Cloanto Personal Paint This disk contains a complimentary version of Personal Paint, version 2.1, for the readers of Amiga Plus. The software is identical to the commercial version. The remaining files (pictures, color fonts, data, Amiga system resources, etc.) have in part been changed to fit on a single disk. A description of new features of Personal Paint version 4.0 is enclosed, while a special discount upgrade offer to the full 4.0 package appears on the same issue of Amiga Plus. This text can be printed with a word processor, or by typing the following command in a Shell window: Copy PPaint:PPaint.man PRT: Personal Paint may be launched with a double-click on its Workbench icon, on any Amiga with 1 Mbyte of RAM (ideally, Chip RAM). In order to fully exploit the disk capacity, Personal Paint itself has been compressed. On not so fast systems, decompression may slow down the initial loading of the program. To create a decompressed executable file, type the following command in a Shell window: PPaint:Utilities/Deplode PPaint:PPaint Destination:PPaint The "Pictures" drawer contains several 256-color images, plus examples of color reduction, color merge and image processing entirely created with Personal Paint. The program automatically reduces the number of colors of an image if the computer on which it is loaded does not have an AGA (Advanced Graphics Architecture) chip set. In case of color reduction, the "Settings/Color Remapping/Floyd-Steinberg" option usually gives the best results. This version of the program does not support display cards like the Picasso and Retina boards. Version 4.0 does. It is very easy to explore Personal Paint by choosing from the variety of menus and gadgets. It is recommended to make a backup copy of the program disk before experimenting with functions which write data. The gadgets on the tool bar which is displayed on the left of the screen may respond differently depending on the pointer's position over the gadget (upper or lower half), the mouse button which is used (left or right), and the number of mouse clicks (cycle gadgets). For example, the tool to the right of the "a" text editing symbol activates the image processing functions. If it is selected with the right mouse button, a requester appears to select different image processing options. The area on which image processing is to be applied can be delimited by dragging the mouse (i.e. moving it while the left button is held down). The "Settings/Language" options in this version of Personal Paint can be used to set the user interface language to either English, German or Italian. Personal Paint and the Personal Fonts Maker Color Extensions normally share the same Personal.font for their user interface. The font itself has been upgraded a few times. If you have both programs installed, and experience difficulties because version 2.1 of Personal Paint requires a different version of the font, just remove the font from your FONTS: directory. All versions of Personal Paint and PFM2 also search for the font in their local directories, where the font is normally copied during automatic installation. Are you still using Topaz 8 for your Workbench icon texts? Try Personal 8. 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 is mailed directly to users of our packages. To take advantage of this, don't forget to mail the registration card which comes with each original product. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ New features of Personal Paint v. 4.0 Support of Retargetable Graphics (Picasso and Retina display cards, etc.), Autoscroll and many more functions to manage screens and display modes. Professional 24-bit printing (Color and Black & White) with undercolor removal, gamma correction, etc. You won't recognize your printer! High quality conversion of IFF24, PCX24, HAM & HAM8 to 256 colors. The result is hard to distinguish from that of an expensive 24-bit display. Loading of files through Amiga DataTypes (JPEG, BMP etc.) A collection of third-party utilities, including color fonts, new HP DeskJet printer drivers (up to four inks) and JPEG DataType, which can be automatically installed to your hard disk. Keyboard shortcuts to all user interface gadgets. Most requesters and color processing functions have been rewritten or otherwise improved. Hundreds of exciting new features requested by users have been added. The package comes with a full manual of more than 180 pages (available in English, German, Italian and French), packed with precious advice, examples and a tutorial chapter. Cloanto Product Presentation: Personal Write 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 displayed at the same time. 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. Pictures can be loaded and printed. 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 Product Presentation: Personal Fonts Maker The Personal Fonts Maker is a powerful tool for designing and processing 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. 512 Kbytes of RAM, 1 disk drive required; 1 Mbyte of RAM recommended Personal Fonts Maker AGA Color Extensions The Color Extensions disk adds 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. 1 Mbyte RAM, 1 disk drive required; 1 Mbyte of Chip RAM recommended ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Personal Paint main program, support files and programs, screens, artwork, documentation and image collection, Copyright © 1992-1994 Cloanto Italia sas. All rights reserved. Cloanto Italia sas authorizes reproduction and distribution of such unmodified material as it is stored on the original cover disk for non-profit presentation and testing purposes until July 31, 1994. KaraChiselSerif 55 and KaraGranite 55 Copyright © Kara Computer Graphics, used with permission. The More text viewer is Copyright © 1985-1989 Commodore-Amiga Inc., used under license. Executable file decompression headers written by Peter Struijk and Albert J. Brouwer. USA Patent Number 4 558 302 used with permission. PostScript Language Copyright © Adobe Systems Incorporated, used with permission. Some GIF 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. Compilation Copyright © 1992-1994 Cloanto Italia sas. Amiga and the Commodore-Amiga logo are registered trademarks of Commodore-Amiga Inc. Cloanto and the Cloanto logo are registered trademarks, and Personal Paint, PPaint, Personal Fonts Maker, PFM, Printer Driver Modifier, PDM, Personal Write and PWrite are trademarks of Cloanto Italia sas. Coca-Cola and Coke are registered trademarks of The Coca-Cola Company. ColorFont and ColorText are trademarks of Inter/Active Softworks. GIF is a trademark of CompuServe Inc., an H&R Block Company. PCX is a trademark of ZSoft Corp. PostScript is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems Inc. 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