旼컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴커 � Major Features of PowerView � 읕컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴켸 PowerView by Innovatix sets new standards for PC based image viewing software. This file lists most of the major features, and when applicable compares them to those found in other viewers such as QPEG, VPIC, CSHOW, and GDS. * Over 160 Video Cards painlessly supported. Innovatix has licensed SciTech Software's UniVBE VESA driver and directly incorporated it into PowerView. First time setup is quick and simple. PowerView loads the driver automatically, removing the need for the user to manually load it. The user needs no knowledge of what video card they have; the configuration program painlessly determines it for them. Compare this to GDS, VPIC, and QPEG which support far fewer cards and require the manual setup of cumbersome driver files and rtechnical knowledge of the users video setup. * Fastest Image Viewing of Any Program, More Supported Formats and variations than CSHOW, VPIC, QPEG or GDS. PowerView recognizes and handles Macintosh headers that choke other viewers. PowerView displays the following file formats faster than *any* PC program we know of: .JPG - baseline DCT and extended sequentialDCT based modes, with or without a JFIF marker with the following sampling factors/colorspaces: YH2V2, CbH1V1, CrH1V1 (the most popular) YH1V2, CbH1V1, CrH1V1 YH2V1, CbH1V1, CrH1V1 YH1V1, CbH1V1, CrH1V1 YH1V1, (256 color grayscale) CMYK, 1:1:1:1 (or 1x1, 1x1, 1x1, 1x1) CMYK, 4:1:1:4 (or 2x2, 1x1, 1x1, 2x2) ** PowerView displays .JPG files 40%-60% faster than QPEG (the former speed champ) _with_ better image quality than QPEG PowerView also has a "Highest Quality" DCT for maximul Jpeg Quality that is almost as fast as QPEG with its poor quality DCT. .GIF - All Types GIF87a and limited GIF89a support Views GIF images with a Macintosh fork header ** Compare PowerView's .GIF speed to GDS, VPIC, QPEG or CSHOW. PowerView is faster than any other DOS based .GIF viewer period. .TIF - 2 color grayscale/palettised, 16 color grayscale/palettised, 256 color grayscale/palettised, 24 bit true color, and 32 bit CMYK Compression: None, Macintosh PackBits, and LZW Horizontal differentation, or "predictors", are supported .PCX - 2, 8, 16, 256, and 16M color .BMP/ - 2, 16, 256, and 16Mcolor, compressed or uncompressed .RLE Windows and OS/2 1.x versions .LBM/ - 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, and 256 color, .IFF/ compressed or uncompressed, enhanced or unenhanced, .BBM 6 bit extra-halfbright mode, greyscale images .MAC - All Types (with or without a Macintosh fork header) .TGA - 256 color, 15 bit, 16 bit, 24 bit, and 32 bit, compressed or uncompressed .RAW - Uncompressed video memory image, 256 color, 15/16/24 bits * PowerView's User interface is superior to QPEG,GDS, CSHOW, VPIC and all the rest. Clear, Simple and Powerful. A mouse is helpful, but not required. Logical pull down menus and dialogs. A Full screen file list that's fully customizable. Helpful status messages keep the user informed. History lists and programmable keys let you aaccess your preferred functions and directories. While processing, the user is _Never_ left wondering what is going on. * Simply put, PowerView is the most robust, crash-proof viewer ther is. Bad and corrupted images are gracefully handled by PowerView. These same images cause QPEG, GDS, VPIC and others to crash and lock up the system. QPEG, GDS and others are *easily* crashed by bad images. * PowerView Sets the new standard for image color reduction and dithering, both in quality and speed. PowerView resizes, color reduces, dithers and anti-alises images faster and with higher quality output than any other viewer. - Just try taking a true color image and reducing it to 16 colors! You'll become a believer. - Just look at Walnut Creek's Travel Adventure CD-ROM. Compare the reduced .GIFs on the CD-ROM with those you can make with PowerView. PowerView does a better job the imaging software used to create the CD-ROM. * PowerView has Super Features while Viewing an Image. These are some of the features available when viewing an image. - Software & hardware scrolling/panning of large images - Image Processing: Red, Green, and Blue balancing Gamma Adjust & Two kinds of Brightness Adjust Color Saturation and Hue Adjust Color Component Swap, Invert, and Color/B&W toggles. Contrast adjust - Palette Animation for Fractals - Pop-up info on Current image - 8 bit DAC support for higher percision * ZOOM MODE! With EMS memory, PowerView can zoom *any* image and smoothly pan the image at 30fps on a 386/25. - Four Zoom Factors from 320x200 to 80x50 can be dynamically selected - All image processing functions are fully available in Zoom Mode * IMAGE SAVING! PowerView can save out any image, modified or unmodified, in the following formats: .GIF (2-256 colors) .PCX (2-256 colors, 16M colors) .BMP (2-256 colors, 16M colors) .TIF (2-256 colors, 16M colors) .TGA (2-256 colors, 64K colors, 16M colors) .JPG (16M colors) (Registered version) Options let you automatically assign filenames or specify them on the fly and eliminate unused palette entries. * Full .JPG Saving Control! PowerView lets you adjust the following .JPG saving factors: - Image Quality - Image Smoothing - Adaptive Quantization - 4 Sampling Factors - Optimal Huffman Codesets - Chromanance Discrimination * Printing. Support for PCL and Postscript laser printers. (Registered Version Only) * PowerView's Image Cache brings up *instant* information about the image files you are browsing. Instead of having to rescan each file to find out its resolution and size, PowerView keeps that information in it's image cache for instant acces. PowerView can also CREATE local image caches, storing all of the image information for quick Access. When it comes to viewing CD-ROMs, this feature *radically* improves the overall performance of the viewer. * PowerView has Short and Long description support. Many CD-ROMs keep description information in a separate text file. PowerView recognizes this, and makes the description availble to you while you browse the images. PowerView uses the 00_Index.TXT file, which is found on numerious CD-ROMs. Try viewing Travel Adventure, or the very Popular GIF's Galore CD-ROM and turn on description information. New CD-ROMs will be taking full advantage of this feature. * PowerView's Recursive File Search lets you scan your hard disk or Network for image files that you may not even know are out there. * PowerView's Gamma Correction allow you to view Images made on a Macintosh correctly on your PC. Walnut Creek's Travel Adventure CD-ROM is a great example. With QPEG, CSHOW, GDS, VPIC and all the rest, the images look to dark, and there is nothing you can do about it. With PowerView, just turn on the Gamma Correction and you'll see what they were suppose to look like. * Windows and OS/2 Support! PowerView recognizes when Windows or OS/2 is running and adjusts itself accordingly. For maxiumum flexability, the user can further instruct PowerView to operate in a maximum compatability mode or to take better advantage of the hardware while under Windows or OS/2.