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Fractal Design Painter 2.0 Demo for Windows  -  March 3, 1993


To order a full version of Painter 2.0 call [phone].


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