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Sketch Pad version 1.04 ReadMe1st file.
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____ _ _ _ ____ _ © 1996 Jamie Shotton,
/ ___|| | _____| |_ ___| |__ | _ \ __ _ __| |
\___ \| |/ / _ \ __/ __| '_ \ | |_) / _` |/ _` | This program is
___) | < __/ || (__| | | | | __/ (_| | (_| | SHAREWARE
|____/|_|\_\___|\__\___|_| |_| |_| \__,_|\__,_| NOT
v1.04 Free Public Domain
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Requirements
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Sketch Pad requires at least RISC OS 3.10, 160k of memory at start up, and
the toolbox modules, which are supplied with this. It works on the Risc PC
and StrongARM, but you may need to be a 16 or 256 colour mode. Before you
start, you should unpack the archive using !SparkFS or !SparkPlug.
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\__ \ \ _` | _| -_)\ \ \ / _` | _| -_)
____/_| _|\__,_|_| \___| \_/\_/\__,_|_| \___|
This program is SHAREWARE. This means that it is distributed in whole, for
you to test and see if you wish to keep it. Feel free to distribute it to
friends etc, provided the archive remains intact, and no profit is made.
This program has a two week trial period. After that, you must either
REGISTER, or delete this program.
To register, send £5 (UKP), along with your name, address, and if possible,
an email address, to the address below. If you do not have an email address,
you should enclose a SSAE and a disc. You will be put on the registration
list, receive the registered version with nag screen removed, and receive
free updates via email on request. You will also have a clear conscience,
and know that you are supporting software development for RISC OS computers.
Please do not rip me off. After all, it's only £5. If you do not have
internet access, and you want an update, you can send me a SSAE and a disc,
and I will return the latest version.
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I do not take any responsibility for any data corruption or other damage
caused by the use or misuse of this program or the accompanying software.
©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©
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© / _ ._ ._ o _ |_ _|_ ©
© \_(_)|_)\/| |(_|| | |_ ©
© | / _| ©
©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©
!SketchPad, the Examples directory and contents, the accompanying Manual,
and this file are Copyright © 1996 Jamie Shotton. The other software is not
my copywrite, and I do not take any responsibility for it.
InterGIF (see below) is (K) All Rites Reversed Peter Hartley, and is
provided as an extra, i.e. registration does not include this.
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Supplied with this program are the latest versions of the toolbox modules.
These will need to be installed using !SysMerge (supplied) on RISC OS 3.10,
or !Configure on RISC OS 3.5 onwards.
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/ /|_/ / _ `/ _ \/ // / _ `/ /
/_/ /_/\_,_/_//_/\_,_/\_,_/_/
To get the full manual, ensure an HTML reader (preferably !ArcWeb, as that's
the only one it's been tested on (yet)) has been "seen" by the filer, then
select "Manual" from the iconbar menu of Sketch Pad.
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/ _ / (_-</ __/ _ \/ __/ // /
/_//_/_/___/\__/\___/_/ \_, /
/___/
1.00 : First public release version.
1.01-1.03 : Minor improvements.
1.04 : GIF export facilities added courtesy of InterGIF by
Peter Hartley (see below).
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| | / _ \| '_ \| __/ _` |/ __| __| | '_ \ / _` | | |\/| |/ _ \
| |__| (_) | | | | || (_| | (__| |_| | | | | (_| | | | | | __/
\____\___/|_| |_|\__\__,_|\___|\__|_|_| |_|\__, | |_| |_|\___|
|___/
Please contact me if you have any questions, bug reports, registrations,
or ideas for future improvements. I can be contacted either through email
(through my father), or by snail mail. For email, please set the subject
line to something like "For Jamie Shotton" and put the actual subject in
the message itself. I currently have no home page, but that may change
in the not too distant future.
Email: c/o david.shotton@zoo.ox.ac.uk
Snail mail: Jamie Shotton,
34 Kirk Close,
Oxford,
OX2 8JN.
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I may have borrowed a few icons, but these have all been altered quite a bit,
and I hope those who created the originals will be flattered that I found
them so well designed to use them in my own program. A special thank you to
Doggysoft for their albeit altered NewerLook icons.
============================================================================
Now follows the !Help file for !InterGIF by Peter Hartley, which is used
in this application to export GIF files.
InterGif 4
==========
by Peter Hartley (K) All Rites Reversed
Desktop front-end adapted from one by Iain Logan
INTERGIF 4 is a program for making GIF images from 2-, 4-, 16- or
256-colour RiscOS sprite files, or from files produced with Iota
Software's (commercial) animation program The Complete Animator. It
can also convert from GIFs back to sprites.
Get the latest version
----------------------
The latest version of InterGif, plus more help information and full
source code, is always available on the World-Wide Web at the address
http://www.ant.co.uk/~peter/software/intergif.htm
It's the twenty-seventh of October, 1996, as I'm writing these words
(happy birthday, Anne): if it's long after that that you're reading
them, you might want to see if there's a later version now available.
Distribution
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InterGif is NOT COPYRIGHTED and is NOT distributed under the GNU
General Public Licence. For full information read the file
!InterGif.Copying or go to the Web site.
Features
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o InterGif runs either on the desktop, or from the command line (so
I can produce the GIFs for my own Web pages, from the sprites
which constitute their source, using a make file!).
o InterGif has options for the transparency and interleaving
features of GIF89a.
o InterGif can take a sprite file (or an Animator file) containing
several frames, and produce from it an animated GIF which Netscape
2.0 or later, MSIE 3.0beta1 or later, or ANT Fresco 1.22 or later
will render as animated if it's inlined in a Web page.
o InterGif will reduce its input to a smaller number of colours
(unless you explicitly tell it not to) if it can get away with it,
i.e. if only that many of the colours are used anyway.
o It will also compress only the rectangle which has changed on each
frame, so if your animation has a complex but stationary
background, the background will only get compressed once.
Deviousness and cunning are employed to minimise the final size of
the GIF: so much so that many animated GIFs I've found on the Web
have ended up smaller when run through InterGif.
o It can also make GIF images from Draw files if used in conjunction
with AADraw (see end).
Desktop use
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Pretty straightforward. Run !InterGif; drag your sprite file, Animator
file, or GIF onto the left-hand bit of the window; set any options you
want in the middle bit of the window; and save your GIF or sprite file
out from the right-hand bit of the window. The options are:
o Interlaced
Produce an interlaced GIF: in other words, one which a Web
browser can render quickly at a low