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- NAME
- EGSShow 1.1 - GIF, JPEG and IFF viewer for the EGS window system
-
- SYNOPSIS
- egsshow [file]
-
- STATUS AND COPYRIGHT
- This program is public domain. It may be distributed as long as the
- program and this manual file are always distributed together with the
- following copyright notice and are not modified in any way:
- EGSShow Copyright in 1994 by Dietmar Heidrich
-
- DESCRIPTION
- EGSshow is a viewing program for GIF, JPEG and IFF files on the EGS window
- system. This program is able to read the JPEG format as well as the GIF
- formats GIF87a, GIF89a and all future GIF files compatible with both of
- the above as well as all valid IFF files, including EHB, HAM6 and HAM8.
- The format of the file is detected automatically.
-
- The display window's open size is determined by the initial picture file
- and the maximum possible size on the EGS default screen. The picture
- itself is displayed in a scrolling gadget that lets you select the part
- you want to see.
-
- EGSShow needs a lot of memory for bigger pictures ( > 640 x 480) and EGS
- version 6 or higher. Selecting a lower colour depth than 24 bit for the
- EGS default screen will save you lots of memory.
-
- SHELL OPTIONS
-
- file
- The GIF, JPEG or IFF file to read at startup. If no file is initially
- specified, no picture is displayed first.
-
- WORKBENCH
- EGSShow can also be started from the workbench. To initially display a
- file, first click on the picture icon and double-click the EGSShow icon
- while simultaneously pressing the shift key.
-
- MENUS
- EGSShow has only one menu named "Project" which contains the following
- items:
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- Open
- Opens file requester to display another picture.
-
- Picture info
- Displays info about the picture, ie. format, size and optional info.
-
- Keep size
- Checkmarked item that determines if the display window is resized for
- every newly loaded picture (default) or if its size is kept constant.
-
- About
- Displays copyright info.
-
- Quit
- Quits the program.
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- TROUBLE GUIDE
- If no picture is displayed after loading, there is a number of reasons
- what might have gone wrong. First of all, you need enough memory. Then
- there are JPEG file formats that are not supported such as arithmetic
- encoding.
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- CREDITS
- This software uses JPEG code from The Independant JPEG Group Version 4 and
- the GIF decoder written by Steven A. Bennett. IFF support by Dietmar
- Heidrich.
-