ToyViewer (Ver.3.2)

Display of Image Files

Image formats following can be opened by double-clicking their icons:
tiff, eps, gif, bmp, png, jpg, bie(jbig), pcx, pcd, pnm, ppm, pbm, pgm, xbm, and mag.
(mag is a popular image format in Japan, especially on NEC-PCs.)
To activate ToyViewer by double-clicking icons, set ToyViewer as the default tool using Tool Inspector(cmd-3) of the Workspace.

ToyViewer can open image files by selecting "File / Open" of the menu.

Image files can also be opened by command- dragging their icons onto the application tile of ToyViewer.
Some image files would have extensions that could not be recognized by ToyViewer. For example, some CD-ROMs may have bmp-files with other extension, or without extension. In such cases, these files can be opened by command- dragging.

Note: There may be files that can not be displayed correctly. If you find them, send it to me...

Save Images

Displayed images can be saved in following image formats:
tiff, eps, bmp, gif, png, jpg, bie(jbig), pnm, or xbm.
Images in gif format have at most 256 colors. If you try to save an image that has more than 256 colors as a gif image, the color reduction routine is activated automatically. Images that can be saved in bie(jbig) or in xbm format should be monochrome bilevel images.

When an image in one format is saved in other format, usually, the size of the image is preserved. However, when an eps image is saved in other format, size of the saved image depends on the size of the image scaled on the window.

There are two kinds of representation in png or bmp formats. One uses a palette of colors to save the image compactly, and the other specifies colors for each pixel. ToyViewer checks automatically the number of colors in the image to be saved, and if possible, saves it in paletted representation.

Open Pasteboard

If a tiff or eps image is copied into the pasteboard (by copy operation), you can display the image in a new window by clicking "File / Open Pasteboard" of the menu. For example, if you select and copy some objects on Draw.app and then do "Open Pasteboard", them are displayed in an eps image.

Scaling

Specifying scale using popup-menu of each window, you can display enlarged or shrinked image.
If the item "Set..." is selected from the popup-menu a panel is displayed, on which you can set any scale. Note that image data itself is not modified if it is resized in the window. If you want to make a resized new image, use "Operation / Resize...", which is described in "Image Operation".

Print

Displayed images can be printed. The size of printed image depends on the size of the image scaled on the window.