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Cover-Lab v1.0.1 Beta Release
README, December 2001
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(c) Xertia, 2001.
Web : http://coverlab.cjb.net
E-Mail : xertia@coverlab.cjb.net
This readme outlines the basic functionality of Cover-Lab and lists
currently known issues. This readme is also incomplete.
_What is it?
Cover-Lab is a simple CDR cover printing utility for Windows. At the moment
it is nothing special and as such is not loaded with features. However, it
does look nice and does what I want it to. :P
_What can it currently do?
- Import front & back cover images, which are automatically scaled
Supported image formats include: JPEG, BMP, DIB, WMF, EMF ...
- Simple spine-text editing
- Front and back cover string editing (now supports multi-line strings)
- Insert track strings based on audio folder content (MP3/WMA/OGG/WAV albums)
- Save & Load to Cover-Lab file format (.LAB)
_Quick Usage Guide...
- Click the front cover area to load an image. Same for back cover area.
- Click spine area on back cover to edit spine text.
- To move a string, click on it to select it, and drag it around to move it.
- To edit the string text simply select a string and start typing.
- To delete a string, select it and press delete.
- To add a track-listing for an album of songs stored as MP3/WMA/WAV/OGG on
your hard-drive, simply click the audio button to bring up the dialog.
_Whats new in this release?
Many bug-fixes, the biggest of all being the crashing while opening
Cover-Lab documents. This was a ZLibArchive problem, and as such I
ended up doing away with it completely and coding my own file format.
Below is a list of the little things I added/fixed:
- Added new "Insert Audio Folder Track-Listing" feature
- Added right-click popup menus for front & back covers
- Fixed small-cover bug when printing with high/best quality
- Fixed printer orientation staying at landscape after printing
- Added document changes checking on new/open/exit
- Fixed string movement, just click and drag now
- String text can now be edited simply by selecting and typing
- Strings can now be placed on the back cover and print properly
- Added small 'please wait' dialog for opening images and documents
and when printing
- Fixed some images and strings not clearing properly when starting
a new document or opening a document
- Made back cover slightly smaller
- Completely re-coded dynamic string object spawning, fixing document
related string loading bugs in the process
- Added support for opening .lab documents from shell
- Added installer/uninstaller
_Known issues?
Still plenty of these.
- Not sure about this one, but in rare instances you may go to print and
it will spit out a blank page or everything but the strings (!?)
- The spine-text shows up as center-aligned on the screen but prints
left-aligned. This has low priority at the moment, but will be fixed.
- Currently, if .LAB files are already associated with another app the
installer will overwrite these settings. Upon uninstalling Cover-Lab
the original settings are NOT restored!
Please report any other bugs!
bugs@coverlab.cjb.net
_Acknowledgements...
I wish to thank the following people, whose Borland Delphi components
were used in the development of Cover-Lab:
- Nenad Konstantinovic & Skopje, Macedonia - NKImageForm
- Peric - TPDJRotoLabel
- Kambiz R. Khojasteh - TRotateImage
Also thanks to the guys at Nullsoft for the Nullsoft Install System -
the install creator that doesn't suck! ;)