation to left/right
- V.0.51 1992/03/31
- added PC98 options
- sending DIB and logical palette information to clip board
- V.0.50 1992/03/20
- First version
-