ColorView for DOS Copyright (c) 1992 Millennium Technologies Corporation All Rights Reserved Version 2.1 ColorView is a color image viewer/converter/editor for the DOS environment. In this version, ColorView supports reading and writing the following graphics file formats: o JPEG (JFIF subset) JPEG is a highly compressed 24 bit "true color" picture file format which has more colors and a smaller file size than GIF files. o GIF'87, GIF'89 including animations o Windows BMP files (4, 8 and 24 bit, including 8 bit RLE) ColorView provides: o Floyd-Steinberg dithering o Heckbert color reduction o Gamma correction, Hue, Saturation, and Brightness controls o Sharpening, Smoothing, Embossing, Edge Tracing and other image filters o Copy and Paste operations between all supported image formats o New Image creation and text drawing functions o Adjustable image Transparency Effects o "Blue Screen" effects o Image Rotation and Mirroring functions o Intuitive graphical user interface, with or without a mouse o Slideshow mode for uninterrupted image viewing o Fast and extremely accurate Image Scaling for reducing and enlarging pictures o GIF Animation support o Ability to switch graphics modes while viewing an image o And much more! ColorView will work with: o Any Text mode display (Batch File Conversion) o Standard VGA 320x200 video mode o 8 bit, 256 color display boards with a VESA driver o 15 bit, 32768 color display boards with a VESA driver o 16 bit, 65356 color display boards with a VESA driver o 24 bit color display boards with a VESA driver o DOS 2.x, 3.x, 4.x, 5.x o 640 K or more of physical memory (expanded and extended memory will automatically be used) o a hard disk (automatically used if not enough physical memory) o 80286, 80386-SX, 80386, 80486, Pentium processors o Microsoft-compatible mouse ColorView for DOS (CVIEW.EXE) will run on '286 processors and will automatically take advantage of a '386 or better processor if one is available. As a result, no configuration options need to be set to double the JPEG decompression speed when a '386 or better processor is present. List of files provided with this package: README.TXT - this file REGISTER.TXT - general registration information CVIEW.SDA - ColorView package description CVIEW.EXE - ColorView for DOS executable CVIEW.TXT - ColorView documentation WORLD.JPG - sample JPEG image MEMBER.ASP - ASP membership notice FILE_ID.DIZ To install, copy all of the files into a directory on your hard disk. Read the ColorView documentation by editing the CVIEW.TXT document using your favorite text editor/word processor. To run ColorView, please make sure that your graphics board is VESA 1.2 compatible or load a VESA 1.2 driver, and then type "cview" at the prompt. Or, if your graphics card only supports standard VGA graphics, type "cview -v ...." where can include wildcards and multiple file names can be specified. Or, if your graphics card only supports monochrome, CGA, or EGA graphics, then please read the CVIEW.TXT manual for instructions on using ColorView as a Batch File Conversion program. Type "cview -?" to see the other command line options. Enjoy!