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Download: Smoothie1.13.sit.hqx
SMOOTHIE
Smoothie removes the jagged edges from pictures produced in your drawing and presentation applications using true subpixel anti-aliasing for superior results. It can be used to anti-alias single pictures, batch process many pictures, or even process an entire slide show for use in presentations as a Smoothie Slideshow or a QuickTime movie.
Anti-aliasing is the central technology in Smoothie. The basic operation in anti-aliasing is to fill in the jagged edges between two colors with intermediate colors. Look closely at the before and after picture below to see the dramatic difference anti-aliasing makes for on screen graphics.
Smoothie has a very useful batch processing facility. This allows you to process either a scrapbook file filled with pictures or a folder filled with PICT files. Output can be either a scrapbook file of pictures, a Smoothie Slideshow, or a QuickTime movie.
Smoothie Slideshows are particularly useful when you are smoothing an on-screen presentation created in programs like Persuasion and PowerPoint.
For Smoothie to do its job, you need to create a vector picture, that is, one made up of lines, other graphics, and text. Smoothie will not smooth pictures containing only bitmaps.
To control how Smoothie works, there is a main settings dialog. A picture of this is shown below:
Smoothie lets you choose how many colors you want to use in your output. Usually, the more colors you use, the better the results. On the other hand, the more colors you use, the larger your pictures will be.
Smoothie supports dithering. Dithering is a technique used to simulate more colors than are available in a picture. A picture containing 256 colors can look almost as good as one that uses thousands or millions of colors when dithering is used.
Smoothie lets you scale your picture in one of two ways: either by a set percentage or to a specific size in pixels.
Smoothie supports the Edition Manager (Publish and Subscribe). You can have Smoothie automatically publish the results are they are produced. You can also have Smoothie process new data that is published into Smoothie. These options make it easy to use Smoothie in the background while you tweak a picture in a foreground drawing application.
Smoothie supports the use of QuickTime's image compressors to minimize the size of your final output.
Smoothie is sold as shareware, which means you can use it and see if it is useful to you. If it is, we ask a $24.95 registration fee.
Download: Smoothie1.13.sit.hqx
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