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- PostView 1.0 Manual
- Copyright Ralph Schmidt 1993
- Additional Artwork Mick Hohmann
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- Internet: laire@uni-paderborn.de
- IRC: laire
- ZNet: laire@Hsp.zer
- Fido: Ralph Schmidt 2:242/55.16@Fidonet",$a
- SMail: Ralph Schmidt
- Kleiner Hellweg 4
- 4796 Salzkotten
- Germany
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- This software is Gift(Poison)ware
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- Greetings go to
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- Michael van Elst,Petra Zeidler,MichaelS,Timmer(sorry for the Bolts:-B)
- and ScottE for some help with PostView.
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- UDance, Guardian(Andrew Denton...i have no clue why i have added
- you to this list(Inside joke)), (Closed Lips)Bill Coldwell,
- CWolf(Thank you for your great DynamiCache),Aikido,JohnW,
- Tron , Ill, mau(sorry that i forgot you) and all the IRC friends
- for some nice hours.
- Greetings also go to my closer friends Dirk Leschner and Frank Jakobs.
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- P.S. Gift means poison in german....
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- !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- ! !
- ! PostView NEEDS the post.library that is based in the PostV1.7.lha archive !
- ! !
- !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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- My experience with docs in general have convinced me to release only
- ultra short docs because nobody RTFM.......so why waste your time and
- my energy?:-B
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- o PostView Background Story
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- Christmas 1992 i needed to look at some specs that were only available
- as PS files and after some time with the Post V1.7 Viewer i was so
- frustrated that i started to write a new Previewer. I hope you like it.....
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- ##############################################################################
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- PostView uses the post.library, so don't blame me for any parse-problems:-B
- Read the post.library docs for copyrights and any additional informations.
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- !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- !If you use PostView from the WB the post.library error output is written !
- !into NIL:. If you want to see the output you must specify an output file.!
- !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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- Color Handling:
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- On the WB PostView uses the default colours so you can get uncorrect
- coloured pictures. If you open it on a Screen with »4 Colour CMYK«
- active you should get a correct Colour output.
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- ##############################################################################
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- Options:
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- o XSize sets the width of the PS-Bitmap
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- o YSize sets the height of the PS-Bitmap
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- o XDpi sets the XDpi.
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- o YDpi sets the YDpi.
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- o DEPTH sets the depth of the bitmap. Only maximal 2 planes are supported
- by the post.library yet.
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- o DXSize sets the width of the PS-Display window
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- o DYSize sets the height of the PS-Display
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- o MemVLen read post.library docs
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- o MemFLen read post.library docs
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- o MemLLen read post.library docs
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- o MemHLen read post.library docs
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- o Black & White = 1 Bitplane
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- o 3 Colour RGB = 3 Bitplane
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- o 4 Colour CMYK = 4 Bitplane
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- o Window sets display-window mode on so the window is opened on
- the WB.
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- o Screen sets screen-window mode on so the window is opened on
- Custom screen.
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- o ScreenPost sets screen-window mode on so the window is opened on
- Custom screen with original Post colourmap.
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- o Chip Ram sets chipram bitmap mode on.
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- o Public Ram sets publicram bitmap mode on.
- This can lead to slower refresh times.
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- o Refresh sets refresh mode, so the display-window is refreshed
- on every PS-Bitmap change.
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- o No Refresh sets refresh mode off
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- o Centre sets centre mode on, so the display-window area is centred
- on the image position.
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- o No Centre sets center mode off
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- o Colour defines post.library colour mode
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- o Init can be used to define several Init.ps files.
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- o ErrFile sets the post.library report window/file.
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- o ScreenX sets the Custom screen width.
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- o ScreenY sets the Custom screen height.
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- o ScreenDepth sets the Custom screen depth.
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- o ScreenID sets the Custom screen display name.
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- o NoAutoScroll turns Custom screen autoscrolling off
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- Command Window Gadgets:
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- See Options explanations
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- o Load File loads a postscript file and start the parser. You can run
- unlimited parser instances.
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- Display Window Gadgets:
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- o the Times Image starts the next page.
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- o the Printer Image starts the printer.device.
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- o the Disk Image is used to save the page.
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- o the Centre Image is used to centre the page.
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- o the Arrows can be activated by the cursor keys.
- SHIFT and CTRL increase the scrolling offset.
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- Menu:
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- o Selects a new Custom screen display mode.
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- o Calculates the width and height values by the DPI values.
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- o Calculates Dpi values by the width and height values.
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- ##############################################################################
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- To Do: o Faster FillMem(Movem optimized...i want it out as fast as possible
- and i'm sooooooooo lazy)
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- o Centreing is sooo slow...instead of readpixel use direct Bitmap
- checks.....though it's acceptable on an a4000:-B
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- Nice time while exploring all the obvious functions and if you're one
- of these creatures that enjoy to read manuals,nevermind:-B
- There's always another time......
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- Regards....
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- RELEASE NOTES
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- + PostView and Post dithering difference bug is not found yet
- and i have no clue why .....
- + PrintPage problems not fixed yet....i plan to add a printer
- config requester
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- PostView 1.1
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- - Illegal Size check to avoid 0 bitmap sizes
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- PostView 1.1 BETA 2
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- - GFX Garbage with Centreing now really fixed
- - Two of the memory integer gadets were switched
- - Accepts now .icons files to load a ps file
- - FILE/K option added
- - Fixed Default ScreenID...was set by accident on an AA only MonitorID...
- - File Directory is now also current directory for that process
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- PostView 1.1 BETA 1
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- - SaveIff Colour Bug removed
- - ASL-Filerequester uses now the directory again
- - Add »Screen-Post« option to get an original Post-Colour screen
- - DPI/Size Calculation(Menu) fixed.
- - Refresh problem/crash probably solved...i couldn't reproduce it
- with the new version
- - Gfx Garbage with Centreing in a special condition
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- PostView 1.0 - Initial Release
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