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- -+- GFXCon 1.7 Review -+-
- by Mark Klocek
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- This program is just a picture converter with a small amount of effects
- which are flip, rotate and reduce colours (with optional dither). It
- loads in quite a few picture formats including IFF, GIF, JPEG, PCX,
- RGB-Raw and unfortunately there is no support for datatypes. But only
- saves the above and Postscript out.
-
- There are two versions of the program the 68000+ and the 68020+ versions,
- and there are two versions of the manual one in German and the other in
- English.
-
- To begin with I loaded in an 88k BMP 2 colour picture. GFXcon took
- 2.3megs of my HD as 'virtual memory' and the loading process was pretty
- slow.
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- Then I converted a HAM6 landscape picture to a 256 GIF. This went fine
- but the colours on 256 version were not very good, however it would be
- good to convey 256 colour IFFs to GIF to save some HD space
-
- GFXCon is generally an okay program. Although it takes a long time and
- some HD space, it will do the job adequately and with no hassles
- otherwise. It appears to be quite stable, though if you don't have much
- HD space it will be a drag to click those requesters when it tells you
- its full and then having to redo the thing again. It has been designed
- to convert images and if you don't expect any more then you will be
- happy.
-
- If it is compared to many commercial packages and the brilliant shareware
- package Image Studio then it loses out.
-
- Overall rating...............................................76%
-
- Its okay but only if you have a substantial amount of HD space, you are
- poor and you don't mind waiting a little while. Almost a good program.
- Bear in mind that the program is two years old with only enhancements to
- use AGA graphics and its free.
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