Collage Complete for Windows v1.0 Thank you for purchasing Collage Complete for Windows! Collage Complete for Windows gives you all the tools you are likely to need to create, manage, and locate all of your bit-mapped images. Collage Complete lets you easily: o Capture screens o Modify your images o Print images o Interface to your "Twain" compatible scanner/driver. o Work with "batches" of images for copying, changing and/or printing. ================================================== 1. Installation Notes ================================================== Collage Complete for Windows places the following files into the subdirectory you specified at installation time (typically C:\COLLWIN): COLCAT.DLL COLLDISP.DLL IMICROP.DLL IMIIMAG.DLL HKDLL.DLL HKTRAP.EXE ACCUSOFT.DLL CTL3D.DLL IMIZOOM.DLL CAPTURE.EXE IMGMGR.EXE PCDLIB.DLL CAPTURE.HLP IMGMGR.HLP README.TXT The first time Collage Complete for Windows is run it creates the following files and places them in the installation directory: IMGMGR.INI ORIGINAL.SET If you want to remove Collage for Windows, delete all of the files listed above, remove the directory, and eliminate any reference to them in Program Manager. NOTE: Make sure that none of the Collage Complete Windows programs are running when you delete these files. Failure to do so may cause system problems, and loss of data! ================================ You can manually "unpack" any of the files on the distribution disks with the UNPACK.EXE program provided. It is a Windows application, you can run it directly from either Program Manager or File Manager. UNPACK is NOT copied to your hard disk during installation, you must run it from the floppy. ================================ Important note: If you run any windowed DOS applications, and want to be able to use the Collage Capture HOTKEY capability while the DOS session has the focus, you MUST install the HKTRAP.EXE program before running Windows. Refer to your printed User's Manual for information on how to do this. Additional note for early recipients of | Collage Complete for Windows: | | Some early copies of Collage had the name of | HKTRAP.EXE as HKDTRAP.EXE, a file naming error. | If you are using this new version of Collage | Complete to replace an early version, and you had | previously put a line calling for HKDTRAP.EXE | in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file, please be sure to | modify it to read HKTRAP.EXE instead. You should | also delete the old HKDTRAP.EXE to avoid confusion. | ================================ If you need to use the Collage Complete for DOS applications, please refer to your printed User's Manual. ================================ For information on using Collage Complete for Windows, see the online help system for the Image Manager and for Capture. You should also refer to your printed User's Manual. ================================================== 2. Using TIFF images exported from Corel Draw 3.0 ================================================== You can export images from Corel Draw 3.0 to be read into Collage Image Manager, but you must export them as TIFF version 4.2. Corel (the company) provides an updated DLL on their Compuserve forum that lets you choose this format. You should also find these images to be much more compatible with other applications as well. Users of Corel Draw version 4.0 should not have this difficulty. ================================================== 3. Added Features for Collage Capture ================================================== You can now change the color palette of any screen that has been captured to preview. This allows you to adjust the colors of the image before saving or printing it. This feature is particularly useful if you are saving the preview image as a grayscale and want to adjust the darkness or lightness of any particular color in the palette. The changed palette will be reflected in the Preview window after you click on OK in the Select Colors dialog box. The changed palette is used for both the File and Printer Output Settings. ================================================== 4. Added Features for Collage Image Manager ================================================== 7/7/1993 Maintenance Update The ability to attach sounds (.WAV files) to images in catalogs has been added. To attach a sound, press the Attach Sound button in the Image Properties dialog for an image in a catalog. You can run the Sound Recorder automatically by pressing the New button from the Attach Sound File dialog. You can also declare which sound recorder application is to be run by specifying the program name in the Preferences area. To play the sound for any given image, press the musical symbol icon on either the thumbnail, or on an image which has an associated sound that has been opened from a catalog. Please refer to the On-Line help system for more information on this new feature. Note: To be able to record and/or play sounds on your computer you need to have the appropriate hardware and software that support this capability. ================================ 6/30/1993 Maintenance Update Two changes to the tools access: Line/Eraser width and a new Palette window. The tool bar now contains a new item in the lower left corner, a Line/Eraser width setting tool. By using the left/right arrow buttons, you can decrease or enlarge the current setting for Line width (for drawing tools) or Eraser width, for the eraser tool. These are separately settable, and are remembered from session to session. A new window is now available, the Palette window. This permits you to quickly select Foreground and background colors for all drawing operations without having to bring up the Edit Colors dialog (still available). To activate the Palette window, either click on the Foreground/Background color samples in the lower right corner of the toolbar, or select Palette from the Window menu item. ================================ A new transform has been added, "Contrast". When used in combination with "Brightness" you can very effectively adjust the appearance of an image. If you perform a contrast change on a selected area of an 8 or 4 bit image you may notice some slight shift in the overall image palette. You can "undo" this operation to restore the original palette. ================================ The Open Image File dialog box now has an added button, "Delete Image". This simple but powerful change makes it easy to breeze through your image collection, viewing and deleting images rapid-fire. If the "Confirm Delete" option is turned on, you will be alerted before each delete operation. When you are finished deleting images, click on Cancel to dismiss the Open Image File dialog box. CAUTION: You cannot recover a deleted image. ================================ The Eraser tool permits you to replace selected locasions with either the current foreground or background colors. To use the background color, press the left mouse button. To use the foreground color, press the right button. ================================ When selecting multiple images in a catalog, the Image Information window now displays the total number of bytes in the source images. This may be useful in estimating the number of diskettes required to copy all of the selected images. Note: this number may not be a reliable indication of the bytes required if you are converting to some other format during the saving operation. ================================ When doing a Save Images As from a catalog (i.e. when you want to copy several images to multiple floppies) if the destination disk becomes full, you are informed of this and you may then insert a new disk, or cancel the operation. ================================ The Add Images to Catalog dialog box now includes two additional buttons: Select All and Deselect All. These buttons let you quickly select or deselect all the images matching the filespec in the selected directory. ================================ Any changes made to an existing catalog are now automatically saved to the catalog file. The only time you will manually save a catalog is when you have created a new catalog and will use the Save Catalog As command to assign the file name to which it is saved. ================================ Some TWAIN sources reverse black and white on monochrome scans. To compensate for this, a new option, "Invert B/W Scanned Images," has been added to the Preference menu. ================================ For your convenience, the Magnifier and Selection Area tool buttons have been moved to directly below the Select Object tool button. ================================ The OLE registration is not modified by the installation program in any way. If you want Collage Image Manager to be called automatically when a supported image type or catalog is double- clicked in File Manager, Program Manager, etc., use the "Associate..." command in File Manager to make the connection. For more information please refer to your Windows documentation. ================================ In the Print Image(s) dialog, the Scale Limit, X Scale Factor and the Y Scale Factor permit choosing from the available factors. You are not permitted to edit the number directly, as the documentation implies. ================================ Transforms may now be performed on selected areas of any image, as indicated by the selection box. This includes ALL image types, from B/W to 24 Bit. If you perform a brightness change or tonal reversal change on a selected area of an 8 or 4 bit image you may notice some slight shift in the overall image palette. You can "undo" this operation to restore the original palette. ================================ For orders, questions or problems call Inner Media Technical Support at (603) 465-2696, or write to: Inner Media, Inc. 60 Plain Road Hollis, NH 03049 USA