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- FLIPBITS
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- ) 1988 By Brian Conrad
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- Flipbits is FREEWARE. It is freely distributable as long as there is no
- charge for the program. It may be included on public domain collection disks
- as long as the distribution fee does not exceed $10.
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- What FLIPBITS does:
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- Flip bits was written in response to friends inquiring as to HOW they could
- get their Print Master graphics changed from a NEGATIVE image to a POSITIVE
- image for use in their favorite desktop publishing programs.
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- There is on the Print Master Plus disk an undocumented goodie called PMTOIFF.
- This will convert any .SHP file in a bunch of IFF brush files. What you have
- to do is copy the .SHP and .SDR files to a formatted disk. I put mine in a
- sub-directory. The files to copy on the Print Master Plus disk is
- Standard.shp and Standard.sdr. On the Art Gallery disks they are named
- GalleryX.shp and GalleryX.sdr with X representing the Art Gallery disk you
- have. You make that disk or sub-directory the current directory and invoke
- PMTOIFF and the shape file minus the .shp extension. For instance with the
- Standard.shp files you would invoke "pmtoiff standard". The drive will churn
- and messages will come up like "Working on January" etc. In a few minutes
- you will have a disk or subdirectory full of IFF brush files which will you
- can use in graphics or desktop publishing programs. This is a very generous
- little utility the Unison World has provided.
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- These graphics are "negatives" and must converted to use them in alot of
- programs. I use City Desk and all I have to do is select Invert Graphic in
- the menu. However my friends have Publisher Plus and a quick perusal of
- the menus showed that there was no way to invert graphics in that program.
- They didn't want to hand convert all those IFF files with DPaint as there are
- some 74 graphics in the Standard.shp file and around 140 in Art Gallery I.
- So I volunteered to write this little program.
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- FlipBits will invert any IFF file. You get some interesting results flipping
- the bits of some of the HAM mode pictures. FlipBits has a wildcard feature.
- You can do a whole directory of IFF pictures by specifying an asterisk as a
- filename or '*.iff' if you like. FlipBits will also skip over any files that
- are not IFF ILBM format. You may specify an output directory and FlipBits
- will write the inverted files to that directory. If you don't specify any
- output directory FlipBits will just overwrite the file it has converted.
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- The Usage of FlipBits is:
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- FlipBits <iff file or optional '*' wildcard> <optional output directory>
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- Have Fun!
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- Brian Conrad
- DataWise Technologies
- P.O. Box 62
- Touchet, WA 99360
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