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- Graphic Workshop for Windows 1.1
-
- Release notes:
-
- To install Graphic Workshop for Windows on your hard drive:
-
- 1. If you have received Graphic Workshop in an archive, such as
- a ZIP file, place the contents of the archive on a high density
- floppt disk. If you have received Graphic Workshop on a floppy
- floppy directly from Alchemy Mindworks, this has already been
- done for you.
- 2. Place the disk in a floppy drive of your computer.
- 3. Open the File menu of the Windows program manager and select Run.
- 4. In the Run dialog box, type A:SETUP or B:SETUP, as is appropriate.
- 5. Follow the installer instructions... the Setup application will
- prompt you as required.
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- If you encounter difficulty installing Graphic Workshop, see the instructions
- at the end of this file.
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- Graphic Workshop for Windows requires Windows 3.1 or better. A minimum of four
- megabytes of memory is recommended. Note that if you have four megabytes in your
- system, but a large part of it is tied up in a RAM disk, a disk cache, as EMS or
- in some other form which Windows cannot address it, Graphic Workshop may be unable
- to run.
-
- Graphic Workshop for Windows has been rewitten for release 1.1. If you've
- used an older version of the software, you'll find this one considerably
- different.
-
- To begin with, it will come up in Thumbnail mode. You will see at least three
- image icons, one or more grey boxes with red circles in them... "no image"
- icons... and icons representing the drives and directories of your system.
- Clicking on these will work just like clicking on the names in the traditional
- list box mode.
-
- You can get to the list box mode by selecting Use Thumbnails from the
- Thumbnails menu. This is a toggle... selecting it again will return you to
- thumbnail mode. You can configure Graphic Workshop to always come up in its
- list box mode through the Setup dialog.
-
- There is much more extensive help in this release of Graphic Workshop, with
- Help buttons in most of the dialogs. If you get stuck, click on Help.
-
- Here are some of the major changes to Graphic Workshop for Windows:
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- - Windows EXE picture option
-
- - Support for LZW, Group 3 and Group 4 TIFF.
-
- - Support for JPEG compression and the Independent JPEG Group's JFIF
- file format.
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- - Support for Kodak Photo-CDs.
-
- - Additional colour reduction and dithering options.
-
- - Better memory management.
-
- - Context sensitive help.
-
- - PFS:First Publisher ART file support.
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- - Resizeable main window.
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- - Thumbnail image mode.
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- - Key word search and comment fields for each image.
-
- - Easier setup.
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- Graphic Workshop for Windows has become more powerful, but it hasn't gotten
- more expensive. You can register your copy for $40.00. If you'll be
- registering by credit card, call our toll free order line at 1-800-263-1128.
- Complete information about registering Graphic Workshop for Windows and
- contacting Alchemy Mindworks can be found in the GWS documentation, and in
- Graphic Workshop's Help function.
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- NOTES FOR THIS RELEASE
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- New features and changes:
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- - Added file destination, renaming and underbar options.
- - Added Windows EXE pictures.
- - Added HRZ file support.
- - Added 256-colour dithering to the view mode.
- - Added LZW and Group 4 TIFF support.
- - Added display gamma adjustment.
- - Added RAS support.
- - Added virtual memory.
- - Various minor bugs fixed.
- - Added grey scale reading for Photo-CDs.
- - Added a filter to excluse selected file formats from the main window.
- - Added a Change Directory function to the file menu.
- - Updated the EXE format to support VESA cards.
- - Added a functon to associate graphics with GWS.EXE.
- - Added an option to write OS/2 BMP files.
- - Added Huffman and Group 3 1D TIFF reading.
- - Added Kodak Photo-CD support.
- - Added an option to prompt for a destination directory.
- - Updated the BWCC.DLL library to fix a cosmetic problem for users with some true
- colour displays.
- - Added controls to allow the printer brightness and contrast to be adjusted.
- - Tidied up the Print controls.
- - Added larger print options and autosize printing.
- - Added grey scale and gamma adjustments for the TIFF files and grey scale adjustment
- for dithering.
-
- See the end of GWS.WRI for the complete revision history and list of bug fixes.
-
- There is a minor problem with the Kodak Photo-CD support, which appears to be due to
- a bug in the Kodak libraries. Viewing Photo-CD files may orphan a small block of memory.
- This memory will be freed when Graphic Workshop terminates. It's not large enough to
- cause any meaningful problems, but it does make the free memory display in the About
- box change slightly as you work.
-
- If you have any problems with the Photo-CD section... or just some comments... we'd
- like to hear from you.
-
- Graphic Workshop for Windows may encounter difficulty printing to some versions of the
- Hewlett-Packard DeskJet 550C driver. This is a known bug, and we're working on it.
-
- Note that the locations of the registration name and number fields have changed... they're
- in a box of their own now. Click on Register in the Setup box.
-
- Some users have reported problems with installing Graphic Workshop on systems with
- relatively little memory. The SETUP program may be unable to uncompress some of
- the files on the distribution disk. If this happens to you, get to the DOS prompt
- and do the following.
-
- CD \
- MD \GWSWIN
- A:UNPACK A:
- or
- B:UNPACK B:
-
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