\b0 There is not much to FastView: it is an image viewer for JPEG, GIF, and TIFF files. I don't have many GIF files, so that feature has not been extensively tested.\
FastView was not designed to do anything other than display JPEG's quickly. FastView is about 2-10 times faster at loading JPEGs than ImageViewer. It will not save images, and it will only copy images at screen depth. If you want to do that, I recommend using ImageViewer
an excellent program.\
\b Author\
\b0 The author of this program is David Koski.\
You can reach me at:\
3150 N Conestoga Ave\
Tucson AZ, 85749\
or at:\
dkoski@cs.wisc.edu\
This program makes use of a modified version of the JPEG library from the dependent JPEG Group.\
I will accept money if anyone wants to give it to me.\
\b Legal Stuff\
\b0 I am not responsible for any damage that this product may do to you, your business, your system, the planets, or anything else. Use it at your own risk (or something).\
You may not sell this product.\
\b Bugs\
\b0 I have noticed that there are some bugs in the JPEG decompression library, specifically when trying to decompress garbled files. The library should (and usually does) detect the corruption and quit, but sometimes it will seg fault or bus error. FastView catches these signals and goes on as if nothing happened (of course there are no bugs in my code, ha ha). This usually works, but sometimes memory will become mangled and the app will crash. Too bad. Since this is just a viewer, you have not lost anything.\
There may be other bugs. If I don't use the feature or mode of operation, it may not work. If you find any bugs, please let me know, and I will try and fix them.\
\b New Features\
\b0 In 1.3:\
display images in the background\
improved slide show\
auto cropping\
floating point decompression of jpeg images
\b0 \
In 2.0:\
prefetches images (makes it very fast)\
catalog view\
save lists of slides\
add comments to slides\
you can copy to the pasteboard (at screen depth)\
\b Preferences\
\b0 FastView will allow you to select the decompression speed/quality for JPEG images. I always use Worst/Fastest because it the fastest and I cannot tell any difference on my ColorStation. On HP and Sparc workstations, the Better/Float method may be the fastest. Try it out.\
You can also force JPEG images to load as grayscale: saving some time and maybe memory. \
You can set the maximum size (in pixels) for a JPEG window in Preferences. This will half (up to three times) the size of the image until it is less than the desired image size. This speed up decompression and reduces memory use. A size of 0x0 will not limit the size. I set mine to 1000x800: roughly the size of my screen.\
You can make FastView open windows to the size of the document (eg how ImageViewer normally works) or just create a small window that you can resize later (using the resize bars or
\b cmd-f
\b0 ). Small windows are faster to create and use less memory (for backing store) than a full size window.\
FastView can also reuse the same window for all documents that are opened (like a slide show) if you want. This will use much less memory if you want to look at a collection of pictures. The last option will cause FastView to wait for a space or mouse click before loading the next image. Check out the SlideShow submenu, it will allow you to see the list of images, rearange them, etc.\
\b Using the Catalog\
\b0 You can bring up the catalog window with cmd-B. It will show all of the images in your slide list. This can take a while (although it is amazingly fast) and can use a lot of memory. Double clicking on an image in the catalog window will bring up a full-size window with that image displayed.
Using Slide Lists\
\b0 You can make lists of slides and save them. Whenever you open up a bunch of files, the names are stored in the slide list (cmd-l) (that is a lower case L). You can rearrange the slides by control-dragging them, and open a specific slide with a double click. You can also add comments to each slide by using the comment window (cmd-C). These comments appear in the slide list window if you make it large enough. I am not very happy about this interface, but I don't have the time to change it right now
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