WarPaint is a basic paint program for OS/2. It allows the user to work with existing bitmaps or to create bitmaps from scratch. We consider it to be a pixel paint program. One of the handier aspects of it is that you can zoom in to a very high degree to do pixel by pixel changes. The OverView allows you to select a small area to zoom in on as well.
WarPaint has been knocking around PillarSoft for about three years but has been held from release by a couple of issues that may or may not affect most users. If it is a major part of the reason you would be interested in purchasing the PillarSoft Suite, please be sure it works satisfactorily in your case before making any commitment.
Major bitmap formats supported by WarPaint are:
There are other lesser known formats that WarPaint will work with but most are so obscure that we won't mention them here.
The JPG format is not actually supported internally but because it is such an important format we have made provisions for WarPaint to use cjpeg.exe and djpeg.exe (if present) to convert JPG's into a temporary BMP file for viewing and editing. The file may also be saved as a JPG after editing. You will notice that it takes a little extra time to load the jpg's as they are converted on the fly.
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