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  *  IMAGECOPY 4 (c) 1995 Jeremy Hughes and FaST Club                        *
  *                                                                          *
  *  Imagecopy 4 and associated programs are copyright, and should not be    *
  *  recopied except for personal use by a legal user (the purchaser or      *
  *  owner of the original software).                                        *
  *                                                                          *
  *                                          Jeremy Hughes, 26th June 1995   *
  *                                                                          *
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  Manual additions and corrections
  --------------------------------

  S1.2.3 Imgc4.prg

  Imgc4.prg will run an accessory version of Imagecopy 4 as a stand-alone 
  program if it is unable to locate an active accessory version or PRG 
  file. This means you can have a single Imagecopy file with an ACC or ACX 
  extender on your boot disk, and imgc4.prg will either call Imagecopy as 
  an accessory or run the ACC or ACX file as a stand-alone program if 
  Imagecopy has not been loaded as an accessory.

  S4.3.2.1 View

  When viewing images in full-screen mode, mouse-scrolling auto-repeats if 
  you hold down a [Shift] key while moving the mouse to the edge of the 
  screen.

  S4.3.3.4.1 Close windows

  This option closes windows which are currently open on screen. Imagecopy 
  allows you to select which types of windows you want to close.

  S4.3.3.5.1.0c IMG compression

  This option configures the pattern length used for RLE compression of 
  IMG files. The default option (1-byte) gives the best results in most 
  cases, but some dithered images may compress better with 2-byte or 
  3-byte patterns. In general it is best to leave this setting alone 
  unless you need to squeeze some extra bytes of compression from a 
  particular image (if it doesn't have to be IMG format, you will probably 
  get better compression with LZW TIFF compression). This option only 
  affects images with up to 256 colours. True-colour IMG files are always 
  compressed with 2-byte, 3-byte, or 4-byte patterns according to their 
  colour depth (16-bit, 24-bit, or 32-bit).

  [Try changing from 1-byte to 2-byte compression if a particular program is 
  unable to load IMG files from Imagecopy - IMG files from other programs 
  commonly use 2-byte compression]

  S4.3.3c.6 Duplicate

  If you hold down a [Shift] key while selecting this option Imagecopy 
  allows you to specify the number of duplicate copies you wish to make. 
  Otherwise it creates a single duplicate copy.

  
  Memory requirements
  -------------------

  Imagecopy 4 requires a minimum of 1 megabyte of memory. Some images (e.g. 
  large JFIF images) may require more than 1 megabyte.
  

  Installing Imagecopy 4
  ----------------------

  Please note: the accessory and stand-alone versions of Imagecopy 4 are 
  identical. To install Imagecopy as an accessory, rename one of the 
  program files with an ACC extension and copy it to the root directory of 
  your boot disk or boot partition.

  Don't forget to configure Imagecopy for your printer before trying to print 
  images! If you have problems cataloguing images, check that you have 
  configured the page size correctly.


  Imagecopy 4 CD
  --------------

  This is a CD version of Imagecopy which can read Photo CD images. One 
  particularly useful feature is an option to cut out part of a high- 
  resolution Photo-CD image on systems which do not have enough memory to 
  load the complete image. Adding a CD ROM drive to your system allows you 
  to access CD versions of photographs which you can then display or print 
  with Imagecopy CD (most film developers can transfer negatives to CDs). 
  Printing family snapshots is a good way of creating personal Christmas 
  cards. Contact FaST Club if you want to upgrade from Imagecopy 4 to 
  Imagecopy 4 CD; the upgrade cost is œ5 plus post and packing.

  If you don't have a CD ROM drive FaST Club's Photo2Disk service will 
  transfer negatives to JFIF images, which can be read with the standard 
  (non-CD) version of Imagecopy.
  
  
  Icons
  -----

  The ICONS folder on disk 1 contains icons which can be installed as program 
  icons for Imagecopy with TOS versions 2 and higher. To do this you will 
  need to use a resource or icon editor to copy one of the icons from its 
  current file into your DESKICON.RSC file, which should be in the root 
  directory of your boot disk. With TOS 2 or 3, you will need to use the 
  monochrome icon in ICON.RSC; but if you have TOS 4 (Falcon TOS) you can use 
  the colour icon in COLORICN.RSC. Please note that older resource editors 
  (such as K-Resource) are unable to load RSC files containing colour icons. 
  Once you have copied the appropriate icon into your DESKICON.RSC file, 
  reboot your system and use the 'Install icon' option in the Desktop Options 
  menu to select the new icon for use with one (or more) of the Imagecopy 
  program files. If you have copied IMGC4.PRG onto your boot disk (as 
  suggested above), install this with the new icon and drag it onto the 
  desktop so that you can start Imagecopy by double-clicking or dropping 
  image files onto this icon.
  
  Please note: this only works if you have TOS 2 or higher.


  Disk contents
  -------------

  Imagecopy 4 disks should contain

  Disk 1

  auto\            Auto-folder programs
    fastprnt.prg   Fastprint (print accelerator)
    jpegd.prg      DSP JPEG loader (Falcon only)
  fonts\           GEM fonts
  icons\           Imagecopy icons
  img\             IMG images
  tiff\            TIFF images
  tiny\            Tiny images
  imgcopy4.prg     Imagecopy 4
  imgc4.prg        Imagecopy 4 startup program
  filelist.prg     Filelist (batch file editor)
  freemem.tos      Freemem (free memory program)
  password.prg     Password (password program)
  readme           This file

  Disk 2

  imgc4s.prg       Small version of Imagecopy 4
  gif\             GIF images
  jfif\            JFIF images

  Disk 3

  jfif75\          75% quality JFIF images
  jfif95\          95% quality JFIF images


  Images
  ------

  Imagecopy 4 is supplied with the following images. These may be used freely 
  with Imagecopy or other programs, but copyright images should not be 
  redistributed except as printed hardcopy. The limited range of file formats 
  were chosen for their efficient use of disk space (esp. JFIF and TIFF), and 
  are a small selection of the different formats which Imagecopy can read 
  (see the manual for a complete list). 16 m. (under Colours) stands for 16 
  million = 24-bit true-colour. 65 k. stands for 65 thousand = 16-bit 
  true-colour.

  Image           Size        Colours  Description          Copyright

  amber.gif       320x200     256      Girl
  balloons.gif    320x200     256      Hot-air balloons
  clown.gif       320x200     256      Clown
  eagle.gif       320x200     256      Eagle
  earth.gif       320x200     256      Planet earth
  parrot.gif      320x200     256      Parrot
  pigs.gif        320x200     256      Pigs

  pal16.img       139x110     16       16-colour palette
  pal256.img      161x161     256      256-colour palette

  candle_m.jpg    640x439     16 m.    Candle
  cottage1.jpg    432x288     16 m.    Cottage              Angela Hughes
  cottage2.jpg    288x432     16 m.    Cottage              Angela Hughes
  dog.jpg         416x560     16 m.    Dog                  Angela Hughes
  dovedale.jpg    424x284     16 m.    Dove Dale            Angela Hughes
  geranium.jpg    384x256     16 m.    Geranium             Jane Lucas
  iris.jpg        608x400     16 m.    Iris                 Nigel Scott
  jessica.jpg     280x419     16 m.    Girl                 Jeremy Hughes
  lane.jpg        608x400     16 m.    Lane                 Nigel Scott
  mapping.jpg     320x240     16 m.    Ray-traced image
  paeony.jpg      432x288     16 m.    Paeony               Jane Lucas
  rose.jpg        320x200     16 m.    Rose 
  sky1.jpg        640x400     16 m.    Sky                  Nigel Scott
  sky2.jpg        640x400     16 m.    Sky                  Nigel Scott
  tatrshl1.jpg    512x768     16 m.    Tattershall Castle   Andrew Wright
  tatrshl2.jpg    600x502     16 m.    Tattershall Castle   Andrew Wright
  tissngt1.jpg    424x284     16 m.    Tissington           Angela Hughes
  tissngt2.jpg    576x384     16 m.    Tissington           Angela Hughes
  wolfscot.jpg    384x576     16 m.    Wolfscote Dale       Angela Hughes

  c1.tif          320x200     16       Fractal
  colours.tif     91x91       65 k.    Colour wheel
  kestrel.tif     320x200     16       Kestrel              Jos. Milton
  textstyl.tif    640x400     2        Textstyle
  tree1.tif       288x400     2        Tree
  tree2.tif       288x400     2        Tree
  swallow.tif     320x200     16       Swallow              Jos. Milton

  blueeyes.tn1    320x200     16       Girl
  coyote.tn1      320x200     16       Coyote (cartoon)
  eagle.tny       320x200     16       Eagle
  erdbeere.tn1    320x200     16       Strawberries
  lynx.tny        320x200     16       Lynx

  The two tree images (tree1.tif and tree2.tif) were created by Jonathan 
  Lawrence's fractal program 'Create'.
  

  Imagecopy Supplementary Disk
  ----------------------------

  A supplementary disk with additional images is available from FaST Club for 
  œ2.50 plus post and packing. This contains PhotoCD images which have been 
  converted to JFIF format.


  Technical support 
  -----------------

  If you have any problems using Imagecopy, or suggestions for future 
  development, you can contact FaST Club or write to me at the following 
  address:

    Jeremy Hughes
    63 Donnington Bridge Road
    Oxford
    OX4 4BA
    
  You can also send email to j_hughes@cix.compulink.co.uk

  Please be as specific as possible in reporting problems, and include 
  details of which version of Imagecopy you are using and your computer 
  system (see Ý 3.10 in the manual). It helps if you can provide a 
  step-by-step guide for recreating a problem.
  
  >> CIX users <<

  We are currently setting up a support conference on CIX which will also 
  provide free minor upgrades. This will be available from July 1995. The 
  conference name will be 'imagecopy'.


  Image formats
  -------------

  Please send copies of any images which Imagecopy 4 claims to be able to 
  read but is unable to read correctly. There are a large number of variants 
  to common formats, and it is possible that Imagecopy will not be able to 
  read every image in a particular format. This is particularly true of TIFF 
  images. Imagecopy should read any baseline-TIFF image, apart from Huffmann 
  compressed images (which are rare), but it cannot read some types of 
  extended TIFF file. There are also a fair number of badly-written images 
  floating around: Imagecopy tries to deal with these but it may fail in a 
  particular instance.


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  *  FaST Club                                                               *
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  *  Thanks...                                                               *
  *                                                                          *
  *  ...to all who tested beta versions of Imagecopy 4 and contributed       *
  *  useful suggestions, especially : John Bowsher, Peter Crush, Ofir Gal,   *
  *  Paul Glover, Chris Good, Mike Kirwan, Rob Perry, and Nigel Scott.       *
  *                                                                          *
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