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- Cloanto Personal Paint
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- This disk contains a complimentary version of Personal Paint, version
- 2.1, for the readers of Amiga Plus. The software is identical to the
- commercial version. The remaining files (pictures, color fonts, data,
- Amiga system resources, etc.) have in part been changed to fit on a
- single disk. A description of new features of Personal Paint version 4.0
- is enclosed, while a special discount upgrade offer to the full 4.0
- package appears on the same issue of Amiga Plus. This text can be printed
- with a word processor, or by typing the following command in a Shell
- window:
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- Copy PPaint:PPaint.man PRT:
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- Personal Paint may be launched with a double-click on its Workbench icon,
- on any Amiga with 1 Mbyte of RAM (ideally, Chip RAM). In order to fully
- exploit the disk capacity, Personal Paint itself has been compressed. On
- not so fast systems, decompression may slow down the initial loading of
- the program. To create a decompressed executable file, type the following
- command in a Shell window:
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- PPaint:Utilities/Deplode PPaint:PPaint Destination:PPaint
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- The "Pictures" drawer contains several 256-color images, plus examples of
- color reduction, color merge and image processing entirely created with
- Personal Paint. The program automatically reduces the number of colors of
- an image if the computer on which it is loaded does not have an AGA
- (Advanced Graphics Architecture) chip set. In case of color reduction,
- the "Settings/Color Remapping/Floyd-Steinberg" option usually gives the
- best results. This version of the program does not support display cards
- like the Picasso and Retina boards. Version 4.0 does.
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- It is very easy to explore Personal Paint by choosing from the variety of
- menus and gadgets. It is recommended to make a backup copy of the program
- disk before experimenting with functions which write data.
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- The gadgets on the tool bar which is displayed on the left of the screen
- may respond differently depending on the pointer's position over the
- gadget (upper or lower half), the mouse button which is used (left or
- right), and the number of mouse clicks (cycle gadgets). For example, the
- tool to the right of the "a" text editing symbol activates the image
- processing functions. If it is selected with the right mouse button, a
- requester appears to select different image processing options. The area
- on which image processing is to be applied can be delimited by dragging
- the mouse (i.e. moving it while the left button is held down).
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- The "Settings/Language" options in this version of Personal Paint can be
- used to set the user interface language to either English, German or
- Italian.
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- Personal Paint and the Personal Fonts Maker Color Extensions normally
- share the same Personal.font for their user interface. The font itself
- has been upgraded a few times. If you have both programs installed, and
- experience difficulties because version 2.1 of Personal Paint requires a
- different version of the font, just remove the font from your FONTS:
- directory. All versions of Personal Paint and PFM2 also search for the
- font in their local directories, where the font is normally copied during
- automatic installation. Are you still using Topaz 8 for your Workbench
- icon texts? Try Personal 8.
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- For more information on upgrades and other Cloanto products, please
- contact the local distributors named at the end of this file. From time
- to time, information is mailed directly to users of our packages. To take
- advantage of this, don't forget to mail the registration card which comes
- with each original product.
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- New features of Personal Paint v. 4.0
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- Support of Retargetable Graphics (Picasso and Retina display cards,
- etc.), Autoscroll and many more functions to manage screens and display
- modes.
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- Professional 24-bit printing (Color and Black & White) with undercolor
- removal, gamma correction, etc. You won't recognize your printer!
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- High quality conversion of IFF24, PCX24, HAM & HAM8 to 256 colors. The
- result is hard to distinguish from that of an expensive 24-bit display.
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- Loading of files through Amiga DataTypes (JPEG, BMP etc.)
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- A collection of third-party utilities, including color fonts, new
- HP DeskJet printer drivers (up to four inks) and JPEG DataType, which can
- be automatically installed to your hard disk.
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- Keyboard shortcuts to all user interface gadgets.
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- Most requesters and color processing functions have been rewritten or
- otherwise improved. Hundreds of exciting new features requested by users
- have been added. The package comes with a full manual of more than 180
- pages (available in English, German, Italian and French), packed with
- precious advice, examples and a tutorial chapter.
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- Cloanto Product Presentation: Personal Write
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- Personal Write is an extremely fast word processor packed with original
- capabilities. It fully exploits unique Amiga characteristics like windows
- and multitasking. Personal Write does not limit the number of text
- windows which can be displayed at the same time. A built-in spooler can
- print even the longest texts in the background, while the program is used
- to do other work. Personal Write can encrypt confidential documents,
- which become unreadable to unauthorized users, and save disk space by
- compressing texts. Personal Write is also a powerful tool for converting
- texts into different formats. It can load and save texts combining more
- than 25 character sets of the most widely used computers. Control codes
- can be added or removed, as required by desktop publishing programs,
- Amiga system functions or other hardware and software environments.
- Thousands of combinations of printer settings can be selected to make the
- best use of features like the PostScript driver, the multistrike print
- mode, support for automatic justification with proportional characters
- and Personal Fonts Maker fonts. Alphanumerical labels can be used in the
- text for mail merge or to reorganize data. Pictures can be loaded and
- printed. Keyboard shortcuts and the texts which are displayed can be
- redefined to personalize the user interface (which includes stereo sound
- effects). An automatic hard disk installation procedure can be selected
- with the mouse.
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- 512 Kbytes of RAM, 1 disk drive required; 1 Mbyte of RAM recommended
-
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- Cloanto Product Presentation: Personal Fonts Maker
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- The Personal Fonts Maker is a powerful tool for designing and processing
- fonts. Amiga fonts and fonts created with the Personal Fonts Maker can be
- transferred to the printer memory and printed at maximum quality and
- speed. The Personal Fonts Maker can output fonts in formats which can be
- read by other Amiga programs, by other computers and by a vast range of
- differing printers (even 48-pin and laser printers). The program can
- handle IFF graphics. It is possible, for example, to work on
- typographical fonts input from a scanning device. Repetitive
- transformations on characters or entire fonts can be recorded, stored and
- executed as macros. A special programming language can be used to define
- the format in which fonts are to be saved or sent to a printer. The
- Personal Fonts Maker package includes a multitude of original fonts and
- support tools like the Printer Driver Modifier, which allows the user to
- personalize printer drivers. It is easy - and fun - to work with the
- Personal Fonts Maker, thanks to the elegant and intuitive user interface
- (with stereo sound effects). The manual is full of examples and
- introductory sections for novice users, and comes complete with technical
- information for Amiga experts.
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- 512 Kbytes of RAM, 1 disk drive required; 1 Mbyte of RAM recommended
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- Personal Fonts Maker AGA Color Extensions
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- The Color Extensions disk adds powerful color font processing
- capabilities to the basic package. Most of Personal Paint's editing tools
- have been incorporated into the package. For the first time, it is
- possible to process fonts in up to 256 colors and no size limit. Among
- others, special functions for anti-aliasing (even using an Amiga vector
- font as a point of departure) and right-to-left fonts are provided. This
- makes it an ideal companion to video applications, and a must in the
- titling environment.
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- 1 Mbyte RAM, 1 disk drive required; 1 Mbyte of Chip RAM recommended
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- Personal Paint main program, support files and programs, screens,
- artwork, documentation and image collection, Copyright © 1992-1994
- Cloanto Italia sas. All rights reserved. Cloanto Italia sas authorizes
- reproduction and distribution of such unmodified material as it is stored
- on the original cover disk for non-profit presentation and testing
- purposes until July 31, 1994.
-
- KaraChiselSerif 55 and KaraGranite 55 Copyright © Kara Computer Graphics,
- used with permission. The More text viewer is Copyright © 1985-1989
- Commodore-Amiga Inc., used under license. Executable file decompression
- headers written by Peter Struijk and Albert J. Brouwer. USA Patent Number
- 4 558 302 used with permission. PostScript Language Copyright © Adobe
- Systems Incorporated, used with permission.
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- Some GIF images were downloaded from public domain sources; other images
- were used with permission from commercial third-party collections. The
- single pictures may contain additional information on the respective
- copyrights and authors. Compilation Copyright © 1992-1994 Cloanto Italia
- sas.
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- Amiga and the Commodore-Amiga logo are registered trademarks of
- Commodore-Amiga Inc. Cloanto and the Cloanto logo are registered
- trademarks, and Personal Paint, PPaint, Personal Fonts Maker, PFM,
- Printer Driver Modifier, PDM, Personal Write and PWrite are trademarks of
- Cloanto Italia sas. Coca-Cola and Coke are registered trademarks of The
- Coca-Cola Company. ColorFont and ColorText are trademarks of Inter/Active
- Softworks. GIF is a trademark of CompuServe Inc., an H&R Block Company.
- PCX is a trademark of ZSoft Corp. PostScript is a registered trademark of
- Adobe Systems Inc. Please refer to the user manuals for further
- information.
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- Cloanto Italia sas Tel +39 432 545902
- PO Box 118 Fax +39 432 609051
- 33100 Udine Bbs +39 432 545905
- Italy Internet 100145.15@compuserve.com
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- User and dealer inquiries should be addressed to the national
- distributors.
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- German Area:
- Casablanca Multimedia GmbH Tel +49 234 72035
- Wiemelhauser Straße 247 a Fax +49 234 72060
- D - 44799 Bochum
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- Great Britain:
- Meridian Software Distribution Ltd. Tel +44 81 5433500
- East House Fax +44 81 5432255
- East Road Industrial Estate
- GB - London SW19 1AH
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- North America:
- Haitex Resources, Inc. Tel +1 803 852-0750
- PO Box 20609 Fax +1 803 852-0650
- USA - Charleston, SC 29413-0609 Bbs +1 803 852-0650
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- Italy:
- CTO spa Tel +39 51 753133
- Via Piemonte 7/f Fax +39 51 753418
- I - 40069 Zola Predosa
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- Italy - Mail Order:
- Lago snc Tel +39 31 300174
- Via Benzi 18 Fax +39 31 300214
- I - 22100 Como
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- Sweden:
- ProComp Tel +46 472 70845
- Box 46 Fax +46 472 71680
- S - 340 36 Moheda Bbs +46 472 71270
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- French Area:
- Adept Marketing Tel +41 21 7022626
- Rte. de Renens 1 Fax +41 21 7022629
- CH - 1030 Bussigny-prés-Lausanne
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- Greece:
- Multi-RAK Tel +49 234 9489411
- Karnassiotis & Radouniklis GBR Fax +49 234 9489444
- Prinz-Regent-Straße 70
- D - 44795 Bochum
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- Pacific Rim:
- Amadeus Computers Tel +61 2 652-2712
- 34 Tecoma Drive Fax +61 2 652-1515
- Glenorie NSW 2157
- Australia
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