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- Attention !!!
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- For installation you need three archives from Aminet:gfx/conv. Some archives
- (Doc and CPU) exists in more than one version. Please choose the required
- documentation language and the required CPU-Version. If you don't known, which
- CPU/FPU works in your Amiga, download all CPU files or only the files you think
- that are the right ones. You can also download more than one documentation
- archive or CPU archive, the install script lets you choose the language and the
- CPU version to install.
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- If you want to change an installed XTrace documentation into another language,
- you can also download only a documenation archive and install the documentation
- with the install script located in the Documentation/<Language> drawer.
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- The main archive : XTrace_Main.lha
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- The doc archive : XTrace_???Doc.lha
- - ??? = Eng -> English documentation
- - ??? = Ger -> German documentation
- - ??? = Fre -> French documentation
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- The CPU archive : XTrace_#?.lha
- - #? = 000 -> MC68000 version
- - #? = 020 -> MC68020 version
- - #? = 020882 -> MC68020/M68882 version
- - #? = 030 -> MC68030 version
- - #? = 030882 -> MC68030/M68882 version
- - #? = 040 -> MC68040 version
- - #? = 060 -> MC68060 version
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- Extract all downloaded XTrace archives into the _same_ directory and start the
- installer script.
-
- It is possible, that some documentation archives will be released much later
- than the XTrace main program, because the translation of these files is still
- under progress.
-
- Please read the history chapter carefully, because some important changes was
- made.
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- What is XTrace ?
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- XTrace is a tracer to convert bitmap pictures (like IFF ILBM files) to vector
- pictures (like AI, EPS, FIG, IFF DR2D or DXF files).
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- It offers many operators to process bitmap and vector pictures and also supports
- bezier curves, XPK, clipboards, CyberGraphX/Picasso96 etc.
-
- As a very special feature, XTrace is able to save traced pictures as
- 3-dimensional logo for Michiel den Outer's "Navigator Titler" (Video Titler) and
- as 3-dimensional DXF files (for use with raytracers). It can also load and trace
- AMIGA fonts and save these as 3-dimensional fonts for the "Navigator Titler".
-
- *Please* read the documentation in every case carefully, otherwise, you can't
- take the full advantage of XTrace !! There's also a FAQ chapter with some
- questions/answers you'll probably have.
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- Requirements
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- XTrace requires at least AmigaDOS 3.0, at least 5 Mb RAM and a fast processor to
- work efficient, but it should run with 2 Mb RAM and a MC68000.
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- It requires approximately 2 Mb of hard disk space for full installation.
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- Installation
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- Installation is easy, just click on the installation icon and XTrace will be
- installed. The installation is safe, there's no risk of overwriting any files
- and you can later uninstall easily by deleting the XTrace-Drawer. This will
- completely remove XTrace from your system. If you abort the installation, files
- that were installed will be deleted.
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- All files except some libraries were installed into a single directory.
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- I suggest you install XTrace in expert user mode.
-
- You should really use the Installer script and not try to install XTrace
- manually. If you don't have the standard Amiga Installer utility, you can
- download it from any Aminet site, the file is:
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- Aminet:util/misc/Installer_43_3.lha
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- This file can be found also on the Aminet CDs #13 - #16.
-
- Please note that the XTrace installation script requires this version of the
- installer. It is possible, that it will not or not correctly work with older
- versions !
-
- I can't include it, because I don't know if Amiga International, Inc. allow
- that.
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- Distribution
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- This version of XTrace is unregistered, every picture will be marked with
- "DEMO". So register please .... :-) For further information read the guide or
- the about text in the program.
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- History
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- Changes since XTrace V1.20 :
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- ADD: "Display traces" option for Trace (-> André Rothe)
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- ADD: FIG exporter (-> Volker Schmidt)
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- IMP: Supress noise slightly improved
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- IMP: Apply Digital Filter Sequence slightly improved
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- ADD: Full CyberGraphX/Picasso96 support (if you choose a screen deeper than
- 8 bit for the XTrace screen, the pictures will be displayed colored)
-
- CHG: Monitor settings
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- CHG: Thinning can now handle also other Color-Types than only 'B/W'.
- (-> Volker Schmidt)
-
- IMP: Permanent Windows settings
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- ADD: Log window incl. some options
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- ADD: Own routines for displaying filled polygons as replacement for the Area()
- commands. No chip memory more needed.
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- ADD: Lens und Hand tool now also available for vector pictures.
-
- REM: Worldmap
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- ADD: Operator Remove pen
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- IMP: Slope (again ...)
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- ADD: Adobe Illustrator® exporter
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- IMP: DXF 2D exporter capabilities slightly improved
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- ADD: HP-GL exporter
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- IMP: Display histograms can now display seperate histograms for red, green and
- blue parts, as well as brightness and saturation parts and the orginal
- histogram.
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- IMP: Stretch histogram and Equalize histogram now available for all
- Color-Types.
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- IMP: EPS exporter
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- ADD: Adaptive histogram equalization
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- ADD: Apply Digital Filter Sequence works internally always with 8 (for
- Grayscales and B/W pictures) or 24 (for palette pictures) bit now.
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- ADD: Base-shapes and new divider/bias calculation for filters (Edit filter)
-
- CHG: Fileformat of filters, filtersequences, colorcurves and settings changed to
- a more portable text format. Please convert your own filters, filter-
- sequences and colorcurves with the enclosed program "FileFormatConverter".
- The settings are not convertable, please set your preferences new and save
- them.
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- ADD: A remark for every filter, filtersequence and colorcurve can now be stored
- (for example the effect of the filter).
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- ADD: Operator Edge enhancement
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- IMP: Operator Edge detection
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- IMP: Picture window title
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- IMP: Loaded pictures list
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- ADD: Close bitmap part and Close vector part
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- ADD: Operator Coalesce colors
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- ADD: Filtersets for digital filters (Apply Digital Filter Sequence,
- Edit filter)
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- NEW: Remove isolated pixels operator
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- For older changes read the history chapter in the guide please.
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