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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.
|
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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