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- Graphic Workshop for Windows 1.1
-
- Release notes:
-
- To install Graphic Workshop for Windows on your hard drive:
-
- 1. If you have received Graphic Workshop in an archive, such as
- a ZIP file, place the contents of the archive on a high density
- floppy disk. If you have received Graphic Workshop on a floppy
- floppy directly from Alchemy Mindworks, this has already been
- done for you.
- 2. Place the disk in a floppy drive of your computer.
- 3. Open the File menu of the Windows program manager and select Run.
- 4. In the Run dialog box, type A:SETUP or B:SETUP, as is appropriate.
- 5. Follow the installer instructions... the Setup application will
- prompt you as required.
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- If you encounter difficulty installing Graphic Workshop, see the instructions
- at the end of this file.
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- Graphic Workshop for Windows requires Windows 3.1 or better. A minimum of four
- megabytes of memory is recommended. Note that if you have four megabytes in your
- system, but a large part of it is tied up in a RAM disk, a disk cache, as EMS or
- in some other form which Windows cannot address it, Graphic Workshop may be unable
- to run.
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- NOTES FOR THIS RELEASE
-
- This version of Graphic Workshop requires Video for Windows 1.1 or better for
- its AVI file functions. Version 1.0 will not work. If you encounter error
- messages upon attempting to use the AVI functions, you need a Video for Windows
- upgrade. As of this writing, the registered version of Graphic Workshop for
- Windows includes the runtime version of Video for Windows 1.1. This is subject to
- change without notice.
-
- New features and changes:
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- - Added ICO, CLP and AVI support
- - Fixed a few problems with the JPEG functions
- - Added WMF, FLC and FLI support
- - Added the Multimedia Browser application to preview multimedia data files.
- - Graphic Workshop now supports high colour PIC files.
- - Treu colour graphics can be written to the IFF format.
- - Added file destination, renaming and underbar options.
- - Added Windows EXE pictures.
- - Added HRZ file support.
- - Added 256-colour dithering to the view mode.
- - Added LZW and Group 4 TIFF support.
- - Added display gamma adjustment.
- - Added RAS support.
- - Added grey scale reading for Photo-CDs.
- - Added a filter to excluse selected file formats from the main window.
- - Added a Change Directory function to the file menu.
- - Updated the EXE format to support VESA cards.
- - Added a functon to associate graphics with GWS.EXE.
- - Added Huffman and Group 3 1D TIFF reading.
- - Added Kodak Photo-CD support.
-
- See the end of GWS.WRI for the complete revision history and list of bug fixes.
-
- Conversion between animation formats has been enabled for FLI/FLC to AVI, but not
- AVI to FLC. The FLI/FLC write function wasn't sufficiently stable when this version
- was released. This function will be implemnted in version 1.1m.
-
- There is a minor problem with the Kodak Photo-CD support, which appears to be due to
- a bug in the Kodak libraries. Viewing Photo-CD files may orphan a small block of memory.
- This memory will be freed when Graphic Workshop terminates. It's not large enough to
- cause any meaningful problems, but it does make the free memory display in the About
- box change slightly as you work.
-
- If you have any problems with the Photo-CD section... or just some comments... we'd
- like to hear from you.
-
- Graphic Workshop for Windows may encounter difficulty printing to some versions of the
- Hewlett-Packard DeskJet 550C driver. This is a known bug, and we're working on it.
-
- Some users have reported problems with installing Graphic Workshop on systems with
- relatively little memory. The SETUP program may be unable to uncompress some of
- the files on the distribution disk. If this happens to you, get to the DOS prompt
- and do the following.
-
- CD \
- MD \GWSWIN
- A:UNPACK A:
- or
- B:UNPACK B:
-