Path: menudo.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!usenet From: keck@athena.cs.uga.edu (Paul Keck) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.reviews Subject: MINI-REVIEW: Viewtex 1.03 Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.graphics Date: 10 Jan 1993 02:58:20 GMT Organization: The Amiga Online Review Column - ed. Daniel Barrett Lines: 51 Sender: amiga-reviews@math.uh.edu (comp.sys.amiga.reviews moderator) Distribution: world Message-ID: <1io3ccINNicg@menudo.uh.edu> Reply-To: keck@athena.cs.uga.edu (Paul Keck) NNTP-Posting-Host: karazm.math.uh.edu Keywords: graphics, viewer, IFF, anim, freeware This is a mini-review of the new Amiga graphics file viewer Viewtek. It's on Fish disk 787 (v 1.02), and also on the ftp site amiga.physik.unizh.ch and its mirrors. (I got it off ftp.etsu.edu last week, v 1.03). The following description is from Fred Fish's public announcement: Viewtek A feature packed Picture/Animation Viewer. Shows most ILBM's (including 24-bit ILBM's), most Compuserve GIF format images, most JFIF format JPEG images and most ANIM Op-5 format ani- mations, with support for different palettes for each frame. Supports SHAM, CTBL, and PCHG images, full support of ECS/AGA display modes (ie. show 256 color GIF's directly, show 800x600 HAM animations, etc.). Supports viewing contents of clipboard. Iconifies to a Workbench AppIcon. Includes a version written for GVP's Impact Vision 24, to support true 24-bit display. Version 1.02, requires Workbench 2.04+, binary only. Author: Thomas Krehbiel Like I wrote up there, I have v 1.03, and Fred says he has 1.02. So, I suppose if you want the latest go to the net. Viewtek can scroll using CTRL-arrow keys, or with the mouse. You seem to have to move the (invisible) pointer to the edge of the screen before it will start moving in that direction. In this _ONE_ respect, it isn't the God of All Viewing Programs (tm), but that's the only one! I'll gladly deal with it. The program can also take a wildcard filename or an entire directory as input, so no more screwing around trying to remember the exact filename. What I think is best about it is that it can be specified as a default tool on a picture's icon, so the file can just be clicked to show it! I was asking about a program like this a few months ago on the net, but no luck. Coupled with 'Icon', which assigns default icons to GIF files, I can now view them without conversion, by clicking! It's a lazy man's paradise. Now I just have to hack up the 'Icon' code to auto-detect JPEG files... All in all, THE best single display program for the Amiga! Accept no substitutes. Tom, I couldn't find an Email address for you in the docs, so I'll say it publically -- let me have your babies. ;-) --- Daniel Barrett, Moderator, comp.sys.amiga.reviews Send reviews to: amiga-reviews-submissions@math.uh.edu Request information: amiga-reviews-requests@math.uh.edu General discussion: amiga-reviews@math.uh.edu