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- 1.1C
- Update Notes
-
- New File Formats Support
- If you are familiar with HiJaak 1.0, the following file formats have
- been added:
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-
- .FAX
- CCITT Group 3 (bits oriented Right to Left) for GAMMA FAX, TEO ...
- cards
-
- .GMF
- GammaFax file format.
- It's usage to a destination file is:
- CONVERT source destinaton.TIF /GMF
- This creates a file with the .TIF extension in the GammaFax format.
-
- .JTF
- JT Fax file format.
-
- .MP1
- Microsoft Windows Paint Version 1.0. The current .MSP produces Micro-
- Soft Paint Version 2.0 files.
-
- .PGL
- HPGL pen plotter language compatible with HP 7440 pen plotter
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- .RIC
- Ricoh Fax file format (1-D compression only).
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- .WFX
- TouchBase Systems WorldPort modem fax file format.
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- .WPG
- WordPerfect graphics files. Raster data only.
-
- Vector to vector conversions between .PIC, PGL, and EPS (EPS destina-
- tion only)
-
- New fonts for High resolution text .PIX and .TXT file conversions.
- These include ASCII300.INF for high resolution screen conversions.
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- New PostScript font for resolution independent text .PIX and .TXT to
- .EPS conversion. Provides typeset quality text screen printing on
- postscript printers.
-
- New Command Line Options
-
- [ ] indicates optional
- nnn indicates number
- ccc indicates color
- www indicates line width in dots
- hhh indicates height in inches
-
- -Hnn.nn
- to set the height on output from vector input where nnn.nnn is the
- height in inches. If not specified or 0, source aspect ratio will be
- maintained. This option is valid only if source image is a vector
- type and the output image is raster.
-
- -Ann:nn
- to set aspect ratio on output from vector input. The first number is
- the height component and the second number, after the ':' is the
- width. For example, an aspect ratio of 2:1 will produce an output im-
- age that is twice as tall as its source vector image. The default
- aspect ratio is 1:1.
-
- -BW
- Forces the ouput image to dithered black and white. Without this
- flag, the number of colors in the output image will match the colors
- in the source image (if the output image type will support multiple
- colors)
-
- -Pnn:[www],[ccc]
- Specifies pen color for pen number nn ( for pens 0 - 16 (0 is back-
- ground color)). nnn is pen width from 1-16 dots wide, ccc is the pen
- color. Valid ccc values and their corresponding color, if Max Colors
- > 2, are ...
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- Value Color
- ___________ _______________________________
- 0 Black
- 1 Blue
- 2 Green
- 3 Cyan
- 4 Red
- 5 Magenta
- 6 Brown
- 7 White
- 8 Gray
- 9 Lt. Blue
- A Lt. Green
- B Lt. Cyan
- C Lt. Red
- D Lt. Magenta
- E Yellow
- F Lt. White
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- If max colors = 2, pen colors may be mapped to various half-tone pat-
- terns. The ccc values for the various gray patterns are ...
- Value Color
- ___________ _______________________________
- 0 White
- 1 6% Black
- 2 12% Black
- 3 20% Black
- 4 26% Black
- 5 33% Black
- 6 40% Black
- 7 46% Black
- 8 53% Black
- 9 60% Black
- A 67% Black
- B 73% Black
- C 80% Black
- D 87% Black
- E 93% Black
- F Black
-
- Valid only if source image is vector type.
-
- -M
- Suppress addition of macintosh recource header to MAC definition.
- Valid only for MAC files on destination. This option changed from -H
- in the previous version.
-
- -BW
- Force output file to be black and white. If source is color raster,
- output will be dithered.
-
- -NFF
- No form feed will be generating when outputing to a PCL or EPS file
- type. This option may be useful if you are generating a file to be
- merged into a word processor and desktop publishing package.
-
- -Zchain.exe
- This option will chain execution the specified program when the
- conversion is complete. This option is useful for programmers
- that want to chain execution to convert with all memory free and then
- chain execution back to their program.
-
- Shell Changes
-
- You can now interactively change directories when in the Path field.
- When using SPACE bar you will be presented with a list of directories.
- The top (Parent) option will change the the path field to be the
- parent directory. Selecting a subdirectory will change the path to be
- that subdirectory. If you select the current path, it will indicate
- to HiJaak that you have completed the path selection process and move
- it into path field. Escape will get you out of the directory list
- without changing the Path field.
-
- Color option in main convertion screen has two options COLOR and B&W.
- If color, all source colors will convert to destination file (if sup-
- ported by destination format). If B&W, destination output will be
- dithered to B&W.
-
- Added dialog box when using vector file as source and destination is a
- raster or postscript type (see dialog box). Selection of options, is
- done by pressing a space bar when a paticular field is highlighted.
-
- Max colors provides color depth control over the output raster
- image. If max colors is changed, all pen values will revert
- back to their default values.
-
- Background specifies the background color of the destination
- image. Changing the background color will cause any matching
- pen colors to change to the inverse color (eg. If Background
- is changed to White, all White pens will change to black).
-
- Width sets the output image width in inches (default 5.0").
-
- Height sets the output height in inches and blanks out the
- Aspect ratio field. If aspect ratio is used, height will be
- blanked and ignored.
-
- Aspect sets aspect ratio on output from vector input. The
- first number is the height component and the second number,
- after the ':' is the width. For example, an aspect ratio of
- 2:1 will produce an output image that is twice as tall as its
- source vector image. The default aspect ratio is 1:1.
-
- The 16 pen width fields control the pen thickness in terms of
- dots wide (default 1) for each individual pen number.
-
- The 16 pen color fields control the output color, or gray pat-
- tern in the case of Max Colors = 2, for each source pen num-
- ber. When the number of different pen colors reaches the num-
- ber specified by the Max. Colors field, the selection of
- available colors will be limited to the colors already
- selected.
-
- HiJaak Capture
-
- Added screen support for VGA (PS/2 models 50,60, & 80), MCGA (PS/2
- models 25 & 30), WYSE 700 (compatible with AMDEK 1280), and Genius
- graphics cards.
-
- The default Pop-Up sequence has been changed to "Left_Shift-Control".
-
- File format caveats
-
- TIF
- Checking loosened up to handle more flavors of TIF files ... however
- this may cause some non-standard TIF file conversions to have unpre-
- dictable results.
-
- MAC
- Automatic scaling of MAC destination files to fit in MacPaint limits
- if source file is too large.
-
- Viewable Encapsulated PostScript
- A PSMERGE.EXE program has been added to the FONTS disk to allow you to
- merge a .TIF and .EPS file together into a EPS file that is viewable
- in PageMaker. Two batch files PGL2EPS.BAT and PIX2EPS.BAT have also
- been added to automate the process of converting HPGL and Captured PIX
- files into viewable EPS files.
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- Windows PIF files
- Windows PIF files for accessing the interactive HiJaak program as well
- as the PGL2EPS and PIX2EPS batch files have been added to the fonts
- disk.
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- Text Screen Conversion Tips ...
-
- To get text .PIX screens into undithered B&W use the BW flag.
-
- Getting high resolution raster output by using the ASCII300 font.
- This will produce output that will convert an 80 column text screen to
- a bitmap that will print out 6 inches wide at 300 dots per inch.
-
- To produce high resolution output in encapsulated postscript, convert
- the text .PIX screen or ASCII .TXT to the .EPS file type. The .EPS
- file produced will use a special Postscript outline font, ASCII.PSF,
- that will take full advantage of the postscript output device resolu-
- tion.
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