Short:    Image format converter (V1.8c) for most formats.
Author:   farindk@trick.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de (Dirk Farin)
Uploader: farindk@trick.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de (Dirk Farin)
Type:     gfx/conv


GfxCon V1.8c
============

Image format converter that can load and save most formats:

Load: ILBM, LBM, RGB8, RGBN, PCX, IMG, BMP, RLE4, RLE8, DIB,
      GIF, TIFF, JPEG, RGB-Raw, Targa

Save: ILBM, PCX, GIF, JPEG, RGB-Raw, Postscript


Features:
 - virtual memory built in (even with a plain 68000)
 - color-effects and simple transformations are possible
 - shows most information stored in images
 - runs from both shell and WB
 - has a nice GUI
 - font sensitiv
 - 68020-version included
 - runs on all amiga systems

New:
  V1.8c - GIF-loader doesn't get into an endless loop on corrupt files
	- BMP-24bit (odd-picture-width-error) corrected

  V1.8b - BMP-24bit loader
	- minor bugfix in BOXFIT/BOXFITALL

  V1.8	- More input format supported in the TIFF loader (LZW, ...)
	- Can now load version5-PCX images (24bit)
	- Several bugs fixed in the TIFF,PCX and BMP loaders
	- New shell commands: CROP, CENTERBOX, OFFSET, SORTDIR,
			      UNUSED, RESIZEH,RESIZEV

  V1.7	- RGB-Raw input and output with shell now possible
	- Changing brightness and contrast with shell possible
	- GIF89a transparent color should work now
	- progress infos in Shell may be switched off
	- small bug fix (bad input files produced guru)

  V1.6	- Two ways to proportionally scale an image
	- Show info in shell

  V1.5	- Now runs with shell-parameters too
	- Now runs even with Kick 1.2
	- image background-color may be copied and changed
	- bug fix in GIF save-module

  V1.4	- bug fixes in PCX-load and PCX-save
	- 68020 doesn't need a 68881 any more

  V1.3	- HAM6 working again
	- TIFF-RGB images and bug fixes
	- improved virtual memory

  V1.2	- HAM8
	- Targa-CLUT-images

Requirements:
  Kickstart 1.2
  68020 and Kickstart 2.0 recommended!

Have fun!


============================= Archive contents =============================

Original  Packed Ratio    Date     Time    Name
-------- ------- ----- --------- --------  -------------
    2273     561 75.3% 17-Apr-97 09:18:20  GfxCon.info
    1953    1035 47.0% 21-Apr-97 13:24:58  GfxCon.readme
   31470   11810 62.4% 21-Apr-97 13:25:36 +gfxcon.english.guide
     854     338 60.4% 17-Apr-97 09:18:16 +gfxcon.english.guide.info
   35010   13515 61.3% 21-Apr-97 13:26:26 +gfxcon.german.guide
     854     336 60.6% 17-Apr-97 09:18:16 +gfxcon.german.guide.info
  188448  102478 45.6% 21-Apr-97 17:03:12 +GfxCon_68000
    1741     674 61.2% 17-Apr-97 09:18:18 +GfxCon_68000.info
  185600  101420 45.3% 21-Apr-97 18:07:30 +GfxCon_68020
    1741     672 61.4% 17-Apr-97 09:18:18 +GfxCon_68020.info
-------- ------- ----- --------- --------
  449944  232839 48.2% 07-Aug-97 08:17:02   10 files
