GBM plugin for Lucide

Introduction

Lucide is a general purpose document viewer for eComStation. It provides a plugin interface which allows developers to integrate support for all kinds of document files. For details about Lucide please visit the Lucide project homepage.

The GBM plugin for Lucide is such an extension that provides access to all GBM supported bitmap formats. The following Lucide features are currently supported by the plugin:

For being able to use it, the following additional stuff are required:

Note:
GBM.DLL version 1.41 must not be used as it contains a compiler optimization issue that reduces stability. When used together with the GBM plugin for Lucide, Lucide will crash when opening JPEG bitmaps. Please upgrade to GBM.DLL version 1.50 or higher.


Installing GBM for Lucide

Simply copy lugbm.dll into the Lucide installation directory. Please check the requirements listed for gbm.dll above. Copy gbm.dll either into the Lucide installation directory beside lugbm.dll or put it somewhere in your LIBPATH (defined in CONFIG.SYS). The last option is recommended if gbm.dll is also required by other programs.


License of GBM for Lucide

Copyright (C) 2006 Heiko Nitzsche

This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied warranty. In no event will the author be held liable for any damages arising from the use of this software.

Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose, including commercial applications, and to alter it and redistribute it freely, subject to the following restrictions:

  1. The origin of this software must not be misrepresented; you must not claim that you wrote the original software. If you use this software in a product, an acknowledgment in the product documentation would be appreciated but is not required.
  2. Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not be misrepresented as being the original software.
  3. This notice may not be removed or altered from any source distribution.

Screenshot

Lucide window showing a multipage GIF by using the GBM plugin:

GBM for Lucide in action