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- PowerView by Innovatix sets new standards for PC based image viewing
- software. This file lists most of the major features, and when applicable
- compares them to those found in other viewers such as QPEG, VPIC, CSHOW,
- and GDS.
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- * Over 160 Video Cards painlessly supported. Innovatix has licensed
- SciTech Software's UniVBE VESA driver and directly incorporated it
- into PowerView. First time setup is quick and simple. PowerView
- loads the driver automatically, removing the need for the user to
- manually load it. The user needs no knowledge of what video card
- they have; the configuration program painlessly determines it for
- them.
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- Compare this to GDS, VPIC, and QPEG which support far fewer cards
- and require the manual setup of cumbersome driver files and
- rtechnical knowledge of the users video setup.
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- * Fastest Image Viewing of Any Program, More Supported Formats and
- variations than CSHOW, VPIC, QPEG or GDS. PowerView recognizes
- and handles Macintosh headers that choke other viewers.
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- PowerView displays the following file formats faster than *any* PC
- program we know of:
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- .JPG - baseline DCT and extended sequentialDCT based modes,
- with or without a JFIF marker
- with the following sampling factors/colorspaces:
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- YH2V2, CbH1V1, CrH1V1 (the most popular)
- YH1V2, CbH1V1, CrH1V1
- YH2V1, CbH1V1, CrH1V1
- YH1V1, CbH1V1, CrH1V1
- YH1V1, (256 color grayscale)
- CMYK, 1:1:1:1 (or 1x1, 1x1, 1x1, 1x1)
- CMYK, 4:1:1:4 (or 2x2, 1x1, 1x1, 2x2)
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- ** PowerView displays .JPG files 40%-60% faster than QPEG (the former
- speed champ) _with_ better image quality than QPEG
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- PowerView also has a "Highest Quality" DCT for maximul Jpeg Quality
- that is almost as fast as QPEG with its poor quality DCT.
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- .GIF - All Types GIF87a and limited GIF89a support
- Views GIF images with a Macintosh fork header
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- ** Compare PowerView's .GIF speed to GDS, VPIC, QPEG or CSHOW.
- PowerView is faster than any other DOS based .GIF viewer period.
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- .TIF - 2 color grayscale/palettised, 16 color grayscale/palettised,
- 256 color grayscale/palettised, 24 bit true color,
- and 32 bit CMYK
- Compression: None, Macintosh PackBits, and LZW
- Horizontal differentation, or "predictors", are supported
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- .PCX - 2, 8, 16, 256, and 16M color
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- .BMP/ - 2, 16, 256, and 16Mcolor, compressed or uncompressed
- .RLE Windows and OS/2 1.x versions
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- .LBM/ - 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, and 256 color,
- .IFF/ compressed or uncompressed, enhanced or unenhanced,
- .BBM 6 bit extra-halfbright mode, greyscale images
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- .MAC - All Types (with or without a Macintosh fork header)
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- .TGA - 256 color, 15 bit, 16 bit, 24 bit, and 32 bit,
- compressed or uncompressed
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- .RAW - Uncompressed video memory image, 256 color, 15/16/24 bits
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- * PowerView's User interface is superior to QPEG,GDS, CSHOW, VPIC and
- all the rest. Clear, Simple and Powerful. A mouse is helpful, but
- not required. Logical pull down menus and dialogs. A Full screen
- file list that's fully customizable. Helpful status messages keep
- the user informed. History lists and programmable keys let you
- aaccess your preferred functions and directories.
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- While processing, the user is _Never_ left wondering what is going on.
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- * Simply put, PowerView is the most robust, crash-proof viewer ther is.
- Bad and corrupted images are gracefully handled by PowerView.
- These same images cause QPEG, GDS, VPIC and others to crash and
- lock up the system.
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- QPEG, GDS and others are *easily* crashed by bad images.
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- * PowerView Sets the new standard for image color reduction and
- dithering, both in quality and speed. PowerView resizes,
- color reduces, dithers and anti-alises images faster and with
- higher quality output than any other viewer.
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- - Just try taking a true color image and reducing it to 16 colors!
- You'll become a believer.
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- - Just look at Walnut Creek's Travel Adventure CD-ROM. Compare the
- reduced .GIFs on the CD-ROM with those you can make with PowerView.
- PowerView does a better job the imaging software used to create
- the CD-ROM.
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- * PowerView has Super Features while Viewing an Image.
- These are some of the features available when viewing an image.
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- - Software & hardware scrolling/panning of large images
- - Image Processing:
- Red, Green, and Blue balancing
- Gamma Adjust & Two kinds of Brightness Adjust
- Color Saturation and Hue Adjust
- Color Component Swap, Invert, and Color/B&W toggles.
- Contrast adjust
- - Palette Animation for Fractals
- - Pop-up info on Current image
- - 8 bit DAC support for higher percision
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- * ZOOM MODE! With EMS memory, PowerView can zoom *any* image and
- smoothly pan the image at 30fps on a 386/25.
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- - Four Zoom Factors from 320x200 to 80x50 can be dynamically selected
- - All image processing functions are fully available in Zoom Mode
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- * IMAGE SAVING! PowerView can save out any image, modified or unmodified,
- in the following formats:
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- .GIF (2-256 colors)
- .PCX (2-256 colors, 16M colors)
- .BMP (2-256 colors, 16M colors)
- .TIF (2-256 colors, 16M colors)
- .TGA (2-256 colors, 64K colors, 16M colors)
- .JPG (16M colors) (Registered version)
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- Options let you automatically assign filenames or specify them
- on the fly and eliminate unused palette entries.
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- * Full .JPG Saving Control!
- PowerView lets you adjust the following .JPG saving factors:
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- - Image Quality
- - Image Smoothing
- - Adaptive Quantization
- - 4 Sampling Factors
- - Optimal Huffman Codesets
- - Chromanance Discrimination
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- * Printing. Support for PCL and Postscript laser printers.
- (Registered Version Only)
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- * PowerView's Image Cache brings up *instant* information about the
- image files you are browsing. Instead of having to rescan each
- file to find out its resolution and size, PowerView keeps that
- information in it's image cache for instant acces.
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- PowerView can also CREATE local image caches, storing all of
- the image information for quick Access.
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- When it comes to viewing CD-ROMs, this feature *radically*
- improves the overall performance of the viewer.
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- * PowerView has Short and Long description support. Many CD-ROMs
- keep description information in a separate text file. PowerView
- recognizes this, and makes the description availble to you while
- you browse the images.
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- PowerView uses the 00_Index.TXT file, which is found on numerious
- CD-ROMs.
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- Try viewing Travel Adventure, or the very Popular GIF's Galore
- CD-ROM and turn on description information. New CD-ROMs will
- be taking full advantage of this feature.
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- * PowerView's Recursive File Search lets you scan your hard disk or
- Network for image files that you may not even know are out there.
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- * PowerView's Gamma Correction allow you to view Images made on a
- Macintosh correctly on your PC. Walnut Creek's Travel Adventure
- CD-ROM is a great example. With QPEG, CSHOW, GDS, VPIC and all
- the rest, the images look to dark, and there is nothing you can
- do about it. With PowerView, just turn on the Gamma Correction
- and you'll see what they were suppose to look like.
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- * Windows and OS/2 Support! PowerView recognizes when Windows or
- OS/2 is running and adjusts itself accordingly. For maxiumum
- flexability, the user can further instruct PowerView to operate
- in a maximum compatability mode or to take better advantage of
- the hardware while under Windows or OS/2.
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