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- README for Symantec Visual Page 1.1a
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- Copyright (c) 1997 by Symantec Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
-
- Table of Contents:
- I. Welcome
- II. System Requirements
- III. Installation Notes
- IV. User Tips
- V. Known Problems
- VI. Revision History
- VII. Contacting Symantec
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- I. Welcome!
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- Welcome to Symantec's Visual Page for Windows 95 and
- Windows NT. Please take a few minutes to read this file,
- which contains the latest information regarding this release.
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- II. Minimum System Requirements
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- IBM PC or 100% compatible
- Windows 95 or Windows NT 4.0
- 486-66 MHz or above
- 20 MB free hard disk space
- VGA (256 colors are required for previewing Java Applets)
- 8 MB of RAM for Windows 95
- 12 MB of RAM for Windows NT
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- III. Installation Notes
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-
- Windows NT
- -----------------------------------
- For proper installation under Windows NT, Visual Page requires
- users to have administrator rights.
-
- Installing from Symantec's Web Site
- -----------------------------------
- If you download the files from our Web site, please copy them
- into an empty directory. To expand the installation files, run
- the executable from File > Run, or at a DOS prompt. Once
- expanded, run SETUP.EXE to install Visual Page.
-
- If you choose not to download the full version of Visual Page,
- you may at any time download individual supporting files, such
- as the Tour (Getting Started) or Help. Place these
- supporting files; e.g. tour.bin, into the directory containing
- the installer and then run Setup.exe.
-
- Note: When downloading individual components (*.bin)
- Netscape Communicator may incorrectly append an extension
- to the file name. Once the file has been downloaded to your
- computer please rename the file to contain the appropriate
- extension; e.g. help.bin, tour.bin, or template.bin.
-
- In the web release we have included the User's Guide and Getting Started
- manuals in PDF format which is optimized for printing, because of this
- some images may appear blurry when viewed through Acrobat Reader.
-
- As with any new software, please install Visual Page into a
- clean directory.
-
- Please do not install Visual Page 1.1a Retail over Visual Page
- 1.1 or 1.1a Evaluation versions.
-
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- Visual Page Art Collection
- -------------------------------------
- The Visual Page Art Collection consisting of over 12,000 backgrounds,
- banners, textures, matched sets, symbols and lines is available in the
- Art Collection subdirectory of the /Vpage directory on the Visual Cafe CD.
-
- A shareware version of ACD Systems' ACDSee image browser with a 30-day
- license useful for the viewing of the Visual Page Art Collection is
- available for download from: http://www.acdsystems.com/acd/acdsee32.html.
-
- To add any of the images to your web pages, hold down the Control key while
- dragging the image from ACDSee to Visual Page. You will be prompted with
- the Save As dialog allowing you to choose an appropriate location for the
- image such as an image directory relative to your web pages, as opposed to
- a link back to the Art Collection directory on the CD. To use any of the
- images as backgrounds, copy the image into the appropriate directory
- (i.e. /images), open the Page Properties dialog and navigate to the
- directory.
-
- Visual Page Highlights
- -------------------------------------
- To view the highlights main page, open highlights.htm
- located in the \Visual Page\highlights directory.
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- IV. User Tips
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-
- Q: How do I retain my entries in the custom dictionary if I
- reinstall Visual Page to a different drive, directory or
- another machine?
-
- A: The Visual Page uninstaller will not remove the custom.pd file
- in the \Visual Page directory containing custom entries for
- the user dictionary. If you choose to install Visual Page into
- another directory or machine and wish to retain the dictionary,
- copy the custom.pd file into the Visual Page root directory of
- the new install. The installer will also not write over an
- existing custom.pd.
-
- Q: I noticed after uninstalling Visual Page, the install directory
- was not deleted.
-
- A: The Visual Page installer logs all files installed with the
- exception of the initial spell checker's custom user
- dictionary, custom.pd. Should you choose to uninstall Visual
- Page, this file, and other files created after installation,
- will not be uninstalled.
-
- Q: I'm using frames with mixed border widths, however Netscape
- displays the entire frameset using the border width of the first
- frame.
-
- A: Netscape uses the first border width value encountered
- and applies it to the entire frameset.
-
- Q: How do I run QuickTime Movies?
-
- A: In order to run QuickTime Movies in Symantec Visual Page, you
- will need to obtain the QuickTime software from Apple Computer,
- Inc. At the time this file was written, the QuickTime files
- were available at http://quicktime.apple.com.
- QuickTime is a trademark of Apple Computer, Inc.
-
-
- Q: I have 256 color video capabilities but my applets do not
- appear in preview mode.
-
- A: It is not uncommon for vendors of Java applications to
- install any supporting virtual machine (VM) or Just-In-Time
- (JIT) compiler files into the system directory. Check your
- Windows and system directories (system32 for NT) for
- JAVAI.DLL and AWT.DLL. Rename the file(s) to *.SAV and
- relaunch Visual Page.
-
-
- Q: How can I determine why my applet won't run in preview mode?
-
- A: Place the HTML file in preview mode. Select Show Java Console
- from the View menu. All Java errors are displayed within this window.
- In many cases, it is likely that Visual Page is unable
- to find one or more supporting class files for the applet. This
- may occur if your applet contains a custom component. Create an
- environment variable for the Classpath variable. Point the
- Classpath variable to the zip file that contains the class file.
-
- In Windows 95, place a statement similar to the one below in the
- AUTOEXEC.BAT:
-
- Set Classpath=C:\directoryname\classfile.zip.
-
-
- In Windows NT Choose Start > Control Panel > System. Select the
- Environment Tab in the System Properties dialog box. Enter the
- word Classpath in the Variable field. Enter the path to the zip
- file containing the classes in the Value field.
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- V. Known Problems and Workarounds
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- o List boxes and drop down lists do not function in Preview mode.
-
- o Canceling a remote file download leaves a zero byte file.
-
- o When converting 24 bit (true color or 16 million color)
- BMP files to GIF files, the palette may not be saved with the
- image. As a result the image may appear as a black square.
- We recommend you manually convert the image with an external
- program and then add the GIF to your HTML file.
-
- o Columns that span across multiple pages may not appear when
- printing from the Visual Editor.
-
- o The Printer Setup dialog fails to appear when invoked a second
- time on an invalid or unavailable printer. To reinstate the
- dialog you must select a valid printer in the Control Panel
- before selecting Printer Setup in Visual Page.
-
- o The entities.htm file is located in the same directory as
- VPAGE.EXE.
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- VI. Revision History
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- 1.1a
- 1. Changed attributes for frames to allow for true borderless frames in
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0.
- 2. Resolved crash in the Font Groups dialog and enlarged the dialog.
- 3. Resolved addition of a <BR> after comment and dropping of last character
- after a subsequent <P>.
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-
- 1.1
- 1. Added font face support.
- 2. Added spell checking.
- 3. Added default document tab to Preferences.
- 4. Added border size control, including borderless frames, to the Frame
- Properties dialog.
- 5. Added Ctrl+drag functionality for images, plugins and applets dragged
- from site windows, the desktop or Explorer windows to invoke the
- Save As dialog.
- 6. Added F5 refresh capability to the site window.
- 7. Changed Preview mode to not toggle back to edit mode after loading links.
- 8. Changed border default from 2 to 0 for image submit buttons and links.
- 9. Resolved crash when opening pages containing invalid nested table HTML code.
- 10. Resolved removing <PARAM NAME=""> parameter variables for Active X.
- 11. Resolved Visual Page parsing non-HTML files for anchors when creating links.
- 12. Resolved the Page Properties dialog corrupting the <BASEtarget="filename">
- tag when opening the file directly instead of opening the entire frameset.
- 13. Resolved Base Target being reset when the Base Target dialog was opened
- from the Page Properties dialog.
- 14. Resolved Page Properties dialog resetting the target of a page to Parent
- if the page is normally part of a frame set, but opened individually.
- 15. Regrouped contents of the Frame Properties dialog to better distinguish
- between frame properties and frameset properties.
- 16. Reworded the tabs in the Preferences for better clarity.
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- 1.0a
- 1. Added Preview in Browser button to the Properties/Views toolbar.
- 2. Added recalling of the previous size and position of Visual
- Page on the desktop when relaunched.
- 3. Added current color highlight to the HTML color syntax, Page, Table
- and Cell properties color palettes.
- 4. Added automatic refresh of images edited outside of Visual Page.
- 5. Added prevention of Java class caching for use with Visual Cafe 2.0.
- 6. Resolved wrong color palette which occurs on some 8-bit video
- subsystems.
- 7. Resolved hanging in preview mode of some Java applets.
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- VII. Contacting Symantec
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- During the first 90 days of your purchase, you may call Technical
- support free of charge at (541) 465-8470.
-
- o Free and unlimited electronic support is available on
- Symantec's news server at:
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- service.symantec.com.
-
- o Please refer to the newsgroups under:
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- symantec.support.devtools.pc.visualpage
-
- Note: your company's firewall may prevent you from accessing
- this service.
-
- o Web based discussion groups that do not require
- news reader software are available at:
- http://service.symantec.com/discuss
-
- o Support is also available on the Usenet newsgroup:
-
- comp.lang.java
-
- o Send bug reports to:
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- Support_javawin@symantec.com
-
- o Should you have any support questions regarding Netscape or
- Starbase please refer to the Readme files for these products
- for contact information.
-
- o If your User ID and Password become inoperative, please
- send e-mail notification to Customer Service at:
-
- custserv@symantec.com
-
- Include your name, address, daytime phone number, User ID
- and password. Please type "Visual Page" in the subject field.
-
-
- o If you have lost your User ID and Password, please send
- notification to Customer Service at custserv@symantec.com. In
- the event that your information does not appear in our
- registration database, we will provide additional ways
- of verifying ownership.
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- Thank you for using Visual Page! We are confident it will
- assist you with your Web page development efforts.
-
- Sincerely,
- The Symantec Internet Tools Team
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