PC4CoSVi Prepare & Convert Comic Strip for CoSVi  (support@project-viewer.com)

pc4cosvi FILENAME DEPTH CONFIG

 FILENAME  Filename of source file with full path and extension
 DEPTH     Color depth for the target PDB file in bits (use 1 for black/
           white, 2 for 4 shades of gray, 3 for 16 shades of gray, 4 for
           16 colors, 8 for 256 colors, 16 for 65.000 colors)
 CONFIG    Name of config file without extension listing the crop coordi-
           nates for each comic strip part consisting of x-start, y-start,
           width and height separated by a colon (e.g. 10,11,179,171);
           the last line in the file must be END (see .cfg examples)
           (crop, re-size and conversion are processed using IrfanView)

 Use double quotes(") if you use spaces in FILENAME.
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PC4CoSVi enables you to integrate the complete conversion process for
a comic strip into the Explorer context menu. The batch file prepares
a given source file and calls 2CoSVi.bat with appropriate parameters.
Following actions are taking place when calling PC4CoSVi.bat:
 1. Source file is copied to "Create" folder
 2. Filename of source file is determined
 3. 2CoSVi.bat is called with given config file
 4. Comic strip parts are extracted from copied source file
 5. Setting color depth, re-sizing image and conversion to bitmap
 6. 2CoSVi.bat is called to convert the created bitmap files
 7. Creating ressource description file (.rcp)
 8. Processing bitmap conversion for Palm
 9. Converted bitmaps are collected into one Palm database (.pdb)
10. Temporary files and variables are deleted

How to integrate PC4CoSVi into Explorer context menu? For three-pieced 
Dilbert comics of type GIF it works as described in the following (As I've
a German Windows installation, you might need to guess what I mean, sorry):

 1. Open Explorer and go to CoSVi "Create" folder
 2. Right-click PC4CoSVi.bat and select "Preferences"
 3. On tab "General" mark the complete path and copy it via Ctrl-C
 4. Select tab "Program" and mark the complete content of "Work path"
 5. Replace the content via Ctrl-V with the real path and click on "OK"
 6. Determine the "Type" description of a (Dilbert comic) GIF file
 7. Call "Folder options" from Explorer menu and select tab "File types"
 8. Mark the entry for GIF files in list "Registered file types" (see 6.)
 9. Click button "Edit..." and then "New..."
10. Enter a description in the first field (e.g. "CoSVi Dilbert short")
11. Click on the button right to the field below and select PC4CoSVi.bat
12. Go to the end of the field to the left and enter   "%1" 2 dilbert3
13. Click on "OK" and then "Close" and again "Close"
With this I'm closing our short training course in file type editing :-)

Now you should be able to convert any three-pieced Dilbert comic by right-
clicking on it and selecting "CoSVi Dilbert short".
For the long (Sunday) Dilbert comic it works the same way, but you need to
enter the following in step 12:  "%1" 2 dilbert8 

If you get an error telling you that the environment memory is full you
might need to add the following line as first line to your config.sys and
restart your PC: shell=c:\windows\command.com c:\windows /e:3072 /u:255 /p 

IMPORTANT: Enter the right path for your command.com (maybe your Windows
directory has a different name). Replace both paths in this case!
In case of doubt ask an experienced PC user.