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- Poisson Technology
- 816 Gregory Ct, Fremont, CA 94539. U.S.A.
- Phone:(510)623-1087 FAX:(510)490-5865
-
- Shareware Finger VGA 1.10 Release Note:
-
- Finger VGA is a color image processing, painting and animation program for
- IBM PC and compatibles with 384K memory. Only VGA(320x200 256 colors)
- graphics mode is supported. Microsoft or Logitech compatible mouse required.
- Files are loaded and saved in PCX format and can be printed to LaserJet
- with 300 dots/per inch density in 16-color mapping mode or with 75 dpi in
- 5 grayscale levels. Image editing features include: cut, copy, paste
- inverse, rotate, flip horizontally/vertically and scaling to enlarge
- or reduce the selected image. The drawing toolbox includes: freehand drawing,
- line, rectangle, triangle, brush, spray, eraser, flush, dupArea, dupPoint,
- fill an enclosed region and draw 3D pyramid. The curve drawing tools include:
- bezier curves, circle, ellipse, arc, arrow, thick line and text with 4
- different scalable fonts. The text entry can be written either
- horizontally or vertically. There are 9 fill patterns which can be used
- to fill rectangle, circle, ellipse, pie and polygon with up to 200 vertices.
- The screen zoom in feature(fat bit) is also provided to work on individual
- pixel at 16x or 64x level. User can flip the whole screen either horizontally
- or vertically, clear, or inverse the screen image. Color image to grayscale
- conversion is also supported. There are 256 colors available for drawing
- and for background use.
-
- Registered users(see REGISTER.DOC) can get the following advanced features:
- o DupArea command to copy partial screen image.
- o DupPoint command to do on-screen color selection for painting use.
- o Shrink the whole screen image.
- o Cycle 256 colors with user defined delay time.
- o Cartoon command for animation or slide-show use.
- o In Laser_Print mode each pixel is mapped into 16 or 64 grayscales:
- it is good for full screen picture printing and 64 grayscale mode
- has 1:1 aspect ratio. The printout size is about 8.5 x 6 inches.
- o In Simple_Print mode the 256 colors are mapped into 16 shading levels:
- this is used to print simple drawing without too many colors.
- - Scale the printout both in X and Y directions.
- - EPSON 24-pin printer drivers to print at 180 dpi.
- - 9-pin EPSON compatible dot-matrix printer support.
- - Print a user-defined window area instead of whole screen.
-
-
- Get it started:
- ---------------
-
- Boot computer with DOS 3.0 and install mouse driver on COM1, however, the
- demo can work without a mouse. Insert floppy diskette in drive A and type
- FVGA to start the program. Press Y and SPACE Bar to see the demo. The
- demo will go faster if all files on the floppy diskette are first installed
- on the hard disk.
-
- Press left button or command initial to select command. Press right button
- or ESC key to exit command. Select FILE then QUIT to exit the program.
-
- When in drawing mode, press left button to draw, release left button to
- stop drawing, and press right button to exit. The graphics mode is
- VGA(320x200x256 colors) and it can work on either VGA color or VGA
- monochrome monitors. Press SPACE bar at any time to bring up the
- 256-color, fill pattern and line style menu to change color, fill
- pattern or line style. Press the left button to select. Click the
- right button or other keys to exit the color menu.
-
- Other Shareware products by Poisson Technology:
-
- Finger Maps 1.01: PC map design and object drawing program.
- Finger Paint 4.00: PC paint program. like PC paintbrush.
-
- ***********************************************************************
-
- Command summary:
- ----------------
- *R : Advanced features for registered user.
-
- File
- Load : load PCX file from disk to screen.
- Save : save screen image in PCX format.
- Saveas : save screen image to a new file in PCX format.
- laser_Print : Each pixel is mapped into grayscale and scaled
- to get the correct aspect ratio on the printout.
- The printout size is 8.5"x5.25" for 75 and 150 dpi modes.
- In 300 dpi mode the printout size is 8.5"x6.0" and has
- 1:1 aspect ratio on the printout.
- A_5_level/75dpi : Print in 75 dots per inch with 5 levels.
- *R B_16_level/150dpi : Print in 150 dots per inch with 16 levels.
- *R C_64_level/300dpi : Print in 300 dots per inch with 64 levels.
-
- Simple_Print : Color image is mapped into 16 shading levels on printout.
- Default mapping: black =>white. white => black. Use Inverse command to
- reverse the printout mapping.
- Laserjet : Print in 300 dpi.
- Inverse : Reverse the printout color.
- *R Dotmatrix: print to Epson compatible printers.
- *R Eps-24pin: print in 180 dpi on Epson LQ 24-pin printers.
- *R Scale : Magnify or shrink the printout size both in X and Y.
- Minimum scale is 0.1x. There is no hard-coded upper bound
- for maximum scale. The output is limited by the paper
- size. Scaling applies to both full screen and window printing.
- *R Window : Define the window area to be printed.
- Move cursor around to define the rectangular window area to
- be printed. Click left mouse button to define vertices. Press
- ESC key or right button when done. Select PRINT command and
- choose the appropriate printer to print the window area
- afterwards.
- Quit : quit Finger VGA program.
-
- Edit
-
- Cut : Cut an image into buffer.
- Copy: Copy an image into buffer.
- Paste: Paste image buffer to screen.
- Inverse: Inverse image buffer.
- Rotate : Rotate image buffer by 90 degrees.
- Horizon: Flip image buffer horizontally.
- Vertical: Flip image buffer vertically.
- scaleXy : Scale image buffer both in X and Y directions.
-
- Draw
-
- Draw : Free hand drawing.
- o Move cursor to the starting point. Press the left button to put pen
- down and start drawing. Release left button when done.
-
- o Press right button or ESC key to exit this command.
-
- Line : Draw a line.
- o Move cursor to the starting point. Press the left button to put pen
- down to define the first point of the line. Move cursor with left button
- pressed, and release left button to define the second point of the line
- and lift the pen. Repeat the above process for another line.
-
- o Press right button or ESC key to exit this command.
-
- Rectangle : Draw a rectangle.
- o Move cursor to the starting vertex. Press the left button to put pen
- down to define the first vertex of the rectangle. Move cursor with left
- button pressed. Release left button to define the second vertex of the
- rectangle and lift the pen. Repeat the above process for another rectangle.
-
- o Press right button or ESC key to exit this command.
-
- Triangle : Draw a line with fixed end points.
- o Move cursor to the starting point. Press the left button to put pen down
- to define the first point of the base line. Move cursor with left button
- pressed. Release left button to define the second point of the base line
- and continue moving the cursor to define the middle point. Press the left
- button to define the middle point. Repeat the above process for another
- triangle.
-
- o Press right button or ESC key to exit this command.
-
- Spray : Press the left mouse button to spray paint the screen. Press
- SPACE BAR to bring up the color menu, change color by click the left
- mouse button, and continue spraying with different color to achieve
- special effects.
-
- Brush : Brush the screen with selected brush type and size. Use
- brush_type under OPTION to change type or size. Use brush as an eraser
- with black color selected.
-
- Flood : Move cursor inside an enclosed area and click the left mouse
- button to flood the area with foreground color. Flood process stops when
- the pixel color is different from the starting point. In case of a wrong
- flood, press right button and select UNDO under EDIT to recover the
- image before the flood.
-
- Pyramid: Define the base rectangle first and then move the cursor to
- define the apex of the pyramid.
-
- *R DupArea: Duplicate an image area by first pointing the source position
- and then the target position. Press left mouse button to start copying
- image from source to target area. This is used to duplicate part of the
- image which can't be done by Copy command. Applications: You can use
- this command to mix and match different faces with bodies, or use it
- to paint the glass window with the sky image.
-
- Polygon: Click the left mouse button to define vertices of the polygon
- and press the right button to close the polygon and exit. If Empty fill
- is selected, then the polygon is not filled. Polygon is filled if other
- fill patterns are selected.
-
- *R DupPoint: This is used to select the desired color directly from the
- screen image and use the color to paint later. First move mouse to the
- position with desired color and click the mouse button to select the
- color. Press left mouse button to start drawing or right button to exit.
-
- Curve
-
- Spline : Draw a curve with end point bent.
-
- Bline : Draw a curve with middle point bent.
-
- Circle : Draw a circle.
-
- Ellipse: Draw an ellipse.
-
- Arc : Draw an arc with starting and ending angles.
-
- Text : Write a line of text.
-
- Arrow : Draw an arrow. Use OPTION/Arrow_size to set the size.
-
- Wideline : Draw a thick line. The line width is defined under OPTION
- arrow_width.
-
- Pie : Draw a piece of pie.
-
- Screen
-
- Zoom 4x: Magnify the screen by 4x in each dimension.(16x)
- Zoom 8x: Magnify the screen by 8x in each dimension.(64x)
- Clear : Clear screen with background color(black).
- flipX : Flip screen horizontally.
- flipY : Flip screen vertically.
- Inverse: Inverse the screen color.
- Grayscale: toggle between color and grayscale modes.
- *R Shrink : shrink the screen image. ( Use Undo to correct any shrink error)
- *R Cycle : cycle 256 colors with user defined delay time.
- *R Cartoon: continuous display of PCX image files from a control file.
- Control file syntax: Use a text editor to create a file with PCX filename
- on each line. Start with a blank on each line if the PCX file has the same
- palette as the previous one. Start the line without a blank will force
- program to reset the palette which can cause some flickering on the screen.
-
- Option
-
- Arrow_size : Set arrow head size.
- arrow_Width: Set arrow line size.
- >line_Style: Set line style.
- >Pattern : Set fill patterns.
- >brush_Type: Set brush type.
- >color_Back: Set background color.
- >color_Front: Set foreground color.
- >font_scalE : Set font style and size.
-
- Font_scale
- >Type : Set font type.
- Triplex
- Sansserif
- Gothic
- Small
- Scale : Set font scale.
- X_y : Set text orientation, horizontally or vertically.
-
- Line_style
- Solid : solid line.
- Dotted : dotted line.
- Center : centered line.
- dAshed : dashed line.
- cusTom : custom pattern line.
- solId_t : thick solid line.
- dOt_T : thick dotted line.
- ceNter_T: thick centered line.
- dasH_T : thick dashed line.
- cUst_T : thick custom line.
-
- Pattern
- Empty : EmptyFill { uses background }
- Solid : SolidFill { uses foreground draw color }
- Line : LineFill { --- }
- Ltslash: LtSlashFill { /// }
- Slash : SlashFill { /// thick fill }
- Blslash: BkSlashFill { \\\ thick fill }
- Ltblslh: LtBkSlashFill { \\\ fill }
- Hatch : HatchFill { light hatch fill }
- Xhatch : XHatchFill { heavy cross hatch }
-
- Brush_type
- Square : rectangular brush.
- Circle : circular brush.
- s_squarE : filled rectangular brush.
- s_cIrcle : filled circular brush.
- siZe : brush size in X and Y.
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