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Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga Software News => Topic started by: kubyx on June 25, 2003, 09:01:35 AM
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Cloanto has released Personal Paint 7.1c on AmiNET.
This is a special AmiNET edition... it is the FULL version and not a demo!
This is from the readme. Gives a brief description of what Personal Paint is (to those whom do not know), and what the special "AmiNET" edition is.
CLOANTO PERSONAL PAINT
Personal Paint 7.1 is a powerful and intuitive paint, image processing,
animation and 24-bit printing package. Employ stunning effects like
emboss, water-colors, transparencies and stereograms (as in "Magic Eye"),
while virtual memory and blitter emulation free precious Chip RAM by using
other storage resources! Plus: support of RTG graphics cards, different
file formats (IFF, GIF, PNG, PCX, JPEG, BMP, TIM, Photo CD, C source code,
DataTypes, etc.), nine brushes, two independent working environments,
multi-level Undo/Redo, animation storyboard, BÈzier curves, autoscroll
painting, Internet publishing features (GIF animations, map editor,
professional color reduction, transparency and progressive display),
superior text editor, color fonts, PostScript output, screen and window
grabber, 181 ARexx commands...
AMINET VERSION
This archive contains a complimentary edition of Personal Paint
version 7.1c, for exclusive distribution through the Aminet internet
archives. This is the full and latest commercial version (not a
demonstration version). The main differences between this distribution
and the commercial product are some tutorials and artwork add-ons, which
for space reasons would not be practical to include in this archive, and
the GIF I/O library, which cannot be redistributed due to licensing
restrictions. For additional information on this topic please refer to:
http://cloanto.com/users/mcb/19950127giflzw.html (http://cloanto.com/users/mcb/19950127giflzw.html)
Documentation is included in English, German and Italian.
This software is hereby licensed to you, the end user, for private, non-commercial and non-profit use only.
Here is a directlink to the download: http://www.aminet.net/biz/cloan/PPaint.lha (http://www.aminet.net/biz/cloan/PPaint.lha)
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I think it's worth noting that when I upgraded my own copy of Personal Paint, I got 7.1b. I'm not sure if I just missed out or what, but this is a great software package. Thank you Cloanto.
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I think it's worth noting that when I upgraded my own copy of Personal Paint, I got 7.1b.
AFAIK, Personal Paint has been available on Aminet a looong time. So is this an update? Is 7.1b the version that was on Aminet previously? And what's the news in this update? (I hope that they have made it working better in a non-custom chip envireonment! like the Pegasos and A1 ;-) )
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I remember getting 7.1b from Amiga Format a while back. It was possibly on Aminet aswell.
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A detailed description of the bug fix in v7.1c can be found here (http://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2003-06-00024-EN.html).
Could some Pegasos- (or Amithlon-) users report about the problems they encountered while trying to use PPaint?
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hasnt the GIF patent run out now? why no GIF i/o lib?
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Well there may be many reasons why they can't distribute it besides the GIF patent.
If anyone has the library though, Cloanto has said that they are free to distribute it to other people if they want - person to person, not via Aminet-style download listings.
I've been giving it to people for years, but I don't have a great deal of bandwidth available, so it's a little slow :)
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on the aminet cd 38 is the full 7.1b version
+ gif support!
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The version that was previously available on Aminet didn't have GIF support either, AFAIR.
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Oh, how I wish that all software companies would do like Cloanto with their abandoned/discontinued applications and games.