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Date: December 19, 1988 19:03
From: CHARM::THEURER
To: @SYS$MAIL:ANIMATORS,@SYS$MAIL:ENGINEER
12/19/88 BIG change to > TEK, the color printer program and > RADMOD, the RAD file creator/modifier They now accept several different file formats: RAD PIF (Prehistoric Image Format) IFF (or ILBM) from the Amiga PICT, MacPaint, and TIFF from the Macintosh Please use these conventional extensions: .RAD .PIF .IFF .PICT .MPNT .TIFF Since RADMOD can now be used to convert foreign graphics files to RAD format, I will no longer be supporting ILBM_TO_RAD and MAC_TO_RAD, the original format conversion programs. -------------------------------------------------------------- More changes for RADMOD users: > Changed REMA (remap) function so user can specify the color at which to start remapping (for example, if the 1st 4 colors are just the way you want them and not to be remapped, then specify 4). > Added ability to open multiple files of any type for merging into one final rad file. You can use this to combine RAD files or Amiga files or whatever combination you like. Unfortunately, the problem of different palettes has not been addressed, so files you combine better all use the same palette. > Added check feature when creating a cell to automatically clip a picture that is too big to fit on a RAD page and warn the user of this. This was necessary because of the new ability to import graphics from formats with larger cells than RAD supports. > Added check feature when creating cells to avoid writing over existing cells. If you're about to overwrite an existing cell it will now warn you and ask for guidance. > Removed DUBH,HALH,DUBV,HALV from menu (but if requested they still work) because you can get the same results by using SCAL. Note: [theurer.pps]radmod.doc contains documentation on all changes to RADMOD as well as a perfunctory operational description.
Dec 19, 1988