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- ICONIZE 1.00
- JUNE 6, 1987
-
- By Stephen Vermeulen
- 3635 Utah Dr. N.W.,
- Calgary, Alberta,
- CANADA, T2N 4A6
-
- Copyright (C) 1987 By Stephen Vermeulen
- This version may be freely redistributed
- so long as not charge is made for such
- distribution.
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- 0.0 Introduction
-
- Iconize is a program that takes a full size Amiga picture and reduces
- it in an antialiased fashion by a factor you specify. The program was
- written primarily to supply a simple CLI tool which can be used to make
- custom icons for paintings. To make a custom icon for a painting you
- follow these steps:
-
- 1. Iconize the painting to produce a miniture replica.
- 2. Recolor the painting to reduce the number of colours to the
- four allowed on the workbench.
- 3. Use the brush to icon program to convert the Iconized and Recolored
- painting to an icon.
-
- For some paintings it might be better to Recolor the full size painting
- first and then Iconize it down to the desired size. The real loss in
- image quality comes when the Recoloring is done since the WorkBench
- colours are so screwy.
-
- Of course the files that Iocnize works with are all IFF ILBM type files
- so it is fully compatible with the rest of your Amiga software.
-
- 1.0 Running Iconize
-
- Iconize can only be run from the CLI (this will probably be fixed soon).
- There are two ways of invoking it. First just typing:
-
- Iconize
-
- will result in the copyright notice, short instructions, and the version
- number being printed. By typing a command of the following format:
-
- Iconize input.pic output.pic factor_x factor_y
-
- Iconize will process the input file "input.pic", rescaling it by the
- supplied factors. When it is done it will write the output to the file
- "output.pic". The values of factor_x and factor_y must be a positive,
- non-zero, integers. That is you can use 1, 2, 3, 4... To display various
- sizes of paintings on the WorkBench screen as icons consult the following
- table for suggestions on "good" values for the factors:
-
- Painting Size Factor_x Factor_y
- ------------- -------- --------
- 320 x 200 3 6
- 640 x 200 6 6
- 320 x 400 3 12
- 640 x 400 6 12
-
- Note that the values of the factors are not usually equal for the best
- results, this is because the WorkBench has highly non-square pixels!
-
- 2.0 Memory Usage
-
- Iconize needs to allocate 2 complete picture buffers, so if you have a 512K
- machine you might find it difficult to Iconize HiRes 16 colour pictures.
- The first buffer is the same size as the picture, but the second buffer is
- only as large as the finnished product. Iconize works REAL NICE on a 2.5Meg
- Amiga!
-
- 3.0 Support
-
- Any comments, suggestions, or bug reports you might care to make will be
- gratefully received. If you are interested in seeing this program improve
- much send a contribution ($10-$20 to me at the address above). My current
- policy on improving the program is to release a new version for every 5
- contributions I receive, or when I need a new feature!
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