Cloanto Personal Paint 6.4 This directory contains a special edition of Personal Paint version 6.4, prepared for the Aminet Set 5 CD-ROM. A description of new features of Personal Paint 7.1 follows in this text, while a special upgrade offer to the full version 7.1 CD-ROM is included in the leaflet of the Set 5 CD-ROM. Tutorial and FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) sections on Personal Paint are included in separate files in this directory. Visit Cloanto on the World Wide Web and on Aminet! The Cloanto web site contains the latest news, answers to frequently asked questions, product descriptions, distributor addresses, upgrade information and support files: http://www.cloanto.com The Aminet archives (available on the Internet and on CD-ROM) contain a special Cloanto section in: biz/cloan If you have any questions or suggestions, please feel free to write us: info@cloanto.com We continue to invest in the Amiga in a very difficult moment. We need your support! Thank you. 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Personal Paint 7 - Overview of New Features - New and improved file formats, including Photo CD (licensed by Kodak), GIF (licensed by Unisys), BMP (Windows and OS/2), JPEG (not a DataType any more), 24-bit DataTypes and PBM - Professional Internet features like GIF animations, a map editor, and everything needed to achieve maximum image quality in a compact size - Enhanced user interface (pop-up gadgets, different sizes of user interface fonts, NewIcons thumbnails, etc.) - 181 ARexx commands, with scripts directly accessible from the toolbar - New "plug-in" library system makes it possible to add input/output formats (for files, scanners, screens, etc.) and to replace critical Amiga blitter and CPU code with a combination of "virtual blitter" and other logic fully exploiting the different configurations (68040, PowerPC, etc.) - Automatically create directory thumbnails for entire directories - Advanced vector text functions (rotate, antialias, paths, etc.) - CD-ROM edition includes: developer documentation, reorganized manuals (no addenda - all in the right place), tutorial animations, extended artwork The new features of the Personal Paint 7.1 CD-ROM include:  - New Rexx scripts, including text animation and animation paths (see the sample animations in "Animations/PPaint_7.1" in this directory) - Improved blitter emulation and support of third-party graphics.library enhancements to store all bitmaps in Fast RAM instead of Chip RAM - Improved support for environments like Siamese RTG, UAE and PowerPC - New user interface languages (now totalling 16 languages) - Improved and extended manuals (in English, German and Italian) - Special versions of Personal Paint compiled for different CPUs - Loads TIM graphics files directly from Sony PlayStation CDs, with extended TIM saving options features for developers - Cloanto Internet graphics DataTypes - GIF utilities by third parties - Cloanto ColorType 3.1 software - First Amiga software (excluding tools for developers) shipping with PowerPC code (Personal Paint PPC blitting library) A free upgrade from version 7.0 to version 7.1 is available on Aminet, in the "biz/cloan" directory. For additional information, including distribution and upgrades, please visit the Cloanto web site at . Another Quality Amiga CD-ROM from Cloanto: Personal Suite This CD-ROM includes Personal Paint 6.4 and Personal Write 4.1 from Cloanto, SBase 4 Personal (from Oxxi), Personal Fonts Maker 1 & 2 (Cloanto), 27 professional color fonts, an animated font, Cloanto's DirDiff (file synchronization and replication software) and PNG Toolkit, plus ½ Gbyte of pictures, animations, stereograms, stereogram animations, Amiga fonts, printer downloadable fonts and texts. The CD-ROM contains no public domain or shareware software. The commercial titles are the latest versions available, with full AmigaGuide manuals (English and German, with some titles also in Italian and French). Famous Amiga artists like Jim Sachs participated with a selection of their best Amiga art. Also included, a compilation of animations by Eric Schwartz, for the first time in IFF ANIM format. Presenting The Kara Collection CD-ROM It took 10 years of hard work to create the superb art which is contained on this CD-ROM. The Kara Collection includes all packages previously published by Kara Computer Graphics for the Amiga, plus many more, in an exclusive and professional edition reorganized and enhanced by Cloanto. This CD-ROM contains 80 ColorFonts (including effects like brick, glass, chrome, chisel, etc.), 5 AnimFonts (handwriting, rotating characters, static wipes, sparkles, etc.), hundreds of alternate color palettes, Starfields (moving stars seen from different perspectives), Plaquegrounds (backgrounds such as granite, marble, sand-stone, wood, etc.), and software for special effects in pictures, animations, titling and presentations. All items for solo or combined use. The Kara Collection also includes two software packages developed by Cloanto to manage bitmapped fonts: ColorType for color fonts and the Personal Fonts Maker for black and white fonts. Both have been acclaimed as the best in their respective fields. To make AnimFonts really easy and enjoyable to use, we created an ARexx program for Personal Paint, which renders any string of characters into animated text. As Kara says, "So long to the laborious task of placing individual letters... This is the way AnimFonts were meant to be!!!" Legal Notes This material is part of a special edition for the Aminet Set 5 CD-ROM, and is not freely distributable. Personal Paint main program, support files and programs, screens, artwork, manual and image collection, Copyright © 1992-1995 Cloanto Italia srl (Cloanto), unless otherwise indicated in the files or in the documentation which is part of the commercial distribution published by Cloanto. Parts are licensed from third parties. This compilation is Copyright © 1997 Cloanto Italia srl. All rights reserved. No part of the Personal Paint disk or drawer containing this text may be reproduced, transmitted or stored in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of Cloanto. The default Workbench icons written by Personal Paint are freely distributable. No copyright notice is required when redistributing these icon files. The executable file decompression modules were written by Peter Struijk and Albert J. Brouwer. The PNG compression procedures were inspired by source code of Jean-Loup Gailly. The PostScript Language is Copyright © 1985-1990 Adobe Systems Incorporated. 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. This software is provided "as is", without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied, statutory or otherwise. By using the software and data files, you accept the entire risk as to its quality and performance. Cloanto and the Cloanto logo are registered trademarks, and Amiga Forever, ColorType, Personal Paint, Personal Suite and The Kara Collection are trademarks of Cloanto Italia srl. For additional disclaimers and trademark, patent, copyright and other legal information please refer to the documentation included with the full commercial package, which can be requested via E-mail. All information contained herein is subject to change without notice.