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Short: Picture viewer for OS 3.0+. V39.14
Author: cmh@lls.se (Magnus Holmgren)
Uploader: cmh@lls.se (Magnus Holmgren)
Type: gfx/show
Version: 39.14
Requires: OS 3.0
Visage is an IFF ILBM/JPeg/PNG/Datatypes viewer for the AmigaOS version 3.0
and higher. Main features include:
Supports AA (AGA), ECS, RTG, PCHG, SHAM and CLUT. ;)
Can display "deep" pictures in all formats on ECS Amigas, rendered
in HAM, "normal" color or grayscale.
Can scale "rendered" pictures to fit the screen.
Extensive monitor support. Uses a BestModeID()-like function to
find a suitable mode (if needed).
Any native Amiga screen mode can be specified with text! No numbers
needed. But you can use numbers, if you so wish. Or a requester.
Simple promotion of pictures to any installed monitor. No hardcoded
command line options for this. There is even a monitor requester.
Several slideshow options, including a random mode, making Visage
ideal for use with screen blankers as an external module.
It's free!
News in version 39.12 (unofficially called VisageNG) include:
GIF support removed (due to unreasonable (IMHO) licensing
conditions by Unisys). This is why this release is called
VisageNG. NG for "No GIF". ;/
PNG support added. Based on libpng/zlib, so it could probably be a
bit smaller (and maybe even faster), but it is there, and it works.
;)
JPEG reader rewritten to use the IJG sources directly. This means
that progressive JPEGs are finally supported.
CyberGraphX support added (bought myself a gfx-card ;).
Improved pipe reading capabilities. Most internal readers should be
able to read from pipes now (including Xpk compressed IFFs).
Various minor improvements, and a couple of bugs and quirks fixed.
Translations updated, done by ATO.
News in version 39.14 include:
Some bugs and quirks fixed.
Installation notes:
If you wish to start the installer from the Shell, please use the provided
ShellInstall script. It sets the parameters correctly.
Also, note that the automatic language selection doesn't completely work
with all versions of the Installer.