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- IMGCON v1.4 (c) Copr. 1990 Anthony Rizzolo
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- IMGCON V1.4 DIRECTIONS AND USE
-
- Should you find this program useful, you should register it. You may freely
- distribute copies of this program in its UNMODIFIED state with the inclusion
- of the authors copyright notice. You may NOT charge for distrubtion of this
- program.
-
-
- WHAT IS IMGCON ?
-
- IMGCON is a program for converting images between different image
- formats. It also allows you to display the images on your screen.
- IMGCON has a windowed interface to make it user friendly.
-
- SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
-
- IMGCON requires only enough memory to load itself (about 150K) of
- available memory. GIF will require about another 16K at execution
- time.
-
-
- 1.0 HOW TO USE IMGCON
-
- 1.1 Command syntax: imgcon d:\windows
-
-
- The one command line argument is the picture directory to look for the
- source image files. The output file is placed into the current directory
- unless this is superseded by the OUT NAME command.
-
- IMGCON has a window style interface. It uses a vertical menu bar
- and pick lists to select files.
-
- There are also quite a few fixes in the SIXEL image processing. It
- will now handle images larger than 800x252 if they start with the
- "1;1;x;y" after the <ESC>q.
-
- It will also handle these larger images if they don't have the qualifier
- after the <ESC>q. This however takes an extra pass through the file in
- order to figure out the image dimensions.
-
- In addition there is now a new feature in the display section. The
- display functionality will now select the best available mode for the
- image to be displayed. You can of course override this feature by
- selecting a particular output resolution. If the image does not fit
- into the selected resolution, it will be scaled to fit the physical
- screen dimensions.
-
- PCX files are now fully compressed in this version. This means that
- your image will not take up excessive disk space any more.
-
- | V1.4 Fixe two problems which were reported. One had to do with an
- | extra byte on the image file size when converting to PCX format. This
- | was caused by a math error when we were recomputing the information to
- | put into the header.
- |
- | V1.4 also fixed a problem in GIF file processing which was returning
- | an error during the conversion of some GIF files that the scan line
- | had been overrun or we got an unexpected EOF.
-
- 1.2 IMGCON.INI file
-
- In addition IMGCON will read an initlialization file to get some
- paramaters which are useful. The file has the following arguments:
-
- 1) 320x200x256=hh - Replaces the mode information for 320x200x256
- in the Video mode table with the hex value 'hh'.
- The default is mode 13.
-
-
- 2) 640x350x256=hh - Replaces the mode information for 640x350x256
- in the Video mode table with the hex value 'hh'.
- The default is mode 2dh.
-
-
- 3) 640x400x256=hh - Replaces the mode information for 640x400x256
- in the Video mode table with the hex value 'hh'.
- The default is mode 2eh.
-
-
- 4) 640x480x256=hh - Replaces the mode information for 640x480x256
- in the Video mode table with the hex value 'hh'.
- The default is mode 2eh.
-
- 5) 800x600x256=hh - Replaces the mode information for 800x600x256
- in the Video mode table with the hex value 'hh'.
- The default is mode 30.
-
-
- 6) 1024x768x256=hh - Sets up mode 1024x768x256 (completely untested
- as I do not have a board which supports this mode.
-
- 6) USE_BIOS=TRUE/FALSE - Decides if memory moves will be used to put
- the image on the screen in display mode. I have
- only tested this on the ORCHID DESIGNER VGA-512
- board, so if things seem weird, then use the BIOS
- routines instead. It will be slower. I can get
- hardware specs for some of the other boards, but
- if you find your board does not work, if you can
- provide me with enough information I will try to
- add it to the supported board list.
-
- 1.3 Using the IMGCON menues
-
-
- MAIN MENU: CONVERT INPUT_PATH OUTPUT_FILES VIDEO_MODE DISPLAY EXIT
-
- The IMGCON menus are fairly straight forward to use. When you start
- up you will be at the horizontal menu bar. You can use the arrow
- keys to select a menu item, or type the first letter of the MENU ITEM.
-
- The EXIT menu is not a pull down, and requires a <CR> key to confirm
- it when you type the character. If you are using the ARROW keys to
- select you will need to confirm you selection when you get to it by
- typing a <CR>.
-
- Basically the menus will take you through the required information
- to complete the menu. The INPUT PATH and OUTPUT FILES menu selections
- require you to enter text into the fields. If you specify a particular
- file name, it uses that file name for output (ie: You should not
- multi-select under convert). You don't have to type the extension as
- IMGCON always makes sure that is correct for the image type to be
- output. If you type a *(wildcard) for the file name, it will replace
- the * with the input file name on the conversions.
-
- You may multi-select files from the pull down menu, when you have
- completed your selection, you should type an <ESC> key. This will
- signal that you are done selecting and the given function (CONVERT or
- DISPLAY) is performed for each of the files.
-
- If you are in the middle of a long display list and you wish to abort
- a single image, then simply type any character and the image will abort
- and proceed onto the next one. If you want to abort this image and
- all the images that follow it, you should type the <ESC> key. The
- same applys to the conversion menu. If a conversion is aborted in
- the middle, the output file will be deleted.
-
-
- 2.0 DISCLAIMERS
-
- This is shareware software. If you find it useful a $15.00
- contribution is requested for continued enhancements/development of this
- program.
-
- If you find bugs or have problems please tell me as I would like to
- know so I can fix them and make the program more useful.
-
- If you have any suggestions please feel free to send them also.
- For suggestions I can be reached at Compuserve [74435,1563]
- Send contributions and/or suggestions to:
-
- Anthony Rizzolo
- 290 Foster Street
- Littleton, MA 01460
- Thank you.
-
-
- 3.0 FUTURE DEVELOPMENT PLANS
-
-
- 2) Output to GIF FORMAT.
-
- 3) Output to VT240 SIXEL format.
-
- 4) Output to Postscript or Encapsulated postscript.
-
- 5) Output of X-WINDOW bit map files.
-
- 6) Pallete merge functionality (includes merged pallete generation and
- inclusion into the image).
-
- 7) Allowing use of a microsoft mouse to select menu items.
-
- 8) Image scrolling for images that do not fit into the physical
- bounds of the screen. (Currently they are scaled to fit within the
- bounds of the screen).
-
- 9) Input/Output to "other" formats.
-
- 10) Automatic Image detection for input images.
-
- 11) Compression on BMP files.
-
- Also if you have any suggestions for features or modifications you
- would like to see in the program please feel free to let me know. I
- am just starting out so I do appreciate any help or feedback you can
- give me.
-
- I can be reached at Compuserve: [74435,1563].
-
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