PPaint.man Features of Personal Paint 6.3 include: 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 etc.) Direct, high quality 24-bit printing (Color and Black & White) and interface to third-party software such as Studio Print Server Professional and fast options for converting 24-bit pictures (IFF, PNG, PCX, PBM etc.) to 256 colors HAM, HAM8 and Picasso 24-bit viewer active during color 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 color fonts, new DeskJet printer drivers (up to four inks) and JPEG DataType. We are continuing to invest in the Amiga in a very difficult moment. Your support is more precious than ever. If you like this piece of software, please make sure that it is an original. And if you have any suggestions, we would like to hear from you. Thank you. (Distributor and Cloanto contact information appears at the end of this file.) All new features are documented in the new User Guide. Product Registration Please don't forget to mail the registration card which came with Personal Paint. If you prefer to register via electronic mail, you can edit and e-mail the "E-reg.txt" file, which is stored on the program disk, in the same directory as this file. If you do so, please do not mail the registration card. Notes An original and unique Cloanto serial number should be attached to this product. We use these numbers as part of our quality management system to ensure product identification through all stages of production, storage and delivery, as well as for customer registration and support. If you report a problem, we will be able to use exactly the same version of the software which you are using. Given this number, we can track the manufacturing date, the brand of the disks being used, the company who printed the manual and whoever assembled the product. Worldwide, the Cloanto serial number is your guarantee of quality. Packages sold without this number should be considered counterfeit. We would like to always be able to offer you good manuals and high-quality disks, but remember, this is only a small part of what you get when you buy original software. Most of all, it's the hard work of the people and organizations who made it possible. Please help us fight software piracy and invest in our common future. For more information on upgrades and other Cloanto products, please contact the local distributors named at the end of this file. From time to time, information may be mailed directly to users of our packages. To take advantage of this, don't forget to mail the registration card which came with the product. Cloanto Product Presentation: Personal Fonts Maker and Color 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 colors (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 Color Extensions add powerful color 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 colors 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 Color 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) Color 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, Copyright © Cloanto Italia srl 1992-1995, All Rights Reserved. Parts are Copyright © Nomad Publishing Corporation, 1993-1995. The HP DeskJet drivers included with Personal Paint are Copyright © Commodore-Amiga Inc. 1985-1993 and Cloanto Italia srl 1993. The Installer and Installer project icon are Copyright © Commodore-Amiga Inc. 1991-1993, reproduced and distributed under license. The JPEG DataType software is included with the kind permission of Steve Goddard. Executable file decompression modules by Peter Struijk and Albert J. Brouwer, used with permission. Lharc software by Paolo Zibetti, used with permission. Please refer to the original User Guide for further information. Cloanto and the Cloanto logo are registered trademarks of Cloanto Italia srl HTX, Personal Fonts Maker, PFM, Personal Paint, PPaint, Personal Write and PWrite are trademarks of Cloanto Italia srl Coca-Cola and Coke are registered trademarks of The Coca-Cola Company EGS 28/24 Spectrum is a trademark of Great Valley Products Inc. Fargo is a registered trademark of Fargo Electronics Inc. Picasso is a trademark of Village Tronic Marketing GmbH Piccolo and Rainbow are trademarks of Ingenieurbüro Helfrich Primera is a trademark of Fargo Electronics Inc. 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