PostView 1.0 Manual Copyright Ralph Schmidt 1993 Additional Artwork Mick Hohmann Internet: laire@uni-paderborn.de IRC: laire ZNet: laire@Hsp.zer Fido: Ralph Schmidt 2:242/55.16@Fidonet",$a SMail: Ralph Schmidt Kleiner Hellweg 4 4796 Salzkotten Germany This software is Gift(Poison)ware Greetings go to Michael van Elst,Petra Zeidler,MichaelS,Timmer(sorry for the Bolts:-B) and ScottE for some help with PostView. UDance, Guardian(Andrew Denton...i have no clue why i have added you to this list(Inside joke)), (Closed Lips)Bill Coldwell, CWolf(Thank you for your great DynamiCache),Aikido,JohnW, Tron , Ill, mau(sorry that i forgot you) and all the IRC friends for some nice hours. Greetings also go to my closer friends Dirk Leschner and Frank Jakobs. P.S. Gift means poison in german.... !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ! ! ! PostView NEEDS the post.library that is based in the PostV1.7.lha archive ! ! ! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My experience with docs in general have convinced me to release only ultra short docs because nobody RTFM.......so why waste your time and my energy?:-B o PostView Background Story Christmas 1992 i needed to look at some specs that were only available as PS files and after some time with the Post V1.7 Viewer i was so frustrated that i started to write a new Previewer. I hope you like it..... ############################################################################## PostView uses the post.library, so don't blame me for any parse-problems:-B Read the post.library docs for copyrights and any additional informations. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !If you use PostView from the WB the post.library error output is written ! !into NIL:. If you want to see the output you must specify an output file.! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Color Handling: On the WB PostView uses the default colours so you can get uncorrect coloured pictures. If you open it on a Screen with »4 Colour CMYK« active you should get a correct Colour output. ############################################################################## Options: o XSize sets the width of the PS-Bitmap o YSize sets the height of the PS-Bitmap o XDpi sets the XDpi. o YDpi sets the YDpi. o DEPTH sets the depth of the bitmap. Only maximal 2 planes are supported by the post.library yet. o DXSize sets the width of the PS-Display window o DYSize sets the height of the PS-Display o MemVLen read post.library docs o MemFLen read post.library docs o MemLLen read post.library docs o MemHLen read post.library docs o Black & White = 1 Bitplane o 3 Colour RGB = 3 Bitplane o 4 Colour CMYK = 4 Bitplane o Window sets display-window mode on so the window is opened on the WB. o Screen sets screen-window mode on so the window is opened on Custom screen. o ScreenPost sets screen-window mode on so the window is opened on Custom screen with original Post colourmap. o Chip Ram sets chipram bitmap mode on. o Public Ram sets publicram bitmap mode on. This can lead to slower refresh times. o Refresh sets refresh mode, so the display-window is refreshed on every PS-Bitmap change. o No Refresh sets refresh mode off o Centre sets centre mode on, so the display-window area is centred on the image position. o No Centre sets center mode off o Colour defines post.library colour mode o Init can be used to define several Init.ps files. o ErrFile sets the post.library report window/file. o ScreenX sets the Custom screen width. o ScreenY sets the Custom screen height. o ScreenDepth sets the Custom screen depth. o ScreenID sets the Custom screen display name. o NoAutoScroll turns Custom screen autoscrolling off Command Window Gadgets: See Options explanations o Load File loads a postscript file and start the parser. You can run unlimited parser instances. Display Window Gadgets: o the Times Image starts the next page. o the Printer Image starts the printer.device. o the Disk Image is used to save the page. o the Centre Image is used to centre the page. o the Arrows can be activated by the cursor keys. SHIFT and CTRL increase the scrolling offset. Menu: o Selects a new Custom screen display mode. o Calculates the width and height values by the DPI values. o Calculates Dpi values by the width and height values. ############################################################################## To Do: o Faster FillMem(Movem optimized...i want it out as fast as possible and i'm sooooooooo lazy) o Centreing is sooo slow...instead of readpixel use direct Bitmap checks.....though it's acceptable on an a4000:-B Nice time while exploring all the obvious functions and if you're one of these creatures that enjoy to read manuals,nevermind:-B There's always another time...... Regards.... RELEASE NOTES + PostView and Post dithering difference bug is not found yet and i have no clue why ..... + PrintPage problems not fixed yet....i plan to add a printer config requester PostView 1.1 - Illegal Size check to avoid 0 bitmap sizes PostView 1.1 BETA 2 - GFX Garbage with Centreing now really fixed - Two of the memory integer gadets were switched - Accepts now .icons files to load a ps file - FILE/K option added - Fixed Default ScreenID...was set by accident on an AA only MonitorID... - File Directory is now also current directory for that process PostView 1.1 BETA 1 - SaveIff Colour Bug removed - ASL-Filerequester uses now the directory again - Add »Screen-Post« option to get an original Post-Colour screen - DPI/Size Calculation(Menu) fixed. - Refresh problem/crash probably solved...i couldn't reproduce it with the new version - Gfx Garbage with Centreing in a special condition PostView 1.0 - Initial Release