From Martin Wuerthner Tue Aug 21 17:19:31 2001
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.announce

MW Software Press Release                                           21-Aug-01

Today's topic: * ArtWorks finally ViewFinder compatible
               * High-resolution bitmap export from ArtWorks
               * How to update your copy of ArtWorks

GDraw 2.97, DitherExtend 0.50
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I am happy to announce that ArtWorks is finally compatible with all screen
modes offered by the ViewFinder graphics card. Until recently, ArtWorks
rendered incorrectly to true-colour (16M colours) screen modes with a width
of more than 1024 pixels. This was caused by a limitation inside GDraw, the
main rendering support module, which also limited the size of bitmaps that
could be exported using the BMExport module. The latest version of GDraw,
version 2.97 finally copes with any screen resolution.

An additional fix, provided by David Bryan, corrects problems with
anti-aliased rendering in 32k colour modes. This problem was caused by an
incompatibility of ViewFinder with the way the DitherExtend module worked.

This means that ArtWorks can now be used in high-resolution ViewFinder modes,
e.g. 1600x1200 at 16M colours and that the size of bitmaps that can be
exported using the BMExport module is only limited by the amount of available
memory and hard disc space.

How to update your copy of ArtWorks
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The latest version of AWViewer, the free ArtWorks file viewing utility
containing the latest versions of both GDraw and DitherExtend and extensive
installation instructions, is available from my web site:
  http://www.mw-software.com/software/awmodules/awrender.html

Further ArtWorks bug fixes and enhancements
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Do you have all the latest free ArtWorks bug fixes and enhancements? The
ArtWorks tuning page at
  http://www.mw-software.com/software/awmodules/awtuning.html
tells you which updates are available, what they do and where to download
them. You can find a detailed description of known ArtWorks bugs and fixes at
  http://www.mw-software.com/software/awmodules/awbugs.html

Having installed all these free bug fixes and enhancements, why not consider
getting some of MW Software's acclaimed ArtWorks plug-in modules to finally
add a wealth of new features to ArtWorks, including rotatable, multi-column
text areas, user-defined pattern-fills, JPEG objects, shape intersection,
polygons and stars, new grid types, sprite and GIF export, a drag 'n' drop
colour bar, object replications, etc. A full list of modules can be found at
  http://www.mw-software.com/software/awmodules/awmodules.html

Martin
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