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- From: koblas@netcom.com (David Koblas)
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- Subject: XPaint 2.0 Release Information
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.172325.14497@netcom.com>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 17:23:25 GMT
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- XPAINT 2.0 Release
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- Welcome to the release of XPaint 2.0! So, what does XPaint do for
- you? Why many wonderful things of course. XPaint is a reasonably
- versatile bitmap/pixmap editing tool. XPaint came out of a problem
- editing some very large bitmaps, and wanting more functionality then
- was provided by bitmap. After XPaint 1.0 sat around for a LONG time, I
- finally ended up with a strong need to edit color pixmaps. Presto,
- this is what has appeared from that problem.
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- The short features list:
- Usual paint operations:
- Brushes, Spray paint, Pencil
- Lines, Arcs, Pattern Fill, Text,
- Boxes, Circles, Polygons.
- Works on multiple images simultaneously.
- Cut/Copy/Paste between all active images.
- Fatbits/Zoom on the image windows.
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- XPaint is slightly biased towards a MacPaint-like operation set, since
- this is the only paint program that I have ever used for more than 30
- seconds, but not to let this discourage you, it does quite a bit more.
- If you find some functionality missing and feel like adding it, there
- is a rough description of how the operations interface works, and I'd
- be more that willing to help you.
-
- At the present time, XPaint only supports the reading/writing of either
- X11 Bitmaps, XWD (X window dump) format, or the PNM format that is used
- in the PBMPLUS toolkit (which is available for ftp from
- export.lcs.mit.edu, and provides many converters to and from most
- widely available formats). Also for those of you using 'xv' to preview
- images, you will find that it can read/write the PNM formats as well
- and can be used as a simple format converter.
-
- XPaint is written using ANSI C (for the most part), and thus you need
- to have a compiler that understands function prototypes. On most MIPS
- based machines this is the standard compiler, on a Sun SparcStation you
- will either need to use gcc or 'acc' (from sun). If you have some
- other brand of workstation, try using 'gcc' if your compiler doesn't
- work.
-
- Available for FTP from:
- export.lcs.mit.edu as contrib/xpaint2.tar.Z
- netcom.com as pub/koblas/xpaint2.tar.Z
-
- Hope you find this useful,
- David Koblas
- koblas@netcom.com
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- name : David Koblas domain: koblas@netcom.com
- affiliation: Extra Mile Consulting phone: +47 (83) 38663
- quote: "Time has little to do with infinity and jelly donuts."
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