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@author "Ferruccio Zamuner"
@(c) "(C) 1996 C.A.T.M.U. Tutti i diritti riservati"
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@node "main" "XiPaint 4.0"
@toc "software.guide/main"

@{"Brief Description" link "description"}
@{"Upgrade for Xi-Paint 3.2 users" link "upgrade"}

@{"Descrizione XiPaint 4.0" link "software.guide/xipaint4"}

@{"Lista software" link "software.guide/main"}
@{"Lista CD-ROM" link "CDrom.guide/main"}

@endnode


@node "description" "Xi Paint 4.0 - Description"
@toc "main"


XiPaint is the leading edge, 24-bit paint program.  It's suited to the
demands of novice and expert alike, and within a short time, you too will be
able to produce colourful and creative art in 16.8 million colours. This
version of XiPaint provides a professional paint program at an unbeatable
price/performance ratio.

Overview of Features:

New Animation Features (Brush-Animation, Script-Animation, Effects)

Raytracing-Features ( A mini-Raytracer to generate single objects will be
included, to have the possibility to give objects the look of glass, metall,
wood, sky etc. and to map textures perfectly on balls, cubes, spheres, rings
...)

magic fill (Allows to fill color-ranges)

new windows for koordinates, paint-modes and background-shifting

better wacom-support (also ArtPad)

Painting with Background-Pictures, which are smaller and can be positioned
(also in lighttable)

Prefs-Printer-Driver=20

Bug fixes in JPEG-Saver, XiMulti-Loader, Color-requester, Cycle-Requester,

Diverse paint functions including colour, contrast and saturation=
 adjustment.

Mask, outline, recolour and fill functions.

Airbrush with adjustable spray functions.

Light-table function for manipulating mantages and animations.

Text functions with anti-aliasing using Compugraphic fonts.

Support for a variety of graphic formats.

Unlimited Undo.

Diverse manipulation of alpha channel.

Supports many graphic cards.

Layers to combine different projects.

ARexx port.

Drag & Drop colours.

External filter module.

Extensive documentation.

60 textures, 50 landscapes, 30 other pictures and many fonts included.

System requirements:
Kickstart 2.0 or higher, 2 MB RAM.
Hard disk, additional memory and graphic card recommended.

@endnode

@node "upgrade" "Xi Paint 4.0  (upgrade from 3.2)
@toc "main"

Le condizioni di upgrade dalla versione 3.2 per tutti gli utenti
registrati a tale versione (non sono considerati tali gli utenti che
semplicemente hanno iniziato ad usare questo programma dall'Aminet
11) sono ancora da stabilirsi.

Certamente sarà offerto loro la possibilità di acquistare tale
upgrade a circa la metà del prezzo della versione 4.0.

@endnode