LV1.82 to LV1.85: - DELETE of images 'D'-key during fileselection - RENAME of images 'R'-key during fileselection - UNDO function 'U'-key reloads the original image to the display - RAS Sun raster files. - OS2 DIB and BMP RLE4-compression - ICO Windows Icons - TIF compression 5 (LZW) with less than 8 BPS - EPS Encapsulated Postscript - RIX 16 and 24 BPS - PCX 24 BPS - WPG 256 color raster images from Word perfect 5.1 - TXT,DOC,BAT,HLP Textfiles to be viewed and converted as grafic - PMC,VMG A4TECH scanner format for 640x480x256 images - SFI SIS-Framegrabber format for DOS based menu - COL Kontron IBAS Lookup table files used when loading IMG files - ANI IFF animationfiles to show the first image - /h parameter to take use of HICOLOR chips - recognize VESA VRAM VGA's with non continuous RAM (e.g. Diamond Stealth) - TEMP-File errors, if it's to big or unable to create LV aborts with a message - prepared for 1280x1024x256 resolution display (but not tested jet) - Improved speed and quality of grey loaded Images with more than 256 colors - TGA and JPG files are now recognized only by the fileextension - Fixed bug TIF RLE8 to be loaded correctly for variable x sizes - Fixed bug TIF use 1BPS as default if not specified in the header - Fixed bug TIF R2G2B2 images use correct colors (Epson scanner) - Fixed bug prevent from hang up if CUT file is corrupt - Fixed bug YUV to RGB conversion with correct greenintensity (JPG,FLM) - Fixed bug in Animation (SLD-Files) when color and grey images combined - Fixed bug OS2 DIB and BMP RLE8-compression LV1.85 to LV1.86: - JPG can be saved in two qualityclasses. - A timebar is shown when saving images. - Fixed bug DIB 8 to be loaded correctly for variable x sizes. - Fixed bug JPG Huffmandecoder correctly loads koefficients greater 10Bit. LV1.86 to PV2.01: - Coloroptimizing controlled by menukey 'P' - Filemask to be set by 'Y' - Totaly new outfit - Increased maximum count of files per directory to 1024 - Speed up JPG loading 15% - Fixed bug JPG loading of YUV 4:4:4 color images - Fixed bugs resulting from the new menue PV2.0 to PV2.01 PV2.02: - Added 360x512, 720x512, 320x200 VGA resolution to be selected by the menu. - Fixed bug handling ALCHEMY's V1.51 JPEG variable lenght huffman tables. - Added erosion, median, dilation filter. PV2.03 - Fixed bug in dilation filter. - Fixed bug converting monocrome SCx and BMP into other fileformats. PV2.04 - Added JPEG with vertical component resolutions 2:1:1 and 4:1:1; PV2.05 - Added EPS 24Bit - Included all characters (exept $0d,$0a) to be shown when converting Text - Fixed bug in DIB RLE for accepting the EOL code within a line - Fixed bug in converting Amiga LBM 6Bps graylevel image - Fixed bugs in saving images from a 16 color/gray displaymode PV2.10 - Added home/end to fileselectionbox - Added InfoBox message - Added 640x480x16 to be selected by the menu. - Added full NOVELL netware fileselection capabilities - Fixed bug in loading bilevel TIFF with compression $8005 - Fixed bug in loading GIF when local BPS number differes to the global - Fixed bug with AheadA-VGA 256 color modes PV2.11 - Fixed bug in JPEG horizontal component resolution (4:1:1) - Speed up JPEG and FLM Color images to be loaded 20% faster - Reduced Heap memory requirement when coloroptimizing - Added loading of GIF images contained in GRASP GL files - Added loading of FLI animations contained in GRASP GL files - Fixed bug with Video_7 mode 1024x768x16 - Added *.VI Jovian images with 1,2,4,8,16,24 BPS - Fixed bug loading TGA files with 19 Byte header - Added new DL fileformat - Added GIF and TIFF to be saved with BPS 1,2,4. PV2.12 - Added the Load_all_palette - entry in Autodesk Animator FLI files - Fixed bug in saving GIF with BPS 1,2,4 (since 2.11) PV2.13 - Exit if called in CMD-line mode with a file that could not be loaded - Loaded faster in CMD-line mode. PV2.14 - Fixed bug converting with resizing sometimes produces big tempfiles or unusable results (since V1.85). - I'm sorry. - Modified GIF saving. Some (E.g. alchemy V1.5) had problems to load it. - Added DCX FAX format. PV2.15 - PV available with full german dialog. - Linked a 8x14 font into PV, some adapters do not provide fonts at all modes. - Added EGA BLOAD format. - Added TGA recognizion of offset byte 2. PV2.16 - Fixed bug saving TIFF with 3,5,6,7 Bps. - Fixed bug loading GIF89 when extensionblock includs more than one block. - Improved sorting of filenames. - Enhanced the contrast of displayed binary images, it may be that ATI mode $65 (1024x768x16) may not work in this case from now on. - removed saving GIF with 1Bps. Many programs have problems to read it. PV2.17 - Added colorcycling. - Added destination path to be selected by the menu. - Added KO-23 (UO-22) satellite imageformat. PV2.18 - Fixed bug at BMP 24 Bps wordalign. - Fixed bug when JPG E0 marker length exceedes 8KB (Logitech Fototouch color V1.0). - Added FLC format from Autodesk animator pro. - Fixed bug in VESA detect (some VESA VGA hang up if called without Parm $C0000). - Prior check for VESA than for the VGA chiptype minimizes the SVGA problems. following changes not included in the CSL sharewareversion 2.18: - Fixed a bug in FLC with fillword sequence. - conversionnumber added to /C parameter enables converting within a batch. PV2.19 - Fixed bug JPG Files smaller 8KB were refused since changes made in V2.18. - Added JTIFF Class Y TIFF with YCbCr and JPEG compression. - Modified Text to graphic conversion to get higher conversionspeed, also 'Reduce' works (if you do not want to reduce use 'N' for cut). PV2.20 - Fixed bug in DCX FileFax format. - Added some SLD functions: 'C'lear, 'S'kip, 'Q'uit. - expanded SLD maximum lines to 256. PV2.21 - Added Starwriter SGF format ( Star Division ). - Fixed a bug in saving TIFF with 1BPS and odd number of pix per line. - No longer limitations to the unregistered version but just some msg's. - Created PVLITE, a small commandline Pictureviewer. PV2.22 - Prevent corrupt PCX from painting beyond the last line. - All images to be loaded about 5..10% faster on 386/486.. . - Slowmotion FLI,FLC,GL when keeping the right-shift-Key pressed. - PV2.22m experimental MOD player version. PV2.23 - Modified DL to do the realtime animation instead showing the overview. - Modified GL to automaticaly initialize graylevel for PIC's without colortable. - Modified registrationprocedure PV2.24 - Added Kodak Photo CD Baseformat 768x512. PV2.25 - Images with more than 256 colors are automaticaly converted in 24Bit quality, when converting into TGA, TIFF, BMP , JPG Files. - Corrected blue intensity on Kodak PCD YCC to RGB conversion. PV2.26 - Added SAT satellite images from Eumetsat (BXTSAT via Austria). - Fixed bug in loading Kontron COL Files when they contain random coments. - Fixed bug, 720x512 Mode and other 16 color modes did not work correctly since V2.25. - Added softscrolling with up to 1024 virtual lines at 1MB SVGA by PGUP,PGDN. - Changed saturationcontrol to be selected by the left and right keys. - Fixed bug to load ICO Windows Icons others than 4 BPS correctly. - Fixed warp around in some modes at some VGA's when loading big Gif's when you choose 'cut to displaydimensions'. - Increased the size of TXT,DOC,.. to a maximum of 128x73 Characters. PV2.27 - Modified WPG Bitmaprecognizion - Modified ICO Recognizion - Changed softscrolling to Cursor up/down to use with the mouse too - Changed saturation to be selected by F9 F10 - Fixed bug new parameter /S doesn't work correctly in V2.26 - Speed up unkompressed 24 and 16 BPS fileformats (TGA, BMP,..) about 10% - Added [I]nfo function to the mainmenu - Added FLM Screemachine II YUYV Subsampling. PV2.28 - Added Macintosh PICT format. - Added extended GEM format XIMG. PV2.30 - Added all Hicolor and Truecolor modes of the ATI Ultra 2MB - Provided the VESA Hicolor support by comandlineparameter. - Modified IFF to allow MiniPics with up to 20KB before Body PV2.31 - Fixed bugs from 2.30. Some truecolor images cannot be converted correctly in the conversionmode. Overwriting images in the displaymode may cause a corrupt strip at the top of the image. In Trucolor display modes the Helpmessage destroyes a part of the image. Sorry for these bugs. - Added VESA Hicolor/truecolor recognizion. - VESAINFO utility to check your VESA VGA. - Added CVP format. PV2.32 - Fixed bug CEG Chip did not work correctly on CEG files since LV V1.8 - Added Sierra Hicolor recognizion and /o to disable Hicolor if fail. - Added TIFF 24 Bit with $8005 compression - Added proportional reduce function for a correct aspectratio - provided a special color setting for messages in graphicmode to ensure that text could be seen. this may cause temporary wrong colors for the displayed image. - Fixed a bug 320x200 didn't work correctly at Trident 8800 since softscrolling. - Fixed bug at 1280x1024x16 mode at segment border. - Added RSTm marker handling to JPG decompression (Aldus). PV2.33 - Added VM Videomachine fileformat. - Added FRM Echolab imagegenerator fileformat. - Fixed bug loading some ICO with 1BPS. - Fixed bug recognizing the correct x-size on some BMP with 1BPS. - Added PCX with 0 - compression. PV2.34 - Experimental printersupport for HP DJ500C. - Included REGISTER.EXE to make registrations - Drastically increased the speed of FLI,FLC loading from CD-ROM PV2.35 - Added change path comand P:[Path] to SLD. - Added /b parameter if 24Bit modes show red and blue exchanged (Diamond Stealth Pro, Genoa). - Fixed bug 8514/A adapters combined with VESA VGA did not work since V2.30 . - Added coloroptimizing to PVLITE. - Added 3 more lines in the fileselectionbox. PV2.36 - Fixed bug recognizing the readonly flags on directories. - FLI,FLC,DL animations repeat continuously. - Fixed bug when displaying upsidedown images (TGA,BMP) in true-/hicolor modes. - Finally found the correct YCC to RGB colorconversion for Kodak PCD. - Fixed bug in SLD with P: ChangePath comand. - Added the PCD.SLD slidefile to provide a Diashow with your Photo-CD. You just have to edit it for your CD driveletter. - Added Flip XY and Rotate for true-\hicolor modes. PV2.40 - Added CDR,CCH Corel Draw Icon - Added SKD Autosketch Icon - Added SCR Word capture - Changed LUT programming done by BIOS for ATI Mach32 VESA221 1280x1024x256. - Fixed bug ATI Mach32 true/hicolor first bank was not selected since V2.34 - Fixed bug recognizing the archive flags on directories. - Fixed bug PV hangs up when a MOD is used in a SLD. - Official licence from Marc Cox to use MODOBJ within PV. - Added CMYK to JPG (Adobe). - Added CMYK to TIFF. - Fixed bug TGA with interline compression. - Fixed bug PCX 256 colortable recognizion with double 0c marker. - Expanded SLD entries to 32 char per line. - Added t: comand to enable subscript text within the SLD. - Added a: comand to enable VGA Mode autodect before loading. - Added file tagging. ^T tags all files, ^U untags all and T tags single files. - Added /V parameter to disable higher resolutions than 1024 for slow monitors. - Added AVI Video for Windows - Added 32Bit TIFF. - Added Mitsubishi CP200 Thermosublimation videoprinter. - Added a pixelpicker to analyse the intensities ('K' when image is displayed). PV2.41 - Added BBS files to be viewed as Text - Added child-process-call-capability for any extensions "EXT" with EXT.BAT, see ZIP.BAT to list zipped files or ANS.BAT to show ANSI 80x25 in textmode. - Added ANS true ANSI sequences can be displayed. - Added saving BMP as 4BPS too. - Fixed bug some hires 16 color modes are displayed with line stepwidth of 8 lines with 7 blanked lines between since changes made in V2.34. Sorry !! - Added define window function "W" also available in hi/truecolor modes. - speed up JPG 15..50% . This seems to be the maximum speed available for calculating without tables and not giving up 286 compatibility. May be a faster coloroptimizing and YCbCr to RBG conversion would do another 10 %. - added key to abort delay within a SLD and continue with the next file. - Modified OAK VGA driver. Added Cirrus recognizion. Added NCR, Realtek, Genoa VGA support without recognizion, but with new CMD line parmameters. - Added /n cmdlineparameter to prevent PV to switch into textmode after leaving. PV2.42 - Added Chip&Tech 655x0 VGA-chips. - Fixed Bug Ansi-display didn't work with DOS Share installed. - Added rotated PCD images to be displayed correctly and speed up normal PCDs. - Added compressed VM Videomachine format. - Added FLX 15BPS animations. (15 Bit Hicolor VESA VGA required). - Added Ventura Publisher 24BPS IMG - Added First Publisher ART - Added Fontasy BSG - Added Atari PCP - Added Turbo-Pascal TPI PV2.43 - Added many common FAXG3 formats (FAX, WFS, QFX, BFX, ..) - Added also TIFF Class F FAXG3 - Added OS/2 V2.1 BMP and RLE - Added Macintosh PICT Truecolor - Added Printerportselection - EPS TIFF Tender now used if included instead of searching for dataarrays - PVLITE defaults to a proportional reduce of big images - Fixed bug at TIFF with 4BPS and $8005 compression - Fixed bug at DCX FAX format - Fixed bug at Macintosh 8 Bit PICT - Added ATI Mach 32 PCI/VLB recognizion PV2.43x - Some minor bugfixings - Added Zoom for both dimensions by "Z" - Added XMS Support for temporary data - Speed up GIF decompression - Added autocentering for y dimension - Added X:nn and Y:nn to control positionizing pictures within SLD files. - Modified functions for tagged files. conversion, monocrome, .. stays for all tagged files. - [P] allows selection of Hicolormode for all modes if supported. - Changed +,- selection for Zoomfunctions X,Y,Z into *,/. - +,- to switch between the VGA modes while a picture is displayed. - XMS Support for scolling big images in all directions. ( choose "N" for cut to displaydimensions, or when switching to a lower VGA resolution). - Added support for 320x200 with Hi/Truecolor. PV2.50 - Added galleryfunction providing the overview of all pictures in the current path. - Speed up decoding of all hi-/true-color-fileformats at hi-/truecolor modes. - Speed up JPG another 10..20% percent. - Added 8Bit HAM IFF. - Added TIFF FAX Group4. - Added TIFF 32 bit with LZW compression. - Added conversion into a WIN3.1 compatible ICO Iconfiles. - Added conversion into a OS/2 compatible BMP. - Readded badcode-recognizion in GIF. It has been removed since V2.40 but sometimes leads to hang up. - Modified SLD-comand C:0 clears the whole screen. - Added recognizion of Filetype mask by commandline e.g. PV *.gif . - Tagged file conversion makes all destinationfiles of the same size if you enter discrete values for the destination size. - Used /h parameter in combination with VESA compatible VGA's to define the VESA V1.2 standard. This is of fortune if the autdetection of VESA hicolor fails or e.g the detection lasts extremly long about 8 seconds as with ATI MACH64 (Here you should call PV /h $c0000). - Added EXT.HDR headerdefinition file for specifing *.EXT fileformats. - PVLITE is able to be combined with GIF or FLx files into a selfdisplaying EXE file. PV2.51 - Added EPSON LQ/Stylus Printer. - Added Gallery Picture Size Info. - Added Gallery Print and Save to File. - Added [C] comand in the filemenu to execute Commamd.com for DOS-SHELL or alternatively if the Batch PVCMD.BAT exists it is executed. This can be used for individual DOS comands like copying files to another destination. - Added RLC binary Scanner format. - Fixed bug PV hangs if starting a LST,DOC,TXT file from the galery. - Fixed bug FLC clear frame chunk 0xd did not work. - Modified +,- switches resolutions without affecting the [X] menu settings. - Added recognizion of S3 chips. PV2.52 - Added PNG - Fixed bug with OAK VGA - Fixed bug in PCD limitation of red saturation since V2.50 - Added possibility to select a Zoomfactor for conversion-mode. - Added calculation of the undefined dimension if just one dimension is defined to get a correct aspect-ratio when converting images - Added conversion into 1BPS BMP. - Added a normfactor to enable variable downscale 16Bps images to 8Bps. - modified EPSON Printerdriver to print twice the size at small pictures. - Added scrolling through gallery by left and right cursors. - Added R:n to control reduction or fit within SLD's. PV2.53 - Fixed bug in gallery when SET PVICONS is defined to display the right size and not the size of the icons. - Fixed bug in PPM recognizion of sizeparameters. - Release the state of numlock as it is. - Added UNIX portable bitmap PGM and PBM with binary data. - Added conversion into 24,4,2,1Bps PCX. - Added SGI Silicon grafics format. - Added IMG vivid raytracer format. - Added 'Load next picture function'. Press "N" while a picture is displayed loads the next picturefile. This is independent of the file tagging. - Added 'Load last picture function'. Press "L" while a picture is displayed loads the previous picturefile. - Added Xnn Ynn Znn comandlineparameters to control variable size conversion. - Added cmdline parameter /g to start PV in the gallery mode. - Fixed bug in JPG with big restartintervals (Photoshop 2.5 fair compression). - Increased the possible Xsize of 4:2:2-JPGs from 2048 to 3400. - Removed 8514/a autorecognizion if a cmdline parameter for the VGA-Type is set or a VESA BIOS entry is found. This may provide PV from hang if the reserved INT7F is used otherwise. - Added VESA2.0 and access to 1280x1024 with all colordepths. - Added cmdlineparameter /Xn to predefine a VGA resolution. E.g /X2 forces the use of 640x480 usefull for Laptops. PV2.60 - Added Mac PICT with mode 3 hicolor. - Added [W] menucomand and cmdlineparameter /W[0..3] to predefine how to treat images that do not fit to screen instead of always ask before loading. - Added SHIFT+[A..Z] menucomand to skip to the files beginning with A..Z. - Improved the DOS-SHELL ([C] Cmd) and BATCH call of other programs so that PV swappes itself to XMS and provides almost all of the DOS memory to the childprogram. - Reduced the memoryrequirements of PV by improving the dynamic memory management and using overlays. - Fixed bug. Pictures with a size greater than 1024x1024 and more than 256 colors are not displayed in the highest available Hi/Truecolormode in the VESA-AUTO-Mode since the 2.53. sorry for this bug. - Added Filter- and Invert- functions available for true/hicolor modes. - Added Edit-function [E] to enable Text to be written into the pictures. - Added keyboard control comand K: into the SLD - Added fadeout into SLD with C:nnn with nnn = 256..511 to select the speed. - Increased the number of possible lines within a SLD file to 1024. - Removed limitation to 32 characters per line within a SLD file. PV2.61 - Added PNG with multiple IDAT. - Added CCT Fax (Tobit) and Balloon Fax format. - Fixed bug in GIF local bitdepth recognizion. - Modified Save-GIF to make a GIF2PNG compatible GIF. - Modified gallery backgroundcolor to white for better Print-Out. - Added print to be done by cmdline /CPnm were n selects the printer 1..3 and m selects the lpt number 1..3. It can be combined with the x, y, z parameters to select the pixels/lines of the printed image on the paper. - Added Lnn parameter to set the left margin of the printed image. - Added /5 parameter to start with 43/50 line textmode. - Added [5] comand to switch between 25 and 43/50 line textmode. - Fixed bug of V2.60 slideshow control. It sometimes did not start before pressing the Enter-key a second time. - Increased maximum number of pixels per line of JPGs with Y2:1:1 from 2048 to 2730. - If the cutmode is selected the complete XMS memory is available now for softscrolling. - Added /Q parameter to automatically overwrite existing files. - Added NCR 77C22 chip autodetect. - Added AVI/WAV/VOC Support by external player AVI4PV. Thanks to Wolfgang Hesseler. PV2.62 - Added MAC without MAC-Paint Header. - Added CCT Fax (Tobit) with 100dpi y resolution. - Added Sony Playstation TIM format. - Added VESA 32bit truecolor support. - Modified to not use any colortable access in true/hicolor not to destroy the gamma-LUT of Matrox Mystique VGA. - Ignore the VGA-Bios report of 16bit depth when using VESA1.2 15bit modes. - Added autorecognizion of BGR order if at least VESA1.2 is installed. - Some 32bit access optimizations. - Added 1600x1200 support. - Increased pixel per line to 12800 for up to 256 colors and to 4096 for true/hicolor. - Finaly fixed the setting of correct framerate for FLC and FLI. - Added JPG's containing E1 marker. - Added MAC containing JPEG data. - Added menu-command Ctrl-S to initialise the SLD entries D:4000 and A:1024. Also all tagged files are then stored into the SLD buffer, to generate a SLD sequence without having to display those files once before. - AVI4PV 1.02 supports full screen AVI playback for S3 Vision 868 and 968 chipsets. - first rev of offical PV262 dated 05.01.95 has a severe bug when converting to JPG. This was decided to be so severe that there is a offical correction also named 2.62 in the hope that the distribution is not to far in progres. The bug is within PV.EXE 162.101, PVE.EXE 161.972. 2nd bug is that since V2.53 the /s option didnot work correctly so PVLITE is also recompiled because portrait pictures might not be downsized to all sightable lines. PV2.63 - bugfix in gallerymode when saving or printing a gallery containing pictures with less than 8 bit. - bugfix PV2.62 could hang or use 16-grey modes instead of colors when using VESA version less than 1.2 . - expanded parameter /o and also the [P] comand to control conversion of true- and hicolorpictures into truecolor or 256 color files. - expanded /g to /gn to predefine with n = 0..7 the grey/colormode and backgroundcolor of the gallery. - added postscriptprinter PS to be selected. - added selection of LPT4 to print into a file with the name LPT4 instead of printing directly. Especially using Postscriptprint generates a LPT4 file that can be renamed into a *.EPS file. - removed switching back to textmode between two graficsmodes when using the "N" or "L" or filetagging to jump to another image. This caused a click or resyncronisationtime on some monitors. But when your VGA is not able to display the pictures correctly then, you have to use the /s at comandline when starting PV. - expanded the pixelpicker function "K" to a pixelmodifier. "Home" key picks a color and "enter" places it to the actual position. - When started in gallerymode return to menu on ESC instead of exit to DOS. - Added possibility to store the gallery as JPG. - Added AVI4PV to accept the X and Y position given in SLD mode.