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- ║ New and Enhanced Tools in 5.0 ║
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- The release of SuperShow 5.0 is our
- most significant upgrade to date. In
- addition to all the new features of
- SuperShow like support for .FLI/.FLC
- files, new sound support (including
- .MID files), variables for control
- logic, etc., we have added and
- enhanced the series of tools that
- help you prepare your presentations.
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- First, all the imaging tools now can
- process True Color (24 bit, 16
- million color) images. You may copy,
- crop, resize and print these images.
- The conversion utility in Super
- ToolBox also is able to convert your
- True Color images to 256, 16 or 2
- colors.
-
- Now we will look at the tools in 3
- different areas; in the F4-Tools
- section of ShowPrep, The Super
- ToolBox, and the all new Extra Tools
- Supplementary Disk (available
- separately):
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- ║ New Tools in ShowPrep ║
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- 1. Extended Mouse Support: You may
- now use the mouse to choose from the
- menu bar while using the editor.
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- 2. FLI/FLC Preview: With the
- addition of support of this animation
- format, we've added a preview tool.
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- 3. Extended Program Hooks: One of my
- favorite additions to version 5.0!
- An extended program hook is really
- just a menu within a menu. We know
- that you bounce back and forth
- between your favorite paint programs,
- sound editors, text editors, etc. and
- Super ShowPrep. Now you can access
- these programs right from the tools
- menu in ShowPrep. And when you're
- finished, you are returned directly
- to where you were in ShowPrep.
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- We've given you four program hooks.
- You set up your list of programs
- during the configuration (press F2)
- of ShowPrep. You simply enter the
- name of the program you'd like to
- access from SuperShow and it remains
- an F4-Tool option everytime you use
- SuperShow. You may change it anytime
- by choosing configure ShowPrep.
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- 4. Context Sensitive Help: All the
- new script commands are covered in
- the Help Feature of ShowPrep. To
- pop-up help on any script command,
- highlight the command and press F1.
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- ║ New Tools in Super ToolBox ║
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- 1. Video Mode Display: This is a new
- tool that will show every video mode
- your graphics card is capable of
- showing.
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- 2. Palette Conversion: In addition
- to being able to process True Color
- images, we now have a dither option
- menu. You may choose the dithering
- method (or choose No Dither) when
- converting images.
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- 3. Full Color Printing: In version
- 5.0 we have totally revamped the
- printing capabilities of ToolBox.
- You may now print any image... 2, 16,
- 256, or 16 million colors.
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- ToolBox supports over 300 different
- printers, including color printers.
- With the printer setup you can resize
- your print out, rotate it, invert it,
- set up by pixels, inches or
- centimeters, print landscape or
- portrait, and locate it anywhere on
- the page.
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- ║ Extra Tools Supplementary Disk ║
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- Available separately (see order form)
- is a series of helpful, specialized
- tools and utilities. New are:
-
- 1. PCX-Talker: This program is a
- sub-set of SuperShow which allows you
- to access the SBTalker voice
- synthesizer from Creative Labs. With
- PCX-Talker you can show your PCX
- images using the SuperShow screen
- transitions while accessing the
- speech synthesizer. You must have
- SBTalker to use PCX-Talker. SBTalker
- comes packaged with every Sound
- Blaster card from Creative Labs.
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- 2. FLICVOC: This is a FLI/FLC player
- that gives you the ability to link
- and play any .VOC digitized sound
- file in the background while the
- animation runs.
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- 3. VOC2PC: A small utility that
- allows you to play .VOC digitized
- files through your PC Speaker.
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- 4. PCXHDR: Another small utility
- that will change video mode header
- information in a PCX file using a
- batch process.
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- 5. Alternate Editor: SP5A.EXE is an
- alternate ShowPrep editor that allows
- for up to 5000, 78 character lines
- for a show script. While there is no
- limit to the number of lines in a
- SuperShow presentation, the standard
- ShowPrep editor has a limit of 1500
- script lines. The alternate editor
- does not have mouse capability, the
- editing commands are slightly
- different, and each line is limited
- to 78 characters.
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- ║ Note: The GIF image format is not ║
- ║ capable of True Color. GIF has a ║
- ║ maximum of 256 colors. Our tools, ║
- ║ however, still support the GIF ║
- ║ format and you may convert True ║
- ║ Color PCX images to 256 color GIF ║
- ║ files. ║
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