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- ColorView for DOS
- Copyright (c) 1992 Millennium Technologies Corporation
- All Rights Reserved
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- Version 2.1
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- ColorView is a color image viewer/converter/editor for the DOS environment.
- In this version, ColorView supports reading and writing the following
- graphics file formats:
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- o JPEG (JFIF subset) JPEG is a highly compressed 24 bit "true
- color" picture file format which has more colors and a smaller
- file size than GIF files.
- o GIF'87, GIF'89 including animations
- o Windows BMP files (4, 8 and 24 bit, including 8 bit RLE)
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- ColorView provides:
- o Floyd-Steinberg dithering
- o Heckbert color reduction
- o Gamma correction, Hue, Saturation, and Brightness controls
- o Sharpening, Smoothing, Embossing, Edge Tracing and other
- image filters
- o Copy and Paste operations between all supported image formats
- o New Image creation and text drawing functions
- o Adjustable image Transparency Effects
- o "Blue Screen" effects
- o Image Rotation and Mirroring functions
- o Intuitive graphical user interface, with or without a mouse
- o Slideshow mode for uninterrupted image viewing
- o Fast and extremely accurate Image Scaling for reducing and
- enlarging pictures
- o GIF Animation support
- o Ability to switch graphics modes while viewing an image
- o And much more!
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- ColorView will work with:
- o Any Text mode display (Batch File Conversion)
- o Standard VGA 320x200 video mode
- o 8 bit, 256 color display boards with a VESA driver
- o 15 bit, 32768 color display boards with a VESA driver
- o 16 bit, 65356 color display boards with a VESA driver
- o 24 bit color display boards with a VESA driver
- o DOS 2.x, 3.x, 4.x, 5.x
- o 640 K or more of physical memory
- (expanded and extended memory will automatically be used)
- o a hard disk
- (automatically used if not enough physical memory)
- o 80286, 80386-SX, 80386, 80486, Pentium processors
- o Microsoft-compatible mouse
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- ColorView for DOS (CVIEW.EXE) will run on '286 processors and will
- automatically take advantage of a '386 or better processor if one
- is available. As a result, no configuration options need to be set
- to double the JPEG decompression speed when a '386 or better
- processor is present.
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- List of files provided with this package:
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- README.TXT - this file
- REGISTER.TXT - general registration information
- CVIEW.SDA - ColorView package description
- CVIEW.EXE - ColorView for DOS executable
- CVIEW.TXT - ColorView documentation
- WORLD.JPG - sample JPEG image
- MEMBER.ASP - ASP membership notice
- FILE_ID.DIZ
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- To install, copy all of the files into a directory on your hard disk. Read
- the ColorView documentation by editing the CVIEW.TXT document using your
- favorite text editor/word processor.
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- To run ColorView, please make sure that your graphics board is VESA 1.2
- compatible or load a VESA 1.2 driver, and then type "cview" at the prompt.
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- Or, if your graphics card only supports standard VGA graphics, type
- "cview -v <File-Name> ...." where <File-Name> can include wildcards and
- multiple file names can be specified.
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- Or, if your graphics card only supports monochrome, CGA, or EGA graphics,
- then please read the CVIEW.TXT manual for instructions on using ColorView
- as a Batch File Conversion program.
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- Type "cview -?" to see the other command line options.
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- Enjoy!