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Attention New ComicSetter Owner:

   Thank  you  for  purchasing ComicSetter.  May we remind you to return the
registration  card.   This  will enable you to take advantage of Gold Disk's
Technical  Support  services,  and  will give you a free subscription to our
newsletter, New Laser Times.


BUG FIXES (v1.0A)

   In  version  1.0  of  ComicSetter,  there  was  a bug which prevented the
program  from  working with some printers (notably the Okimate 20).  Another
bug  caused  memory  to  be  corrupted  under some circumstances, leading to
corrupt  pictures and occasional crashes.  This often happened when printing
or saving.
   Both of these major bugs have been fixed in V1.0A, along with a couple of
minor ones.  No new features have been added to V1.0A.

NEW FEATURES (v1.0)
  In  the tradition of all great programs, the programmers have been working
up  to  the  last  minute, packing ComicSetter with nifty new features.  The
following  is  a  list of features added to ComicSetter since the manual was
printed:

1.   When you select the Import Bitmap function by either double-clicking on
     the  Bitmap tool or selecting the Project/Import menu item, your cursor
     will  change  to an upside-down "L".  This shows that the frame you are
     about  to draw will be used to import a bitmap, rather than to create a
     blank one.

2.   You  will  notice  that,  whenever  ComicSetter redraws the display, it
     switches  to  black-and-white.  This allows for quicker screen updates,
     and should cause you no concern.

3.   A  new  menu  item  has  been added under the Layout heading:  Collapse
     Panel.  If a panel is selected, choosing this menu option takes all the
     individual  objects  that comprise that scene, and replaces them with a
     single bitmap object.  If a panel consists of many elements, collapsing
     it  this  way  will  make it redisplay much more quickly.  Also, if the
     panel contains bitmaps, it will usually take up less memory after it is
     collapsed.

     Beware:  Once  you  have  collapsed a panel, its individual elements no
     longer  exist  separately, and you can no longer move or change them as
     you  normally  would.   (You can still alter the panel using the bitmap
     drawing  tools,  however.)  For this reason, you should only collapse a
     panel  when  you are sure you won't want to change it any more, or else
     you  should  save  a  copy  of the comic in a different file on disk so
     that, if you later need to change the panel, you'll be able to bring in
     an uncollapsed version to work with.

     Note  also  that  if a panel contains only structured graphics and text
     objects  (including  balloons), collapsing that panel will make it take
     up  a  whole lot more space (although it may still display more quickly
     than before).

4.   Under  the  Preferences  menu,  another  menu  item  has  been   added:
     Workbench.   When selected, this option tells ComicSetter to attempt to
     close  the  Workbench  screen,  thus  freeing  a  significant amount of
     memory.   If  there are any windows on the Workbench screen, other than
     Workbench drawers, this command will have no effect.

     Once the Workbench screen has been closed, the Screen-to-Back gadget at
     the  top-right  corner  of  the  ComicSetter  screen  will no longer do
     anything.   The  Workbench  screen will reappear automatically when you
     quit from ComicSetter, or you can select Preferences/Workbench again to
     bring it back without quitting.


                           TRICKS TO SAVE MEMORY

Here  are  some  things  you can do to conserve memory, thus allowing you to
create bigger, more complex comics:

1.   Use  the Collapse Panel option on panels with multiple bitmaps in them,
     to make them take up less space.

2.   Select the Workbench option, to close Workbench.

3.   If  you  want  a large area of the same color, or the same fill pattern
     (for  example,  a  brick-wall background for a panel), use a structured
     graphic rather than a bitmap.  Structured graphics use much less memory
     than bitmaps do.

4.   The way the Undo feature works is that every time you delete something,
     or  change  a  bitmap,  a  copy  is  saved  away.   Then, if you select
     Edit/Undo,  the  saved  copy  is used to restore things to the way they
     were.   When  ComicSetter saves something like this, it throws away any
     information  for undoing previous operations.  If you delete a bunch of
     bitmaps  at once, for example, you will have a lot of memory tied up in
     the  saved  copies  of them.  To get this memory back, just do anything
     which  is  undoable  --  create  a  structured  graphic or a panel, for
     instance.  This will cause the program to free up all the saved bitmaps
     in the process of saving the new information.

5.   Along  the same line, if you have Cut or Copied a large amount of stuff
     to  the Paste buffer, you can get back the memory by Cutting or Copying
     something else.

     We bet you'll make some amazing comics, and we'd love to see them.  Why
     not send us some examples, to the address given below?

     Make the good guys win at least some of the time, and have loads of fun
     with ComicSetter!