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- From: keck@athena.cs.uga.edu (Paul Keck)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.reviews
- Subject: MINI-REVIEW: Viewtex 1.03
- Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Date: 10 Jan 1993 02:58:20 GMT
- Organization: The Amiga Online Review Column - ed. Daniel Barrett
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- Keywords: graphics, viewer, IFF, anim, freeware
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- This is a mini-review of the new Amiga graphics file viewer
- Viewtek. It's on Fish disk 787 (v 1.02), and also on the ftp site
- amiga.physik.unizh.ch and its mirrors. (I got it off ftp.etsu.edu last
- week, v 1.03). The following description is from Fred Fish's public
- announcement:
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- Viewtek
-
- A feature packed Picture/Animation Viewer. Shows most ILBM's
- (including 24-bit ILBM's), most Compuserve GIF format images,
- most JFIF format JPEG images and most ANIM Op-5 format ani-
- mations, with support for different palettes for each frame.
- Supports SHAM, CTBL, and PCHG images, full support of ECS/AGA
- display modes (ie. show 256 color GIF's directly, show 800x600
- HAM animations, etc.). Supports viewing contents of clipboard.
- Iconifies to a Workbench AppIcon. Includes a version written
- for GVP's Impact Vision 24, to support true 24-bit display.
- Version 1.02, requires Workbench 2.04+, binary only.
- Author: Thomas Krehbiel
-
- Like I wrote up there, I have v 1.03, and Fred says he has 1.02.
- So, I suppose if you want the latest go to the net.
-
- Viewtek can scroll using CTRL-arrow keys, or with the mouse. You
- seem to have to move the (invisible) pointer to the edge of the screen before
- it will start moving in that direction. In this _ONE_ respect, it isn't the
- God of All Viewing Programs (tm), but that's the only one! I'll gladly deal
- with it. The program can also take a wildcard filename or an entire
- directory as input, so no more screwing around trying to remember the exact
- filename.
-
- What I think is best about it is that it can be specified as a
- default tool on a picture's icon, so the file can just be clicked to show
- it! I was asking about a program like this a few months ago on the net, but
- no luck. Coupled with 'Icon', which assigns default icons to GIF files, I
- can now view them without conversion, by clicking! It's a lazy man's
- paradise. Now I just have to hack up the 'Icon' code to auto-detect JPEG
- files...
-
- All in all, THE best single display program for the Amiga! Accept no
- substitutes. Tom, I couldn't find an Email address for you in the docs, so
- I'll say it publically -- let me have your babies. ;-)
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