Short: The Powerful Printing Program (2.28) Author: Andrea.Latina@p14.f21.n334.z2.fidonet.org (Andrea Latina) Uploader: Andrea Latina p14 f21 n334 z2 fidonet org (Andrea Latina) Type: gfx/misc Version: 2.28 Requires: OS 3.x Architecture: m68k-amigaos EASY PRINT 2.28 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Main features (even in demo version) include: - Loading of IFF files (from 1 to 24 bit per pixel) - Showing of the elaborated image on screen - Possibility to modify the colouring of the picture by operating on 5 different aspects: 1) Balancing (RGBK/CMYK) 2) Gamma (RGBK) 2) Contrast (RGBK) 4) Brightness 5) Saturation - Possibility to select among this dithers: 2) Burkes 3) Ordered 4) Halftone 5) Romboid - Use system's printer drivers for printing in 24 bit per pixel bypassing os's render functions. IMPORTANT!! EasyPrint is shareware, registering activates some options actually not working (why disabled): - Saving of the elaborated image in the IFF24 format - Loading of images in the JPEG (16 million of colours) format - Loading of images through datatypes (GIF, X-BitMap, TIFF, Targa, QRT, PCX are enclosed in the archive) - Use of Virtual Memory on disk (also on Amiga without MMU, as the Amiga 1200), for loading images of every size without being limited by the amount of RAM - Work screen with 256 colours for better rendering the 24 bit format of the image kept in memory - Possibility of cropping a section of the image, of elaborating and printing it separately from the whole picture (for example useful to eliminate borders, text or to print only a particular of the image) - Possibility of bending of a free number of degrees the dither of printing for each of the fundamental colour (cyan, magenta, yellow and black) for minimizing the tendency of the human eye to remark the horizontal and vertical lines generated by the standard dithers. - Possibility of dephase the dithers of printing for each primary colour to optimize blending of colours. - Ink Compensation to correct inks impurities. - POSTER option, for printing Poster of every size! - A lot of dithers of printing (actually 11) to be used with EasyPrint. - Possibility of using many External Modules for S-FX!! EASY PRINT - History -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= v2.28: - Added a 64 colors screen mode (AGA is sloooow in 256 cols! :(( ) (*) - More flexible box when "Modify dimensions" (finally! :) - Enhanced quality on screen in b&w mode - I used fonts XEN (beautiful!) - Fixed some (very) little bug v2.27: - Fixed a stupid mungwall-hit when printing in b&w - Added a progress bar for the external modules (*) - Added the module: Solarize (*) v2.26: - More flexible box in the Crop Window (*) - Now the smoothing is even vertical, not only horizontal - New external module: Rotate90, for vertical printings (*) - Added UNDO function to external modules (*) - Never again access exclusive to printer.device! v2.25: - Dither Floyd-Steinberg on Deluxe Mode (256 cols) (*) - Color Separation (UCR/GCR) - Inks Compensation (Magenta and Yellow) (*) - Distinction Apply/Use in Crop window (*) - Loading with external modules (reduce code size) (*) - Optimized Virtual Memory (*) - Optimized Crop / Backdrop box - Now you can reset all the balancing with a gadget - File-Requester keep the name of the last loaded file - You can change unit of device - Distinction Page/Paper v2.24: - EasyPrint can use the British Metric System (inchs) besides the Decimal Metric System (centimetres). v2.23: - Enabled support for external modules. - Added these special-fx as modules (*): - Antique - Negative - Grey to Color - Color to Grey - Convolve - ReliefMap - FlipX/FlipY v2.22: - Fixed a bug that caused enforcer hits when running EasyPrint from CLI. - EasyPrint now uses standard OS2.x commandline template. - Tooltype support. Pre v2.22: - I have no wish to write her... is too long!! ;) (*) Only for registered versions