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GRAPHICS GEMS READ ME
Welcome to our CD-ROM. Along with this text file you will find a GEMPDF
directory (folder) and operating system specific directories (folders). The
GEMPDF directory (folder) contains the Acrobat data files. The individual
directories (folders) for DOS, Macintosh, Windows and UNIX contain
Acrobat Readers and a directory (folder) labeled APPENDIX. The APPENDIX
directory (folder) contains source listings for that particular operating
system.
INSTALLATION FOR DOS AND WINDOWS:
You will need to move the appropriate Reader to your system and
decompress it in order to use it. The Macintosh, DOS and Windows Readers
are self extracting.
NOTE: DO NOT INSTALL BOTH DOS AND WINDOWS READERS. If you have Microsoft
Windows installed on your system, DO NOT install the DOS Reader (DOSREAD.EXE).
You MUST install the Windows version of Reader
1.) Open the directory called "PC"
FOR DOS:
2.) Open the directory "DOS"
3.) Execute the the application "DOSREAD.EXE".
4.) Follow the prompts.
FOR WINDOWS:
2.) open the folder "WINDOWS".
3.) Double-click on the application "ACROREAD.EXE".
4.) Follow the prompts
How to use this CD-ROM:
NOTE: If you need to learn about how to use the Acrobat Reader in general,
please see the "Reader Help" and the "Reader Tour" Acrobat files included on
this CD-ROM.
1.) The basics: Acrobat presents a set of pull down menus and, below this,
a tool bar. The pull downs -- File, Edit, View, Tools and Window -- are
fairly self evident and, in any case, the more useful functions are
replicated in the tool bar.
2.) Open MAIN.PDF from the GEMPDF directory on your CD-ROM drive.
3.) Getting started: You are initially presented with a "main" PDF file.
This is the launching point to all of the books included in the CD. We present
the user with a "book mark" view initially e.g.the screen is divided between a
subject -- initially an image of the cover of the CD-ROM -- and, to the left,
a list of book marks. Click on "Starting Point". This takes you to a main
menu of books. Click on the book that you desire to browse.
4.) Using a book: You can change the presentation of the book in a number of
ways. In the tool bar from the left, if the first (page) icon is clicked the
book mark will no longer be displayed. Clicking the next icon to the right
will redisplay the book marks. The size of the page on the display can be
altered by either the "zoom" icons (+ & -) or the "page" icons to the right.
When zoomed, one can move the page around by using the "hand" icon or using
the scroll bars. The recorder buttons (arrows) allow the user to navigate
from page to page, start or end and fast forward or fast rewind.
5.) Finding things: There are several ways to find things other than simply
looking through the document page by page. Using the book mark you can select
CONTENTS and find hyperlinks to each content item. Similarly, the INDEX is
also hyperlinked to each indexed item. Finally, any keyword item that you may
need to search on is available through the "binocular" icon in the tool bar
or "find" selection found in the "tool" menu. For subsequent finds use the
"find again" function in the "tool" menu.
Also, for each book in the book mark window, there is a "contributors" section
which contains the names and locations of the contributing authors for the
volume.
NOTE: Each book is a single search area -- e.g. you CANNOT search across
books.
6.) Printing: Acrobat allows you to print a single page or a range of pages
by simply selecting the "print" option from the "file" menu.
7.) Source code: Each operating system directory (folder) contains not only a
READER directory (folder) but also an APPENDIX directory (folder). Within
this directory (folder) are a series of ASCII files containing source code
used by the text, one or more readme files and errata files for errors in
the source. Also here is a table of contents file relating the source files
to the text pages where they are referenced.
Please note that file names were truncated for the DOS and UNIX APPENDIX
listings as the original file names were too long.
For more information:
For the most recent updates to code or errata please go to the anonymous FTP
site:
princeton.edu (128.112.128.1)
and look at:
pub/Graphics/GraphicsGems/GemsIV
Acrobat is the trademark of Adobe Systems, Inc.
AP 5-4-95