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- Paint Shop by Robert Voit
- Version 1.12
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- Paint Shop is a Windows 3.0 program.
- Paint Shop will allow you to display pictures, alter them and save them.
- Menu Items:
- File -
- Open - allows you to select file to be displayed.
- Save as - allows you to select the file format and a file name for the
- displayed picture to be saved as.
- Exit - Ends Paint Shop.
- Edit -
- Copy - copys a marked area to the clipboard. (mark an area by moving the
- cursor to the beginning point to be copied within the picuture area,
- press and hold down the left mouse button, move the cursor to the
- ending point to be copied. Release the left mouse button. Your area
- should now be marked.)
- Paste - copys a Device Dependent Bitmap from the clipboard to Paint Shop.
- Alter -
- Flip - Flips the picture vertically.
- Mirror - Flips the picture horizotally.
- Rotate Right - Rotates the picture to the right.
- Rotate Left - Rotates the picture to the left.
- Stretch/Shrink - Allows you to select the size of the picture.
- Trim - makes the marked area the current picture (see Copy for comments
- on marking).
- Help -
- Help - Displays information about how to register Paint Shop.
- About - General information about Paint Shop.
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- Acknowledgements:
- OS2:
- OS2 is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation.
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- Windows:
- Windows is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation.
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- Paintbrush, PCX files, BMP files:
- Paintbrush is a trademark of ZSoft Corporation.
- PCX and BMP files are products of Paintbrush. (not sure if they are trademarks
- or Service Marks)
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- GIF files:
- The Graphics Interchange Format(c) is the Copyright property of
- CompuServe Incorporated. GIF(sm) is a Service Mark property of
- CompuServe Incorporated.
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- For further information, please contact :
- CompuServe Incorporated
- Graphics Technology Department
- 5000 Arlington Center Boulevard
- Columbus, Ohio 43220
- U. S. A.
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- GIF files:
- There are 2 versions of the GIF file formats 87a and 89a.
- Paint Shop supports (can display) both versions.
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- Paint Shop will always SAVE AS a version 87a. When saving as a gif file
- format I find no advantage to creating the new version 89a.
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- PCX files:
- PCX files come in 4 different versions.
- Paint Shop supports version 5.
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- Version 5 is the version that Paintbrush (that came with Windows 3.0) reads and
- writes.
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- Paint Shop will always produce a version 5, 256 color picture.
- This is not to say that your picture will have 256 colors, but rather it will
- produce a file that has a palette capable of holding 256 different colors.
- Some viewers will see this as the number of unique colors within the picture.
- This is not correct. There is room for 256 colors, but not necassarly 256
- unique colors.
- As an example, if you convert a black and white GIF file to PCX the resulting
- PCX will have room for 256 colors, but the picture will still be black and
- white.
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- BMP and RLE files:
- BMP and RLE files come in 2 formats (Windows and OS2), within each format
- there are three types of compression routines.
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- Paint Shop supports the Windows format.
- Paint Shop will read a BMP or RLE file with any of the three compression types.
- Paint Shop will write a BMP using RGB (no compression).
- Paint Shop will write a RLE using RLE8 (8 bit compression routine).
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- SHAREWARE:
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- Paint Shop is user supported software. You may use it for a free ten day trial
- period.
- If you find this program useful, please license the program by sending $25.00
- ($26.50 for Minnesota residents) to:
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- Robert Voit
- 17743 Evener Way
- Eden Prairie, MN 55346
- CIS-72557,256
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- PRODUCT SUPPORT:
- Registered users may obtain support by contacting Robert Voit at the above
- address or CompuServe number.
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- FUTURE PICTURE FILE FORMATS:
- More file formats will be supported in the future, provided that Paint Shop
- is adequately supported. If there is a file format that you would like to see
- supported please send me a note when you register Paint Shop. The formats
- that are requested the most will be the first ones to be added.
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