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- Gif2Herc
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- Program to display images saved as GIF files on IBM PC Hercules graphic card.
- The program has few stages as follows:
- 1. Reads GIF file header and determines size of it.
- 2. Dynamically allocate enough memory to hold all the image internally.
- One byte per pixel is always allocated, so a little bit more than
- width*height (of screen, not image) bytes are required.
- 3. Reads all the image in. Interlaced images are read correctly in, although
- they are displayed sequentially.
- 4. Display first image using the defaults as set by the command line option.
- 5. Goes to interactive mode. For full description of the interactive mode
- see below
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- Usage:
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- Gif2Herc [-q] [-d DitherSize] [-z ZoomFactor] [-t BWThreshold] [-m Mapping]
- [-i] [-b] [-h] GifFile
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- If no GifFile is given, Gif2Herc will try to read stdin for GIF file.
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- Memory required:
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- Screen.
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- Options:
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- 1. [-q] : quite mode. Default off on MSDOS, on on unix. Controls printout
- of running scan lines. Use -q- to turn off.
- 2. [-d DitherSize] : Sets size of dithering matrix, where DitherSize can be
- 2,3 or 4 only (for 2x2, 3x3 and 4x4 dithering matrices). Default is 2.
- Note image will be displayed in this mode only if Mapping (see -m)
- selected this mode.
- 3. [-z ZoomFactor] : Sets zoom factor of the image. Zoom factor should be
- power of 2 up to 256. Default is 1 (no zoom).
- 4. [-t BWThreshold] : Sets threshold level for B&W mapping in percent.
- This threshold level is used in the different mappings as selected via -m.
- Default is 19%.
- 5. [-m mapping] : Select method to map colors to B&W. Mapping can be:
- 0 : Every none background color is considered foreground (white).
- 1 : 0.3 * RED + 0.59 * GREEN + 0.11 * YELLOW > BWThreshold is considered
- white.
- 2 : Colors are mapped as in 1, and use dithering of size as defined using
- -d option. BWthreshold is used here as scaler.
- Default is option 0 which is much faster than the other two.
- 6. [-i] : Invert the image, i.e. black -> white, white -> black.
- 7. [-b] : Disable beeps. Every time image is complete, or wrong key was
- presses, sound is generated. -b disables that.
- 8. [-h] : print one command line help, similar to Usage above.
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- Interactive mode:
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- Once the image is displayed, the program goes into interactive mode
- which recognizes the following commands:
- 1. C - get Color and Position.
- In this sub menu, a cursor appears, and the Color of the pixel the cursor
- is on, with its position in GIF file screen are printed. The 4 arrows may
- be used (shifted for faster movement) to move the cursor. Any other key will
- abort this sub mode.
- 2. D - Zoom Down by factor of 2 unless current zoom factor is 1.
- 3. H - Increase dither matrix size, unless current size is maximum (4), were
- size is set to minimum (2).
- 4. I - Invert the image, i.e. white -> black, black -> white.
- 5. M - increase Color -> BW mapping method, unless current method is maximum
- (2), were method is set to minimum (0).
- 6. R - Redraw the image.
- 7. S - print Status of image and program.
- 8. U - Zoom Up by factor of 2 unless current zoom factor is 256.
- 9. 4 arrow keys can be used to pan to the desire direction, if the image
- overflow to that direction. If, on the other hand, the image fit into the
- Hercules device, arrow keys are ignored. The panning steps are 1/2 screen if
- not on image end.
- 9. ' ' - Space bar may be used to abort current image drawing.
- 10. ESC - Escape key may be used to abort the program.
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