README.TXT for Trellix Viewer 1.0 - November 1997 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Trellix Viewer 1.0 can be freely distributed, in the form of a self- extracting executable file, VIEWERSETUP.EXE. This file is included with Trellix 1.0, "the document builder for the web era," and available for download at www.trellix.com. For the latest information on Trellix products, see www.trellix.com, where we post updates, samples, answers to frequently asked questions, Tips of the Day, and more. You can use our site to chat with Trellix staff and other users, and give us your feedback. Trellix Corporation www.trellix.com support@trellix.com All software and materials copyright 1997 by Trellix Corporation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ README.TXT Table of Contents User Assistance and Online Help Technical Supplement Known Problems ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ User Assistance and Online Help Details of Trellix Viewer 1.0 functionality are fully covered in online Help. To use it, choose Help - Help Topics or Help - Screen Tips. This README file contains information of a more technical nature. In addition, our online Trellix Support Web site will be updated frequently, and may contain information that is more up to date than the information in this file. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Technical Supplement Un-Installing Trellix Viewer And Its Components ----------------------------------------------- To uninstall the Trellix Viewer software, use the Uninstall command on the Start - Programs - Trellix Viewer menu. If you have also installed sample Trellix documents, you can uninstall them by selecting Settings - Control Panel - Add/Remove Programs and then selecting the additional numbered "Trellix" items from the list. Trellix Viewer 1.0 and Trellix 1.0 ---------------------------------- It is not necessary to install both Trellix Viewer and Trellix 1.0 on the same desktop. Trellix contains a superset of the Trellix Viewer functionality, so if you have Trellix, install it instead. The two products have some files in common and some not in common. Installing only one conserves disk space and can prevent confusion between them. If you have both Trellix and Trellix Viewer installed and registered, then Windows Explorer right-click menus are enabled as follows: - Edit opens the document in Trellix - View opens the document in Trellix Viewer - Open opens the document in whichever program (Trellix or Trellix Viewer) was most recently launched If you have both Trellix and Trellix Viewer installed and you want to uninstall only one of them, answer "No" when asked whether you want to delete shared files. If you answer "Yes" your system will remove some common files, preventing the companion program from launching smoothly. If this occurs, when you launch the other program, a message will advise you how to find and run INSTFIX.BAT (a file created during installation, customized for your system registry), which will fix the problem. ActiveX Document Capability --------------------------- Trellix files are "ActiveX documents." This means that you can use Trellix Viewer to launch them within Internet Explorer and other browsers that support ActiveX documents. To enable this capability, choose the View - Always Within Browser option within Trellix Viewer. Note that ActiveX document capability is NOT the same as "ActiveX control" capability. Controls cause editors to appear within (or on top of) windows; documents fill the entire available window space. Trellix Viewer's cooperation with browsers, and its ability to display files and web pages within Trellix pages, are enabled if you have Internet Explorer 3.02 or above correctly installed and registered (whether or not it is your default browser), and if your system service packs are up to date. Once Trellix Viewer is installed, it launches whenever you click on an embedded Trellix file (or a link to one). In most cases, if the browser does not support ActiveX documents of the same vintage as the current document, Trellix Viewer launches in a separate window. For example, this release of Trellix Viewer does not run inside Netscape with the ScriptActive plug-in, or inside the Binder provided with Microsoft Office. In these and other cases Trellix Viewer launches separately. You can also produce a browser-friendly version of a Trellix document by using the full Trellix product to first export it to HTML. You can optionally include an interactive copy of the Trellix document map. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Known Problems Installation ------------ On rare occasions, both Trellix and Trellix Viewer may ask you to insert a "DLL Installation" disk while you are installing. The file that is being sought may be one of the following: HLINK.DLL ACTXPRXY.DLL These two files are components of your system software, and may also be installed by desktop applications and browsers, so they are most likely already present on your system, or you can find them on the disk named in the message. Inserting the requested disk, clicking Browse, and then clicking OK usually finds the file. Under Windows 95, there are known problems using Trellix Viewer with the IntelliPoint driver version 1.1: when you set the mouse option Snap Pointer to Default Button option, you cannot use the right-click menus. Installing version 2.0 of the driver fixes the problem. General ------- Trellix documents can use all True Type fonts installed on each editor's or reader's system. As with all Windows programs, when you open a document that was originally created with fonts that your system does not have installed, font substitution will occur. Images that serve as links don't display differently from other images; in other words, they don't have marks that indicate they are links. You can tell they are links by moving the mouse cursor over them. When you view a web page inside Trellix Viewer, and click on its links to change to another page, pages visited are not reflected in the Trellix Viewer history lists, and cannot be revisited using the Trellix Viewer Back and Forward buttons. When you use Edit - Copy to move text and images from a page into the Windows clipboard, the resulting text can be pasted to a variety of software programs. However, images copied from Trellix pages to the clipboard can only be pasted into another Trellix document (running in Trellix, as opposed to Trellix Viewer, so that editing is permitted); they do not show up in the clipboard when pasting into other applications. Images copied from the Trellix map cannot be pasted back into Trellix. It is not possible to copy entire Trellix pages to other Trellix documents. Occasionally it may be possible to select a page in the map and choose Edit - Copy, but the clipboard will not contain anything equivalent to a page that can be pasted. Sending Trellix Documents Via E-Mail ------------------------------------ You can use File - Send to enclose a Trellix document in an email message. Your recipient must have Trellix Viewer or Trellix to execute and read the document; if neither program is present, a message explains how to obtain them. If you have problems using "Send To," check whether you are using an email program that is already an MS Exchange Supported MAPI client. If not, make your email program the MAPI client. Printing -------- Trellix printing is not optimized for black and white printers, so it may not use their full range of available gray scales. Trellix images can be stretched to fit the regions where they are inserted. However, later changes to the size of the region, whether onscreen in Trellix Viewer or during printing, do not cause further changes to the size of the image; images may therefore print differently than they look. Certain Windows 95 printer drivers have trouble with light text on dark backgrounds. With these drivers, we have noticed problems in the printing of small numbers that indicate footnotes when the text is light and the background is dark. If you see this problem, it can be alleviated by switching to a dark font on a light background, sending the job to a different printer, or printing from within Windows NT. Miscellaneous ------------- In saved documents that contain tour sequences, one of the tour lines is always gray. This is likely to be the last tour sequence touched by the document's author. The document's functionality is not affected. When you delete a file you have previously been reading, and then use the list of recently used files on the File menu to try to open the non- existent file, the resulting message is misleading: it implies that the file is not a Trellix document. Help ---- There is a known problem with Windows Help subwindows. If you open a Help topic that appears in a sub-window (for example, a procedure-style window) and then minimize it, and then choose Help again from the menu, the sub-window will attempt to display and then cause an application error. Such errors can be dismissed without crashing Trellix Viewer. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ End of file - last edited 8 November 1997