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PostView 1.2 Manual
Copyright Ralph Schmidt 1993
Additional Artwork Mick Hohmann
Internet: laire@uni-paderborn.de
IRC: laire
SMail: Ralph Schmidt
Kleiner Hellweg 4
33154 Salzkotten
Germany
This software is Gift(Poison)ware
Greetings go to
Michael van Elst,Petra Zeidler,MichaelS, and ScottE for some help
with PostView.
Guardian(Andrew Denton...i have no clue why i have added
you to this list(Inside joke)), (Closed Lips)Bill Coldwell,
CWolf(Thank you for your great DynamiCache),Aikido,JohnW,
Tron , Ill, mau(sorry that i forgot you) and all the IRC friends
for some nice hours.
Greetings also go to my closer friends Dirk Leschner and Frank Jakobs.
P.S. Gift means poison in german....
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
! !
! PostView NEEDS the post.library that is based in the PostV1.7.lha archive !
! !
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My experience with docs in general have convinced me to release only
short docs because nobody RTFM.......so why waste your time and
my energy?:-B
o PostView Background Story
Christmas 1992 i needed to look at some specs that were only available
as PS files and after some time with the Post V1.7 Viewer i was so
frustrated that i started to write a new Previewer. I hope you like it.....
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PostView uses the post.library, so don't blame me for any parse-problems:-B
Read the post.library docs for copyrights and any additional informations.
Special thank go to Adrian Aylward for the post.library and his confusing
source style:-B
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!If you use PostView from the WB the post.library error output is written !
!into NIL:. If you want to see the output you must specify an output file.!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Color Handling:
o WB
On the WB PostView uses the default colours so you can get
uncorrect coloured pictures.
o SCREEN
If you open it on a Screen with »4 Colour CMYK« active you
should get a correct Colour output.
o A2410
b&w uses black and grey
3/4 bitplanes use the Post colours.
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Options:
o "XSize=?" sets the width of the PS-Bitmap
o "YSize=?" sets the height of the PS-Bitmap
o "XDpi=?" sets the XDpi.
o "YDpi=?" sets the YDpi.
o "Depth=?" sets the depth of the bitmap.
o Black & White = 1 Bitplane
o 3 Colour RGB = 3 Bitplane
o 4 Colour CMYK = 4 Bitplane
o "DXSize=?" sets the width of the PS-Display window
o "DYSize=?" sets the height of the PS-Display
o "MemVLen=?" read post.library docs
o "MemFLen=?" read post.library docs
o "MemLLen=?" read post.library docs
o "MemHLen=?" read post.library docs
o "Window" sets display-window mode on so the window is opened on
the WB.
o "A2410" sets display-window mode to A2410 Tiga.
Bitmap sized is fixed to 1024*1024 in this mode.
The display parameter AREN'T changed.
o "Screen" sets screen-window mode on so the window is opened on
Custom screen.
o "ScreenPost" sets screen-window mode on so the window is opened on
Custom screen with original Post colourmap.
o "ChipRam" sets chipram bitmap mode on.
o "PublicRam" sets publicram bitmap mode on.
This can lead to slower refresh times.
o "Refresh" sets refresh mode, so the display-window is refreshed
on every PS-Bitmap change.
o "NoRefresh" sets refresh mode off
o "Center" sets centre mode on, so the display-window area is centred
on the image position.
o "NoCenter" sets center mode off
o "Colour" defines post.library colour mode
o "Init=init.ps" can be used to define several Init.ps files.
o "ErrFile=CON:0/0/640/100/PostView-Status/AUTO/WAIT/CLOSE"
sets the post.library report window/file.
o "ScreenX" sets the Custom screen width.
o "ScreenY" sets the Custom screen height.
o "ScreenDepth=2" sets the Custom screen depth 2.
o "ScreenID=EURO:72Hz Productivity Interl."
sets the Custom screen display name.
Be careful..the name depends on the locale.library
language settings.
o "NoAutoScroll" turns Custom screen autoscrolling off
Command Window Gadgets:
See Options explanations
o Load File loads a postscript file and start the parser. You can run
unlimited parser instances.
Display Window Gadgets:
o the Times Image starts the next page.
o the Printer Image starts the printer.device.
o the Disk Image is used to save the page.
o the Centre Image is used to centre the page.
o the Arrows can be activated by the cursor keys.
SHIFT and CTRL increase the scrolling offset.
Menu:
o Selects a new Custom screen display mode.
o Calculates the width and height values by the DPI values.
o Calculates Dpi values by the width and height values.
A2410 Support:
Sorry..i planned to do a big scroll screen but the a2410.device
seems to have a lot bugs in the host2gsp function.
In the A2410 mode the bitmap size is fixed to 1024*1024.
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To Do: o Faster FillMem(Movem optimized...i want to get it out as fast as possible
and i'm sooooooooo lazy)
o Centreing is sooo slow...instead of readpixel use direct Bitmap
checks.....though it's acceptable on an a4000.
Nice time while exploring all the obvious functions and if you're one
of these creatures that enjoy to read manuals,nevermind.
There's always another time......
Regards....