Fractal Design Painter 2.0 Demo for Windows - March 3, 1993 To order a full version of Painter 2.0 call (800) 647-7443. Compatible with Windows 3.0 and 3.1 If you are reading this before installing Painter: If you have already installed a pressure-sensitive tablet driver through Pen Windows or have installed a pressure-sensitive driver that uses LCS Telegraphics WINTAB, either driver will work with Painter and you may proceed to install Painter. During installation select the "Use Existing Driver" option. Otherwise you will want to install a tablet or mouse driver that ships with Painter. To do this, first make sure Windows is running with a mouse alone, rather than a tablet, if you want Painter to support both mouse and tablet after Painter installation. Start Windows, then "Run" A:\INSTALL or B:\INSTALL (depending on which floppy drive the Painter install disk is in). Tablet / Mouse Driver Notes: 1. Installing the smoothing mouse driver changes the SYSTEM.INI [BOOT] section to be mouse=MOUSESPL.DRV after copying the previous mouse driver (often MOUSE.DRV) into a new file called OLDMOUSE.DRV. 2. The Wacom and CalComp tablet drivers that ship with Painter also copy the previous mouse driver into a new file called OLDMOUSE.DRV if the option is checked to include the mouse driver as well as the tablet. 3. If Painter aborts with a Divide By Zero error when it first starts up and you are using a tablet (especially the Wacom tablet) then the tablet scaling is probably wrong. Run the Wacom Control program and make sure Enable Pressure and Enable Absolute Mode are checked and Enable Relative Mode is NOT checked. Also, set the tablet area to a reasonable value. 4. If you install Painter when the SYSTEM.INI mouse.drv is set to a non-Painter tablet driver, then the Painter Installer may copy this driver into OLDMOUSE.DRV, which may result in erroneous tablet operation or in Windows simply failing to start up. This will not happen if you specify "Use Existing Driver" during installation. If you can't restart Windows from DOS, change directory to the Painter directory (typically CD \WINDOWS\PAINTER2) and run the UNINSTALL batch file, which will restore your Windows SYSTEM.INI and allow Windows to startup. When Windows is running again use Windows Setup to set the pointing device to the mouse (or nothing), and then reinstall Painter. 5. If you install Painter while running any Wacom driver, the Wacom stylus may freeze up during installation. At this point either finish the installation using the keyboard alone (use Tab and Arrow keys to select items, then spacebar to change them) or reboot the machine, use Windows Setup to select the mouse driver as pointing device, and repeat the Painter installation. After installing Painter, rebooting Windows will enable the Wacom driver again. 6. Wacom is now supplying a driver that is compatible with Painter as well as other pressure-sensitive applications. To use this driver with Painter, install Painter and specify the "Use Existing Driver" option. If you install Painter with the "Use Existing Driver" option and the current driver was a Wacom driver (either Wacom's or the one supplied with Painter or Sketcher), it may be necessary to restart Windows after installing Painter for the Wacom to operate properly. 7. If you are using Painter with a mouse, either with or without the spooling mouse driver, better drawing results will be obtained by setting the mouse speed to the slowest position in the Mouse Applet of the Windows Control Panel. Plug-In Support: 1. Painter supports third-party plug-ins that conform to the Aldus PhotoStyler filter interface and plug-ins that conform to the Adobe PhotoShop for Windows acquire, export and filter interfaces. 2. When Painter first starts it will display an Open File dialog with the title "Choose One Plug-In from your Plug-In Directory". If there are any of the plug-ins mentioned above on your system, select one of them with this dialog; Painter will thereafter automatically load all plug-ins into that directory every time that Painter starts up. If you have no plug-ins, click "Cancel". 3. To change your plug-in directory (or to select one if you previously Canceled) restart Painter and hold down the Ctrl key until the dialog appears. 4. The plug-in directory may contain a mixture of PhotoStyler and PhotoShop plug-ins. If the plug-in's file extension is .EFF, Painter will try to load it as a PhotoShop plug-in, and if that fails, then as a PhotoStyler plug-in. 5. Note this differs from Painter 1.2, which automatically loaded Aldus PhotoStyler filter plug-ins from a subdirectory of Painter's directory with the name PLUG_IN. General Notes: 1. Painter requires 2.5MB on your hard disk to install, but will usually need much more temporary space while it is running. Also, once Painter has run once, prebuilt brushes will add several megabytes to the size of the brushes file. We recommend that you have at least 20MB free, and more to create very large images. Use the Set Preferences dialog in Painter to select the temporary drive, preferably the drive with the most free space, but not a network drive or a drive with very slow access speed. 2. DO NOT make Painter's temporary space a RAM disk, unless the temporary space is plentiful (see item 1 above) and is expanded memory on the AT bus that Windows can't use for other purposes. Windows should be allowed to use all or nearly all of extended memory. Painter will run entirely in RAM if there is enough RAM allocated to Windows. In this case Painter will not even open its temporary file which would give significantly better performance than a RAM disk configuration can. We recommend that you set the second size (in DOS) for disk caches (like SMARTDRV) to 256K or less, unless you have more than 8MB of RAM. This is the amount used under Windows. We recommend that you disable all RAM disks before starting Windows when running Painter. 3. Painter will run in Standard Mode or 386 Enhanced Mode. Painter uses 386/486 instructions and segment registers and will not operate on a 286 machine. It is recommended that 386 Enhanced Mode be used when running Painter. For RAM sizes of 4MB to 15MB, a swap file is recommended. With 16MB and more of RAM Painter will run fastest without a swap file. Painter determines the amount of physical memory Windows has and uses that to determine how many internal buffers to allocate. Painter running in 4MB to 15MB can benefit from some swap space for Windows, but excessively large amounts of swap space are of no benefit, and may use up all the free hard disk space so Painter does not have enough room for its temporary data (see item 1 above). Painter will use an unlimited amount of extra extended memory (when running Windows 3.1 in Enhanced Mode, Windows 3.0 and Standard Mode have smaller limits); 16MB of RAM is faster than 8MB of RAM. 4. Painter WILL NOT RUN in standard 16-color VGA mode - you will get the error "Painter requires a display driver with 256 or more colors." Setup your Windows to use 24-bit color (16 million colors), 16 bit color (32768 colors), or 8-bit color (256 colors) to run Painter successfully. 5. On some 32768 color displays and 65536 color displays, Painter may display colors scrambled. If this happens, choose Set Preferences... from the Edit menu, then click the Windows Setup... button within that dialog. When the Windows Options dialog comes up, check the box "No Device Dependent Bitmaps". 6. Painter may fail to start up when running Crystal Fonts and 256 colors on an ATI graphics board, giving the message "Painter requires access to the Windows Palette to run properly on 256 color devices." This is due to Crystal Fonts making it appear to Windows Applications that the graphics board's color palette cannot be changed. Until ATI fixes this, uninstall Crystal Fonts to run Painter. 7. If you are running Painter on a system with 4MB of RAM, it is necessarily to maximize the memory available to Windows and Painter in order for it to work. Set the Windows disk cache size to 0K and the virtual memory swap file size to 3072KB (3MB). Do not run any drivers or TSR's that use up a significant amount of RAM, for example a 4MB system running Stacker probably won't work with Painter. (If you need to run Stacker, get 8MB or more of RAM). Printing Notes: 1. Painter uses the standard Device Independent Bitmap (DIB) printing technique (the GDI Printing option) as well as direct generation of Postscript. This should print to most raster printing devices, but will not work for daisy wheel printers or pen plotters. The quality of printed output is dependent on the printer device driver for the specific printer; make sure you have the latest/best driver to get the best output. 2. If errors occur during printing, try changing the Windows Setup parameters for printing (see "Printing:" below). 3. There is a bug in HP 550C DeskJet print driver that causes output in the 4 color mode to print out in grayscale if banded printing is selected. To get color from the HP 550C DeskJet, either use Color Only or select No Print Banding in the Windows Setup dialog inside the Set Preferences dialog in the Edit menu. Memory: There are two memory options, Maximum Memory for Painter and Half of Memory for Painter. - For best performance with only Painter running, select Maximum Memory for Painter. - To be able to run a larger number of Windows applications at the same time as Painter, select Half of Memory for Painter (the default). Printing: - The printing option "Free Memory for Printing" transfers the image to disk during printing so that more memory is available for the Print Manager and printer driver. This may result in faster printing or may even allow printing to work in cases where it otherwise might fail. - The option "No Print Banding" disables print banding for devices that support it. This may be required to make some printers work, but will hurt performance of bitmap printers like the HP PaintJet. This option is required to make color printing work on the HP DeskJet 550C in 4-color mode due to a bug in its driver. The option affects only GDI printing. 32768 Color Displays: - The option No Device Dependent Bitmaps causes Painter to not use optimized device dependent bitmaps when displaying on 32768 color and 65536 color display cards. This checkbox should be selected if you have a 32768 color display or 65536 color display and the colors are all scrambled. When checked, Painter uses the slightly slower, but more compatible DIB output. Tom Hedges Fractal Design Corporation