Claus Graf wrote: 
> I have finished a new PQIV. The new features of v0.2 are:
> - Printing to PostScript files
> - Printer Dialog, size and position of image on paper can be adjusted with the mouse
> - Rotation of images

Well done. It's a really nice application, I think it deserves a
bigger audience. Pity that you didn't find the time to include mode32
support. But don't worry, I spent a few minutes and patched the
binary. The SBASIC program below applies the necessary changes. I hope
this is in your interest.

Instructions
------------
* Get PQIV v0.2 and unpack it somewhere
* Load the program below and adjust the paths in the first two lines
* Run it
* Have fun with PQIV

Comments/known issues
---------------------
* Patch should be good for both QXL and QPC. But I haven't checked it
on the QXL (don't have one). Feedback welcome.

* Pictures are by default always loaded in 2:1 aspect ratio. While
this is fine for me (I usually use a very similar ratio) most people
will want to use the 4:3 aspect ratio option.

* Due to the somewhat strange way the program scans directories (it
actually hands DOS wildcards to the device driver) the DOS device is
not accessible. A future QPC version will increase the compatibility
in this respect.

* The "scanning drive" function of the file dialog is a problem
because QPC usually has much more devices attached than there are on a
Q40. As SMSQ/E is limited to 16 devices this scan most likely eats up
the limit and e.g. the DEV device becomes inaccessible afterwards
(needs at least one free slot). Use the DEL_DEFB SBASIC command to
clean up the mess, after that everything should be back to normal. The
function also causes problems with the altered DOS device mentioned in
the previous point (seems to scan forever). It probably can't cope
with the number of files on my PC partitions, but I haven't
investigated that further. I suggest to adjust DATA_USE before running
the program and to avoid the scan function altogether.

* Ironically the program only shows mode33 PIC files correctly, the
save function however produces mode32 pictures. Therefore it can't
show the files it produces itself.

* The move/resize function of the print dialog doesn't seem to work
(quits the program). Again I didn't investigate this further.
Nonetheless the postscript output seems to be fine.

I think that was all so far. Hope this is useful to someone.

Cheers, Marcel

---
100 S$ = 'win2_pqiv_pqiv'
110 D$ = 'win2_pqiv_pqiv32'
120 SL = FLEN(\S$)
130 M = ALCHP(SL)
140 LBYTES S$, M
150 RESTORE
160 REPeat
170   READ P
180   IF P = -1 THEN EXIT
190   READ Length
200   FOR Loop = 0 TO Length - 2 STEP 2
210     READ O: READ N
220     IF HEX$(PEEK_W(M + P + Loop),16) <> HEX$(O, 16) THEN
230       PRINT#0,"Sorry, but the patch is not suitable for this source file"
240       RECHP M
250       STOP
260     END IF
270     POKE_W M + P + Loop, N
280   END FOR
290 END REPeat
300 SEXEC D$, M, SL, $932C
310 RECHP M
990 :
10000 DATA $332, $76, $302E, $48A7, $FFD6, $600, $8047, $3C2E
10010 DATA $806E, $FFD6, $FFD2, $3A2E, $C07C, $FFD2, $4, $3007
10020 DATA $E448, $E608, $3D40, $205, $FFCA, $FC, $3007, $206
10030 DATA $E648, $F8, $3E00, $E74D, $302E, $8045, $FFD6, $E058
10040 DATA $E648, $8046, $3D40, $2203, $FFD6, $D281, $302E, $3580
10050 DATA $FFD2, $1800, $E648, $5283, $3D40, $4C97, $FFD2, $60
10060 DATA $3004, $DC6E, $8046, $FFD6, $8045, $E246, $C07C, $DA6E
10070 DATA $4, $FFD2, $E448, $E245, $3D40, $3004, $FFC8, $D047
10080 DATA $3004, $E848, $E648, $205, $3800, $FC, $3006, $206
10090 DATA $E648, $F8, $3C00, $E74D, $3005, $8045, $E648, $E058
10100 DATA $3A00, $8046, $4280, $2203, $302E, $D281, $FFD6, $3580
10110 DATA $ED80, $1800, $4281, $5283, $3207, $4C9F, $D281, $60
10120 DATA $8081, $3004, $4281, $E608, $322E, $205, $FFD2, $FC
10130 DATA $740B, $206, $E5A1, $F8, $8081, $E74D, $4281, $8045
10140 DATA $322E, $E058, $FFCA, $8046, $8081, $6000, $2203, $80
10150 DATA $528, $14, $3800, $E608, $8046, $205, $8045, $FC
10160 DATA $C07C, $206, $4, $F8, $E448, $E74D, $3D40, $8045
10170 DATA $FFCA, $E058, $3004, $8046, $E648, $602E, $670, $14
10180 DATA $3600, $E608, $8045, $204, $8044, $FC, $C07C, $205
10190 DATA $4, $F8, $E448, $E74C, $3D40, $8044, $FFDC, $E058
10200 DATA $3003, $8045, $E648, $602E, $87A, $38, $3004, $E608
10210 DATA $8046, $205, $8045, $FC, $C07C, $206, $4, $F8
10220 DATA $E448, $E74D, $3D40, $8045, $FFA8, $E058, $3004, $8046
10230 DATA $E648, $222E, $3800, $FFCC, $3006, $D281, $E648, $2041
10240 DATA $3C00, $D1EE, $3005, $FFA0, $E648, $3080, $3A00, $52AE
10250 DATA $302E, $FFCC, $FFAC, $3C2E, $806E, $FFB8, $FFB8, $DC6E
10260 DATA $806E, $FFB6, $FFB2, $E24E, $C07C, $3A2E, $4, $FFB2
10270 DATA $E448, $DA6E, $3D40, $FFB0, $FFA6, $E24D, $8B6, $1A
10280 DATA $E648, $D06E, $3D40, $FFAA, $FFAC, $E848, $302E, $205
10290 DATA $FFB8, $FC, $E648, $206, $3D40, $F8, $FFB8, $E74D
10300 DATA $302E, $8045, $FFB2, $E058, $E648, $8046, $3D40, $6000
10310 DATA $FFB2, $BC, $A92, $14, $3800, $E608, $8046, $205
10320 DATA $8045, $FC, $C07C, $206, $4, $F8, $E448, $E74D
10330 DATA $3D40, $8045, $FFA8, $E058, $3004, $8046, $E648, $602E
10340 DATA $BC4, $2, $21, $20, $C40, $2, $6708, $6008
10350 DATA -1

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