EasyPrint 2.28

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
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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
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    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