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Updated GBM plugins for Mozilla/Lucide, updated GBM package
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Heiko Nitzsche)
Sun Aug 6 14:53:23 2006
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.mit.edu
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 01:39:50 +0200
From: Heiko Nitzsche <hn-expires-31-aug-06@arcor.de>
GBM plugin 1.10 for Netscape/Mozilla/Firefox/SeaMonkey
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(freely usable, see license included)
This is a plugin for the Webbrowsers Netscape, Mozilla, Firefox and
SeaMonkey available for OS/2 and eComStation that extends them for
the support of reading all bitmap formats supported by GBM.DLL.
It requires GBM.DLL 1.35 or higher. GBM 1.43 is recommended.
Do not use GBM 1.41 any longer.
Supported features:
Fullscreen mode viewer with a load of features:
* menus, popup menu, scrollers
* variable scaled preview
* transformations mirror/transpose/rotate
* multipage navigation
* save the shown page to any GBM supported bitmap file format
* uses GBM File Dialog if found, otherwise OS/2 File Dialog is used
* English and German localized with autodetection via LANG variable
Embedded mode viewer with reduced functionality of fullscreen mode viewer:
* popup menu
* transformations mirror
* multipage navigation
* save the shown page to any GBM supported bitmap file format
* uses GBM File Dialog if found, otherwise OS/2 File Dialog is used
* printing of embedded bitmaps is supported on Mozilla/Firefox/SeaMonkey
* English and German localized with autodetection via LANG variable
Get package gbmos2plugins_lu110_moz110_bin.zip from Hobbes.
It is also included in the WarpIN installation package (see below).
GBM plugin 1.10 for Lucide beta 2
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(freely usable, see license included)
This is a plugin for the Lucide document viewer available for eComStation
that extends Lucide for the support of reading all bitmap formats
supported by GBM.DLL.
It requires GBM.DLL 1.35 or higher. GBM 1.43 is recommended.
Do not use GBM 1.41 any longer.
Supported features:
* document info
* loading all formats supported by GBM
* save loaded bitmap if it has only one page (requires Lucide beta 2.1)
* multipage bitmap viewing support
* load bitmap page on demand
* scaling and rotation
Get package gbmos2plugins_lu110_moz110_bin.zip from Hobbes.
It is also included in the WarpIN installation package (see below).
For more details please have a look at the change log in the included
documentation or at my GBM homepage (see below).
GBM.DLL 1.43 and GBM command line tools
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(Public Domain)
The Generalised Bitmap Module (GBM) is a library capable of loading and
saving bitmap files in a variety of popular and less popular bitmap file
formats. Programs may be written to use this code, and thus be able to
access a variety of file formats without actually knowing what format
the pictures are in, or any details about file format itself.
In this version, extended BMP, PNG, TIF, PBM, PGM, PPM and PNM support
is additionally included. PNG and TIF support also 16, 32, 48, 64 bpp
colour depths with/without alpha channel. PPM supports also 48 bpp
colour depth. BMP supports also OS/2 RLE24 and Windows 16/32 bpp RGB
and BITFIELDS formats.
It comes with a useful set of command line bitmap manipulation tools.
Get package gbmos2_143_bin.zip from Hobbes.
It is also included in the WarpIN installation package (see below).
Notes for eComStation 1.2/1.2R users:
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Please read the installation instructions. eCS 1.2/1.2R ships
with an old GBM.DLL (1.12) which prevents loading of the new
GBM.DLL (1.43). Please follow the instructions to use the new
GBM.DLL for all programs as well as for eCS WPS features like
bitmap previews.
If you cannot replace the eCS shipped GBM.DLL, please execute
unlock x:\os2\dll\gbm.dll from a command line. Then override
the old GBM.DLL with the new one. Don't forget to reboot afterwards.
The homepage of GBM for OS/2 and eCS
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http://heikon.home.tlink.de
It provides:
- comprehensive documentation (also included in the download archives)
- developer tutorials on how to use GBM libs in your own programs
- download of all sources and binaries
Download from Hobbes
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http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=gbmos2_143_bin
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=gbmos2plugins_lu110_moz110_bin
WarpIN installation package
(GBM.DLL, GBM command line tools, GBMV2, GBMRX, GBMDLGRX, GBM plugins, Doc):
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=gbmos2pm128_gbm143_gbmplugins_lu110_moz110_bin_wpi
Full source code:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=gbmos2pm128_gbm143_gbmplugins_lu110_moz110_src
If the links don't show anything, the packages might not yet have reached
its final location in the Hobbes archive. In this case please lookup
the incoming folder.
Have fun,
Heiko Nitzsche
(Germany, 31-Jul-2006)
