Short:        A powerful gfx-converter ,V0.90
Author:       Frank Pagels (copper@hysteria.dssd.sub.org)
Uploader:     henryk richter stud uni-rostock de
Type:         gfx/conv
Architecture: m68k-amigaos

ART-Pro is a new gfx-converter not only for coders. It's currently
able to convert IFF-Brushes in a comfortable manner into different
formats, like RAW, Raw Blit, Sprites and more.

Some awesome features of ArtPRO 0.90:

        Comfortable GUI
    
        * Font-sentitive GUI 
        * All functions driven by gadgets or keyboard equivalents
        * No menus on screens with weird resolutions and colors
        * Lots of options and settings for your individual taste
        * Comfortable brush cutting controlled on a seperate screen

        Highly flexible source code generation

        * Generates Assembler, C, Pascal, E, and Basic source
        * Handles variable indenting with tabs or spaces
        * Output may be bytes, words, or longwords

        Image conversion

        * Handles IFF to RAW as well as RAW to IFF
        * Supports interleaved blitter formats
        * Outputs as IFF, source, binary, or link-object
        * Includes additional blitter words for shifted blitting
        * Automatically saves the colors associated with an image
        * Handles 12bit and 24bit truecolor output
        * Datatype support
        * external loader/saver BMP,PCX

        Extensive sprite support

        * Handles sprites in either 4 or 16 colors
        * Handles sprites being 16 / 32 / 64 pixels wide
        * Outputs as source, binary, or link-object
        * Allows you to cut several sprites in a single go
        * Automatically calculates sprites' control words
          according to their screen positions
        * User-customized control word calculation

        Color functions

        * Supports LoadRGB, pure, and copperlist formats
        * Generates AGA copperlists
        * Handles 4 and 32 bit color depths for LoadRGB
        * Outputs as IFF, source, binary, or link-object
        * Handles palette import as RAW and IFF
        * Color-bias lets you control an image's saturation,
          contrast, brightness, and R/G/B in real-time

        Masking functions

        * Generates brush masks for either interleaved
          or noninterleaved blitting
        * Supports specific mask colors


changes to v0.87:

V0.90   18.06.1995

        - Saving RAW HAM8 produced wrong output. Fixed.

        - Ask Mask-Color didn't work 100% all the time.
          Problem solved hopefully.
          
        - The sprite control word calculation for 32
          and 64 pixel wide sprites generated non-AGA
          control words - bug removed.
        
        - The "Kill" gadget shortcut had no effect -
          finally, it works

        - An "Info" gadget has been added to the
          module windows for quick reference on the
          loaders and savers.

        - Automatic and semi-automatic label generation
          implemented (assembler only so far).

        - Serious bug fixed: If you saved a brush having
          an odd with with one of the CHUNKY savers,
          the machine crashed. (Yuck)

        - Another heavy bug: Saving a link object with
          no object name crashed.

        - Finally, an installation script has been
          included to the distribution package.

        - External savers included: PCX and BMP.
        
        - Pack Colors image operator included.
        
        - The cut-frame is now kept when re-entering
          the control screen.

        - Minor bug removed that caused problems with the
          control screen and screenmode promoting programs.


contact author:
Frank Pagels
Kolumbusring 39
Rostock
18106

E-Mail: Copper@Hysteria.dssd.sub.org
        henryk.richter@stud.uni-rostock.de ,Subject: ArtPRO