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- Imagine! 1.3 Whats New
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- This version simply blows all previous versions out of
- the water! It represents a radical redesign of the
- internal imaging system. The following Features are new
- in this version.
-
- * Eighteen new functions concerned with Coloring,Cropping,
- Copying, and Pasting of Image Sections and generally
- drawing on both photographic and Graphical images have
- been added.
-
- * Accurate magnification of Images Up to 16x, and Scaling
- down to 1/8 is available for both viewing and editing.
-
- * Adjust Mode allows drawn and pasted objects to be modified
- after they have been drawn. It allows stretching, inversion,
- and reflection of pasted image sections, You can reposition,
- and resize drawn lines, ellipses, and rectangles, and alter
- their colors and line widths, after they have been drawn
- and you can also adjust crop rectangles. Adjust mode also
- allows cloning of the drawn shapes making certain kinds of
- drawing very easy indeed. (Check out the Olympic rings
- example under Image Editor in the help file).
-
- * The Paintbox is a new tool for selecting colors for coloring.
- It contains 24 color tables (palettes) containing a balanced
- mixture of both mixed and shades of color. One table is the
- 216 color Netscape Web palette another table reproduces
- 512 shades of orange. Two special tables are the Windows 20
- color palette, for drawing icons and other windows graphics,
- and the Image palette. The image palette is for drawing on
- graphics using colors present in the image. For 24 bit
- graphics which have no palette, a drawing palette can be
- synthesized. The paint box allows editing of real(ie not
- synthesized) image palettes (hold down the Ctrl-Key on the
- keyboard as you click on a colored square in the palette).
-
- * High speed Thumbnail Gallery for location and opening of
- images by content. This provides both a fast and a Hi-Fi
- option. Thumbnails made with the Gallery can be saved
- singly or in bulk as individual image files in any
- suitable format supported by Imagine!. Some file managemet
- features are available directly from the Thumbnail Gallery
- - you can copy, move and delete single image files and
- search for duplicates. You can scroll around in the gallery
- using the arrow keys. Image files open in imagine's main
- window when you click on the thumbnail or when you press
- the Enter key.
-
- * Fully double buffered display on all formats. This means
- no flicker on any images not even transparent ones.
-
- * Windows Bitmap (BMP)format now supports 4 bit as well as
- 8 bit and 24 bit for saving.
-
- * Windows BMP format provides a choice of color reduction
- method and palettes with which to save the image.
-
- * Context Sensitive Help using the F1 key takes you directly
- to the relevant page in the Help File
-
- * Built in Screen Capture and Window Capture functions.
-
- * Windows Wallpapers offer stretch in addition to tiled and
- centered and you can also turn the wallpaper off.
-
- * WAV files start and play automatically when you click on
- them in the File List Box.
-
- * Find In Subtree, a new item on the Folder List Box popup
- menu allows you to set the root folder for a file search
- using any of the folders which are visible in the Folder
- List Box of the Fileview.
-
- * The Copy/Move error dialog now gives you the option to
- cancel the copy/move operation if there is an error. This
- allows you to exit gracefully if the files you are copying
- happen to exist already in the destination folder.
-
- * The rename dialog lets you set a folder as the destination
- folder for a copy or move operation. (The rename dialog
- in Imagine! always pops up after you create a new file or
- folder so this is the most appropriate place for such
- a button.)
-
- * The filesearch facility (Find In Files) adds a small
- button (search alt drive) which acts as a bookmark
- on the current search path. You click on this to
- memorize the current search path. Yo can then search
- some other drive or path. You click on it again to
- return to your original setting.
-
- * Images in the Help File have been down sized. Originally
- as captured in 1024 x768 mode, large fonts, they looked
- great, but unfortunately in the lower display modes they
- were enormous. I have recaptured all the really large
- ones using small fonts so they are 25 percent smaller.
-
- * A number of cosmetic problems which slipped through
- unnoticed from previous versions particularly in
- Windows small fonts display mode have also been
- eliminated in this version.
-
- Whats New Summary 1.2.1
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- A bug which caused a warning dialog (but did not otherwise affect
- operation) if the resampler was used and the Fileview was not
- visible was fixed.
-
- Image file loading via the arrow keys was modified so that file load
- occurs on key release to improve scrolling in the file list box.
-
- Restoration of the fileview (when hidden) by use of the Enter Key
- from the keyboard was introduced.
-
- Th icons in Windows Explorer for file associations were made to update
- 'live' during the current session rather than after a re-boot.
-
- The "Home" button was added to the Help file.
-
- The following option has been deleted in 1.3 but was present in
- version 1.2.1. An extra checkbox in the install menu allowing
- Imagine! to start with the Fileview in the hidden state.
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- Imagine 1.2 Whats New Summary
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- This version added Printing of Images and Rotation through
- Arbitrary Angles.
-
- The fixed rotations were extended to work with images having
- less than 8 bits per pixel.
-
- Calculations for image placement in the Picture Index Maker
- were revised to give improved image placement.
-
- The Set as Wallpaper option was modified to include tiled images.
-
- The ability to set Jpeg properties on Save was introduced.
-
- The 'Edit' menu item was added to give room for future expansion.
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- Andreas Kyriacou
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- September 13, 2000
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