Welcome to PhotoImpact Viewer 4.0 Freeware Version This ReadMe First document provides basic information about PhotoImpact Viewer. If you have any questions about how to use this product, please refer first to the program's online help. Also, visit the PhotoImpact Viewer and Ulead Web Utilities pages on our web site (http://www.ulead.com/products/framens.htm) for FAQ updates, tips and techniques, special promotions, free software, and other useful information. Table of contents 1. How to install this program? 2. System requirements 3. What is PhotoImpact Viewer? 4. Technical support 5. Providing feedback and suggestions 6. What is Ulead PhotoImpact web image editor? 7. Distribution program 1. How to install this program? Run Pivwr40.exe directly to install PhotoImpact Viewer 4.0 Freeware Version. 2. System requirements . Windows 95 or Windows NT 3.51 or higher . 486-DX2/DX4 or Pentium-compatible systems . 8 MB RAM . 5 MB available hard drive space for program files . Windows-compatible pointing device . True Color or HiColor display adapter and monitor (recommended) 3. What is PhotoImpact Viewer? PhotoImpact Viewer is a simple but powerful 32-bit image viewer for Windows 95 and NT, provided as Freeware by Ulead Systems, Inc. PhotoImpact Viewer includes the following major features: . Viewer can be easily configured as a Web browser image viewing helper program . Viewer can be easily configured as a Windows image viewer for selected file formats . Viewer can be easily configured into Windows Explorer's context menu . Supports various image types as well as animated GIF files . Image Open, Print, and Save As another image file format . Complete PhotoCD option support . Drag `n' Drop to open files in the following file formats: BMP, CLP, CUR, DCS, EPS, FAX, GIF, ICO, IFF, JPG (JPEG), IMG, MAC, MSP, PCD, PCT, PCX, PIC, PNG, PSD, PXR, RAS, RLE, SCT, SHG, TGA, TIF (TIFF), and WMF. Many file format variations are supported. . More file format filters will be available from Ulead web site. . Open active image into PhotoImpact Image Editor or another user-selected image editor . Conveniently access recently opened files . Fit page or centered image printing with optional title field . 32-level image Zoom In/Out with handy numerical pad "+", "-" key support . Full screen and Fit in window image display . Convenient global view panning when displaying an image larger than current window . Image Rotate commands for viewing landscape or portrait image conveniently . File format conversion via Save As command . Detailed file format attributes and file properties display . Close All command . Comprehensive on-line Help For more information about PhotoImpact Viewer and how to use it, refer to the online help. It can be viewed by clicking the help button that appears in most of the program's dialog boxes, from the Help menu, or by clicking the Help document icon from Windows Viewer. 4. Technical support For users of this Freeware version PhotoImpact Viewer, if you have any questions, we encourage you to read the PhotoImpact Viewer on-line help and web pages on our web site (http://www.ulead.com). We offer absolutely NO technical support for this Freeware version of PhotoImpact Viewer. If you discover a bug in the program, please kindly send your report to support@ulead.com.tw. Necessary changes will be made and the FAQ page will be updated. We suggest you check our web site often. 5. Providing feedback and suggestions Your comments and suggestions to improve our software are most welcome. Please send them to webutility@ulead.com.tw. Thank you for your time and support. 6. What is Ulead PhotoImpact web image editor? GETTING ON THE WEB has become a top priority for individuals, groups and companies everywhere. And when you say Web, you mean graphics and images. To meet the special challenges of web imaging, Ulead PhotoImpact now brings you WebExtensions, a comprehensive set of productivity tools to make imaging for the Web as convenient, fast and easy as creating images for all your other documents. PhotoImpact with WebExtensions is the perfect companion for Microsoft FrontPage, Adobe PageMill and Netscape Navigator Gold. Although very handy and useful, PhotoImpact Viewer is only a very small part of the complete PhotoImpact technology. The full version of PhotoImpact includes a state-of-the-art object-based image editing module along with many other powerful tools, such as GIF/JPEG SmartSaver, GIF Animator, Explorer, Screen Capture, Album and CD Browser, to make your work easier. If you like this product, you owe it to yourself to check out the full version. (http://www.ulead.com/webex/we.htm) PhotoImpact GIF/JPEG SmartSaver, PhotoImpact GIF Animator, PhotoImpact GIF optimizer, PhotoImpact Album, PhotoImpact Viewer and PhotoImpact Screen Capture are just parts of the PhotoImpact and WebExtensions technology developed for Ulead PhotoImpact with WebExtensions - the ultimate web imaging tool. If you have already purchased Ulead PhotoImpact with WebExtensions package, you already have many of these web utilities and technologies. Just don't forget to come back often to download the latest update of PhotoImpact SmartSaver, Viewer, GIF Optimizer, and GIF Animator. All Trial versions of SmartSaver v1.x, GIF Optimizer v1.x, Viewer v4.x, Explorer v4.x and GIF Animator v1.x will be installed as a permanent extension to your existing PhotoImpact, making these Web utilities completely free to existing Ulead PhotoImpact users. 8. Distribution program If you would like to distribute Freeware PhotoImpact Viewer 4.0 on your CD-ROM, Web page or FTP site please feels free to do so. You must, however, keep PhotoImpact Viewer's single EXE file in its original form as distributed by Ulead Systems. If you would like to distribute other Ulead Web Utilities products or Trial versions, please contact webutility@ulead.com.tw. Copyright 1996 - 1997, Ulead Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Ulead is a registered trademark and Ulead PhotoImpact is a trademark of Ulead Systems. Some of the product names used are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and are used for identification purposes only.