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- New to version 1.22 of JoeView & fixes.
- -Dramatic speedup of FS Dithering.
- -Uses Notebook interface for options.
- -Dialogs have been added for proper display at 640 and 800
- resolutions.
- -Added script file processing. Batch conversions, etc.
- -Fixed potential memory leak in TIFF reads.
- -Fixed memory leak in PCX writes.
- -Bug fix for reading monochrome PCX files.
- -Speed up for reading & writing PCX files.
- -PCX reads less memory intensive.
- -Will read 24 bit pcx files.
- -Speed up for reading & writing Targa files.
- -Speed up for saving GIF files.
- -Will read truncated Targa files if they have a certain minimum of info.
- -Speed up for reading & writing PBM files.
- -Bug fix for reading raw style PBM files.
- -Small bug fix for writing BMP files.
- -Big bug fix for reading BMP files.
- -Will read multi-screen resolution style OS2 Bitmaps.
- -Added RLE BMP file write.
- -Option to have JoeView check swapper.dat drive before allocating big
- chunks of memory. May prevent your computer from running out of swap space.
- See help section under options for its use.
- -JoeView border will change to red or blue (depends on whether JoeView is the
- active application) while a file is being saved. Changes back to default color
- when save is completed.
- -Shutdown bug fix. JoeView would sometimes stay in memory or not shut down
- if shutdown was attempted while reading or writing files. Should be fixed.
- -JoeView now prompts you about finishing a file save if you try and exit before
- save has been completed.
- -Uses a little less memory than previous versions.
- -Ability to run other programs to hack on images (see piping in help).
- -Changed mouse buttons, single click on right button to bring up menu. Left
- button for cropping rectangle and double click left button to advance slide show.
- -Can now drag and drop multiple files onto joeview when running and this will
- startup a slideshow using those files.
- -Ability to create an icon version of your image and have it associated with the
- file. Of primary use to 1024x768 users.
- -File listing by date would show the wrong date for certain months, fixed.
- -Directory listings now have a little arrow by current directory.
- -Improved use of tabs and arrow keys for dialogs, interface more consistent.
- -Can have JoeView use only system colors when loading image.
- -Can now dither (quantize) to gray for very quick loads/displays.
- -Can better specify what type of dithering to use.
- -Can place help file in same path as exe file without having directory in your help path.
- -Bug fix regarding loading files off of root directory.
- -Buf fix, Colors Control panel will work OK when using dynamic changes.l
- -New pointer - crosshairs - instead of arrow.
- -Cropping rectangle can go both ways.
- -Multiple zoom in, one zoom out.
- -File save type must be entered each time.
- -Can now copy section of image into clipboard, instead of whole image.
- -SlideShow files now save options.
- New to version 1.21 of JoeView & fixes.
- -Startup screen on first use.
- -Handles PCX files.
- -Handles TIFF files.
- New to version 1.2 of JoeView & fixes.
- -Double Clicking the left mouse button brings up the main menu.
- -Double Clicking the right mouse button advances in SlideShow
- -Can do low priority file reads & slideshows
- -The cropping & zooming rectangle more closely matches the
- pointer (fix).
- -Options menu is now available after using SlideShow (fix)
- -Will now correctly identify Windows bitmaps, read & save bitmaps
- in proper format (fix).
- -Ability to print your image to any defined printer. Also you
- can print out your image as an EPS Postrscript file.
- -JoeView remembers screen positions.
- -Copy and Paste to the clipboard, will keep colors correct.
- -Can paste from clipboard into an existing image
- -Convert image colors into the default system palette using Floyd
- Steinberg dithering or a shortest Distance Method.
- -Command line option to create OS2 2.0 bitmap (see help section
- on command line options).
- -Can save and load SlideShow programs. These can be dragged and
- dropped onto JoeView (both open and closed), opened from the Slide Show Dialog or
- started from the File Open Dialog.
- -Can open a file by dragging and dropping
- -Can specify an optimize option on JPEG saves to create smaller
- files.
- -Sometimes a garbage line appeared at the top if an image,
- this has been fixed.
- -Can type a drive and path in the File Open Dialog, File Mask entry
- field to quickly change disks and directory. For example c:\test\images\*.bmp
- will change to the c:\test\images directory and use *.bmp as the file mask.
- -Will automatically create .ini file.
- -Can toggle the main Title Bar on and off.
- -More extensive HotKeys (See help section)
- -Will go to a near correct palette state when not in forground, will
- go to correct palette state when going from nonactive to active.
- -Can edit an images HSV or RGB colors.
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- There are two possible command line options. You can specify
- a file name for JoeView to load upon startup.
- For example: joeview c:\gifs\hooters.gif
- The other command line option is to create a Floyd Stein
- JoeView normally reads. The output file will always be an OS2
- 2.0 format bitmap. The command is JoeView -b file_in file)out. The "-b" option
- causes JoeView to perform the
- dithering at full CPU utilization. As the process is very CPU
- intensive, the "-bs" option is included. This option is meant to
- mean -b slow. Basically it puts JoeView in a low priority
- mode that causes the operation to take considerably longer than
- if you use "-b" but you'll find that your machine is much more
- usefull while the process is running.
- JoeView will not be visible when this option is invoked.
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