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README.TXT for Trellix Viewer 1.0 - November 1997
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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.
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README.TXT Table of Contents
User Assistance and Online Help
Technical Supplement
Known Problems
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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.
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Technical Supplement
Un-Installing Trellix Viewer And Its Components
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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
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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
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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.
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Known Problems
Installation
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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End of file - last edited 8 November 1997