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- SHOWPRINT II.4 - Copyright 1988 Brian Conrad
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- SHOWPRINT II is a full-feature IFF picture file screen dump utility.
- It can display and print all sizes of pictures including those
- larger than the screen. It allows you to adjust printer output in
- three modes: ASPECT, FULL, and CUSTOM output. You can also print
- your pictures vertically or horizontally. You may also print them
- in Black and White, Grey Scale, or Color (with a color printer, of
- course).
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- SHOWPRINT II will also print PageSetter IFF files without any breaks
- which I know will be handy for those of you with Star Gemini 10x and
- SG10 printers.
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- The catch is that I'm not including any documentation on this
- program. Registered users will receive complete documentation for
- the program as well as tips on printing IFF picture files.
-
- To become a registered user you only need to send $5 check or money
- order to:
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- DataWise Technologies
- P.O. Box 62
- Touchet, WA 99360
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- If you have more questions, comments, criticisms, or complaints, I
- may be reached on GEnie as BDCONRAD or People Link as BCONRAD.
- You may also reach me at the Blue Mountain Gazette BBS (Walla Walla,
- Washington) 509-529-5226 (24hours 300/1200baud).
-
- Feel free to upload these files to any board or online service as
- long as all notices remain intact and these boards or services do
- not make any pretense that they are the owner of these files. This
- file may also be included in any collection of public domain
- software as long as no more than $10 is charged for the distribution
- of the disk.
-
-
- ERRATA:
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- SHOWPRINT II version 2 now features Overscan mode for viewing
- pictures as large as the screen. Select the Overscan mode in any
- picture that displays the 4-way pointer and the picture will fill
- the screen in whatever dimensions are larger than screensize
- (width, height, or both). Hit the space bar to cancel Overscan.
-
- Version 3 flushes memory of the printer.device driver when a
- picture dump is aborted. This means that the ABORT feature now
- works safely. Version 3 has a boredered main screen to get rid
- of the "messy" title bar that the BORDERLESS flag gave me.
-
- Version 4 corrects numerous bugs with previous versions.
- SHOWPRINT II now behaves in a multi-tasking environment without
- slowing down your other tasks. I've reverted to the borderless
- screen again so borders don't show up during your presentations.
- The "phantom" pointer is now gone from pictures larger than the
- screen. Version 4 also exits the program properly if it can't
- load a file due to lack of memory.
-
- Note that I attempted to speed up the picture loading but to
- no avail. Much of the slowness of loading 640x400 pictures is
- probably due to the interlace mode slowing things down. Other
- programs may not open the screen until the the bitmap is loaded
- into memory. I am at this time contemplating a rewrite for
- the display section of ShowPrint. It is currently using
- a SuperBitMap which is only necessary for pictures that can be
- scrolled. The rewrite will only use a SuperBitMap Window if
- the picture is larger than standard viewing area.
-
- What's next? Faster loads (requires a complete rewrite), the
- ability to print different parts of the picture and numerous other
- things that I might think up. Version 2.5 will be made available
- as soon as there are 250 registered users. At this time there are
- only 40 registered users.
-
- Brian Conrad
- January 12th, 1988
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