This distribution updates the GPL end-of-race newspaper in several ways:

  * The driver photos have been filtered to have similar noise
    characteristics to the track photo and the newspaper itself.
    They originally were too sharp, and look decidedly 'pasted on',
    rather than an actual part of the paper.

  * The driver photos had a white border around them that was whiter
    than the underlying 'paper', which is simply wrong.  (It would involve
    2-pass print job, printing a white ink as well as black one, which as 
    you can imagine, isn't done in the newspaper business.)  The border
    has been removed

  * Guy Ligier has a real photo now - not that he appears in the standard
    driver.ini file, but if he did...

  * The newspaper layout has been modified somewhat.  The gray bars
    underneath the 'top finishers' list have been moved to correctly
    line up (again?).  The rules in the heading have been lined up and
    restyled somewhat.  The 'GRAND PRIX NEWS' title (which is a font 
    printed by GPL) has been removed and replaced with a static image
    in a more 'newspapery' logo font.  (See NOTE below.)

The distribution contains a set of 22 driver photos:
  amon.pbf    clar.pbf       hill.pbf    mcla.pbf    siff.pbf
  band.pbf    driver01.pbf   hulm.pbf    park.pbf    surt.pbf
  belt.pbf    driverx.pbf    ickx.pbf    rind.pbf
  bonn.pbf    gint.pbf       irwi.pbf    rodr.pbf
  brab.pbf    gurn.pbf       ligi.pbf    scar.pbf

as well as:
  paperbak.pbf
  winning.lyt

Simply plop all this stuff into your "Sierra/gpl/layout" directory.
To be rid of it, delete the files listed above.

Enjoy,

John Bradley - GPL Certified Aesthetician
visit BAPOM:  http://www.trilon.com/bapom

04/2004


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NOTE: if you're running a non-English version of GPL, take the 
appropriate 'paperbck-*.pbf' file and rename it to 'paperbck.pbf'.
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