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- For Your Eyes Only 2.00 Manual :
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- Contents:
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- - Gettings started
- - Multitasking
- - The settings
- - The output settings
- - The input settings
- - The misc settings
- - Understanding the pixel aspect
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- Getting started :
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- - Load the application by double clicking on the !FYEO2 icon.
- - Click the mouse to cancel the welcome box.
- - Find a jpeg, targa, gif or ppm file and either :
- - double click on it if it is correctly filetyped.
- - drag it on the FYEO2 icon on the iconbar or on a FYEO2 window if you
- don't know.
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- Multitasking :
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- You can at any time stop the processing of an image by cliking on the
- close icon of its window. You can't close an already loaded image window
- when your are processing an image.
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- The settings :
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- Settings boxes can be obtained with the fyeo2 iconbar choices menu item.
- In each boxes you can :
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- - Validate settings for the next processed file by clicking OK.
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- - Validate settings for the next processed file and saving them as default
- by clicking SAVE.
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- - Cancel the change you've just made by clicking CANCEL.
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- - Getting the default settings by clicking DEFAULT ( you have to click
- OK to validate them).
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- The output settings :
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- Output settings box offers you to select the aspect of the output sprite.
- You can choose :
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- - Its byte per pixel rate.
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- - Its pixel aspect : horizontal and vertical dot per inch.
- In term of screen mode 8bpp 90x90dpi is mode 28, 8bpp 90x45 is mode 15,
- 8bpp 45x45 is mode 13.
- Selecting Use current means that the output sprite mode will be the
- same as the one the desktop is in.
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- - Its colorspace : Color or grayscale .
- Selecting grayscale is an important speed up when viewing JPEG files.
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- - The dithering type : dithering is an error diffusion processing which
- enhance image quality when viewing in 8bpp modes. FYEO offers 3 alternatives :
- - No dithering : quoted 'None' in the settings box.
- - Simple dithering : quoted 'Simple'. It's a simple and fast but coarse dithering
- aimed at image previewing. ( Offers a 30% speed increase when viewing JPEGs ).
- - Floyd-Steinberg dithering : quoted 'Floyd-Steinberg'. It's a much more accurate but
- slower dithering. This is the default dithering in FYEO.
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- - It's scaling : the way the image will be reduced or magnified.
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- - 1:1 means that the image will not be scaled.
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- - 1:4 means that the image will be scaled to 1:4 1:4.
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- - 1:8 means that the image will be scaled to 1:8 1:8.
- Selecting 1:8 enters the fast preview mode when viewing JPEG files.
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- - To fit means that if the image is too big to fit the specified size,
- it will be automatically scaled in order to fit the whole image
- in the specified size with the pixel aspect ratio preserved.
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- - To fill means that the image will be scaled automaticaly to fill
- the specified size, the pixel aspect is not preserved.
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- - Custom allows you to customize the scaling with the specified values.
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- Be warned that scaling costs a lot of memory when using 'complex'
- fractions such as 640:639 480:479. Despite the fact that fraction
- reduction is used you will get 'Not enough memory for scaling buffer'
- often if you do it. This apply also with implicit scaling generated
- by the to fill option. The to fit option use a fraction approximation
- to avoid that ( the picture fit not exactly ).
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- The input settings :
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- Input settings box offers you to select the aspect of the input image.
- You can specify the image pixel aspect in dot per inch.
- It's usefull for image with rectangular pixels : use either
- 90x45 or 45x90 dpi. 90x90 dpi is assumed for majority of files.
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- The misc settings :
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- Misc settings box offers you to change miscellanous settings .
- You can choose if FYEO will or not auto filetype the files when dragged
- to it.
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- Understanding the pixel aspect :
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- Pixel aspect settings work as follow :
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- - The output dpi selects the way the wimp will scale the sprite :
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- - a 90x90 dpi sprite means that the wimp will not scale the sprite
- in mode such as 28,21,31 ( 90x90 modes ) but will reduce
- it by a factor of 1:1 1:2 in mode such as 15,12 ( 90x45 dpi modes )
- and 1:2 1:2 in mode such as 13 ( 45x45 modes ).
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- - a 90x45 dpi sprite means that the wimp will not scale the sprite
- in mode such as 15,12 ...
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- - a 45x45 dpi sprite means that the wimp will not scale the sprite
- in mode such as 13 ...
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- - The input dpi selects the way FYEO will scale the original image to
- match the original image pixel aspect :
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- - If the input dpi and the output dpi are equal, you will get
- all the original image pixels in the sprite.
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- - If the input dpi is 90x45 and the output dpi is 90x90 you will have
- twice as much pixels vertically in the sprite.
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- - If the input dpi is 45x90 and the output dpi is 90x90 you will have
- twice as much pixels horizontally in the sprite.
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- - If the input dpi is 45x45 and the output dpi is 90x90 you will have
- twice as much pixels horizontally and vertically in the sprite.
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- - If the input dpi is 90x90 and the output dpi is 45x45 you will have
- twice as less pixels horizontally and vertically in the sprite.
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- and so on ..
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