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- Short: GsAView - View ghostscript output with anti-aliasing
- Author: olethros@geocities.com (Christos Dimitrakakis)
- Uploader: olethros@geocities.com (Christos Dimitrakakis)
- Version: 0.11 - Very early version
- Type: gfx/show
- Requires: 1MB Chip, 4.5MB Fast
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-
- Latest Changes
- --------------
-
- Bugfix - It was crashing when FBlit was running
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- Overview
- ========
- This program was put together rather quickly :)
- It converts a monochrome 1700x2200 (200dpi) page output from ghostscript into a
- 850x1100 anti-aliased 8-color grayscale page, which is then displayed onto a
- screen.
- Useful for those of us who do not have 1700 pixel wide displays :)
-
-
- Usage
- =====
-
- Syntax: GsAView [-m] [filename]
-
- View a single file
- ------------------
- GsAView filename
- (Exit by holding down the RMB)
-
- View a list of files
- --------------------
- GsAView -m filename
- This tries to read a list of files named
- filename_xxxx.ilbm
- Where xxxx is a list of numbers {0001,0002,....}
- This is the default output of the amiga_ilbm device in gs5.1.0
- Look below for more details
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- Using with gs5.1.0
- ==================
-
- (gs5.1.0 is available from aminet:text/dtp/)
-
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- /- Viewing a single page -/
- --------------------------
-
- gs -r200 -g1700x2200 -sDEVICE=amiga_ilbm -sOutputFile=path/filename document
- (The -g1700x2200 argument is not strictly necessary, but it is safer.. )
-
- ..then, when the page is rendered just start GsAView,or otherwise run it like
- this:
-
- GsAView path/filename_XXXX.ilbm
-
- Use L-Amiga and the mouse button to drag the screen.
- Click the right mouse button to exit.
-
-
- /- Viewing a complete document -/
- ---------------------------------
-
- Because amiga_ilbm device appends _XXXX.ilbm to the filename it is possible to
- shift through pages using GsAView:
-
- First, prepare the output files:
-
- gs -dNOPAUSE -r200 -g1700x2200 -sDEVICE=amiga_ilbm -sOutputFile=path/filename document
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- Then,
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- GsAView -m path/filename
-
- (Note: You do not have to wait for all files to be created before you start
- viewing them.)
-
- Press -,+ on the main keyboard to change pages, or use the GUI on the workbench
- screen. Close the GUI to exit.
-
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- Problems (aka BUGS)
- -------------------
- No error checking is done when loading the bitmap!
- It must be a single bitplane 1700x2200 bitmap!
- If any other file or a directory, is supplied, GsAView will crash horribly!!
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-
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- Technical details
- -----------------
- The program was quickly put together using blitz, which has a fast operation for
- loading an image into a bitmap (faster than datatypes, I guess)
-
- A custom screen is then opened with this bitmap as a custom bitmap.
- A 3.7MB buffer is initialized and ReadPixelArray8 is used to get the data from
- the screen to the buffer. The bitmap data is then freed.
- A 0.8Mb buffer is initialized for the scaled image.
- The scaling operation is a 5-point filter with a highly optimized assembly
- innerloop (it uses reduces mem-reads from 5 to 3). The scaling takes 1s on my
- 68030@50Mhz.
- A new screen, with depth 3, and using the SA_LikeWorkbench attribute, is created
- and WritePixelArray8 is used to display the data.
-
- I decided not to support other BitMap sizes because 2->1 scaling is much faster
- than arbitrary scaling, which would need a real filter matrix, which in turn
- necessitates the use of multiplication operations and more memory accesses.
-
- The Future
- ----------
-
- I might, just might, extend this program to work with arbitrary image sizes,
- (but still 2->1 scaling), and use datatypes!. Ooh!
- I guess it could be done using the datatype.library render methods onto a
- window and then get it using ReadPixelArray8. Might be an easier way?
-
- If you have any ideas, suggestions, comments, or bug reports (apart from the
- known ones), please send me an email.
-
- PS.
- It is possible that I might have no access to email starting from March. In case
- you want to communicate something important to me (dunno what, how about sending
- some money? :)
- send snail-mail to:
-
- Christos Dimitrakakis
- Agias Sofias 4
- Drama 66100
- Greece
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- Look at other weird stuff from me:
-
- /demo/aga/nebula.lha - Cool Spacey demo
- /dev/basic/bgp.lha - Blitz Genetic-Programming Environment
- /dev/basic/gasp.lha - Genetic Algorithm Sample Packer in Blitz
- /dev/misc/SimpTrans.lha - Simple Automatic Translation of .ct files!
- /dev/misc/ST_uk2gr.lha - Uk2Gr phrasebook for SimpTrans
- /dev/misc/YAAV.lha - YAAV V0.99 - Yet Another Autodoc Viewer
- /game/shoot/allrox.lha - HardCore FRENETIC shootem'up - HARD! FAST! OUCH!
- /game/actio/wreckage.lha - Experimental Driving Sim
- /game/actio/wreckage_src.lha - Source for driving sim (older version)
- /gfx/show/gsaview.lha - View ghostscript output with anti-aliasing
- /mus/misc/filtersound.lha - Cli-Based FIR/IIR sample filter
- /util/pack/agf.lha - AGF V0.9 n*8-bit Sample Pre-Packing Processor
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- Olethros
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- http://members.xoom.com/cdimita
- http://www.mp3.com/olethros
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