Min. requirements:
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· AmigaOS 3.0
· 256 color Intuition screens
Changes 3.03 -> 3.04
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· Reestablished proper 8 bit JPEG display.
· Now includes an italian guide file (3.0).
· updated english and german guides to V 3.04.
Changes 3.0 -> 3.03
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· Allows up to 50 XPK packers.
· No longer crashes when scanning executables.
· Accepts some of former ignored GIFs
· Shortcut <Amiga>+<R> now works.
· Starts user definable AREXX scripts by pressing F1 to F10
Changes 2.11 -> 3.0
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· Datatypes support.
· Dynamic thumbnail handling and automatic buffer sorting.
· Enables automatically catalog updates
· Now allows to remove single thumbnails from a catalog.
· Some screen layout changes.
· Now it is possible to hide or to show the screen title
and a status bar.
· Some new AREXX commands.
· Many internal changes and enhancements.
Introduction:
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ImageDesk is a program to catalog graphics archives by generating
small representations of pictures, so called thumbnails. Those
thumbnails are internally being expanded into objects which include
all essential data of its represented picture. These can be combined
into loadable and savable thumbnail catalogs in which XPK compression
is supported to reduce memory consumption on storage medias. The
catalogs are directory orientated, this means the pictures of all
included thumbnails are in the same directory path. the following
picture types are supported and will be recognized automatically:
· IFF ILBM (color mapped, EHB, HAM, HAM8, 24-Bit, DCOL )
· GIF (87a, 89a)
· JPEG (1)
· PCX (1 bit upto 32 bit)
· BMP (4,8 and 24 bit, OS/2 and Windows formats, unpacked only)
· PCD (upto BASE size)
· PNM (P4, P5 und P6)
· TARGA
· Amiga DATATYPES (picture class)
The corresponding picture of a thumbnail object can be shown if
requested. Therefore two internal viewers, the window and the screen
viewer, exist for each internal supported format. The latter are able
to view Images on CyberGraphics, Picasso or standard 8 bit screens,
but it is also possible to specify external viewers or AREXX programs
which ImageDesk will call on demand.
---------- Footnote ----------
(1) ImageDesk needs the "Tower JPEG Codec Class" from Christoph Feck
for its JPEG support.
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