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- HAMLAB PLUS 2.0.8
- FILTER AND EXPORTER REFERENCE
-
- (c) Copyright 1990-1992 J. E. Hanway. All rights reserved.
-
- IN THIS DOCUMENT:
-
- INPUT FILTERS SUPPORTED
-
- EXPORTERS SUPPORTED
-
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
-
- INPUT FILTERS SUPPORTED
-
- GIF (Graphics Interchange Format)
-
- GIF versions GIF87a and GIF89a are both supported. (GIF89 features
- are ignored.)
-
- Only the first image in the file is used.
-
- Non-interlaced GIF files require much less memory to convert than
- interlaced GIF files. NOTE: This "interlace" has nothing to do with
- the Amiga display. An "interlaced" GIF file stores the lines of
- the image in scrambled order, rather than top-to-bottom, so that,
- in theory, you can see the overall picture sooner while it is
- being displayed. Most GIF files are not interlaced.
-
- Interlaced files, when opened, will also go through an extra step
- during which a progress indicator will display "Buffering..."
- During this time their line order is unscrambled.
-
- TIFF (Tag Image File Format)
-
- Supports black&white or gray scale images with 1, 4, or 8 bit
- planes.
-
- Supports RGB color images with 3, 12, or 24 bit planes.
-
- Images must either be uncompressed or use PackBits compression
- (type 32773).
-
- SPECTRUM 512
-
- Normal, compressed (.SPC) files supported. Uncompressed (.SPU) and
- .SPS files are not supported.
-
- PBMPLUS
-
- Black&white (PBM), gray scale (PGM), and color (PPM) files are all
- supported. Both ASCII and RAW (binary) formats are supported.
-
- MTV
-
- The RAYSHADE ray tracer by Craig E. Kolb can also write images in
- this format.
-
- QRT, DKBTrace
-
- Although both the QRT and DKBTrace ray tracers use the same file
- format, QRT uses only 21 bits of information per pixel while
- DKBTrace uses 24 bits. With default settings, DKBTrace pictures
- will look correct, while QRT pictures will be too dark, but this
- can be compensated by increasing the brightness. (The easiest way
- to do this is to load the color control settings from the
- "QRT_color_response" file supplied.)
-
- SUN RASTERFILES
-
- Black&white, 8-bit mapped color, and 24-bit color images are
- supported.
-
- Both uncompressed and run-length compressed raster files are
- supported.
-
- IFF ILBM (and HAM-E)
-
- Supports normal, color-mapped, interleaved bit map images with one
- to eight bit planes, plus HAM and HALFBRITE images.
-
- Also supports SHAM (sliced HAM), Dynamic HAM, Dynamic Hi-res, and
- PCHG (multi-palette) files. All versions of PCHG (12-bit and
- 24-bit, compressed and uncompressed) are supported.
-
- This filter will detect a HAM-E image and handle it properly.
-
- Both the HAM and REG modes of the HAM-E are supported.
-
- 18-bit and 24-bit IFF files are also supported. However, note that
- in this release, any CLUT (Color Look-Up Table) chunks in the
- file will be skipped. In order to use the information in the
- CLUTs, you may load them as color response curves.
-
- Targa
-
- Reads Truevision Targa file types 1, 2, 9, and 10, with 16, 24, or
- 32 bits per pixel.
-
- JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group)
-
- Supports JFIF, the JPEG File Interchange Format.
-
- JPEG files can use two kinds of compression: Huffman coding and
- arithmetic coding. Because supporting arithmetic coding would
- require licensing a patent from IBM, it is not supported.
- (Probably for this reason, Huffman coded JPEG images are much more
- common.)
-
- BMP (Windows bitmap, aka "Wallpaper" files)
-
- Reads uncompressed Windows Bitmap (.BMP) files with 1, 4, 8, or 24
- bits per pixel.
-
- RLE compressed 4- and 8-bit BMP files are not supported.
-
- GL (GRASP)
-
- This filter was contributed by John Bickers. It reads .PIC and
- .CLP files (types C, J, L, and M) which can be extracted from
- MS-DOS GRASP (.GL) files using his GLSplit program.
-
- EXPORTERS SUPPORTED
-
- HamLab Temporary File Format
-
- Writes a simple, uncompressed 24-bit format.
-
- Args:
- none
-
- 24-bit IFF
-
- Writes 24-bit IFF files.
-
- Args:
- none
-
- EPS (Encapsulated PostScript)
-
- Writes a single page Encapsulated PostScript file. The file may
- be printed directly or imported into a publishing program that
- supports EPS.
-
- Can create either a gray scale or full color PostScript image.
-
- Note: your printer must support the PostScript "colorimage"
- operator in order to print HL+'s color postscript output.
-
- Args:
- BW gray scale output (default is color)
-
- JPEG
- Writes JFIF (Jpeg File Interchange Format) files.
-
- The amount of compression done in a JPEG file varies depending
- on how much loss of quality you're willing to put up with. The
- JPEG exporter uses a quality setting of 1-100, where 100 is
- the best quality (virtually lossless) and is the worst. In
- general, any setting above 95 is not a good idea bacause the
- resulting file may be large. Any setting below 10 is practically
- unrecognizable, and some baseline JPEG readers may not be able
- to read images with a quality of less than 25.
-
- The default quality setting is 75. Whenever the filter is run,
- it displays a requester allowing this to be changed. The
- requester may be suppressed by supplying the argument below
- when the exporter is run. (To do this, edit the HamLab.config
- file or run the exporter from an AREXX command.)
-
- Args:
- QUALITY=<qual>
- Sets the quality (and suppresses the requester normally
- used for entering the quality manually.)
-
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
-
- The GL (GRASP) filter was contributed by John Bickers.
-
- PostScript is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems, Inc.
-
- The Graphics Interchange Format(c) is the Copyright property of
- CompuServe Incorporated. GIF(sm) is a Service Mark property of
- CompuServe Incorporated.
-
- Rayshade ray tracer by Craig E. Kolb.
-
- MTV ray tracer by Mark Vanderwetting.
-
- QRT ray tracer by Steve Koren.
-
- DKBTrace ray tracer by David K. Buck.
-
- PBMPLUS by Jef Poskanzer.
-
- The JPEG functionality is based on work by the Independent JPEG
- Group.
-