

                    New Information  HUBBLE 2.00

1. NEW FEATURES FOR HUBBLE 2.00

   A. New features
      Version 1.20 and above add desktop publishing capability. See 
      *TUTORIAL.TXT* for an example of using these features. At any 
      point during the operation, press F1 key to get online help.

   B. Navigating through Document Based Processing Mode
      After users select a specific tools other than text input and editing
      operation, press [Esc] or [Return] (<Enter> key) to end the operation.

   C. Bug fix for scaling problem, etc.

      Version 2.00 fix bugs for scaling and some image transformation 
      problems which cause HUBBLE to crash when processing some images 
      of some particular dimension (specifically some image height).

      Also, if users check on the "Use Floating Point" in profile setting
      from the option menu, the calculation will be more accurate. However, 
      the scaling operation may become slower, especially for system systems
      which don't have math co-processor built-in or installed.

2. SOME LIMITATION FOR THIS VERSION OF HUBBLE

   ** These limitation will be lifted in the upcoming version **
   ** ALL REGISTERED USERS WILL RECEIVE A FREE UPGRADE soon **

   A. Toolbox's size limitation and work around.
      Currently, some toolbox (Area Fill and Image Patching) cannot 
      handle very large image. The work around is to divide the operation 
      into smaller unit of operation, use other equivalent or comparable 
      tools, etc.
      A.1 TOOLBOX:(Area Fill)  
          If the area to fill is too big, users may have to fill part
          of the area first, then continue to fill other part of the 
          area. First, Click on area of interest, click on <WRT>, then
          continue to fill other area until all area is filled.
      A.2 TOOLBOX:(Image Patching)
          If the patching area is too big, use the TOOLBOX:(RECTANGLE) 
          instead. However, in TOOLBOX:(RECTANGLE), only rectangular
          selected area is allowed.
   B. Capture to Clipboard
      Capture to Clipboard is currently disabled.
      Users should use "Capture to Window" and the "Copy to Clipboard",
      both are from "Edit menu"

   C. CUSTOM COLOR CONVERSION AND DITHERING
      Although progress report window has a <cancel> button, it is currently
      disabled, i.e. users cannot interrupt the operation.
3. KNOWN PROBLEMS

   A. TOOLBOX:(Image Patching) 
      A.1  May not give correct result for black and white image. 
           Please use TOOLBOX:(RECTANGLE) instead.
      A.2  With some display driver resolution and number of colors which 
           of Trident driver for 8900CL on a 286 machine, error in operation
           has been observed (only for some drivers). (however, this problem 
           do not occur when test on a 386 machine with 8900D Trident Display 
           Adapter) Should your system encounter problem, Change and test the 
           driver for different resolution or number of colors.
           Otherwise, use TOOLBOX:(RECTANGLE) instead.
   B. TOOLBOX:(Area Fill) 
      B.1 Sometime the process is aborted and users will be asked to click 
          on other part of the area. Choose another point (at different 
          location) in the area and click the left mouse button to redo 
          the area fill operation.
      B.2 Although TOOLBOX:(Area Fill) will fill a fairly complex area even 
          with a lot of hole inside the area. However, in a relatively 
          rare cases, some very complex area do cause the operation to be 
          failed.
   C. If users encounter any problem, please complete the form from the
      file "PROBLEMS.FRM" and send it to HUBBLE SOFTWARE COMPANY.

4. NOTES ON DISPLAY OPTIONS (from Option Menu)

   A. Edit Color Correction
      When editing the image, if there is any distortion in shape or
      or color after writing changes to the image, users may have to 
      change setting for this option.
      
      In general, convert to 8-bits (256-colors) image is suggested for 
      some image editing operations, because of speed and ease of processing.

   B. Moved Area Resizeable Check Box. --> TOOLBOX:(Image Patching).
      This checkbox control the operation of TOOLBOX:(Image Patching).
      Some display driver may have produced distorted colors if the 
      moved shape is resized. Currently, resizing only work well for
      true color (24-bits) image on true color or hi-color display
      adapter. (hi-color of either 32K or 64K colors display adapter).

   C. 24-bits Display Correction Check Box. (rarely needed)
      Check this box if you have problem when trying to display 
      un-ditherred version of a true color image on a non true color
      or palette base display adapter.

   D. Auto Ditherred Image Update. (rarely needed)
      Since there are two versions of image which are created for 24-bits
      true color images. These two versions will be updated independently.
      If this box is checked, a ditherred version of the image will be 
      re-created from the modified (24-bits) true color image.
      
5. System Dependent Problems

   A. Cannot Create Large Bitmap
      Some display adapter driver may not support large very large bitmap.

      A.1 Cannot capture a very large area of the screen.
          ** SOLUTION **
          A.1.1 UNcheck MemoryDib checkbox from (Option Menu : Profile).
          A.1.2 Change to different display driver.
                This new driver may support different number of color
                and/or resolution.
          

6. MISSING FEATURES IN THIS VERSION

      Features that are still not implemented in version 2.00 are:

      1. Image scaling that preserve aspect ratio is still not implemented.
      2. pattern selection.
      3. In SAVE option, some compression method are not currently supported:
         - compression for BMP format.
         - CCITT compression for TIFF format. 
           (image will be saved as no compression)
      4. Some specialized contrast control.
      5. Postscript support.

      These features will be implemented in latter version.

7. SPEED OF PROCESSING
   Some procedures process faster for 8-bits (256-colors or 256 gray levels)
   images.

8. NOTES ON OS/2

   A. Image Acquisition

      Some scanner driver may not function properly under OS/2. If this is
      the case, contact your scanner manufacturer for model and/or driver
      which can be used under OS/2. 

      In this case, users may use image acquisition software which bundled
      with that scanner on its specified environment, and use HUBBLE for
      further editing and processing.

      Users can still test functioning of TWAIN driver using the TWAIN Sample Driver
      included (DCD.DS). Simply create TWAIN directory on Windows's subdirectory. For
      OS/2 2.x, it is C:\OS2\MDOS\WINOS2, (MD TWAIN, CD C:\OS2\MDOS\WINOS2\TWAIN).
      From file menu, use [Select Source] command, then [Acquire] input.
      (See README.DOC for more detail).

   B. Capture to Window

      B.1 If running HUBBLE under OS/2
          Users can begin drag mouse and capture only on Windows application.
          To capture other part of the OS/2 desktop, users should place
          a dummy Windows application above and to the left of the area 
          intended to be captured (even as minimized icon -- users may
          have to change the setting so that this dummy application is
          minimized to the OS/2 desktop instead of minimized windows), 
          then begin drag mouse from this Windows. After the capturing 
          operation is completed, users can then trim the image by
          B.1.1 Trim Image command from the edit menu.
          B.1.2 Use TOOLBOX:(RECTANGLE) to copy only the intended area.
      B.2 Many instances of HUBBLE may be running concurrently. So, another
          instance of HUBBLE may be fired up and "minimize ON DESKTOP" to
          serve this purpose.

9. HUBBLE creates many temporary files whiles the program is running.
   If the program is aborted abnormally or unexpectedly, these temporary
   files may be left in the hubble directory, use DELTEMP.BAT to clean up
   these files. Alternatively, users can use the following commands to 
   clean up temporary files.

   ** CHANGE TO HUBBLE DIRECTORY **

   [Content of DELTEMP.BAT]

   del DB*. 
   del DI*. 
   del CB*. 
   del FI*. 
   del DB*.A* 
   del DI*.A* 
   del CB*.A* 
   del FI*.A* 


