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Zocra Technologies
Announces:
STyle
The Atari ST/STE/TT Image File Manipulator
(a "big brother" for our file viewer "STipple")
"noun: a particular form of composition, construction or appearance"
PROGRAM OVERVIEW
STyle is a program for viewing, manipulating, translating and
saving graphic images on the Atari ST, STE and TT series computers.
STyle supports a wide variety of graphic image file formats ranging
from computer dependant formats such as NEO, Degas and MacPaint to
hardware independent formats such as GIF, TIFF, EPSF and CP8.
STyle allows your ST to manipulate graphics created on a PC, an
Amiga, or whatever, even if the original image has more colours or
pixels than the ST can display. For example a 256 colour image can
be loaded, clipped, rotated and saved without any loss of colour
information even on a monochrome ST. Likewise STyle will load and
manipulate any ST graphic in any resolution. It also allows you to
convert your Atari ST images into other formats such as GIF, PCX
and TIFF for exchange with other systems.
STyle has a rich rendering feature which allows an image to be
drawn using an arbitrary number of colours and using an arbitrary
colour palette. The rendering includes both gray scale and colour
dithering. Colour dithering can even be performed using the colour
palette from another image.
STyle is GEM-based and operates in all ST, STE and TT
resolutions. When an image is loaded it is stored in memory in full
detail, and an on-screen version (a raster) is rendered for display
purposes. The on-screen version is a quick rendering which uses the
colours available in the current resolution. Each image in memory
is represented by its on-screen version (its raster) which appears
in its own scrollable window. The rasters can also be displayed
full screen.
All images can be clipped, scaled, rotated, flipped and rendered
for any target resolution or machine. The number of bit planes used
to store the image in can be adjusted and the colours used can be
remapped to remove voids in the colour table. Colour images can be
converted to gray-scale. Gray scale images can also be softened,
sharpened, scaled using interpolation, and have their gray values
redistributed by scaling or normalization.
Both the image and its on-screen raster can be saved in a variety
of Atari and non-Atari formats.
HOT FEATURES
* Easy to Use!
Simply select "Load Image" and select the file. An on-screen
raster representing the loaded image will appear in its own
window.
* Resolution Independant Image Load/Manipulate/Save.
Images can be loaded, manipulated and saved without loss of
colour information in any resolution including monochrome.
* Resolution/Machine Independant Rendering.
Images can be rendered using any number of colours or shades
of gray with any size colour table. Colour render also
includes an adjustable near black filter and specification of
colour order. Three colour allocation routines are available.
* Colour Dither!
Images can be rendered in colour either by painting or
dithering. The colour dither is slower but produces fantastic
images in 16 colour mode.
* Render using External Colour Palette!
Images can be rendered using the colour palette of another
image. (Image palettes can be saved in .RGB files for this
purpose.)
* Adjust Pixel Precision!
The number of bit planes used to store the image can be
adjusted. An increase can be used to save the image in a
higher resolution format, a decrease can be used to perform
compaction (defragmentation) of the colour table.
* Redistribute Gray Scales!
The shades of gray in an image can be remapped to any number
of grays. The values can be either scaled or normalized.
* Two Gray Dithers!
Images can be rendered in grayscale using two dithering
routines; dispersed and ordered. The pattern size used by the
ordered dither is adjustable. The user can enter the number
of shades of gray to use. Three transforms are available.
* Two Clipping Methods!
Images can be clipped using the window boundaries or by a
simple mouse-click and drag.
* Variable Image Sharpening!
Blurry images can be "sharpened" by a variable amount.
* Variable Image Smoothing!
Noisy images can be "smoothed" by a variable amount.
* Full Transformations!
Images can be flipped horizontally and vertically as well as
rotated left and right.
* Two Colour to GrayScale Conversions.
Numerical averaging or perception based averaging can be used
to turn a colour image into a gray scale image.
* Arbitrary Scaling!
Images can be scaled by arbitrary percentages, from 5% to
500%. Individual horizontal and vertical scaling provided.
* Two Image Scaling Routines!
Images can be scaled with "Scale Fast" which uses pixel
duplication/removal. Gray scale images can also be scaled
with "Scale Well" which uses pixel interpolation.
* Two Editing Modes!
Images can be "Edited in Place" or "Edited in New Window".
Edit in New Window produces a new image wheras Edit in Place
overwrites the existing image. Edit in Place is for use when
memory is tight.
* Full Screen Mode!
Simply press "Escape" and the image fills the screen. Use
keypad to scroll, function keys to change windows.
* Full Screen File Save Preview!
Full screen mode shows clipping when saving in NEO, Degas,
Tiny, MacPaint and MacStartupScreen formats.
* Full STE and TT Support!
Fully supports STE/TT 4096 colour palette and all TT
resolutions. TT low support includes 256 colour mode and 256
grayscale HyperMono.
Additional image save options for TT screens. (.PI5, .PI7 and
.PI8)
* Memory Indicator!
Shows percentage of memory used and available.
* Image Histogram!
Displays bar chart of pixel occurance versus pixel value.
* Full Image Information!
Displays image properties including size, number of colours,
bits per pixel, number of ST and STE colours, size of colour
table, and more.
* Customizable display!
Windows can appear with or without information bars. Colour
images can appear in colour or in gray scale. The ST or STE
palette can be used for the on screen displays. These
"preferences" can be saved to disk.
PROGRAM DETAILS
The following image file types can be loaded and saved:
IMG, TIFF(packbits only), EPSF, PCX, GIF, BMP, NEO, Degas, Degas
compressed, Tiny, MacPaint, Mac Startupscreen, CP8, FastLoad
(.FL), AIM (.IM).
Images can also be loaded in the following formats:
IFF(Amiga, HAM and ST) and LBM.
STipple is written in C and assembler using Borland
International's Turbo C and Turbo Assembler.
DEMONSTRATION
For a demonstration of some of STyle look for STYDEMO on your
favorite BBS. STYDEMO is a trimmed down version of STyle which will
let you try out most of STyle's features.
ORDER FORM - STyle 1.0 - The Atari ST/STE/TT Image File Manipulator
Includes STyle, and 40 page users manual.
Remit To: Zocra Technologies
4-319 MacKay St.
Ottawa, Ont.
K1M 2B7
CANADA
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