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Corel PHOTO-PAINT is an application with a long history and one that I have used off and on for as many years. This latest Version 9 is not all that different in outward appearance and the included feature set than the previous Version 8, or even 7 for that matter.

However, using this new Version 9 was a much better experience because of what I can best describe as refinement. Before getting into how Corel PHOTO-PAINT 9 performed, let me first describe what the package contains and generally what it is designed to do. The name PHOTO-PAINT is about as broadly descriptive as you can get for such an image-editing product.

It has the tools, processes, and brushes that computer artists need for painting and digital photographers require to acquire images from scanners and digital cameras, color correct, manipulate, and incorporate in a publishable document containing not just photographic images, but graphic design elements and standard text and manipulated type fonts.

In addition to the main paint and image-editing application, Corel also includes Bitstream Font Navigator 3.0 to organize, view, and select fonts stored in your operating system. Canto Cumulus 4.0 is an acclaimed professional digital asset management application; Adobe Acrobat Reader for access to documentation in Acrobat .PDF format on disc; DigiMarc Digital Watermarking to record your copyright within images; Human Software Squizz an image morphing utility; Corel Capture 9 to record and save screenshots; and Corel Script Editor to automate processes.

The features within Corel PHOTO-PAINT 9 are more extensive than just about any image editor consumer software product currently available. They include in part:

• Artistic media brushes that may be used directly and as cloning brushes to paint or repaint using all kinds of natural painting effects as well as more imaginative options.

• Layered object effects can be created to manipulate, composite, as well as add graphic elements like type with drop shadows over a photographic image.

• You can either open or save to a wide variety of graphics file types making resources created in a number of different applications available, as well as creating images in PHOTO-PAINT that can be used in other applications, including Adobe Photo-shop, MetaCreations painter, among others.

Ixla digital camera support is built-in providing easy access to the images stored by most of the popular brands and models of cameras.

• Full support is included for HTML output to create content for web publishing.

• Encapsulated PostScript Export includes enhanced color management to assure high quality printing and output to offset press reproduction.

• Images created in PHOTO-PAINT may be output in PDF format for web or offset printing targets.

• A Wizard is included which makes output to a pre-press service bureau easy.

More extensive and controllable access support of color management is included, incorporating the selection of one of a number of standard color workspaces with ICC profiles which may be imbedded in output files.

• And in Corel tradition the package includes a clip art library of 1200 items, 1500 royalty free photos, 750 floating objects, and 300 TrueType fonts.

Graal Online is a retro MMORPG with an emphasis on modification.

Graal Kingdoms is an adventurous massively multi player online roleplaying experience. Explore 3-D terrain in a 2-D environment, while battling monsters, forging friendships, and collecting treasures.

Interact with in-game characters and creatures, role play and chat with other players from around the world. Graal Kingdoms allows players to become a part of the story. Players can build houses, protect kingdoms, battle in tournaments, compete in events, and much more!

Graal Kingdoms goes beyond the norm, with a growing community and new and exciting features being added all the time. Players can do odd jobs, tame and own pets, battle monsters, form groups with other players, and make their own items and weapons.

An important part of Graal Kingdoms, is the great amount of communication that is possible in the game. Through live chatting onscreen, to sending private messages, and even mailing other players letters to their online homes! Battling is action-packed, with a wide variety of weapons and an even wider variety of magic spells.

The large assortment of items can be organized from the easy to use drag and drop inventory system. Players can choose from a selection of classes such as Warrior, Sorcerer, Thieves, Barbarians, and even Priests!

Graphics

The graphics in Graal Kingdoms are a fine blend of 2-D artwork and 3-D artwork, meshed together to form a unique experience unlike any other. Graphics are highly detailed, colourful, and creative. From boats and houses, to trees and monsters, Graal Kingdoms provides a visual treat for the player.

Jobs

Players can work many different jobs in order to advance further into the game. Mining for gems to craft into your own goods, and farming crops to bake into culinary delights. You can even become a lumberjack and plant trees to chop down and turn into wood that can be crafted into many useable items.

Houses and fortifications

If you plan on settling down, why not build yourself a home? Mine stones and build walls, until your new house is complete! Then once your home is built, gather up some furniture and decorate your indoor area in any way youd like. Your house can even include a mailbox, in which you can receive letters and even items from players! To keep out all unwanted visitors, you can construct fortification pillars around your land. But be careful, as pillars can be destroyed!

Role Player System

Graal Kingdoms has a massive role playing engine to allow for exciting experiences. Hundreds of items, loads of weapons, and a large array of magical spells allow for a unique role playing environment. Different items allow for different statistical effects to your base stats, enabling every player to strengthen their character with bigger and better items and weapons. A large assortment of items can be mixed together to create other items by using alchemy. Making for fun experimentation and surprising results!

Interaction between Players

Players can interact with each other in many ways. Through weekly tournaments and events, and even in mini-games, such as kart racing and soccer. Players can group with others to form parties in order to take on large quests and battle monsters in dungeons and mazes. Screenshots and news announce winners of events and competitions so every player can have a chance to be recognized.

Dungeons and Monster fighting

Players can travel through dark and eerie dungeons that have many twists, turns, and dead ends. Monsters of all shapes and sizes lurk through the corridors awaiting any challenger that crosses their path. By defeating monsters, players gain fighting experience which is used to gain levels to grow stronger. Battling monsters also allows for players to earn treasure from their victories. Monsters have different patterns of attack and come in many shapes and sizes, so beware!

Animals and Pets

There is a variety of animals that roam the lands in Graal Kingdoms. Some of these animals can be fed and tamed to follow you and much more. If you have a horse, you can feed it and ride it for faster travel over the land. You can even add armor to your horse to protect it during battles. Pets can also help to lighten the load by carrying some of your heavy goods.

Ships

Dream of travelling the seas? In Graal Kingdoms, its possible! With enough effort and wood, you can build a grand ship and sail around the world! Gather a crew together and explore the vast sea, or search for passing ships to destroy with your cannons! Ships can be damaged to the point of sinking, but they can also be repaired. Youll need to find a good crew to take on the rough waters!

Interface

Players can buy, sell, trade, and equip their items and weapons with the help of an easy to use inventory system. The inventory features drag and drop capabilities that allow the player to drop items on the ground or into bags or other containers they are carrying. The inventory displays currently worn items such as armour, rings, and amulets, along with the characters stats and items.

Kingdoms

Players can choose to join one of five Kingdoms. Each Kingdom is unique with its own island, background information, and design. Players can take part in Kingdom events, wars, tournaments, and much more. Every Kingdom has a style of its own, which allows the player to choose what style best suits them. Players can take on the role of a Kingdom member and even climb the ranks for a high position in the Kingdom. Become a defender for your Kingdom and wage war with other Kingdoms for honour and glory!

Big Faceless Java PDF Viewer 2.11.6 functions as a versatile swing component that can display PDF documents

Big Faceless Java PDF Viewer is Intended for customers who dont require the full API, the PDF Viewer can be installed as an Applet, application or via Java Web Start, or embedded in a Swing application.

Printing, saving, text search, forms, digital signatures, and annotations are some of the many features available - the viewer can be tailored to include just the features you need, and is a cost-effective solution for those needing the features of Adobe Acrobat on a Java platform.

Essentially a cut-down version of the full PDF Library, the Java PDF Viewer is a more cost-effective solution for those who dont required API access to the main library.

Unlike its big brother, the viewer cannot create new PDFs and any edits must be made through the Swing interface. That interface is supplied with a large number of "features" (the full list is here) which can be enabled to customize the interface; ideal for distributing a limited functionality viewer as part of the

Major Features:

1. Swing component for displaying PDF documents
2. Customizable feature set includes printing, saving, search/selection, forms, bookmarks, reorderable thumbnails, annotations and more.
3. Full support for PDFs up to Acrobat 9
4. Viewer can be controlled from JavaScript
5. Applet size under 1MB
6. Localized in English, French, Spanish, German, Japanese and Chinese

Enhancements:

• All BFO warning (and debug, if enabled) messages are now logged using log4j if available, or java.util.logging.* if not.
• Large synchronization audit fixed some issues when reading from one PDF in multiple threads, particularly when using the viewer.
• Fixed problem that could result in corruption when repeatedly saving a PDF containing compressed XRef tables and multiple revisions.
• Modified AnnotationStamp so Acrobat correctly handles custom stamps, and added some new types of standard stamp.
• Added FDF.getXFDF() method, for exporting XFDF from a PDF, and added support for this to the Viewer. Fixed FDF export, broken some releases ago.
• More PDF/A related fixes, and added a number of new OutputProfile.Features.
• Fixed RichText content in text fields
• Added subsetting for CFF fonts
• Fixed error with some Windows JDKs when rasterizing JPEG images
• Fixed unusual cases of Linear & Radial shading, added preliminary support for Coons & Tensor-Product Patch shading (Type 6 & 7).
• Fixed blending, broken in previous release and resulting in opaque highlight annotations.
• Correctly handle masked images where the mask and image are different sizes, as created by Luratech products.
• Added PageExtractor.Image.getUniqueId(), to identify extracted images.
• Added PageExtractor.Image.getMetaData() and Text.getFontMetaData(), to return any embedded XMP MetaData for those items in the PDF.
• Fixed long-standing bug in CCITT.G3 2D encoding now rarely seen in very old TIFF images.
• Further fixes to handle some types of corrupt PDF
• Viewer: Page Up/Page Down/Home and End keys navigate correctly through the PDF via the Viewport ActionMap. Standard ScrollBar keybindings are overridden, previous KeyListener approach didnt work reliably and was removed.
• Viewer: Fixed missing glyphs in some fonts after a search was run.
• Viewer: PDFTool (the class run by "java -jar bfopdf.jar") has more options.
• Viewer: Stamps no longer slowly grow when clicked on due to rounding error
• Viewer: Calling DocumentPanel.redraw(page) will work as expected.
• Viewer: Dont allow JavaScript to be run on the console if no PDF is loaded
• Viewer: Fixed page jump when zoom level is changed in Column view
• Viewer: Dont fail under 1.6 when saving PDFs to filenames containing an invalid regex backreference.
• Viewer: Improved display under OS X, including addition of a Dock Icon.
• Viewer: Added keyboard shortcuts to "Open Recent" menu.
• Viewer: Thumbnail panel now scrolls to follow the current page, and renders more reliably.

Requirements: Java 2 Standard Edition Runtime Environment