\b0 There is not much to FastView: it is an image viewer for JPEG, GIF, and TIFF files. I don't have many GIF files, so that feature has not been extensively tested.\
FastView was not designed to do anything other than display JPEG's quickly. FastView is about 2-5 times faster at loading JPEGs than ImageViewer. It will not save images, and it will not cut/copy images. If you want to do that, I recommend using ImageViewer
an excellent program.\
\b Author\
\b0 The author of this program is David Koski.\
You can reach me at:\
3150 N Conestoga Ave\
Tucson AZ, 85749\
or at:\
dkoski@cs.wisc.edu\
This program makes use of a modified version of the JPEG library from the dependent JPEG Group.\
I will accept money if anyone wants to give it to me.\
\b Legal Stuff\
\b0 I am not responsible for any damage that this product may do to you, your business, your system, the planets, or anything else. Use it at your own risk (or something).\
You may not sell this product.\
\b Bugs\
\b0 I have noticed that there are some bugs in the JPEG decompression library, specifically when trying to decompress garbled files. The library should (and usually does) detect the corruption and quit, but sometimes it will seg fault or bus error. FastView catches these signals and goes on as if nothing happened (of course there are no bugs in my code, ha ha). This usually works, but sometimes memory will become mangled and the app will crash. Too bad. Since this is just a viewer, you have not lost anything.\
\b New Features\
\b0 This version of FastView has several bugs fixed:\
it does not crash as often\
it properly opens planar images\
It also has several new features:\
display images in the background\
improved slide show\
auto cropping\
floating point decompression of jpeg images
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\b Preferences\
\b0 FastView will allow you to select the decompression speed/quality for JPEG images. I always use Worst/Fastest because it the fastest and I cannot tell any difference on my ColorStation. On HP and Sparc workstations, the Better/Float method may be the fastest. Try it out.\
You can also force JPEG images to load as grayscale: saving some time and maybe memory. \
You can set the maximum size (in pixels) for a JPEG window in Preferences. This will half (up to three times) the size of the image until it is less than the desired image size. This speed up decompression and reduces memory use. A size of 0x0 will not limit the size. I set mine to 1000x800: roughly the size of my screen.\
You can make FastView open windows to the size of the document (eg how ImageViewer normally works) or just create a small window that you can resize later (using the resize bars or
\b cmd-f
\b0 ). Small windows are faster to create and use less memory (for backing store) than a full size window.\
FastView can also reuse the same window for all documents that are opened (like a slide show) if you want. This will use much less memory if you want to look at a collection of pictures. The last option will cause FastView to wait for a space or mouse click before loading the next image. Check out the SlideShow submenu, it will allow you to see the list of images, rearange them, etc.\
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