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Nearly two years to the day since the release of version 4.0 Imagecopy
reaches version 4.1. Chris Good investigates...
Imagecopy is one of those utilities which almost everyone can find a use
for. Imagecopy can be used to take screen grabs, output images to
printers, convert between file formats, palettes and colour depths,
cataloguing and viewing images.
The biggest changes in this version are aimed at anyone using MagiC or
Geneva multitasking operating systems. Here's a rundown:
Drag&Drop
- If your desktop supports the VA_START protocol you can drag an
image file from an open window or the desktop onto either an open
Imagecopy window or it's Menu to be viewed. Also, images can be dragged
onto layout or catalogue windows and they're automatically added.
- Holding the [Shift] key down while dragging displays a dialog
where options to print, view or convert are provided.
- Images can be dragged from an open catalogue window to another
open catalogue window and the image is automatically copied across.
Window handling
- Imagecopy itself or any any open Imagecopy window can now be
iconified.
- Imagecopy's main window can now be collapsed to just the menu bar by
clicking on the fuller icon or pressing the [Insert] key.
- The main window can also be hidden completely or revealed by
pressing the F1 or [Delete] keys.
- Windows can now be closed while other images are being processed
with configurable keys for close, next or previous window.
- Separate printer and system INF files can be loaded and saved in
addition to the normal default.
- Custom palette files for viewing and converting images can be
loaded and saved. Windows, Mac, Atari and Netscape palettes are
included. This is a really useful enhancement for web authors.
- For anyone working with limited memory resources slideshow sequences
only load images into memory as required.
- In addition to grabbing images under MagiC Mac it's now also
possible to grab individual windows with or without the window gadgets.
- This is achieved using the [Insert] key, pressing once selects the
windows content, pressing twice selects the window plus gadgets -
perfect for Atari Computing contributors.
Printing
- There's a new option to adjust the printed page to output onto A3 format
printers along with support for pre 1983 Epson printers and Stylus II at
720dpi.
Catalogues
- Images can now be automatically collected into a single directory.
- Images can be dragged between catalogues and page layout windows
and also onto windows of other applications such as Positive Image.
- If a catalogue hasn't been given a filename, Imagecopy creates a
default name from the catalogue's title.
Images
- Imagecopy adds support for: Apex blocks, XBM images, 320x200 XGA
images and Huffman-compressed TIFFs.
- There's a new option to save IMG files in the VDI palette order -
ideal for Thing desktop pictures and programs like True Paint which are
fussy in this respect.
Summary
Imagecopy is a must have purchase for anyone working with images. Used
alongside CAB and Everest, its support for both transparent and
interlaced GIFs make it the ideal for putting together web pages.
PRICING
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Imagecopy 4.1 | £24.95 |
Imagecopy 4.1 PhotoCD | £29.95 |
Upgrade from Imagecopy 4 | £ 4.95 |
Upgrade from Imagecopy 2, 3, 3.5 | £ 9.95 |
Upgrade from Imagecopy 1 | £14.95 |
Post and Packing (UK) | £ 1.25 |
Call for overseas postage
To upgrade from Imagecopy 4 you do not need to return any disks.
For all other upgrades return disk 1 (or disks 1 and 4 when upgrading
from a PhotoCD version).
To upgrade from a non-PhotoCD version to Imagecopy 4.1 PhotoCD add
£5 to the prices given above.
For all other upgrades return disk 1
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