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- Welcome to XiPaint on Aminet CD 11
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- Xi-Paint is a versatile 24-bit paint program for the Amiga. Please note
- that this copy of XiPaint is licensed to you, the buyer of this CD,
- and no one else. The program is not restricted in any way, however it
- misses some sample images and printable manuals that are found on the
- original CD. That CD, as well as printed manuals and software updates
- can be ordered from the addresses found at the bottom of this Readme.
- Also, have a look at the demo pictures for the new version Xi Paint 4.
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- IMPORTANT: To load pictures in formats other than deep-IFF, you need to
- select the 'Settings' menu item in the 'Menus' menu. In the requester you
- hit the gadget with '>' in it, and next the 'Load' tab you get to see.
- There you can see an entry for Multipic_Loader which you select. Then you
- can load most important formats. Note about the JPEG saver: It uses (in
- this version) smoothing, which results in reduced image quality. I
- suggest you use other save formats.
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- Please also check the XiPaint 4 images and information supplied at the
- end of this document.
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- And now for the real notes:
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- Dear XiPaint User!
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- Thank you for using this product. XiPaint 3.2 gives you many
- new features - and we still develop this product. For the reason
- to have to the right tool also the right surroundings, I thought,
- the best way is to make a CD which have all things you need to
- paint.
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- It is not the program alone, that satisfies - it's also the handling,
- the support the tools and the demonstration. Therefore, this CD
- gives you many import and export-modules, pictures, materials and
- and and.
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- For a nice price it was necessary to have the manual on CD.
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- Manual
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- For this reason, I made AmigaGuide-Manuals, ASCII, and printable
- files to put out to your printer (in Deskjet, Laserjet and
- Postscript-Format). Only copy the desired files to your printer
- or click on the icon.
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- The manual is made for version 3.0 - but its still the actual
- one. The new features are explained seperately.
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- If you want to have a printed manual, you can get it at MacroSystem
- or NoahJi's.
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- If you have troubles with the Laserjet-manual (the pages are printed
- only a half), so please stop printing and print before the manual
- a graphical page with an other programm (PC, or Amiga). I couldn't
- reproduce this - so I hope, this will help ...
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- The nice multipic.library is copyright by MacroSystem (Thanks) and
- I need it for loading and saving. Its not freeware - but every
- XiPaint user may use it. From Mr. Hoffmann I got a demo of his
- fast external loaders. If you want to work with the full-version,
- please register you! More details are in the Shareware-folder.
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- An other nice thing is Graffity. It's a Workbench emulation for
- the Omnibus, Merlin, Domino, Graffity and Picasso. So XiPaint is
- also available for this graphic-adapters.
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- If you want to use the WACOM-tablett, you need the driver from
- Roland Schwingel, which is also in the Shareware-directory.
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- Outputs
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- the following drivers for Output are included:
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- * Amiga 256 Farben
- * Amiga HAM6 und HAM8
- * Cybergfx
- * EGS
- * Framemaster 2
- * Graffity
- * Merlin (with ProDev Expansion, untested)
- * Picasso
- * VD2001
- * Retina
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- A good driver for the Merlin is availble at ProDev.
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- Problems
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- If you have problems with starting XiPaint, so please use the little
- programm xpinit on the CD. Start it from the xipaint-drawer, where
- the main-programm is found. It tells you something about your
- libraries and versions and where there are.
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- If you have no idea, why XiPaint can't find libraries, please copy
- all xipaint/libs/#? - libraries to libs:
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- If you have a VLAB and no VLAB-Menu will open, so please start xipaint
- from a shell with the option 7. This bug will be fixed in the next version.
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- Have you problems with loading your pictures? Maybe your loading-module
- is Internal-DEEP. Change this in the System-Folder under loader to the
- multipic-module (also for Saver).
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- Thanks
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- Thanx to my beta-testers:
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- Tobias Abt
- Helmut Hoffmann
- Stevan Rankic
- Gerald Ritz
- Hartwig Tauber
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- Have fun
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- Thomas Dorn
- Herbert Beilschmidt
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- Vienna, October 1995
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- Adresses:
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- NoahJi's Inc.
- 3591 Nyland Way
- Lafayette, CO 80026
- USA
- Fax: ++1 303 4991979
- NoahJi's:
- 3591 Nyland Way
- Lafayette, Co 80026
- (303) 499-1975 voice
- (303) 499-1979 Fax
- (303) 969-8967 BBS
- draco.com!eric
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- MacroSystem
- Friedrich-Ebert-Straße 85
- D-5845 Witten
- GERMANY
- Phone: ++49-2302-80391
- FAX: ++49-2302-80884
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- ProDev
- Marcel Jantz
- Eichendorfstr. 9
- Germany
- D-53859 Nierkassel
- Phone: ++49-6556-7536
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- Thomas Dorn
- A-1210 Vienna
- Kerpengasse 69
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- Fido: 2:310/98.0
- Internt: tdorn@xipaint.co.at
- Mailbox, Fax: ++43-1-2714549
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- Magazines!
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- If you start XiPaint from a shell with the option 7 (xipaint 7),
- you are able to make Screenshots in the actual directory. These
- are made in DEEP-format, which you can transform with xipaint.
- Screenshots are possible with the PrtSc-Key.
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- Translators!
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- You want to change the help-texts? Start XiPaint in a Shell with the
- option 7 and press the Help-Key. The filename of the text-file is
- printed out to the shell.
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- Mr. Stefan Ossowski for making this CD!
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- Stefan Ossowskis Schatztruhe
- D-45131 Essen
- Germany
- Veronikastr. 33
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- XiPaint 4 - The new version
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- XiPaint is the leading edge, 24-bit paint program. It's suited to the
- demands of novice and expert alike, and within a short time, you too will
- be able to produce colourful and creative art in 16.8 million colours.
- This version of XiPaint provides a professional paint program at an
- unbeatable price/performance ratio.
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- Overview of Features:
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- * New Animation Features (Brush-Animation, Script-Animation, Effects)
- * Raytracing-Features ( A mini-Raytracer to generate single objects will be
- included, to have the possibility to give objects the look of glass,
- metall, wood, sky etc. and to map textures perfectly on balls, cubes,
- spheres, rings ...)
- * magic fill (Allows to fill color-ranges)
- * new windows for koordinates, paint-modes and background-shifting
- * better wacom-support (also ArtPad)
- * Painting with Background-Pictures, which are smaller and can be
- * Prefs-Printer-Driver
- * Bug fixes in JPEG-Saver, XiMulti-Loader, Color-requester, Cycle-Requester,
- * Diverse paint functions including colour, contrast and saturation adjustment.
- * Mask, outline, recolour and fill functions.
- * Airbrush with adjustable spray functions.
- * Light-table function for manipulating mantages and animations.
- * Text functions with anti-aliasing using Compugraphic fonts.
- * Support for a variety of graphic formats.
- * Unlimited Undo.
- * Diverse manipulation of alpha channel.
- * Supports many graphic cards.
- * Layers to combine different projects.
- * ARexx port.
- * Drag & Drop colours.
- * External filter module.
- * Extensive documentation.
- * 60 textures, 50 landscapes, 30 other pictures and many fonts included.
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- System requirements:
- Kickstart 2.0 or higher, 2 MB RAM.
- Hard disk, additional memory and graphic card recommended.
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- XiPaint will start shipping 15.04.96
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- update-price DM 69,00
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- Bugs fixed in XiPaint 4
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- The following errors are corrected in XiPaint 4.0
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- * Module XiMulti had Problems with NOT-alpha-Channel selected while
- saving in IFF or SUNRASTER or PPM
- * Module Xijpg crashed on non-fpu-systems while makeing a minipic.
- Without minipic it works ..
- * Notebook-Alpha: was only activatable with doubleclick
- * Crash in Cyclewin on first postion-droping
- * Negated Line in Polygon now corrected
- * Bug in Drag&Drop if bank has changed, corrected.
- * Bug if Colorbox is closed fixed.
- * Clear Picture now with yes,no, cancel
- * Cycle-box: Slider - Bug fixed
- * Draco: Cursor and help corrected
- * If XiPaint ends, now there is a delay which prevents from
- disk-validating if it crahes (not testet)
- * Bug in Mask if painted with solid fixed
- * Lighttable with background-shifting now with mosaic
- * jpg-saver corrected: smoothing was on the same value as quality
- * All paint-functions with output speeded up to 30%
- * Fixed bug in endrexx
- * No Bug: filerequester filters *.c *.h *.info *.mpic *.o. So Names
- like bulb.compose are not shown!
- * Many Bugs in AREXX fixed (koordinates etc.)
- * Filerequester now speeded up to 50% and more
- * New Help - System: now only one File- and many help-files
- are now added.
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