PICTVIEW 194 HTTPWWWPICTVIEWCOM SUPPORTPICTVIEWCOM COPYRIGHT (C) 19942000 BY JAN

PICTVIEW 194 HTTPWWWPICTVIEWCOM SUPPORTPICTVIEWCOM COPYRIGHT (C) 19942000 BY JAN






                               PictView 1.94

                          http://www.pictview.com
                           [email protected]


                     Copyright (c) 1994-2000 by Jan Patera
               Copyright (c) 1996-2000 by Dement - quantization


What is PictView?

  PictView is a mouse-driven viewer and converter of images. It runs on all
EGA, VGA,  SuperVGA and  Extended-VGA  video  adapters. PictView is able to
read images  stored in approximately  40 graphics  file formats and convert
them into  another format. All functions are extremely fast, up to 10 times 
faster than other programs.

Supported formats of graphics files:

!PX - Thumbnail from PC PaintBrush IV Deluxe for Windows, read only
BMI - Zoner Bitmap, read only
BMP - Windows BitMap
BMP - OS/2 BitMap
BW  - SGI image in gray scales
CAL - CALS Raster Type I, read only
CDR - CorelDraw! 2.0 - 9.0 read preview and imported
      images only
CDT - CorelDraw! 5.0 - 9.0 Template, read preview and imported bitmaps only
CLP - MS Windows Clipboard, bitmaps only, read only
CMX - CorelDraw! 5.0 - 9.0 - Corel Metafile Exchange Fileformat, read preview
      only
CPT - Corel PhotoPaint 6.0, read only
CUR - MS Windows cursors, read only
CUT - Dr. Halo/Dr. Genius
DCX - Multipage facsimilie documents
DIB - Windows Device Independent BitMap (=BMP)
FLC - AutoDesk Animator Pro animation
FLI - AutoDesk Animator animation
GIF - CompuServe Graphics Interchange Format
HAM - IFF/ILBM in HAM mode
HRZ - Slow scan television, read only
ICN - RIPterm images, read only
ICO - MS Windows Icon
ICO - OS/2 Icon, read only
IFF - Amiga Interchange File Format
IMG - IMG Software set, read only
IMG - GEM IMG, read only
IMG - Vivid Raytracer, read only
JMX - Images from the Tetris game, read only
JIF,JFF,JPG - JPEG and JFIF, images in gray scales and YCbCr color
      model only, including progressive mode
LBM - InterLeaved BitMap ( =IFF )
MAC - MacPaint, read only
MIL - CALS Raster Type I, read only
MSP - Microsoft Paint, read only
OFX - OLIFAX fax package, read only
PAN - Panoramatic images for SmoothView Pan Viewe, preview only read only
PAT - CorelDraw! 6.0 - 9.0 patterns, preview only read only
PBM - Portable BitMap, raw/binary format only
PC2 - Degas Elite medium resolution, read only
PCD - Kodak PhotoCD, Base/16, Base/4 and Base read only
PCT - Macintosh PICT, including HiColor, read only
PCX - ZSoft PC PaintBrush
PGM - Portable GrayMap, raw/binary format only
PIC - PC Paint/Pictor
PIC - Dr. Halo/Dr. Genius, read only some files only
PNG - Portable Network Graphics, read only
PNM - Portable aNyMap, actually one of PBM/PGM/PPM
PPM - Portable PixelMap, raw/binary format only
PSD - Adobe Photoshop 2,5 - 4.0, including CMYK, read only
PYX - An old Epson Scanner format, read only
QFX - QuickLink II Fax file format, read only
RAS - Raster Sun Microsystems, only
RGB - TrueColor SGI image
RLE - Intergraph Raster Image, bilevel only
RLE - RunLength Encoded Windows BitMap  (=BMP)
RLE - Utah RunLength Encoded
RLE - RunLength Encoded SGI files
SAM - Images in text documents from AmiPro
SCx - ColoRIX, uncompressed only
SGI - Silicon Graphics Image File Format
SEP - TIFF 6.0 Separated CMYK, read only
ST  - NeoPaint for DOS thumbnails, read only
STW - NeoPaint for Windows thumbnails, read only
TGA - TrueVision Targa
TIF - Aldus / Microsoft Tagged Interchange File Format (TIFF)
UDI
WPG - WordPerfect Graphics, read only
ZBR - Zoner Zebra for Windows 1.0 - 1.5, preview only read only

  Images can be up to 32000 pixels wide, sometimes less, depending on the
format. JPEGs are generally limited to 2000 or less pixels.
  Images can be up to 5200 lines high.


Supported video adapters

  Any video adapter supporting VESA BIOS
  Trident 89xx/9000 with 512KB RAM
  Trident 8900 with 1MB RAM
  Trident 89xx/91xx/92xx with 1MB RAM a and HiColor modes ( 16bit
    RAMDAC only )
  Trident 89xx/91xx/92xx with 1MB RAM and TrueColor and HiColor modes
  OAK 037c UNIQUE with 256KB RAM
  OAK 067/077 with 512KB RAM
  OAK 087 with 1MB RAM and TrueColor modes
  Realtek with 512KB RAM
  Tseng ET3000 with 256KB RAM
  Tseng ET3000 with 512KB RAM
  Tseng ET4000 with 1MB RAM
  UMC VGA with 256KB RAM
  UMC VGA with 512KB RAM
  UMC VGA with 1MB RAM and HiColor modes
  Hualon Microelectronics Corporation VGA HMC8630x with 512 KB RAM
  Compaq QVision with 1MB RAM
  any VGA with 256KB RAM


PictView requires

- AT 386 or better
- 300 KB RAM or more
- EGA adapter or VGA, SuperVGA, Extended-VGA

- XMS is not required, but enables work with large images


Running PictView

PictView can be run in two modes, either with its menus, or from the
command line.

 Normal (menus) usage:

    Just type: PictView

 Command line usage:

  For detailed info, issue PictView.exe /?

  Examples:
    PictView  parrot.jpg
    PictView \users\johnp\images\parrot.jpg
    PictView c:image.tif 720
    PictView   bambus.bmp     640


 Command line syntax:

      PictView.EXE File [Width]

  File - a  name and an extension (may  include a path) of the  file to be
displayed.  PictView  automatically  chooses  the  best  graphics  mode to 
display the  image. You can influence  this mode selection if  you specify
the second optional parameter. This parameter is a number saying the width
in pixels  of the graphics  mode you  want  to display the  image in. This
number  can be  for example:  320  for  320x200 mode,  640 (640x480),  800
(800x600),  1024  (1024x768),  1152   (1152x864)  1280  (1280x1024),  1600
(1600x1200) or any other number, but  this mode width must be supported by
your video adapter !!



  I would  like to thank  Douglas Bashford  for his careful reading of all
texts  in this package  and corrections of my mistakes. Release of English
version of PictView would be impossible without his effort.


Running PictView within Windows


As a default, MS Windows don't  provide more XMS memory than 2MB. This may
be insufficient  for large images. I suggest you to create a shortcut (or
a PIF file in case of Win3.1; in fact, a shortcut is  represented by a PIF
file). Specify  concrete amount of memory you think would be engough. Just
start  with 2MB and if PictView  complains, increase the value and restart 
PictView.

Note:
 Some video  drivers for MSWin 95/98 under some circumintances don't allow
 DOS programs to use any SuperVGA mode.

Note:
 MS Windows NT from their nature do not allow DOS programs to use anything
 else than standard VGA modes.



And something for lawyers

  The  Graphics  Interchange  Format(c)   is  the  Copyright  property  of
CompuServe  Inc.  GIF(sm)  is  a   Service  Mark  property  of  CompuServe
Incorporated.
  All other product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their
respective owners. They are used for identification in this package only.
  Overview of the JFIF file format and algorithms for Forward and Inverse
DCTs  are borrowed  from the   source texts  of JPEG's  Independent Group,
Releases 3 and 4.
  Overview  of  the Progressive images file structure is borrowed from the
same source texts, Release 6.


  This software is  freeware, so you may use  it as freely as you  want to
and where you want to. No fees for the author are required. All warranties
are disclaimed, including  damage to hardware and/or software  from use of
this product. In no event will I be held liable for any damages, including
lost profits,  lost savings or  other incidental or  consequential damages
arising out  of your use  or inability  to  use the program,  or any other
claim by any other party.

Any comments, notes, questions, error reports etc. are very welcome.
Please, use the English, Czech or Russian language in your mails !!


Author  : Jan Patera, Czech Republic

Internet: [email protected], [email protected]

http://www.pictview.com
http://pascal.fjfi.cvut.cz/~patera/pictview
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