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- From: hee@cs.columbia.edu (Edward Hee)
- Subject: dcview21.zip -- ColorView for DOS JPEG Viewer
- Message-ID: <C0pzrs.Kxx@cs.columbia.edu>
- Keywords: JPEG JFIF GIF BMP Viewer Converter
- Sender: news@cs.columbia.edu (The Daily News)
- Organization: Columbia University Department of Computer Science
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 02:47:51 GMT
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- The latest version of ColorView for DOS, version 2.1, a fast JPEG/JFIF,
- GIF, Windows BMP viewer/converter/editor has been posted as dcview21.zip
- on alt.binaries.pictures.utilities. VESA graphics drivers for
- ColorView for DOS have also been posted as vesadrv2.zip on the same
- group.
-
- The .zip files are also available at wuarchive.wustl.edu in the
- /pub/MSDOS_UPLOADS directory.
-
- ColorView for DOS
- Copyright (c) 1992 Millennium Technologies Corporation
- All Rights Reserved
-
- Version 2.1
-
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- ColorView is a color image viewer/converter/editor for the DOS environment.
-
- Changes in version 2.1:
- o Improved support for all Windows BMP image formats
- o Support for monochrome JPEG images
- o Text-mode batch image conversion and scaling from the command
- line.
-
- In this version, ColorView supports reading and writing the following
- graphics file formats:
-
- o JPEG (JFIF subset) JPEG is a highly compressed 24 bit "true
- color" picture file format which has more colors and a smaller
- file size than GIF files.
- o GIF'87, GIF'89 including animations
- o Windows BMP files (4, 8 and 24 bit, including 8 bit RLE)
-
-
- ColorView provides:
- o Floyd-Steinberg dithering
- o Heckbert color reduction
- o Gamma correction, Hue, Saturation, and Brightness controls
- o Sharpening, Smoothing, Embossing, Edge Tracing and other
- image filters
- o Copy and Paste operations between all supported image formats
- o New Image creation and text drawing functions
- o Adjustable Image Transparency Effects
- o "Blue Screen" effects
- o Image Rotation and Mirroring functions
- o Intuitive graphical user interface, with or without a mouse
- o Slideshow mode for uninterrupted image viewing
- o Fast and extremely accurate Image Scaling for reducing and
- enlarging pictures
- o GIF Animation support
- o Ability to switch graphics modes while viewing an image
- o And much more!
-
-
- ColorView will work with:
- o Any Text mode display (Batch File Conversion)
- o Standard VGA 320x200 video mode
- o 8 bit, 256 color display boards with a VESA driver
- o 15 bit, 32768 color display boards with a VESA driver
- o 16 bit, 65356 color display boards with a VESA driver
- o 24 bit color display boards with a VESA driver
- o DOS 2.x, 3.x, 4.x, 5.x
- o 640 K or more of physical memory
- (expanded and extended memory will automatically be used)
- o a hard disk
- (automatically used if not enough physical memory)
- o 80286, 80386-SX, 80386, 80486, Pentium processors
- o Microsoft-compatible mouse
-
- ColorView for DOS (CVIEW.EXE) will run on '286 processors and will
- automatically take advantage of a '386 or better processor if one
- is available.
-
- Enjoy!
-