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- Short: Ppaint Annot'd AnimBrush 4 ANIM GIF work
- Author: A. Paabo
- Uploader: paabo@ptbo.igs.net
- Type: gfx/edit
-
- PROGRAMS USING THE FILES
-
- - Personal Paint from version 7.0
-
- MAIN APPLICATION
-
- - Mainly in conjunction with PPaint's SaveAnimGIf.pprx and
- LoadAnimGif.pprx. But other PPaint rexx scripts can potentially utilize its
- results.
-
- INSTALLATION
-
- - Copy 'MakeAnnotAnimbrush.pprx' to PPaint:Rexx
-
- DESCRIPTION
-
- SHORT:
- ANIMBRUSH PICKUP FROM AN ANIMATION THAT ANNOTATES THE
- ANIMBRUSH SO THAT THE TIME DELAY SETTINGS (and copyright annotation)
- ARE AVAILABLE ON THE ANIMBRUSH FOR USE IN SAVING TO ANIMATED GIFS
- (and other potential applications)
- LONG:
- When Cloanto added Rexx scripts to PPaint7 that provided the ability to save
- to and load from animated gif format (SaveAnimGif.pprx and LoadAnimGif.pprx)
- it used the approach of saving from an animbrush (since animated gifs are small).
- Because the animbrush did not contain information about frame timing, the
- user who used varying timing in the source animation had to note this timing
- and manually insert it into the settings window presented. In the latest
- version (1.4) of SaveAnimGif.pprx, the capacity to automatically apply timing from
- an animation that is present, is provided, doing the required conversion from
- the 1/60" timing units of PPaint animation frames to the 1/100" timing units
- of animated gifs. But this approach requires you do it immediately after
- picking up an animbrush while the animation is still present, and it still inserts a
- step in which you have to remember where the animbrush pickup started
- from, how many you picked up, etc. The ideal situation would be that the
- animbrush gets annotated in terms of time delays WHEN IT IS CREATED. This
- PPaint Rexx script does that. It is nothing more than a rectangular animbrush
- pickup that just happens to annotate the animbrush with the timing of the
- frames, so that when you run SaveAnimGif.pprx on that animbrush, all the
- timing information shows up in the subsequent settings window and the
- source animation needs not be present.
- In addition to the basic action of adding annotations that SaveAnimGif.pprx can
- read, I provided the option of saving the timing in the 1/60" units of PPaint since
- they could be useful too when moving an animbrush back into an animation, for
- example. Mimicing the animated gif animation, I replaced
- 'LOOP' loop 'DELAY' delay1 delay2 delay3 etc. with
- 'PP7PARAM' param 'DELAY' delay1 delay2 delay3 etc.
- where param is a value for some useful parameter in another
- PPaint script.
- This also prevents SaveAnimGif from loading 1/60" timing units
- by mistake. (untested--I hope it works)
-
- USAGE:
- Usage is straightforward. The animbrush is the same as any regular
- animbrush, except that it is annotated with timing information that is
- extractable by Save/LoadAnimGif.pprx. and other potential scripts.
- In practice you will create a small animation for saving as an animated gif, on a
- page larger than the animated gif (I do it on a large 800x600 screeen so that
- the animation appears the same size as it would on a web page on SVGA),
- and then when it runs fine, use MakeAnnotAnimBrush.pprx to pick it up. Once
- picked up I can save the annotated animbrush or immediately run
- SaveAnimGif.pprx and create the animated gif. If the checkbox is on, the
- SaveAnimGif script will be run immediately after pickup. This is convenient
- for those who want to get the PPaint animated gif quickly without stopping.
-
- NOTES
- The latest update (1.4) of SaveAnimGif.pprx and LoadAnimGif.pprx can be
- found in the BIZ/CLOANTO section of Aminet.
-
- AUTHOR:
- -Andres Pääbo, Box 478, Apsley, Ont. Canada K0L 1AO. Can-705-656-9387
- -email (till April) paabo@ptbo.igs.net
- -see some A. Paabo animated gif work on website www3.sympatico.ca/highlandview
- (or hilandvu, if highlandview doesn't work yet)
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- 7264 2820 61.1% 27-Feb-97 10:18:58 +MakeAnnotAnimBrush.pprx
- 932 450 51.7% 27-Feb-97 09:46:38 +MakeAnnotAnimBrush.pprx.info
- 3992 1904 52.3% 27-Feb-97 09:49:44 +MakeAnnotAnimBrush.readme
- 784 390 50.2% 25-Feb-97 23:26:22 +MakeAnnotAnimBrush.readme.info
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