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New Information HUBBLE 2.00
1. NEW FEATURES FOR HUBBLE 2.00
A. New features
Version 1.20 and above add desktop publishing capability. See
*TUTORIAL.TXT* for an example of using these features. At any
point during the operation, press F1 key to get online help.
B. Navigating through Document Based Processing Mode
After users select a specific tools other than text input and editing
operation, press [Esc] or [Return] (<Enter> key) to end the operation.
C. Bug fix for scaling problem, etc.
Version 2.00 fix bugs for scaling and some image transformation
problems which cause HUBBLE to crash when processing some images
of some particular dimension (specifically some image height).
Also, if users check on the "Use Floating Point" in profile setting
from the option menu, the calculation will be more accurate. However,
the scaling operation may become slower, especially for system systems
which don't have math co-processor built-in or installed.
2. SOME LIMITATION FOR THIS VERSION OF HUBBLE
** These limitation will be lifted in the upcoming version **
** ALL REGISTERED USERS WILL RECEIVE A FREE UPGRADE soon **
A. Toolbox's size limitation and work around.
Currently, some toolbox (Area Fill and Image Patching) cannot
handle very large image. The work around is to divide the operation
into smaller unit of operation, use other equivalent or comparable
tools, etc.
A.1 TOOLBOX:(Area Fill)
If the area to fill is too big, users may have to fill part
of the area first, then continue to fill other part of the
area. First, Click on area of interest, click on <WRT>, then
continue to fill other area until all area is filled.
A.2 TOOLBOX:(Image Patching)
If the patching area is too big, use the TOOLBOX:(RECTANGLE)
instead. However, in TOOLBOX:(RECTANGLE), only rectangular
selected area is allowed.
B. Capture to Clipboard
Capture to Clipboard is currently disabled.
Users should use "Capture to Window" and the "Copy to Clipboard",
both are from "Edit menu"
C. CUSTOM COLOR CONVERSION AND DITHERING
Although progress report window has a <cancel> button, it is currently
disabled, i.e. users cannot interrupt the operation.
3. KNOWN PROBLEMS
A. TOOLBOX:(Image Patching)
A.1 May not give correct result for black and white image.
Please use TOOLBOX:(RECTANGLE) instead.
A.2 With some display driver resolution and number of colors which
of Trident driver for 8900CL on a 286 machine, error in operation
has been observed (only for some drivers). (however, this problem
do not occur when test on a 386 machine with 8900D Trident Display
Adapter) Should your system encounter problem, Change and test the
driver for different resolution or number of colors.
Otherwise, use TOOLBOX:(RECTANGLE) instead.
B. TOOLBOX:(Area Fill)
B.1 Sometime the process is aborted and users will be asked to click
on other part of the area. Choose another point (at different
location) in the area and click the left mouse button to redo
the area fill operation.
B.2 Although TOOLBOX:(Area Fill) will fill a fairly complex area even
with a lot of hole inside the area. However, in a relatively
rare cases, some very complex area do cause the operation to be
failed.
C. If users encounter any problem, please complete the form from the
file "PROBLEMS.FRM" and send it to HUBBLE SOFTWARE COMPANY.
4. NOTES ON DISPLAY OPTIONS (from Option Menu)
A. Edit Color Correction
When editing the image, if there is any distortion in shape or
or color after writing changes to the image, users may have to
change setting for this option.
In general, convert to 8-bits (256-colors) image is suggested for
some image editing operations, because of speed and ease of processing.
B. Moved Area Resizeable Check Box. --> TOOLBOX:(Image Patching).
This checkbox control the operation of TOOLBOX:(Image Patching).
Some display driver may have produced distorted colors if the
moved shape is resized. Currently, resizing only work well for
true color (24-bits) image on true color or hi-color display
adapter. (hi-color of either 32K or 64K colors display adapter).
C. 24-bits Display Correction Check Box. (rarely needed)
Check this box if you have problem when trying to display
un-ditherred version of a true color image on a non true color
or palette base display adapter.
D. Auto Ditherred Image Update. (rarely needed)
Since there are two versions of image which are created for 24-bits
true color images. These two versions will be updated independently.
If this box is checked, a ditherred version of the image will be
re-created from the modified (24-bits) true color image.
5. System Dependent Problems
A. Cannot Create Large Bitmap
Some display adapter driver may not support large very large bitmap.
A.1 Cannot capture a very large area of the screen.
** SOLUTION **
A.1.1 UNcheck MemoryDib checkbox from (Option Menu : Profile).
A.1.2 Change to different display driver.
This new driver may support different number of color
and/or resolution.
6. MISSING FEATURES IN THIS VERSION
Features that are still not implemented in version 2.00 are:
1. Image scaling that preserve aspect ratio is still not implemented.
2. pattern selection.
3. In SAVE option, some compression method are not currently supported:
- compression for BMP format.
- CCITT compression for TIFF format.
(image will be saved as no compression)
4. Some specialized contrast control.
5. Postscript support.
These features will be implemented in latter version.
7. SPEED OF PROCESSING
Some procedures process faster for 8-bits (256-colors or 256 gray levels)
images.
8. NOTES ON OS/2
A. Image Acquisition
Some scanner driver may not function properly under OS/2. If this is
the case, contact your scanner manufacturer for model and/or driver
which can be used under OS/2.
In this case, users may use image acquisition software which bundled
with that scanner on its specified environment, and use HUBBLE for
further editing and processing.
Users can still test functioning of TWAIN driver using the TWAIN Sample Driver
included (DCD.DS). Simply create TWAIN directory on Windows's subdirectory. For
OS/2 2.x, it is C:\OS2\MDOS\WINOS2, (MD TWAIN, CD C:\OS2\MDOS\WINOS2\TWAIN).
From file menu, use [Select Source] command, then [Acquire] input.
(See README.DOC for more detail).
B. Capture to Window
B.1 If running HUBBLE under OS/2
Users can begin drag mouse and capture only on Windows application.
To capture other part of the OS/2 desktop, users should place
a dummy Windows application above and to the left of the area
intended to be captured (even as minimized icon -- users may
have to change the setting so that this dummy application is
minimized to the OS/2 desktop instead of minimized windows),
then begin drag mouse from this Windows. After the capturing
operation is completed, users can then trim the image by
B.1.1 Trim Image command from the edit menu.
B.1.2 Use TOOLBOX:(RECTANGLE) to copy only the intended area.
B.2 Many instances of HUBBLE may be running concurrently. So, another
instance of HUBBLE may be fired up and "minimize ON DESKTOP" to
serve this purpose.
9. HUBBLE creates many temporary files whiles the program is running.
If the program is aborted abnormally or unexpectedly, these temporary
files may be left in the hubble directory, use DELTEMP.BAT to clean up
these files. Alternatively, users can use the following commands to
clean up temporary files.
** CHANGE TO HUBBLE DIRECTORY **
[Content of DELTEMP.BAT]
del DB*.
del DI*.
del CB*.
del FI*.
del DB*.A*
del DI*.A*
del CB*.A*
del FI*.A*