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- Readme PTStitcher 2.0.b1
-
-
- PTStitcher combines images to panoramic views. You simply
- drop all input images onto the application icon of PTStitcher
- and a panoramic file to be viewed with all major VR-viewers
- is generated in one step.
-
- Changes to 1.9.2:
- =================
- o Tiff-reader and ppm-reader added. Both read images
- in excess of the 4k-width limit on older macs.
- o Quicktime importer corrected: reads now large images
- on newer macs.
- o PTPicker added for Macs: GUI for aligning images and
- calling PTSTitcher.
- o Some minor erors corrected.
-
-
- Changes to 1.9.1:
- =================
- o JPEG output supported for IBM-Hotmedia support.
- o Folders with images can be processed like single
- images. This solves a problem with Windows
- command line limitations.
- o Mac-version reads images through Quicktime importer.
- Thus almost any format is supported, and the 'PICT'-
- limitation on image size no longer applies.
- o Mac version has some rudimentary user interface.
- Images can be loaded via menus, and there is even
- a program icon.
- o PTAverage, the density enhancing software, is
- now included in this distribution. Also included
- is a first Windows version of this program.
- o Bug fixes: Mode line in scripts is read correctly,
- IVR-files for LivePicture Cylinders are corrected,
- and some more minor fixes.
- o Scripting syntax for macs has been changed to that
- of Windows machines, see Readme.
- o The Photoshop plug-in 'Panorama Tools' has been
- updated, too, see the separate Readme about changes.
-
-
- Changes to 1.9.0:
- =================
- o First Windows version.
- o Panorama conversion capability added: Almost any
- output format can be generated using any input format.
- o More formats available: LivePicture Cylinder.
- o VRML-output now includes Zoom-tool.
- o Viewer scripts can be customized via templates.
- o Script file can be dropped together with image files
- on PTStitcher.
- o Some bug fixes
-
- Changes to 1.0b1:
- =================
- o More output formats available: VRML-cubes and LivePicture-Java
- (spherical/cylindrical).
- o Fully Apple-scriptable: Build your Web-Panocam.
- o PTOptimizer finds optimum image position automatically,
- see separate documentation.
- o More options for panorama creation: see examples.
- o Several bug fixes.
-
- Changes to 1.0b0:
- ===============
- o Fixed error in PICT-reader, which only worked for 72dpi images.
- (Copied faithfully from Apple's sample code site...)
-
-
- Output options:
- ===============
- o QTVR movie ready to be viewed with Quicktime plug-in.
- (Windows version requires free VRMakePano utility).
- o Smoothmove full spherical panorama ready to be viewed
- with Infinite Images (iMove) plug-in.
- o RealVR full spherical and cylindrical panorama ready to
- be viewed with LivePicture's ZoomIt viewer.
- o LivePicture Java format: Cylindrical and Spherical
- ready to be viewed with LivePicture Applet
- o VRML-Background node (Cubes)
- ready to be viewed with VRML-browsers.
- Viewer Script with Zoom tool generated.
- o JPEG-images for IBM Hotmedia format, ready to
- be imported in free IBM authoring software.
- o Panoramic images for viewing and printing
- o Multilayer Photoshop file containing one image per layer for
- editing.
-
- Input options:
- ==============
- o Rectilinear lenses with any focal length
- o Fisheye lenses with any focal length
- o Panoramic cameras
- o Any orientation possible (multirow etc)
- o PSphere images, allows conversion of
- almost any format to any format.
- o Can read almost any format on Macs/
- uncompressed BMP and JPEG images on Windows.
-
- Installation:
- =============
-
- Macintosh:
- ----------
- Drop the file 'pano12.lib' onto your 'System Folder'.
- Your system should then move it to the 'Extensions'-folder.
- It replaces the pano-library which comes with my
- Photoshop plug-in 'Panorama Tools'. This library only
- works with the current version 1.9.2 plug-in which
- is included in this package.
-
- Windows:
- --------
- Put the library file 'pano12.dll' in your
- \Windows\System directory. This library also works
- with the current 1.9.2 version of the Panorama
- Tools plug-in. If you do not use that plug-in
- you can also leave the library together with
- PTStitcher.
-
- General:
- --------
- The folder 'Templates' has to be in PTStitcher's
- directory. It contains HTML and VRML templates, which
- are used to generate the output files. You can edit
- them to suit your needs. They can be opened with any
- plain text editor, and hold a C-language format
- string. The placeholders starting with a '%' sign
- are used by PTStitcher to insert proper output
- values. You can move them, but not delete them
- or change order.
-
- You need one file with name 'Script' (Windows: 'Script.txt', the
- extension is invisible!) in PTStitcher's directory. This scriptfile
- holds the information about how to assemble the panorama.
- See the tutorials section below for details.
-
- Getting Started:
- ================
-
- PTStitcher works best if used as helper for the PTPicker
- application. Please use the examples provided in
- <http://www.fh-furtwangen.de/~dersch/examples.zip>.
- To use PTStitcher as standalone program, get the file
- <http://www.fh-furtwangen.de/~dersch/examples2.zip>
- with more examples.
-
-
- Scripting PTStitcher:
- =====================
-
- Macintosh:
- -----------
- PTStitcher is fully scriptable. PTPicker uses this feature to interact
- with it. PTStitcher responds to 'DoScript' Apple Events embedded in a
- launch. The data sent should be text consisting of a list of full paths
- in Apple-notation, ie with ':' as delimiter. The syntax has been changed
- for version 1.9.2 and later:
-
- -o outputpano scriptfile image1 image2 ....
-
- Filenames containing spaces should be quoted. Example:
-
- -o "Macintosh HD:panos:result" "Macintosh HD:myscript" "Macintosh HD:image1" "Macintosh HD:image2"
-
-
- Windows:
- --------
- PTStitcher can be controlled via commandline arguments.PTOptimizer uses
- this feature to interact with it, and lets it generate various trial images.
- The syntax is as follows
-
- PTStitcher -o outputpano script.txt image1 image2 ....
-
- The outputpano describes the location for the result panorama, ie what
- PTStitcher asks for when run interactively. This file should not exist yet.
- The scriptfile is identified via extension 'txt' and need not appear
- as second entry, nor has to be named 'script'.
- All input images follow, and are processed in the order they appear
- in the command line.
-
-
- Enjoy
-
- Helmut Dersch
- der@fh-furtwangen.de
-
- -------------------------------------
- Spherical Panoramas, Macro Panoramas,
- Free Panorama Software:
- <http://www.fh-furtwangen.de/~dersch>
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