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External File Management System
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$Revision: 1.2 $
$Date: 1993/03/05 14:37:44 $
This is the READEFMS.ME file for the External File Management System
supplied with several products. Because the EFMS is a continually
changing product many details in this file are not reproduced in the
manual.
HiSoft
The Old School
Greenfield
Bedford
MK45 5DE
ENGLAND.
Phone: +44 525 718181
Fax: +44 525 713716
Art Director
------------
State: Released
Import: Palette 320x200x16
Export: Palette (0..320)x(0..200)x16
Degas/Degas Elite
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State: Released
Import: Palette 320x200x16, 640x200x4, 640x400x2, 1280x960x2,
640x480x16, 320x480x256
Export: Not Supported
CompuServe(r) GIF(sm)
---------------------
State: Released
Import:
Formats:
Palette (0..64K)x(0..64K)x(0..256)
Known bugs:
Local color table not supported
89a extensions are parsed & discarded
Export: Not Supported
EA IFF 85 ILBM
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State: Released
Import:
Formats:
Palette (0..64K)x(0..64K)x(0..256)
RGB (0..64K)x(0..64K)x16M
Known bugs:
21 Bit NewTek format not supported
Masking not supported
Export: Not Supported
History:
1.9 - Extra half-bright, Hold & Modify, 24 bit support and
DPaint/ST compression suppport added (TruePaint 1.01)
1.3 - TruePaint 1.0 release
Gem Bit Image
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State: Released
Import:
Formats:
Grayscale (0..64K)x(0..64K)x(0..256)
Palette (0..64K)x(0..64K)x(0..256)
RGB to (0..64K)x(0..64K)x(0..16M)
Export: Not Supported
JPEG File Interchange Format
----------------------------
State: Released
Import:
Formats:
Grayscale images (0..4G)x(0..4G)x(0..256)
YCbCr images to (0..4G)x(0..4G)x(0..256)
Known bugs:
Temporary files not supported, only two-pass
quantisation supported, mammoth pause at startup when
loading into palette mode
Memory requirements:
A _minimum_ 2Mb machine
Export:
Formats:
Grayscale, YCbCr, RGB
Known bugs:
Quality factor is fixed at 75, palette output smoothing
fixed at 10, JFIF density tags not written
MTV Raytracer
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State: Released
Import:
Formats:
RGB (0..64K)x(0..64K)x16M
Export:
Formats:
RGB (0..64K)x(0..64K)x16M
History:
1.9 - MTV files now auto-detected. Changed from name from RAW
to MTV Raytracer (TruePaint 1.01)
Notes:
MTV Raytracer format is output by the AVR/2-Bit Systems product
VideoMaster where it is known as RAW format.
NEOchrome
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State: Released
Import: Palette 320x200x16, 640x200x4, 640x400x2
Export: Not Supported
PC Paintbrush (PCX)
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State: Released
Import:
Formats:
Palette (0..64K)x(0..64K)x(0..256)
RGB (0..64K)x(0..64K)x16M
Known bugs:
Color map parsing inconsistent (esp. ver < 5)
MDA/CGA/EGA video probably broken
Export: Not Supported
Prism Paint
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State: Released
Import:
Formats:
Palette (0..64K)x(0..64K)x(0..256)
RGB to (0..64K)x(0..64K)x(0..16M)
Export:
Formats:
Palette (0..64K)x(0..64K)x(0..256)
RGB to (0..64K)x(0..64K)x(0..16M)
Spectrum 512
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State: Released
Import:
Formats:
RGB 320x200
Known bugs:
No compressed support
No smooshed support
Export: Not Supported
Truevision Targa
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State: Released
Import:
Formats:
Grayscale (0..4G)x(0..4G)x(0..64K)
Palette (0..4G)x(0..4G)x(0..64K)
RGB (0..4G)x(0..4G)x(0..16M)
Export: Not Supported
Tag Image File Format(TIFF)
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State: Released
Import:
Formats:
Grayscale (0..4G)x(0..4G)x(0..64K)
Palette (0..4G)x(0..4G)x(0..64K)
RGB (0..4G)x(0..4G)x(0..16M)
Export:
Formats:
Grayscale (0..4G)x(0..4G)x(0..64K)
Palette (0..4G)x(0..4G)x(0..64K)
RGB (0..4G)x(0..4G)x(0..16M)
History:
1.23 - Added Ctrl-key kludge (TruePaint 1.01)
1.20 - TruePaint 1.0 release
Notes:
TIFF-SM.EFX is supplied as a cut-down TIFF EFM; it only supports
Packbits and LZW style compression. This saves some 150K in size!
_Many_ ST/TT/Falcon TIFF reading products fail to implement
(either at all or incorrectly) many of TIFF's baseline features
or common extensions. If whilst saving a TIFF image you hold
down the Control key the TIFF EFMs will restrict themselves to
_strictly_ uncompressed TIFF 6.0 baseline features (normally its
uses the more relaxed TIFF 5.0 baseline model); this _may_ allow
you to import your image into one of these packages.
Note that we have tested TIFF files output by TruePaint in Aldus
Freehand 3.1, Adobe Photoshop 2.0, Microsoft Word 5.0 & Aldus
Pagemaker 4.0 on the Mac, and in Paintshop Pro on the PC. All
TIFF files, written by TruePaint, which we tested imported
correctly into these products.