Graphics Tools



Contents:

-----AutoCAD Tools
-----Printer Drivers
-----Rendering
-----Format Conversion

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-----AutoCAD Tools

[ACDB]
ACDB 1.2 (Newman, Norman; $35) maintains a database of drawing files created
by AutoCAD. Other CAD programs may be used. Features include sorting records
by several fields, viewing stored data and drawing itself on one screen, and
launching AutoCAD from within the program. Requires 640K of RAM.

[ALLY]
Ally 2.11 (Waskow, Steve ASP; $75) is a programmer's workbench and analyzer
for AutoLISP. It is accessible from and interactive with AutoCAD. Ally helps
debug AutoLISP source code by error checking, scoping and cross-referencing
LISP symbols.

[ASC_SCR]
ASC-SCR 2.1 (HydraWare Software; $10-$15) will convert an ASCII text file of
x,y, and optionally z, coordinates into an AutoCAD script file. An example
data file is included.

[CADET]
Cadet 4.03 (Waskow, Steve ASP; $50) allows users to create and edit text and
attributes in AutoCAD drawings. This full-screen text editor includes such
features as search-and-replace, cut-and-paste, and the ability to change text
style, height, and case. It allows you to create both notes and text tables,
and import and export text. It has word wrap and an integrated spelling
checker with a 112,000+ word dictionary.

[CMENU]
Custom#Menu (Mountain Software ASP; $20-$30) allows you to easily modify an
AutoCAD menu. It runs from within the drawing editor. You choose the location
of menu items with a mouse or digitizer pointer and assistance is provided in
constructing the menu command. Buttons, tablet boxes, and main screen menu
items can be added, inserted, or deleted.

[DRAFTSM]
Draftsman's Companion (Blueline Development Inc.; $64) makes AutoCAD easier
and more efficient to use. For example, you can move, copy or stretch by
distances without specifying "from" and "to" points. You can manage layers
without having to use AutoCAD's cryptic commands. The program can find the
center of any two lines, and more. Requires AutoCAD release 10 or 11.

[ELF_LIB]
Extended Lisp Function Library 1.1 (Mountain Software ASP; $39-$56) is a
library of commands and functions to enhance AutoCAD and AutoLISP. It includes
an ASCII file browse and editor, DOS file management, video, window, menus,
math, entity creation, keyboard, file, directory, list handling, string
handling, sound, and debugging functions.

[HATCHER]
Hatcher Hatch Patterns 1.sw (Sharp, Morris E.; $40) is a collection of 100
AutoCAD hatch patterns. It contains fun-to-use patterns for drawings such as
greeting cards and several patterns to be used in professional drawings.
(NOTE: This will only work with AutoCAD versions 10 and 11. It is incompatible
with version 12.)

[LNCHCAD]
LaunchCAD (Mountain Software ASP; $20-$30) is a replacement for the AutoCAD
opening menu. This utility makes AutoCAD's opening menu functions, such as a
drawing file or subdirectory, easier to select.

[LOADIT]
LoadIt! (Genusa, Stephen V.; $43) is a front end menu for AutoCAD. It includes
utilities to make it easy to perform the following functions: create new
drawings, create new drawings by prototype, edit existing drawings, pick
drawings from a ZIP file, insert Blocks, erase drawings, erase BAK files,
DXFin multiple drawings, DXFout multiple drawings (ASCII & Binary), printer
plot drawings, plot drawings, and view drawings. Create, Edit, Erase, Execute,
List, Load, View (etc...) Lisp files, Script files, Font-Shape files, Menu
files, Slides, and standard dos files. LoadIt! is all menu driven. It also has
Mouse support and on-line help. The author can no longer be reached at the
address listed in the documentation.

[NUTS_AND]
Nuts and Things (R & I Enterprise; $13) contains 98 drawing files for use with
AutoCad 2.6. Most of the files are drawings of various pieces of hardware
which are frequently used by designers and drafting personnel. They drawings
consist of nuts, flat washers, split lock washers and pan head and flat head
screws (both phillips and slotted heads). Each drawing is an individual
"block" and can be called up and positioned by the user to satisfy the
requirements of the drawing being developed.

[QUICKCMD]
Quick Command 3.0 (Jincks, Dan; $20) is a group of AutoLISP enhancements for
AutoCAD. They provide faster command entry, a screen interactive transparent
calculator, 3D zooms without regens, and extended and improved block and layer
commands. You can also explode multiple entities in a window. This set is
fully documented with unprotected source code. Also included is BUZ ($5) a
self-indexing text file viewer.

[SURVEY]
Survey Drafter 2.0 (TDM Software; $50) converts raw survey data in the form of
a distance, angle, elevation and note into an AutoCAD script file format. Once
the script file is created, AutoCAD is used to generated an automatic point
plot drawing of the survey data.

[TAB123]
Tab123 1.3 (Mountain Software ASP; $20-$30) allows you to import Lotus 123 and
Symphony spreadsheet files into an AutoCAD drawing as a table of text entities
and an optional cell grid to enclose the table.

[TOOLMSTR]
ToolMaster (Miller, Leonard R.; $?) provides a vehicle for Tool and Machine
Designers and Draftsmen to "drive" AutoCAD 9.0+ to maximum performance. It
incorporates an 11" X 11" overlay for a digitizing tablet. This overlay
drawing of fourteen logically grouped modules is populated by one-half inch
squares. Each of the more than 350 squares performs some AutoCAD macro or
customized AutoLISP programmed routine. Hard disk and AutoCAD 9+ required.

[WRLDMAP]
World Maps (TDM Software; $0) reads an ASCII format file containing longitude
and latitude data and converts it to an AutoCAD script file format. Once the
data is converted to a script file, AutoCAD is used to automatically draw a
cylindrical equal distant projection map. The program is designed to use the
digitized map data available from PsL and other pd/shareware sources.


-----Printer Drivers

[PCAD]
PrintCAD 1.30b (Ravitz Software Inc., ASP; $49) is a printer driver for CAD
packages. It prints directly from CAD software using either AutoCAD's ADI pen
plotter driver or an HP-GL driver. It supports a wide variety of printers,
from Epson 9-pin to PostScript. Other specific printers supported include HP
DeskJet 500C, PaintJet XL 300, LaserJet 4 at 600 dpi, Canon BJC880 and BJC800
native mode, Canon LBP 8 Mk4, and IBM 4029 LaserPrinter 600 dpi. Requires 368K
of EMS or XMS memory.

[PRINTGL]
PrintGL 1.40b (Ravitz Software Inc. ASP; $50) will print an HP pen plotter
file on a printer. HP-GL is HP's pen plotter control language that is widely
supported by graphics programs including AutoCAD, GenCAD, MathCAD, SAS,
MICROCADAM, Schema, and GEM's IMG output format. PrintGL supports Epson
compatible 9 and 24 pin dot matrix printers, HP LaserJet, HP 7475, DeskJet,
and PaintJet, and IBM 9 and 24 pin Proprinters, Toshiba 24 pin, Quietwriter 2
and 3, LaserPrinter and NEC 24 pin printers print in 360x360 dpi mode. It also
supports HP-GL, PostScript, Canon LBP, Canon BJ, IBM ExecJet output and HP
7550 polygon commands. Proportional fonts are supported along with clipping
window handling, line dash patterns and margin precision. It will also display
plots with a CGA, EGA, VGA, enhanced VGA, 720x540 and 800x600 VGA, or HGC and
output a bit map. Even if your graphics program supports your printer, you may
find that PrintGL gives better print quality. PrintGL uses the best graphics
modes available for each printer that it supports. If you need printed
graphics output from personal software, you can output HP-GL and use PrintGL
to do the printing. This gives immediate support to a wide range of printers.
Other features include clarification of Canon BJ/IBM ExecJet drivers, and
compression mode drivers for 24 pin printers. Output formats are provided for
HP QuietJet, ZSoft PCX, and Kodak Color 4.


-----Rendering

[AUTOREND]
AutoRender (Control Automation, Inc.; $89) is a DXF rendering and shading
package. The display is divided into two sections, the Command/Status window,
and the Screen View Window. There are ten basic command including turning,
zooming, coloring, redrawing, and various printing options. The documentation
walks you through each process, so getting started is easy. There is also a
section describing the concepts of 3-D rendering. The program accepts mouse
input and other CAD oriented devices. Requires a hard drive and 640K of RAM.

[PROTOCAD]
ProtoCAD 3D 1.10c (TRIUS, Inc. ASP; $65) is a fast 3D CAD/rendering program
with 3D drawings and editing tools. It turns 2D drawings into 3D models.
Visual aids simplify modeling and make adjusting the viewpoint easy.
Perspective, isometric, oblique, and plane views are included. There is
realistic light source and surface shading. It supports most popular dot
matrix and laserjet printers. It also has multiple layers, HPGL and DXF import
capabilities, PCX output, and more. Requires 512K RAM.


-----Format Conversion

[ANS2COM]
ANS2COM 3.0 (Rexxcom; $15) converts ANSI graphics to self-displaying COM
files.

[ART2WP]
Art2WP 1.7 (Hinkle, William J.; $5) converts PFS:First Publisher clip art
files to other formats, including WPG, TIF, BIT, RLE, IMG, and GIF. It also
has the TIFF compression tag to satisfy Optiks 2.11 and reversed video on
GIFs, also added PCX output.

[ARTCON]
ArtCon 1.4 (Onda, Robert; $?) is a clip-art converter for: Print Shop,
PrintMaster, NewsMaster (*) and PFS: First Publisher. The program does fast,
easy clip-art conversions between Print Shop and PrintMaster Libraries, and
converts either Print Shop or Printmaster Libraries to the PFS: First
Publisher format.

[BIT2GRY]
Bit2Gray 2.1 (Uechi, Brian K.; $15) converts black and white dithered images
to gray scale. It reads black and white PCX files of any size and writes 16
color/gray scale or 256 color/gray scale PCX files. The 16 gray scale files
are best loaded into PC Paintbrush configured for VGA 640x480x16 colors/gray
scale. The 256 color/gray scale files are best loaded into PC Paintbrush
configured for VGA 320x200x256. Scans may be up to 8192 pixels wide and any
length.

[CGAPCX]
CGAPCX 1.0 (Visionary Software Technology, Inc.; $10) allows you to view up to
256-color PCX files on computers equipped with a CGA adapter. (The authors can
no longer be reached at the address provided in the documentation.)

[CGIF]
CGIF 1.0 (Pop Software; $0) is a fast, simple utility for viewing GIF files.
Pictures are displayed in the VGA 320x200x256 mode. For pictures with
resolution higher than 320x200, you can scroll the display. Source code is
available from the author.

[CHKPIC]
ChkPic (Graham, Keith P.; $0) is a PC graphics file identifier which is
capable of determining 11 different types of graphics files. This can be very
helpful if you have gotten a graphics file from somewhere and don't know what
kind it is.

[CMPUSHO]
CompuShow 2000 1.01a (Canyon State Systems; $33) is a robust program for
viewing graphics files. A graphics information box displayed previous to the
file being shown contains information about the file and the various display
options available. Suppport for graphics file types such as PC Paintbrush, PC
Paint, Dr. Halo, RIX EGA Paint, ColoRix, MacPaint, GIF, RLE, and Windows BMP
files are included. 24-bit BMP, PCX, and IFF/LBM files are also supported.
Also included is full support for GIF 89a features, including delays,
transparency, user input, restore to background, restore to previous, plain
text, and comment extensions. Supports Targa 16, 24, 32, uncompressed and
run-length-encoded, mapped and RGB graphics. An automatic "best mode"
selection includes video driver modes. Works on Hercules, CGA, EGA, MCGA,
SuperVGA, VGA and there is also support for EGA with monochrome monitor. Dr.
Halo CUT files are supported, as well as variant PCX formats. Other features
include support for XMS and EMS memory, extended mouse support, full time
rescaling, dithering in all 2 through 16-color display modes, and more.

[GIFPRT]
GIFPrt 4.1 (Hamrick, Edward B.; $35) will display and print GIF files. It uses
color dithering for displaying GIF files on displays and printers that do not
support 256 colors; however, as with all other graphics utilities, dithered
photographs don't turn out very well. A slide show feature is included.
Supports most printers and graphic adapters. Requires 512K.

[COMPRES]
Compression/Decompression Utility (LEAD Technologies, Inc.; $49) will compress
or decompress TGA, GIF, TIFF, BMP, PCX, and BIN files up to ratios of 255:1.
It provides options to save VGA palettes and load images into different
resolutions. Images of 2000 pixels wide by 16,000 pixels deep can be
compressed. You can also compress using JFIF and JTIF (supporting JPEG
standards) or LEAD extended ratios with much better image quality than JPEG.

[CROPGIF]
CropGIF 1.3 (Alchemy Mindworks, Inc.; $35) allows you to crop fragments from
existing large GIF files and write them to new smaller files. It works like
the cut and paste functions of a paint program, and a Mircosoft compatible
mouse is required. EMS is supported.

[CVTGIF]
CVTGIF 1.5 (Bridges, John; $0) converts PIC and PCX files to GIF format.

[EZ_SHOW]
EZ-Show 1.2b (RSE, Inc.; $40) lets you create video presentations and slide
shows without scripts. It works with anything your screen can display,
including text screens and super-VGA graphics. A screen capture program,
presentation creation program, and show program are included. Features include
fades, delays, user flow control, branching, background processing, EGA
palette editor and more. Mouse support is included. Requires CGA, EGA, VGA, or
MCGA.

[FILEINFO]
File Information 1.1 (Alchemy Mindworks, Inc.; $20) tells you what format and
mode a graphics file is in.

[FMAC]
FMAC (Graham, Keith P.; $0) is a CGA MACPAINT file viewer. Better than
READMAC.

[GIF2JPG]
GIF2JPG (Handmade Software, Inc.; $20) converts GIF files to JPG files and
back to GIF images. JPG files are typically one-half to one-third the size of
GIF files.

[GIF2PCX]
GIF2PCX 1.3 (Voit, Robert; $10) converts GIF files to PCX files. It can handle
large, complex pictures and has a menu system for getting file names. Works
with Windows 3. Supports VGA only.

[GIF2WPG]
GIF2WPG 3.6a (Hinkle, William J.; $10) converts GIF files to a Word Perfect
Graphic file.

[GIFDESK]
GIFDesk 3.2 (Wherley, Jay; $0) lets you view many GIFs at one time on a VGA
system.

[GIF_INFO]
GIF Information 1.0 (Alchemy Mindworks, Inc.; $20) lets you catalog GIF files,
including a miniature version of each file.

[GIFHEX]
GIFHex (Gozum, Lawrence & Marvin; $28) is a utility to convert GIF or PCX or
BLD/PLT images, with 256-colors, to variable, error-distributed, dithered,
16-color pictures (up to 1024x768x16). It supports four different algorithms
to maximize your 16-color modes. Requires EGA and 512K of memory.

[GIFPCX]
GIFPCX 3.6 (Hinkle, William J.; $10) translates GIF to PCX files.

[GIFLITE]
GIFLite (Hu, Tsung; $20) is a command line GIF file compression program.
Because GIF files are already so dense, normal archiving programs like LHA and
PKZIP cannot compress them any significant amount. GIFLite uses a unique
approach to compress GIF files by an average of 15% to 35% depending on the
complexity of the image. It conforms to both GIF87a and GIF89a standards. All
non-image information is preserved in the resulting GIF files. Unlike regular
archives, you do not have to uncompress GIFLite files to use them.

[GR_EXT]
GR_EXT (Graham, Keith P.; $0) is a text file of many of the known DOS
extensions of graphics files.

[GRAFCAT]
Grafcat 3.1a (Alchemy Mindworks, Inc.; $40) prints a visual catalog of your
image files, with sixteen pictures to a page. It drives all LaserJet and
PostScript laser printers, and works with any mixture of GIF, PCX, MAC and IMG
files. Other features include support for GIF89a and interlaced monochrome
files; a trap for vector WPG files; Windows PCX support; PIC support; image
scaling and BMP support. This program should work with most PC based image
files.

[GRAFWK70]
Graphic Workshop 7.0b (Alchemy Mindworks Inc.; $40) is an excellent program
for working with computer graphic files. It converts, prints, views, dithers
and halftones MacPaint, GEM/Ventura IMG, PCX, PFS-ART, GIF, Mac-GIF, TIFF,
gray-scale TIFF, EPS, BMP, and WPG files. It drives CGA, Hercules, EGA, VGA,
Paradise, Orchid, Ahead, VESA, Diamond Speedstar, and ATI VGA Wonder cards. It
allows you to convert color image files into superb black and white clip art
for desktop publishing. Other features include image rotation and flipping,
IFF file compression, scaling, halftoning, LPT2 and LPT3 printer support,
support for anamorphic scaling, 24-bit resolution support, and more. 700K of
disk space is required.

[GREY]
Grey 1.0 (Philips, Curtis; $?) is a utility to convert Publishers Paintbrush
(or Paintbrush Plus) 8x8 dithered halftone PCX or PCC files to 63-grey-level
PCX or PCC file formats, using the 256-color (greyscale) ZSoft pallette.

[IMAGE_AL]
Image Alchemy (Handmade Software, Inc.; $80) converts between various graphics
file formats, including GIF, TIF, TGA, IFF, JPG, PICT, PIC (Apple), PCX, RAW,
RAS, Windows BMP, PBM/PGM/PPM, and SGI. It is the first shareware program to
perform JPEG compression and decompression. Features include support for
reading RLE and interleaved GIF files, 8-bit RAW files, optional smoothing on
JPEG reading, and support for any color component subsampling on JPEG reading.
Other file formats supported include Vivid, MTV, DCX, QDV, Erdas, QRT, GEM,
Utah RLE, ADEX, RTL, WPG, Pictor, Autologic, q0, BIF, Stork, XWD, Scodl, and
XBM. Support is provided for Encapsulated PostScript output; HP PCL (LaserJet
output); Video 7, Trident, Tseng 4000, IBM 8514/A display boards; VESA
compatible SVGA boards, Sierra HiColor DAC;and 320x200x256 display mode. Other
features include image scaling; conversion to monochrome images; false color
palette conversion; optimized EGA image generation support; support for
extra-large images; palette sorting, paletted swapping, and palette selection
parameters and Stucki and Jarvis, Judice, and Ninke Dithering. Requires a hard
drive, VGA, and DOS 3.2+. There is an image size restriction of 640x480.

[IMAGECTL]
Image Control 2.15 (Brightstar Consultants Ltd, reg. fee: $60) is a 24-bit
colour image processing, manipulation and editing package. The program
provides editing, painting, processing and full darkroom facilities on
multiple images. Features include true-color 24-bit internal image format,
GIF87A support, multiple image workboard, image cut and paste, pixel editing,
painting tools, effects, JPEG compression, XMS/EMS support, support for VESA
1.01 and non VESA SVGA chipsets, and the ability to save TIFF, TGA, BMP, and
JPG formats. Requires 286 or above, VESA VGA, mouse, and 1MB of free disk
space.

[IMGFUN]
IMGFun 1.01 (Speedy Software ASP; $35) is an image compression and enhancement
utility. It allows you to view graphic images, convert images between GIF,
PCX, BMP and JPEG formats, compress color mapped images and gray level images
by JPEG compression, and display images as a manual slide show. Other features
include image rotation, rescaling, and smoothing. You can also adjust
brightness, colors and the contrast of an image, set the cut area for display
and process, and set the viewing directions. Requires VGA/SVGA and a hard
disk.

[IMAGEGAL]
Image Gallery 1.1e (Alchemy Mindworks, Inc.; $40) is a bitmap image cataloging
system. It creates multi-image galleries that display thumbnail
representations of the original image. You can locate files by visually
scrolling through the pages or you can search on key words in the comment
field. Other specific information such as dimensions and location are also
stored in the image database. You can print all or part of a gallery using a
PostScript or LaserJet compatible printer. Dot matrix printers are also
supported. It supports virtually all popular bitmapped image formats. Requires
VGA, a mouse, and 500K of free disk space.

[IMPROCES]
Improces 2.0 (John Wagner, reg. fee: $25) is an excellent SVGA image processor
supporting all modes from 320x200x256 through 1024x768x256.

[MERGEIT]
MergeIt (DiBart, Dennis; $25) merges two scanned sections of a document which
are in the PCX format with an automatic process which then allows trimming and
adjustment. It can merge scanned images together either horizontally or
vertically. It will display the merged image regions on Hercules, EGA, and VGA
video systems. Other features include an automatic trimming function, a menu
system of commands, and support for image producing software that does not
write a complete PCX image file header. This is an ideal utility for owners of
hand scanners.

[MVPPAINT]
MVP Paint (MVP Software ASP; $35-$53) is a VGA graphics workshop. Features
include animation, sunbursting, interpolation, trending, and palette
manipulation permitting use of 262,144 colors. It supports EMS, XMS, diskcache
and PCX, GIF and VGA file formats. Requires 640K, VGA/SVGA, and a mouse.

[P2E]
PCX-to-Executable 1.0 (Birken Software, Inc., reg. fee: $5) converts 320x200,
256 color images from PCX file format to executable files.

[PCX2X145]
PCX2EXE 1.45 (Williams, Mike; $25) converts PCX files into self-displaying EXE
files. A TSR screen grabber is included that saves in PCX format and has no
limit on the size of the graphic file that can be created.

[ICN11]
PCX2LCN 1.1 (Blueview Software, reg. fee: $20) converts PCX files to RIP Icon
format.

[PCX2PCL]
PCX2PCL 1.3 (TaxWare ASP; $30) converts PCX graphics to Hewlett Packard PCL
format. A download utility is included for sending macros to the printer;
instructions are given for accessing the macros from within most major
software applications.

[PCX_TOOL]
PCX-ToolBox 2.1 (PC West, Inc.; $40) is a set of PCX imaging tools. Functions
include crop, scale, view, print, dither, convert palettes, move, copy,
delete, and more. Mouse support is included. Requires 512k RAM.

[PICEM]
Picem 2.7 (Bridges, John; $0) is a quick and easy way to view picture files
from many graphics programs as well as GIF files. It also allows you to adjust
the brightness and contrast in your pictures and save them back to disk.

[PICVIEW]
PicView (Thomas, Greg Thomas & Mettee, Brad; $15) is a picture viewer for GIF,
Colorix Uncompressed and Mac pictures. Its claim to fame is an adjustable
palette animation feature. A picture can be animated through the entire
palette, a portion of the palette, and through a range of colors in the
palette. It supports all major SVGA chipsets and will automatically adjust the
mode selections.

[POPPCX]
PopPCX 1.0 (Panda Studio Inc.; $25-$35) is a pop-up PCX file viewer. It takes
a rather hefty 86k of RAM. When you pop it up, it lists all the files in the
directory rather than just PCX files, making it a little more of a nuisance to
use. Other than these two complaints, it does what it is supposed to do.

[PRINTGF]
PrintGF 1.10 (Ravitz Software Inc. ASP; $34) is a GIF file printing program.
It prints or displays GIF files on most PC bit mapped graphics devices at 240
shade levels per color plane, color or black/white, with error diffusion
dithering, brightness and contrast for each plane, user selectable clip area,
print size, portrait or landscape. PrintGF supports a large number of
printers, including PostScript, and video types, and outputs to PCX files as
well. 15- and 24-bit VESA SVGA support is provided.

[RTAG21]
RTag 2.1 (Phillip H. Sherrod ASP; $20) facilitates the generation ray tracing
animation. It compiles an animation control language and creates files to
cause ray tracing programs like POV-Ray or Polyray to produce a sequence of
frames for an animation. The language offers full arithmetic expressions,
looping control and spline path generation. You can create animations with
accelerations and/or object interactions.

[TGA2TIF]
TGA2TIF 1.10 (Hamilton, Mark; $0) converts targa (TGA) files to Tiff (TIF)
files. The Tiff file can be read by popular DeskTop Publishing packages like
PageMaker.

[TGIF]
TGIF (Lark, James; $10) converts color GIF files (from CompuServe) to black
and white via a halftone process that approximates the intensities of each
color. It also allows you to double or triple the size of images without
losing any smoothness. C source code is included.

[TIFF]
TIFF 1.4 (Thomas, Markham; $?) is a TIFF file viewer that uses either EGA or
VGA graphics for screen display. If a VGA is present you can specify a
gray-scaled display.

[TIFFREAD]
TiffRead ($0) is a small program that displays TIFF image files.

[TIFVIEW]
TifView 1.0 (Pegasus Imaging Corporation; $0) is a TIF file viewer which
supports panning, zooming and changing pages on multipage TIFs. It will also
perform three types of anti-aliasing.

[TXT2PCX]
Txt2PCX (Decisions Software; $25) is a 31k TSR that will capture text screens
and save them in graphics format as PCX files. Once saved, PCX files can be
imported into virtually all desktop publishing and graphics programs.

[VESAVW46]
VESAView 4.6 (William M. White, reg. fee: $30) allows you to view and print
BMP, GIF, IMG, GEM, JPG, PCX, TGA & TIF images & HPGL plotter files. It also
allows you to pan images that are larger than your screen resolution, make
adjustments to color, brightness, and contrast, crop images, and more.
Requires a VESA driver for your graphics card and enough extended memory to
hold the entire image. Supports VESA modes thru 1280x1024x256.

[VGA2GIF]
VGA2GIF (Fleisher, Laurie & Bill; $0) will capture a VGA mode 13H graphics
screen (320x200x256) and convert it to GIF format.

[VPIC]
Vpic (Montgomery, Bob; $15) is a graphics file viewer and converter for EGA,
MCGA, VGA and SuperVGA. It will display graphics files in the following
formats: GIF, PCX, SCx, PIC, TGA, CIT, LBM and MAC files. VPic will save any
picture to any of the other formats except MAC. It will also display files in
a slide-show mode. Other features include support for uncompressed coloRIX SCO
files, Deluxe Paint II viewing and save capability, and the ability to view
GIF89a and FRA fractal files. Support is included for Everex 678, Ahead (B
chip), Zymos VGA, Tseng 4000, and Genoa 6400; SCY conversion for ColoRIX; and
eight VGA/EGA modes. Other features include support for BIF Binary Image File
from B&W image capture boards; 64 shade gray conversion for VGA images;
auto-centering for pictures smaller than the screen; GIF89a features including
transparent color, variable size plain text, user input, variable delay, and
display of comments; Microsoft Windows 3.0 Bitmap BMP file viewing/saving in
compressed or uncompressed format; mouse support for the menu screen;
Viewpoint picture viewing (PIC files); and more.

[VUIMAGE]
VuImage (Offe Enterprises; $40) is a GIF/TIFF/PCX file viewer. Features
include zooming in and out, panning, auto-detect display, auto/manual select
video mode, auto-scale pictures to fit on screen, slide show mode, and
printing. It can dither images in two-color display modes and will dither
print output.