--- = Next Page = Next Line = Quit This text can be printed with a word processor, or by typing the following command in a Shell window: Copy PPaint:ReadMe PRT: --- Cloanto Personal Paint This disk contains a complimentary release of Personal Paint version 4.0 for the readers of Amiga Computing. The software is identical to the commercial version. Some files (pictures, data files, Amiga system resources, etc.) have in part been changed to fit on a single disk. A description of new features of Personal Paint version 6.3 is also enclosed, while a special upgrade offer to the full 6.3 package appears on the same issue of Amiga Computing. Personal Paint may be launched with a double-click on its Workbench icon, on any Amiga with 1 Mbyte of RAM (ideally, Chip RAM). In order to fully exploit the disk capacity, Personal Paint itself has been compressed. On not so fast systems, decompression may slow down the initial loading of the program. To create a decompressed executable file, type the following command in a Shell window: PPaint:Deplode PPaint:PPaint_4.0 Destination:PPaint_4.0 The sample pictures include screens of the new Personal Paint (version 6.3). The "NewPPaint.pic" picture has been entirely created with Personal Paint, and shows a practical use of powerful features like Palette Merge and Colour Average Resize (used to scale and combine all items), Colour Quantization (applied to 24-bit images), Gradient Fill and Alpha Channel (used to create the shadow) and various other image processing effects. "WoodSIPS.pic" is a stereogram (as in "Magic Eye") which has also been created with Personal Paint. Yes, with Personal Paint 6.3 you can create your own stereograms! For 256-colour images, Personal Paint automatically reduces the number of colours if the computer on which it is loaded does not have an AGA (Advanced Graphics Architecture) chip set, or an RTG (Retargetable Graphics) compatible display board. In case of colour reduction, the "Settings/Dithering/Floyd-Steinberg" option usually gives the best results. It is very easy to explore Personal Paint by choosing from the variety of menus and gadgets. It is recommended to make a backup copy of the disk before experimenting with functions which write data. The gadgets on the tool bar which is displayed on the left of the screen may respond differently depending on the pointer's position over the gadget (upper or lower half), the mouse button which is used (left or right), and the number of mouse clicks (for cycle gadgets). For example, the tool to the right of the "a" text editing symbol activates the image processing functions. If it is selected with the right mouse button, a requester appears to select different image processing options. The area on which image processing is to be applied can be delimited by dragging the mouse (i.e. moving it while the left button is held down). For more information on upgrades and other Cloanto products, please contact the local distributors named at the end of this file. To take advantage of product upgrades, don't forget to mail the registration card which comes with each original product. E-mail registration forms are also enclosed on the disks. We are continuing to invest in the Amiga in a very difficult moment. Your support is more precious than ever. If you have any suggestions, we would like to hear from you. Thank you. --- New Features of Personal Paint 6.3 - First paint program worldwide to support the new PNG (Portable Network Graphics) file format - Animation (featuring a storyboard, superior compression, multiple palettes, frame-by-frame timing, ANIM-5/7/8 and hybrid formats, etc.) - Sophisticated "behind the scenes" memory management, including virtual memory (swaps inactive image data to Fast RAM and disk storage) and multiple levels of undo and redo - New, faster image processing effects, including transparencies, alpha channel and single image stereograms (both SIRDS and custom pattern stereograms, as in "Magic Eye") - Support of Retargetable Graphics (display cards like the Picasso, Retina, Piccolo, Rainbow, EGS, Talon, Cybergraphics etc.) - Animation on RTG display cards (with or without double-buffering) - Direct, high quality 24-bit printing (Colour and Black & White) and interface to third-party software such as Studio Print Server - Professional and fast modes for converting 24-bit pictures (IFF, PNG, PCX, PBM etc.) to 256 colours or less - HAM, HAM8 and Picasso 24-bit viewer active during colour reduction - External input/output modules (loaders and savers) for easy extensions and upgrades. Modules for IFF, PNG, PCX, PBM, Amiga DataTypes and several others are included. GIF module is available from public domain sources. - Support and editing of IFF, PNG and GIF project annotations (Author, Copyright and Comment fields, plus Amiga filenotes) - Autoscroll painting - Workbench Application Icon (Drag and Drop) - Basic set of ARexx commands for presentations, format conversions and printing - ASL-compatible file requester - More power through machine language code: the software is in part up to 500% faster - "New Look" user interface - A collection of utilities, including colour fonts, new DeskJet printer drivers (up to four inks) and JPEG DataType Personal Paint 6.3 is available now. Cloanto Product Presentation: Personal Fonts Maker and Colour Extensions The Personal Fonts Maker has been acclaimed as "the best bitmapped fonts editor for the Amiga" by enthusiasts and professionals from Scala Computer Television to Kara Computer Graphics. It is the leading tool for handling fonts in up to 256 colours (no size limit, RTG compatible). It can even create printer download fonts (to achieve maximum printer quality and speed) and anti-alias Amiga vector fonts. Numerous other tools are included. The Personal Fonts Maker is a powerful tool for designing and processing bitmapped fonts. Amiga fonts and fonts created with the Personal Fonts Maker can be transferred to the printer memory and printed at maximum quality and speed. The Personal Fonts Maker can output fonts in formats which can be read by other Amiga programs, by other computers and by a vast range of differing printers (even 48-pin and laser printers). The program can handle IFF graphics. It is possible, for example, to work on typographical fonts input from a scanning device. Repetitive transformations on characters or entire fonts can be recorded, stored and executed as macros. A special programming language can be used to define the format in which fonts are to be saved or sent to a printer. The Personal Fonts Maker package includes a multitude of original fonts and support tools like the Printer Driver Modifier, which allows the user to personalize printer drivers. It is easy - and fun - to work with the Personal Fonts Maker, thanks to the elegant and intuitive user interface (with stereo sound effects). The manual is full of examples and introductory sections for novice users, and comes complete with technical information for Amiga experts. The Colour Extensions add powerful colour font processing capabilities to the basic package. Most of Personal Paint's editing tools have been incorporated into the package. For the first time, it is possible to process fonts in up to 256 colours and no size limit. Among others, special functions for anti-aliasing (even using an Amiga vector font as a point of departure) and right-to-left fonts are provided. This makes it an ideal companion to video applications, and a must in the titling environment. The Colour Extensions come free with the new Personal Fonts Maker package (known as "Version 2"). Use with Personal Paint is recommended, in order to take advantage of additional functions and extended documentation. 512 Kbytes of RAM, 1 disk drive required (1 Mbyte of RAM recommended) Colour Extensions: 1 Mbyte RAM required (1 Mbyte of Chip RAM recommended) Cloanto Product Presentation: Personal Write Personal Write is a very usable, fast and affordable Amiga word processor. Its features include: multiple text windows, mail merge, data compression (to save disk space), encryption of confidential texts, MS-DOS and Mac character sets (and many more), printer spooler, PostScript driver, etc. Ideal as a first word processor, its original and powerful text processing capabilities make it an invaluable companion to any other software package. Personal Write is an extremely fast word processor packed with original capabilities. It fully exploits unique Amiga characteristics like windows and multitasking. Personal Write does not limit the number of text windows which can be open at the same time. The combination of speed and space organization makes it an excellent mind extending tool. A built-in spooler can print even the longest texts in the background, while the program is used to do other work. Personal Write can encrypt confidential documents, which become unreadable to unauthorized users, and save disk space by compressing texts. Personal Write is also a powerful tool for converting texts into different formats. It can load and save texts combining more than 25 character sets of the most widely used computers. Control codes can be added or removed, as required by desktop publishing programs, Amiga system functions or other hardware and software environments. Thousands of combinations of printer settings can be selected to make the best use of features like the PostScript driver, the multistrike print mode, support for automatic justification with proportional characters and Personal Fonts Maker fonts. Alphanumerical labels can be used in the text for mail merge or to reorganize data. Keyboard shortcuts and the texts which are displayed can be redefined to personalize the user interface (which includes stereo sound effects). An automatic hard disk installation procedure can be selected with the mouse. 512 Kbytes of RAM, 1 disk drive required; 1 Mbyte of RAM recommended --- Cloanto Personal Paint main program, support files and programs, screens, artwork, manual and image collection, Copyright © 1992-1995 Cloanto Italia srl. All rights reserved. Parts are licensed or used with permission from third parties. No part of this disk may be reproduced, transmitted, stored, or translated into any language or computer language, in any form or by any means, magnetic, optical, electronic, or otherwise without the prior written permission of Cloanto. The More text viewer is Copyright © 1985-1989 Commodore-Amiga Inc., used under license. Executable file decompression headers written by Peter Struijk and Albert J. Brouwer. Some images were downloaded from public domain sources; other images were used with permission from commercial third-party collections. The single pictures may contain additional information on the respective copyrights and authors. Compilation Copyright © 1992-1995 Cloanto Italia srl. Cloanto and the Cloanto logo are registered trademarks, and Personal Fonts Maker, PFM, Personal Paint, PPaint, Personal Write and PWrite are trademarks of Cloanto Italia srl. All other trademarks, property of their respective owners, are acknowledged. Amiga and the Commodore-Amiga logo are registered trademarks of ESCOM AG. ColorFont and ColorText are trademarks of Inter/Active Softworks. EGS 28/24 Spectrum is a trademark of Great Valley Products Inc. Fargo is a registered trademark of Fargo Electronics Inc. GIF is a trademark of CompuServe Inc., an H&R Block Company. PCX is a trademark of ZSoft Corp. Picasso is a trademark of Village Tronic Marketing GmbH. Piccolo and Rainbow are trademarks of Ingenieurbüro Helfrich. PostScript is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems Inc. Primera is a trademark of Fargo Electronics Inc. Retina is a trademark of MS MacroSystem Computer GmbH. Talon is a trademark of DKB. Please refer to the user manuals for further information. --- Cloanto Italia srl Tel +39 432 545902 PO Box 118 Fax +39 432 609051 33100 Udine Bbs +39 432 545905 Italy E-mail info@cloanto.it User and dealer inquiries should be addressed to the national distributors. Great Britain: Ramiga International Ltd. 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