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- Prism Paint File Viewer
- Copyright © 1990
- Robert M. Birmingham
-
- Produced exclusively for:
- Lexicor Software, Inc.
- 58 Redwood Road
- Fairfax, CA 94930
- (415) 453-0271
-
-
- The Prism Paint File Viewer is a public domain program that displays
- both the compressed and uncompressed ".PNT" picture files saved by
- Lexicor Software's Prism Paint ST/TT drawing program.
-
- To use the viewer, double click on the file PNTVIEW.PRG. After the
- program has loaded, you will see the viewer's main dialog box. The
- following options are available.
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- The View Option:
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- When the "View" button is clicked, a file selector will be displayed
- so that you can choose the file, or files, you wish to view. To look
- at a single PNT file, locate its name in the file selector list or type
- its name into the selector's text input line. Then click the OK button
- or press the return key.
-
- If you want to look at several files in a 'slide-show' like fashion,
- enter a filename in the file selector that contains the '*' or '?'
- wildcards. For example; typing "*.PNT" would display all the PNT
- files in the directory indicated by the pathname of the file selector.
- A complete explanation of wildcards is beyond the intent of this
- document, but you should be able to find all the information you
- need in the user's manual that came with your computer.
-
- After a picture has been displayed, the viewer will wait either until
- you press a key, or for a prespecified time delay to occur (About 5
- seconds). This is controlled by the "Wait for Keypress" and "Wait for
- Timeout" options in the main dialog.
-
- If you entered a file specification that contained wildcards, and
- selected the "Wait for Keypress" option, the viewer will stop after
- each picture is displayed. It will not display the next picture until
- you press a key. If you want to return to the main dialog before all
- the PNT files have been displayed, press the UNDO key.
-
- If you entered a file specification that contained wildcards, and
- selected the "Wait for Timeout" option, the viewer will wait a short
- amount of time before showing the next picture. If you want to stop
- the viewer from advancing, and look at the current picture, press the
- SPACE BAR. The program will now wait for you to press another key
- before it continues. To return to the main dialog immediately, press
- the UNDO key.
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- The Info Option:
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-
- Because Prism Paint uses the PNT file extension for its pictures,
- regardless of the resolution, it is possible to attempt to view a PNT
- file that was created in a different resolution from the one you are
- currently in. When this happens, the VIEW option will simply ignore
- the picture. If you would like to know more about a PNT picture that
- was ignored by the viewer, or about any PNT picture in general, click
- on the INFO option in the main dialog. Next, select the name of the
- PNT file you want to know more about from the file selector and click
- on OK. The program will then display information about the PNT file
- in a dialog box. This information includes; the name of the file, the
- number of bytes the file takes up on disk, the width and height of
- the picture, and whether or not the PNT file is compressed. To return
- to the main dialog from the INFO dialog, click on the OK button.
-
- The QUIT Option:
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-
- To quit the program and return to the desktop, select the Quit button
- in the main dialog box.
-
-
- That's all you need to know in order to get The Prism Paint Viewer up
- and running. If you would like more information about Prism Paint or
- any of Lexicor Software's other products, please write or phone:
-
- Lexicor Software, Inc.
- 58 Redwood Road
- Fairfax, CA 94930
- (415) 453-0271
-
- You may also contact us through CompuServe or GEnie at:
-
- CompuServe: 75300,763
- GEnie: LEXICOR
-
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- * The Prism Paint Viewer, Copyright © 1990, Robert M. Birmingham *
- * ================================================================ *
- * The Prism Paint Viewer is in the public domain and may be freely *
- * distributed so long as the program and documentation are kept *
- * together and are not modified in any way. *
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