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History

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Version 2.20 1st May 2007

- Added option for user to control the amount of compression applied to sprite, drawfile and Artworks pictures.
- Added option to include picture references without processing the pictures.
- Added better progress reporting and user prompting.
- Improved handling of large picture files.
- Modified main window layout.
- Minor bug fixes.
- Upgraded to use Dr Wimp Version 4.70

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Version 2.10 1st December 2006

- Added option to include external HTML links at a user-designated Style.
- Added ligatures fi and fl and ellipsis to ‘entities’ handled separately.
- Improved user-access to ‘Mapping’ and ‘Ignores’ windows.
- Added title to output HTML ‘Contents’ page.
- Minor bug fixes.
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Version 2.03 1st June 2006

- Changed ‘html marker’ referencing to match maximum allowable number of markers (as set in !Run file).
- Changed picture referencing to match maximum allowable number of pictures (as set in !Run file).
- Improved error reporting.
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Version 1.00 18th December 2005
- First release
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Contacts

Web-site:         http://www.rayfavre.me.uk
         http://www.rayfavre.me.uk/dwapps.html
         (directly to applications for downloading)
         http://www.rayfavre.me.uk/drwimp.html
         (directly to Dr Wimp package)

Email:         ray@rayfavre.me.uk

Credits

Rummaging around Harriet Bazley’s !DDF2Html application gave me a lot of useful initial pointers.
In producing Version 2.00 David Pilling kindly supplied code for extracting the DDL graphics data and Pete Miller converted it to Basic for me.
The freeware utilities !ArtToSpr (by Tony Houghton), !Spr2Png (by Darren Salt) and !InterGif (by Peter Hartley) were all explored to meet the need to convert graphics files to an html-friendly fo rmat. In the end, this Version uses only the draw2spr and spr2png elements from !Spr2Png, but all three applications greatly added to my knowledge and both Tony Houghton and Darren Salt helped with more specific quer ies, for which I am grateful.
Martin Wuerthner was also helpful in revealing the practical meaning of some of the draw2spr and spr2png processing options - which are now put to good use in the sprite compression user-options.
The freeware Artworks viewer !AWViewer from Computer Concepts/Martin Wuerthner is also needed if Artworks graphics are involved. It is included with the application just in case - see Introduction.

!Spr2Png:                  http://www.youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk/
!ArtToSpr:         http://www.realh.co.uk
!InterGif:                  http://utter.chaos.org.uk/~pdh/software/intergif.htm
!AWViewer:         http://www.mw-software.com/


Contributors to the c.s.a.programming newsgroup also answered several of my queries very promptly and helpfully.



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