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ImgViewer/32 <ASP>
version 1.0
⌐1992-1996 All rights reserved
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By Don Bradner ____|__ | (R)
Arcata Pet --| | |-------------------
600 F Street | ____|__ | Association of
Arcata, CA 95521 | | |_| Shareware
|__| o | Professionals
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|___|___| MEMBER
IMPORTANT NOTE: IF, DURING THE INSTALLATION OF THE PROGRAM YOU
WERE WARNED THAT A NEEDED FILE WAS NOT ON YOUR SYSTEM, OR WHEN
YOU TRY TO RUN THE PROGRAM YOU ARE TOLD THAT IT COULD NOT FIND
EITHER MFC40.DLL OR VB40032.DLL, SEE SECTION V BELOW FOR
INFORMATION ON GETTING ONE OR BOTH OF THOSE FILES.
Internet: dbirdman@redshift.com
http://www.redshift.com/~arcatpet
Compuserve: 76130,1007
America OnLine: DBirdMan
The online help file is the primary documentation for ImgViewer/32.
This text document is meant to get you started.
Contents of this file:
I. Program Description
II. Program Requirements
III. Installing ImgViewer/32
IV. Getting Started
V. Files and Uninstalling
VI. Troubleshooting
VII. Obtaining images
VIII. Getting future upgrades
IX. Purchase and distribution
X. ASP Ombudsman Statement
I. PROGRAM DESCRIPTION.
ImgViewer/32 is a Windows95/NT program for viewing and printing
digital images in a variety of standard formats. Image formats
supported include GIF, .BMP, PCX, TGA, TIF, .JPG, and .PNG. GIF,
PNG, and PCX provide compression of 256-color images, while .JPG and
PNG provides compression for 16-million color images, thus saving
disk space. The Help file contains a section which discusses
the advantages/disadvantages of each format.
ImgViewer/32 has editing features and file conversion routines built
in, which allow you to change images to suit your needs. You can
crop, resize, stretch, rotate, mirror, flip, sharpen, soften, extract
edges, negate and adjust brightness, contrast and gamma.
A quick Zoom Tool provides instant magnification of areas of an
image, for close inspection.
Full documentation is included in the form of a Windows Help file.
When you desire help, press your F1 function key for context-sensitive
help, or press the help button if you are in a dialog box.
ImgViewer/32 is shareware. It is fully functional and provides
all features that are included in the registered version, but
it will "nag" non-registered users occasionally. You are
entitled to evaluate the program for a period of 30 days, after
which you are expected to register for continued use. When you
register, you will receive a copy that includes a key file that
eliminates the nag screens for the current and future versions.
ImgViewer/32 contains functions which can read and write the .GIF format,
which contains compression technology covered by U.S. Patent No.
4,558,302, owned by the Unisys corporation. The author of ImgViewer/32 has
obtained a license from Unisys, and pays a royalty on each
sale, to use this technology. The following statement is
required by that license:
"Use of this software is permitted only to the extent
reasonably required to determine whether to purchase
the software.
"After payment is made, use of this software is limited
to use on only a single personal computer or
workstation which is not used as a server. An
additional payment is required for each use on
another personal computer or workstation.
"Only a single copy may be made of this software
solely for backup or archival purposes. The software
may also be transferred to a single hard disk.
"Any use of this software in violation of the above is
not licensed.
"For information concerning licensing the LZW
compression and/or decompression capability, please
contact:
Unisys Corporation
Welch Licensing Department - CISW19
Township Line & Union Meeting Roads
P.O. Box 500
Blue Bell, Pennsylvania 19424"
II. Program requirements.
ImgViewer/32 requires an IBM compatible 486 or better, running
Windows 95, or Windows NT, with at least 12 megs of RAM and VGA or
better graphics. Recommended: Pentium 75 or better with an
accelerated graphics adapter.
Most operations require a mouse.
Graphics files can be quite large, particularly with true-color, so a
large hard disk is recommended. ImgViewer/32 will require about 2
megs for program installation.
III. Installing ImgViewer/32
To install ImgViewer/32, run the included setup program. If the
program is on a floppy disk, you can use File/Run in the Program
Manager and type a:\ivsetup or b:\ivsetup, whichever drive is involved.
You can use the same technique to run setup from a directory on your
hard drive by supplying the full path, such as c:\temp\ivsetup.
Alternatively you can use File manager to find the files and
double-click on IVSETUP.EXE.
Windows 95/NT-4 users can use the "Add/Remove Programs" item in the
Control Panel to find and start IVSETUP.
If you obtained ImgViewer/32 by downloading it from a computer
Bulletin Board (BBS) or another online source, two necessary files
may not have been included. You will need files called VB40032.DLL
and MFC40.DLL, if they do not happen to already be on your
system. Information on obtaining these files are in section V.
IV. Getting Started.
Double-click the ImgViewer/32 icon to start the program. If this is
not a registered copy you may see a shareware "nag" screen. This
screen will only be repeated every 10 days, so as to not unduly
interfere with your operation of the program. Click OK, or you may
choose to print an order form.
When you see the main program window, Click the "open file" icon at the
left end of the icon bar, and then browse for image files to view.
If you would like to alter the image, most of the items in the Image
menu are simple. Browsing the help file will provide you with more
information on the image-altering functions.
V. FILES AND UNINSTALLING
If, when you install ImgViewer/32, you are told that one or more
system files are needed (or the program fails to run with a message
that one of these files is missing), you will need to obtain them.
Both files should be placed in the Windows\System directory (System32
for NT). Because they are required for many programs they are not
usually packaged with any programs for download from online services.
They ARE included if you got the program on disk from the author. The
two files are:
VB40032.DLL, A "runtime" library for programs written in Visual Basic
4.0. This file is almost always available from any source that has
ImgViewer/32 available.
MFC40.DLL, A library for components written in Visual C++ version 4.
As with the VB runtime, this file is generally also available from any
source for ImgViewer/32.
Where to find them:
Internet:
Jumps for both files are available on the ImgViewer/32 web page at:
http://www.redshift.com/~arcatpet/imgv32.html
Direct ftp URLs:
ftp://redshift.com/arcatpet/mfc40.zip
ftp://redshift.com/arcatpet/vbrun4.zip
Compuserve:
Both files can be found in a single file in the WUGNET forum. The
file name is REQFILES.ZIP.
America Online:
Both files may be found in the authorÆs forum, KeyWord: ArcataPet.
The rest of the files:
When ImgViewer/32 is installed, a program (UNINSTAL.EXE) and a data
file (INSTALL.LOG) are placed in the ImgV32 directory. The
following information is provided to aid in removing the
program in case those files are lost or damaged.
Files distributed with ImgViewer/32:
IVSETUP.EXE
This file contains all of the program files. Running it will
install of the files where they belong, and will also produce a
record and program that can be used to uninstall this package.
README.TXT
The text file you are reading now. It is placed outside
the main install program so that it is readable before the
program is installed.
VENDINFO.DIZ, FILEID.DIZ, VEN