Graphic Workshop for Windows 1.1

Release notes:

To install Graphic Workshop for Windows on your hard drive:

	1. If you have received Graphic Workshop in an archive, such as 
	   a ZIP file, place the contents of the archive on a high density  
	   floppy disk. If you have received Graphic Workshop on a floppy 
	   floppy directly from Alchemy Mindworks, this has already been 
	   done for you.
	2. Place the disk in a floppy drive of your computer.
	3. Open the File menu of the Windows program manager and select Run.
	4. In the Run dialog box, type A:SETUP or B:SETUP, as is appropriate.
	5. Follow the installer instructions... the Setup application will 
	   prompt you as required.

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If you encounter difficulty installing Graphic Workshop, see the instructions
at the end of this file.
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Graphic Workshop for Windows requires Windows 3.1 or better. A minimum of four
megabytes of memory is recommended. Note that if you have four megabytes in your
system, but a large part of it is tied up in a RAM disk, a disk cache, as EMS or
in some other form which Windows cannot address it, Graphic Workshop may be unable
to run.

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NOTES FOR THIS RELEASE

This version of Graphic Workshop requires Video for Windows 1.1 or better for 
its AVI file functions. Version 1.0 will not work. If you encounter error 
messages upon attempting to use the AVI functions, you need a Video for Windows 
upgrade. As of this writing, the registered version of Graphic Workshop for 
Windows includes the runtime version of Video for Windows 1.1. This is subject to
change without notice.

New features and changes:

- Added ICO, CLP and AVI support
- Fixed a few problems with the JPEG functions
- Added WMF, FLC and FLI support
- Added the Multimedia Browser application to preview multimedia data files.
- Graphic Workshop now supports high colour PIC files.
- Treu colour graphics can be written to the IFF format.
- Added file destination, renaming and underbar options.
- Added Windows EXE pictures.
- Added HRZ file support.
- Added 256-colour dithering to the view mode.
- Added LZW and Group 4 TIFF support.
- Added display gamma adjustment.
- Added RAS support.
- Added grey scale reading for Photo-CDs.
- Added a filter to excluse selected file formats from the main window.
- Added a Change Directory function to the file menu.
- Updated the EXE format to support VESA cards.
- Added a functon to associate graphics with GWS.EXE.
- Added Huffman and Group 3 1D TIFF reading. 
- Added Kodak Photo-CD support. 

See the end of GWS.WRI for the complete revision history and list of bug fixes.

Conversion between animation formats has been enabled for FLI/FLC to AVI, but not 
AVI to FLC. The FLI/FLC write function wasn't sufficiently stable when this version
was released. This function will be implemnted in version 1.1m.

There is a minor problem with the Kodak Photo-CD support, which appears to be due to 
a bug in the Kodak libraries. Viewing Photo-CD files may orphan a small block of memory. 
This memory will be freed when Graphic Workshop terminates. It's not large enough to 
cause any meaningful problems, but it does make the free memory display in the About 
box change slightly as you work.

If you have any problems with the Photo-CD section... or just some comments... we'd 
like to hear from you.

Graphic Workshop for Windows may encounter difficulty printing to some versions of the
Hewlett-Packard DeskJet 550C driver. This is a known bug, and we're working on it.

Some users have reported problems with installing Graphic Workshop on systems with
relatively little memory. The SETUP program may be unable to uncompress some of 
the files on the distribution disk. If this happens to you, get to the DOS prompt 
and do the following. 

CD \
MD \GWSWIN
A:UNPACK A:
   or
B:UNPACK B:

