Copyright 1991 L&V Productions  SHADOW Version 1.0
This archive is FREELY REDISTRIBUTABLE but may not be
sold for profit except for inclusion in Public Domain Disk Collections.


SHADOW Program Doc File
Include on the Distribution disk are the following Files:
SHADOW		    -Add Drop Shadows
SHADOW.doc	    _This file
SHADOW.info	    _Icon file 



**REQUIRES**
AMIGA 500 or 1000 or 2000 or 3000 with 1MEG and 1 Floppy.(1.3 WB)

Workbench 2.0 Compatible


WHAT CAN SHADOW DO FOR YOU?
If you produce Video titles or any type of Video Text generation then 
you need SHADOW!
Are you forever creating Video shadows for your letters in DPAINT(tm)?
Disappointed in the lack of Text handling features of the current 
Multimedia/Authoring packages on the market?
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***INSTALLING SHADOW***

To copy SHADOW onto your Workbench Disk, Hard Disk or wherever,
simply DRAG the SHADOW Icon over to the appropriate Window. There 
are no support files to copy other than the main program file SHADOW.


To START SHADOW simply click on the ICON or open a CLI Window and
type SHADOW. You must be logged onto the directory where SHADOW
currently resides if you go VIA the CLI.
Immediately after you click on the ICON the screen will FLASH a
rainbow of COLORS for a second. This shows you that SHADOW has
successfully loaded. You may now run any of your graphic programs
as before, but now they will print their text with a built in
Drop shadow!

To END SHADOW and return to normal, click again on the SHADOW icon.
This time the screen will NOT flash through a rainbow of colors.
You can START/STOP SHADOW as many times as you wish, even from
within another program. Just pull down the screen, or use the
RIGHT AMIGA M to jump back to the Workbench screen.



SHADOW is a small patch to the Operating System. 
Any Font equal to and greater than 24(>=) will have a Drop shadow
automatically generated as it is printed. The depth of the Drop
shadow is equal to 20% of the Fonts height.

Color 1 of the palette is used as the background Shadow. Color 0 is
left alone on the assumption that you may/will be using a Genlock.
Whatever the current Foreground/APen color is will be mapped to
the characters FACE. An example palette for DPaint would be

Color 0		:GREY(Background)
Color 1		:BLACK(Shadow)
Color 2 	:WHITE(letter Face)

To turn OFF the automatic Drop shadow, press the MINUS(-) key on the
seperate numeric keypad(right hand side).

To turn ON the automatic Drop shadow, press the PLUS(+) key on the
seperate numeric keypad(right hand side).
These 2 keys WILL NOT PRINT any characters. Their substitutes can 
of course be found at the top of the keyboard proper.




**BUGS**
I'm sure something will rear its head soon!



SHADOW is intended to overcome some of the shortcomings of
SHADOWMAKER in its handling of text to be generated in
non-paint programs.




TRADEMARKS
DPaintIII is trademark of Electronic Arts
SHADOW is a trademark of L & V Productions Reg'd
Flip'n Scroll is a trademark of L & V Productions Reg'd
AmigaVision is a trademark of Commodore Business Machines
SHADOWMAKER is a trademark of L & V Productions Reg'd
VBHI is a trademark of L & V Productions Reg'd




L & V Productions
110 Columbus Ave
Moncton, New Brunswick
Canada   E1A-5E4	
PHONE:	(506)-532-0094
FAX:	(506)-859-2709

Note We are on the EAST Coast!!



Please feel free to report any bugs/suggestions to:

Stephen Lebans
PLINK   SLEBANS
 

Thank you for TRYING this program!