Abstract: ThumbNail Refinery reduces, enlarges, and enhances images. Target users include, graphics professionals, web site developers, authors, students, and home users needing a simple way to resize images.
Product Description: ThumbNail Refinery is an author's imaging tool for creating thumbnails, doing minor image enhancement, format conversion and watermarking. Additionally, ThumbNail Refinery can be used for batch processing using command line scripting system, and can generate simple HTML tables linking resized images to their original source images. Individual or groups of images can be imported, enhanced, resized, and saved in a single step. Bmp, cmp, fpx, ico, jpg, pbm, pct, pcx, pgm, png, ppm, ras, sgi, tif, tga, and xpm file formats can be read and written. Source images can come from file or windows clipboard. Modified images can be output to file or windows clipboard. Standard image enhancement tools include brightness, contrast, gamma, sharpness, tint, brilliance, color depth, rotation, and image reversal. High quality re-sampled image resizing can be fully controlled using output width, height or box fit, for dimensioning priority. Watermarking features include support for two part watermarks, translucent watermarks, and text annotation for copyright branding. Advanced features include reading and writing embedded comments in TIF EXIF files, and thumbnail embedding for JPG and CMP files.
System Requirements: Win 95-98, ME, 2000, NT, VGA with True color preferred, 6mb hardrive space, 32mb ram
Installation instructions: Unzip the file you've downloaded to a empty folder, run setup.exe and follow online instructions.
ThumbNail Refinery is the property of Simflex Software and all rights are reserved. ThumbNail Refinery may not be used, copied, or distributed except as indicated herein.
1. ThumbNail Refinery is an end user application. As such, it is licensed to a person, firm or business for internal use and not with a view toward redistribution as part of another application.
2. ThumbNail Refinery is distributed as shareware and uses a password protection system. When a single user license is secured a password is issued. The document on which the password is issued must be retained as proof of license and may be used for transfer of the license.
3. Upon application of the password ThumbNail Refinery becomes fully functional. The licensee may use a fully functional copy of ThumbNail Refinery on any number of computer systems as long as only one copy is in use at any particular time. In the case of a network installation, a license must be secured and in possession of the network administration function for each concurrent user.
4. ThumbNail Refinery use and restrictions also include the following:
╖ You may not alter the program itself or its installation program in any way.
╖ You may not distribute ThumbNail Refinery as a utility to accompany an application you develop.
╖ You may not transfer the license document and its contents, including the password, except as indicated in License Paragraph 2 above.
╖ You may freely distribute trial versions of ThumbNail Refinery.
Simflex Software
11 Sterling Ranch Road North
Haughton, LA,
71037-8536
USA
You may contact Simflex Software by E-Mail: support@slideshow-refinery.com
Program change history:
ThumbNail Refinery
version 1.0.0.0 baseline
version 1.0.0.1 Initial release
version 1.1.0.1 corrected pathing problem associated with output path
version 1.2.0.1 First general release
version 1.2.0.2 Default options stored in registry
version 1.2.0.3 Path problems introduced in version 1.2.0.2 associated with output path vs read path corrected.
version 1.2.0.5 Corrected additonal pathing problems associated with reading images from drive root directory. Added more entries to error logging.
version 1.2.0.6 Made support file validate more robust.
version 1.5.0.2 Improved resizing code
version 2.0.0.1 Improved support file checking, watermark support
version 2.0.3.1 Added output file tab and scripting support.. only available in commercial product
version 2.0.3.6 Fixed some problems in how resize buttons are handled
version 2.0.3.7 Stripped input file path from save file dialog filename
version 2.0.3.11 last Freeware release
version 3.0.1.0 First Shareware release using Lead Technologies LeadImaging components adds more format support, color processing, HTML support, and special effects.
version 3.1.1.2 Adds Simflex List Manager/Image browser, multi-image TIF support, image touch up tool, multi-image (1,2,4,9,36) per page printing, network folder access, and corrections to EXIF comments processing.
version 3.1.2.1 Adds "Tree list" user interface to list builder. The tree folder is similiar to the list that appears in standard file save and open dialogs. Additionally, an option has been added to allow the user to choose to set the ThumbNail Refinery input folder to the folder browsed in the list builder. This is handy because it allows you to use the thumbnail browser to find images and save folder path for processing. Watermark image processing was re-worked. When ThumbNail Refinery was converted to use Lead Raster Imaging engine siginficant problems emerged. Basically, three part merging of images isn't directly supported. At the time, region processing was the method chosen to implement the merging. The implementation wasn't good. While it worked well for masks with "clean" edges, masks with fuzzy edges caused the output to be jagged rather than soft. Version 3.1.2 corrects most of the problems that were associated with the region based approach. Complex watermarks using soft edged masks result in a "soft" edged rendering in the output image. The version 3.1.2.3's watermark implementation is much superior to the original 3.0.x.x and 3.1.1.x releases but cannot exactly duplicate the output results of ver 2.0.3.11 Image Knife engine... but its close.
version 3.1.3.2 Fully implements drag/drop in the List Manager. The feature associated with the file browser was omitted in previous releases.
Version 3.1.3.12 implements additional water mark date options and input directory mirroring... Corrected several bugs in thumbscript processing.
Version 3.5.1.1 Due to a name conflict with another application we have changed the name to ThumbNail Refinery.
