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  1. Short: SuperView V5.68 + Library 15.6 (22.10.96)
  2. Type: gfx/show
  3. Uploader: Andreas_Kleinert@t-online.de
  4. Author: Andreas_Kleinert@t-online.de
  5. Replaces: SView567.LHA
  6.  
  7.  
  8. Program Description and Distribution Concept
  9. --------------------------------------------
  10. SuperView V5.68 EL (evaluation), a localized graphics viewer, converter,
  11. editor and screen-grabber based on SuperView-Library, with ARexx support,
  12. GUI, AmigaGuide online-help, Commodity-functionality and many more features.
  13.  
  14. SHAREWARE. Evaluation version with "please register" requester and some
  15. restrictions - until you registered for your KeyFile...
  16.  
  17.  
  18. What's new in this version
  19. --------------------------
  20. - did crash on OS 2.x - fixed
  21. - added write support for PNG
  22. - etc.
  23.  
  24.  
  25. Description of Features and Requirements
  26. ----------------------------------------
  27. Nearly anything is managed by object-oriented external modules
  28. for loading, saving (SVObjects), displaying (SVDrivers) and
  29. processing (SVOperators) graphics - converting graphics and
  30. "screen-grabbing" also is possible in a very comfortable way.
  31.  
  32. Only requires OS V2.04 and 68000, but also makes use of available
  33. OS V2.1 and V3.x features and 680x0 module versions.
  34.  
  35. Includes licensed SuperView-Library V15.6, which supports the following
  36. file formats, periphal devices, display drivers and image processing
  37. operators:
  38.  
  39.      ->>>> Total of 35 different graphic file formats    <<<<-
  40.      ->>>> Total of  2 different periphal devices        <<<<-
  41.      ->>>> Total of  8 different graphic display systems <<<<-
  42.      ->>>> Total of 32 different graphic operators       <<<<-
  43.  
  44. SVObjects:     - IFF-ILBM         - Windows,OS/2 BMP   - PNM (PBM,PGM,PPM)
  45.                - IFF-ACBM         - JPEG (JFIF v6)     - IMG (GEM Graphics)
  46.                - IFF-YUVN         - PhotoCD            - WPG (WP Bitmaps)
  47.                - IFF-DEEP         - TIFF               - MacPaint MAC
  48.                - PCX              - EPS (Header/PS)    - C64 (Koala, Doodle)
  49.                - GIF 87a/89a      - FBM                - Windows Icon
  50.                - QRT/POV Raytrace - Mac PICT-2         - SGI
  51.                - SVG              - Targa              - Pictor/PCPaint
  52.                - SunRaster        - UtahRLE            - PNG
  53.                - CDR-Previews     - IFF-PBM            - Atari Degas
  54.  
  55.                  as well as all OS3-Datatypes
  56.                  and 24 Bit-CyberGraphX DataTypes (picture.datatype V43).
  57.  
  58.                  Many formats with 24 Bit-Support.
  59.                  Reads XPK- and PP20-packed data via Unpack.svobject.
  60.  
  61.                  Writes C-Sourcecode in chunky/RGB notation.
  62.  
  63.                  Together with external third party programs also the
  64.                  following file formats seamlessly can be embedded:
  65.  
  66.                  File Format        needs program   also needs support for
  67.                  ---------------------------------------------------------
  68.                - AMF                MetaView        (ILBM)
  69.                - Postscript (TM)    Ghostscript          -
  70.                - FIG                AmiFIG          (Postscript)
  71.                - CGM                GPlot           (Postscript)
  72.                - Limbo              Limbo 4.0       (PNM)
  73.                - WMF                MetaView        (ILBM)
  74.  
  75. Devices (via SVObjects):
  76.  
  77.                - Scanner (scanner.device of ScanQuix)
  78.                - Printer (printer.device support; uses own 24 Bit dithering)
  79.  
  80. SVDrivers :    - OCS/ECS          - AGA                - EGS7
  81.                - OpalVision       - Retina             - CyberGraphX
  82.                - PicassoII        - Merlin
  83.  
  84. SVOperators :  - Dither24Bit      - 24BitToHAM         - HilbertDither256
  85.                - ExtractRed       - ExtractGreen       - ExtractBlue
  86.                - XOR              - ExtractGrayScales  - TopToBottom
  87.                - LeftToRight      - Rotate             - Scale50
  88.                - AnyTo24Bit       - Crop               - CallPNM
  89.                - OptimizePalette  - RotateFree         - PaletteDither
  90.  
  91.                  plus the following from Steve Quartly:
  92.  
  93.                - SQBentley        - SQTiling           - SQThreshold
  94.                - SQOilPaint       - SQMosaic           - SQEmboss
  95.                - SQSlicing        - SQDiffuse          - SQContrast
  96.                - SQSharpen        - SQBlur             - SQDeep_Press
  97.                - SQMotion_Blur    - SQHighPass
  98.  
  99.      PROGRAM-CHANGES:
  100.      ================
  101.  
  102. V5.68 (22.10.96):
  103.  
  104.    - crashes on OS 2.x systems occured because of illegal RectFill()
  105.      usage (progress bar creation, when opening GUI)
  106.    - included Library 15.6
  107.  
  108. V5.67 (17.10.96):
  109.  
  110.    - AslBase was declared, but not defined, thus opened/closed twice
  111.      (autoinitialization code of SAS/C and own code). Resulting out
  112.      of that was a silent exit when asl.library was not present.
  113.      Also, some V37 problems may have resulted out of that.
  114.    - included Library 15.5
  115.  
  116. V5.66 (28.9.96):
  117.  
  118.    - included Library 15.4
  119.    - wrong version in window title (5.63)
  120.  
  121. V5.65 (26.9.96):
  122.  
  123.    - Jim Drew decided to found "Persistence Software" or such a similar
  124.      thing. We don't want to be mixed up with that one.
  125.  
  126.      LIBRARY-CHANGES:
  127.      ================
  128.  
  129.      V15.6 (22.10.1996) :
  130.      -------------------
  131.       - SVOperators: - Dither24Bit, PaletteDither:
  132.                         - fixed two bugs in palette generation,
  133.                           which strongly increases image quality
  134.                           now
  135.  
  136.       - SVObjects:   - PNG: added write support
  137.                      - JPEG: modified
  138.       - Docs:        - fixed spelling mistakes...
  139.  
  140.      V15.5 (17.10.1996) :
  141.      --------------------
  142.       - NEW SVObjects:  - MetaView: @{"AMF and WMF" LINK SVOBJECT_MetaView } (-> MetaView)
  143.                                     support had been added
  144.  
  145.       - SVDrivers: - ECS: - faster displaying with OS V37+ and SetPatch 43.x
  146.                    - AGA: - faster displaying with OS V39  and SetPatch 43.x
  147.       - SVSupport: - also added SetPatch V43.x recognition for
  148.                      C2P=OS functionality
  149.       - Docs:      - updated
  150.  
  151.      V15.4 (28.9.1996) :
  152.      -------------------
  153.       - SVObjects: - JPEG: upgraded to V6a (although not really useful)
  154.                    - Targa: fixed file recognition
  155.       - MISC:      - version had not been bumped
  156.       - Docs:      - V15.3 had been released 26 Sep 96, not 29 Sep 96 %-)
  157.  
  158.      V15.3 (26.9.1996) :
  159.      -------------------
  160.       - MISC: slight changes in company name :->
  161.  
  162. *****************************************************************************
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  164. *****************************************************************************
  165.