ALLPAPER.EXE (VERSION 1.0)               Copyright (c) 1994, Jeff Prosise
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            First Published in PC Magazine September 13, 1994 (Utilities)
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ALLPAPER by Jeff Prosise

PURPOSE:

              The Windows wallpaper feature does not have a facility for
adjusting the size of bitmaps. Wallpaper is either centered on the screen
or tiled. AllPaper lets you stretch or shrink a bitmapped image so that
one copy of the image fills the screen.

SETUP:
              AllPaper is extremely simple to use. You select a .BMP
file, select an output resolution, and then click the Shrink/Expand
button to create a new version of the image under the filename of your
choice.

Once you have the new .BMP file, you need only copy it to your Windows
directory to make it available to the Control Panel's Desktop applet,
where wallpaper settings are selected.

REMARKS:

             AllPaper works with almost any .BMP file, including
OS/2-style .BMP files, but there are some exceptions. It doesn't
work with the 16-bit and 32-bit .BMP files used by Microsoft
Windows NT, and it doesn't work with compressed .BMP files,
which can be very difficult to deal with when bypassing GDI
(Graphics Device Interface) functions as AllPaper does.
If you attempt to input a compressed .BMP file, AllPaper displays
the message, "Unsupported file format (DIB is compressed)." DIB
stands for device-independent bitmap, the data format that lies
at the heart of every .BMP file.

On-line services such as CompuServe and ZiffNet are loaded with
bitmapped images that can be used as wallpaper. With AllPaper,
you can download the image of your choice without worrying about
its resolution. If the bitmap is the wrong size, AllPaper can fix
it for you. If you download a bitmap that is in compressed .BMP
format, however, you will need a different utility to convert it
to an uncompressed .BMP file. AllPaper does not support conversion
between different graphics file formats.
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Jeff Prosise writes our Tutor column and is a contributing editor of
PC Magazine. He is also the author of the book Windows Desktop Utilities,
published by Ziff-Davis Press.
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