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ENTRIES/DETECTED
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These functions allow displaying and processing of previously found
entries. Here is a description of the functions:
* DISPLAY: Displays all found entries in a small table
-------- within a window.
Each entry can be clicked on with the mouse to
show any graphic information and the specific
thumbnail on the screen. The following additional
functions are available:
- View: Displays the corresponding graphics
on the screen.
- Remove: Removes the entry from the list
of found entries.
- Print list: Prints all found entries as a table
(only picture name and file path)
on a printer.
- Cancel: Closes the window and returns to
the main screen.
* List: Shows all the found entries as a table on the screen.
----- The table can also be sent to a printer.
The user can select between different output formats
(see section ENTRIES/LIST).
* Remove: Removes all found entries from the catalogue.
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* Delete: Deletes all found entries from the catalogue and also
------- deletes the corresponding graphic files.
DANGER: ALL THESE GRAPHIC FILES WILL BE LOST FOREVER.
* Reset: The number of found graphics will be reset so that a
------ new run has to be started to search for specific
entries.
* Reverse: The status of all found entries will be inverted.
-------- Entries which had been declared as being found
will now be deselected and vice versa.
* Slideshow: Creates a slide show from all found graphics.
-------- A menu appears where a kind of slide show
(delay between graphics, replay order, etc.) can
be defined.
* Export: Exports all the found entries to a new catalogue.
------- A menu appears for entering the catalogue name
and an additional description of the newly created
catalogue to which the entries have to be copied.
* Reorganise: With the PictureManager professional it is possible
----------- to recopy your graphic archives, for example
sorted by motives, on your hard disk automatically.
For this, the functions MARKED/REORGANIZE
and DETECTED/REORGANIZE are available.
With MARK ALL you may quite simply prepare a complete
catalogue for further processing
(e.g. reorganise, convert, export, etc.)
But now back to reorganisation:
For copying specific (or all) graphics of a catalogue
to another directory, mark these or search for these
- e.g. all graphics with automobile motives in it - via
the function SEARCH PATTERN. After
that use MARKED/REORGANIZE or DETECTED/REORGANIZE.
A menu appears where the following settings have
to be done: At first select a directory to which the
chosen files should be copied to.
By deactivation of the switch "Display error messages"
you may suppress error messages during the copy
procedure.
In such a case, graphics already present will
be overwritten without any further requests.
If this is not wished to be done, the switch should
be kept activated. By activating the switch "Take new
data" the destination path of the graphic will be added
to the current catalogue. With this action,
PMPro will only use the new graphics for any further
access. The last switch "Delete source graphics"
will delete the original graphic without the
possibility of ever getting it back (danger!).
Hint: When reorganising your graphic archives on
hard disk with this function, you should for safety
reasons not immediately delete the source graphic.
Sometimes hard disk errors may cause data to be lost.
It is better to use "CATALOG/COPY"
for creation of a duplicate
catalogue and then reorganise the graphics (without
deletion). Then take over the copies into the duplicate
catalogue. Should all graphics have been recopied
successfully, reload the original source catalogue.
Now you may delete the recopied source graphic
from there (via MARKED/DELETE or DETECTED/DELETE from
the popup menu).
* Convert: With MARKED/CONVERT or DETECTED/CONVERT you may
-------- convert huge numbers of graphics into other graphic
file formats automatically or for example apply
just a colour reduction from 24BIT to 256 colours
to these.
After having called one of the two functions, a
menu appears in which the following settings have to
be made:
* The directory where you wish to save the new graphic.
* With the switch "take new data" the source graphic
data will be replaced by those of the newly created
graphic (path, name, type, colour depth, etc.)
within the catalogue files.
After that a second menu appears where a
graphic file format and colour depth for the
source files can be selected (please note, that
not all of the possible graphics file formats
support all colour depths). The switch "display error
messages" will show any error messages during the
conversion procedure (e.g. not enough memory) and
warnings (request whether existing graphics should be
overwritten). When disabled, graphics will always be
overwritten. Also, no messages about any occurred
errors will be indicated.
The last switch "Delete source graphics" will delete
the original graphics without a possibility
of ever getting it back (danger!).
When converting your graphic archives on hard disk
with this function, you should for safety reasons not
immediately delete the source graphics but instead
do this when all graphics have been processed
successfully.
Example: With this function you may easily and very
comfortably convert all graphics of a PhotoCD
into IFF graphics with 256 Colours.
In this special case you would have to do the following:
Create a catalogue and read the PhotoCD by starting
Expand/PhotoCD.
Then select:
* Entries/Mark all
* Marked/Convert with the following switches:
- display error messages
- take new data
- no deletion of original graphics
- output format IFFCompByteRun1 and 256 Colours
After entering the save path you have to start
the conversion procedure. This will certainly take
some time, since every PCD-graphic will have to be
passed through a high quality colour
reduction including dithering.
After the conversion procedure has finished,
all the PCD-files will have been stored as IFF-files
on your hard disk.
The new catalogue will from now on (via activation
of "take data") access these IFF-graphics.
You may now view, print, etc. your graphic whenever
you want even without having the corresponding PhotoCD
in the drive.
* Add to LHA:
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This function allow you to
archive (or add to an archive) a number of marked/found graphics
with LHA. So you have an easy way to store / archive your
favorite pictures into one LHA-Archive!