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Article #1158Latest PixelMagician Beta DEMO V1.00.X10
From: bacchuseric Eric Bloom
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1992 01:44
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1992 01:44
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The latest Demo version of PixelMagician (Beta V1.00.X10) is available via anonymous ftp from Machine Name: sonata.cc.purdue.edu ( 128.210.15.30 ) or nova.cc.purdue.edu (128.210.7.22) Location: /pub/next/2.0-release/demos/PixelMagician1.00.x10.tar Production Release date is Monday April 13th. IMPORTANT NOTES: If you have been using a previous demo version of PM (e.g., x07, x08, x09), you MUST delete the ".PixelMagician" file located in your home directory. This can be done before or after you install x10. If you do not do this the new JPEG file support will not work. You may need to manually delete the old PixelMagician.app/PixelMagician before the Installer application will work properly After installing the package, the owner must register the program. Other users will not have the permissions necessary to register the program. This means if you install the package as root, then you must run the program once as root to register it. Other users cannot register a program belonging to root. They will not have the necessary write permission. Changes/Fixes: 1.00.x11 ( These Latest fixes will be present in the production release ) Fixed non-72 DPI bug for PXM files. Fixed quantization for 1 color files. Fixed TIFF options panel save bug. Fixed Miniwindow thumbnail scaling, compositing and backcolor. Application icon changes. "Help" now opens up a Workspace MANUAL browser . Save Convert window size and position. Many other minor fixes. 1.00.x10 Added support for JPEG (JFIF) files. Fixed 1-4-bit PCX default palette bug. More intelligent TIFF options panel. Fixed bug imaging multi-page EPS/PS files. Fixed SavePanel browser bug. Other minor fixes. 1.00.x09 Re-sampling only when needed. (Viewing/converting 4-6 times faster than v1.00.x08.) Fixed TIFF/JPEG read bug. Corrected GIF aspect ratio bug. 1.00.x08 Added more default aliases. Added unrecognized file extension panel. Added registration panel. Fixed bug in savePanel for replace w/o asking. Fixed bug imaging paletted formats to B&W formats. Allow screens grabs to be immediately saved to another directory. Fixed text corruption bug in image inspector filename text. Fixed bug reading PICT files with alpha channel. Added support to retain alpha data for PICT files. Fixed image re-sampling bug. Add bounding box to PS files that do not have one. Fixed multiple file drag/drop from workspace. Drag/Drop into application icon added. Force output option panels to "float" above save panel. Many other minor fixes.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!sarah!cook!psinntp!psinntp!bacchus!eric From: bacchus!eric (Eric Bloom) Subject: Latest PixelMagician Beta DEMO V1.00.X10 Message-ID: <1992Apr8.014408.8362@bacchus.com> Keywords: Image viewer, Conversion, Graphics Sender: eric@bacchus.com Reply-To: eric@bacchus.com Organization: Bacchus, Inc. Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 01:44:08 GMT