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- Using PCXHDR
-
- You use the PCXHDR utility to view .PCX file information in the file
- header. The PCXHDR utility is automatically copied to your PhotoFinish
- directory and added to your PhotoFinish program group during setup.
- The name of the icon is PCX File Info.
-
- PCXHDR generates a report that includes the file header information.
- You can also use the PCXHDR utility to turn off palette information. This
- is useful if you load a .PCX file and are not satisfied with the look of your
- picture.
-
- You should keep in mind the following conventions used in the command
- line format for DOS utilities:
- Include file extensions when filenames are called for.
- Include backslashes in paths (e.g., C:\PHOTO\EXAMPLE.PCX).
- Separate multiple options with a space.
- Square brackets "[ ]" enclose optional parameters that you replace.
- Braces "{ }" enclose required parameters that must be replaced.
-
- To view the header information of a PCX file from the Windows
- environment:
-
- 1 Activate the Windows Program Manager.
- 2 Double-click the PCX File Info program icon in your PhotoFinish
- program group.
- 3 Type the filename you want to display information about.
- If the picture you want to know about is in a different directory,
- type the full path and name of the file.
- 4 If you want to turn palette information on, press the spacebar and type
- On after the filename.
- If you want to turn palette information off, press the spacebar and type
- Off after the filename.
- 5 Press Enter.
- PCXHDR generates a report about the file. See the following chart for
- the information included in the report.
-
- PCXHDR Information
-
- Following is the header information PCXHDR reports:
-
- Version: the PCX version of the picture you are checking and whether
- your Palette is on or off. Palette On means palette data stored in the file
- is used when you load the picture. Palette Off means the palette data
- will not be used.
-
- Image Size: the dimensions of the picture in pixels.
-
- Number of Colors: the number of colors used in the picture's Palette.
-
- Image Window: the x and y coordinates of the .PCX file.
-
- Number of Planes: the number of planes in each pixel of the picture.
-
- Bits Per Pixel: the space needed to create one pixel of color on your
- screen.
-
- Bytes Per Line Per Plane: the number of bytes on each line of a plane.
-
- Image Resolution: the number of dots-per-inch that were set when the
- picture was created.
-
- Palette Info: the type of palette used to create the picture (gray scale,
- 256 color, black and white).
-
- Reserved: this space is reserved for future use.
-
- Screen Size: the size of your screen in pixels. This information is not
- applicable to .PCX files created with Publisher's Paintbrush 1.xx, PC
- Paintbrush Plus 1.xx, or PC Paintbrush versions earlier than 3.xx.
-
- Palette (RGB): the actual RGB values for each color in the Palette of the
- picture (also known as the Color Map).
-
- Running PCXHDR from DOS
-
- You can use the PCXHDR utility in DOS. To do this, exit Windows and
- type the following command at the DOS prompt:
-
- [drive:][path]PCXHDR [drive:][path]{pcxfilename} on/off
-
- For example, if PCXHDR is stored in C:\PHOTO and ROSE.PCX is in
- D:\PICTURES you would type the command line:
-
- C:\PHOTO\PCXHDR D:\PICTURES\ROSE.PCX ON
-
- The information may scroll off your screen. In DOS you can write the
- PCXHDR report to a text file using the following command line:
-
- [drive:][path]PCXHDR {filename} on >{filename.txt}
-
- Once you have the file written to a text file, you can open it in a word
- processing program for reading as you would any other text file.
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