Copyright: Copyright ©1986-2001 Vallen-Systeme GmbH
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JPegger: Overview
Vallen JPegger

Overview

Introduction

Vallen JPegger is a handy image viewer program. It allows one to quickly browse through directories with many images simply by cursor keys <Up> and <Down> (see also: Keyboard Shortcuts).

Vallen JPegger reads most common Windows bitmap file formats (A complete list of supported image formats can be found at the end of this chapter).

Additionally it includes an automatic slide show mode where it shows one picture after the other in an user-specified time interval.

You can copy Vallen JPegger for your personal needs. The program is provided as is. There is no technical support provided for this program. There is no liability or warranty for any damages that might arise from use of Vallen JPegger.

Note:	Your comments are highly appreciated especially concerning bugs. But please also comment if you like or Vallen JPegger.

Features:

•	File Viewer supports 40 different image formats such as BMP, JPEG, PCX, GIF, TIFF, EPS, PNG, TGA, VST, PSP-files and a few more minor and sub-formats.
See below for a complete list of supported image formats.

•	New: Sound interface added! Make your own audio comments for your images.

•	New: Command line interface added.

•	New: Tools - Find duplicate files

•	New: Directory tree added.

•	New: Flip thumbnails

•	Quick access file list of all images in the currently selected directory (see also: File Order)

•	Thumbnails! View and print support.

•	Full screen display modes <F11> and <Ctrl+F11> or simply <Return> (see also: Keyboard Shortcuts)

•	User defined file order, by name, size, time or random (see also: File Order)

•	Keyboard controlled for fast navigation (see also: Keyboard Shortcuts)

•	Slide show mode with user-defined time interval (see also: Slide show Mode)

•	Dynamic zoom function (from 25% to 1000% and fit to window, see also Menu View)

•	Mouse panning when zoomed (see also: Mouse Panning)

•	Clipboard Copy and Paste (see also Menu Edit)

•	Built-in file Copy, Move, Delete and Rename

•	No installation required. Simply copy files into target directory and run JPegger.exe

•	See Version history for latest changes.

Why another image viewer?

There are many professional bitmap viewers available. Most of these programs not only allow to open and view the bitmap but also offer many tools for editing the image.

The advantage of Vallen JPegger is that it is small and highly versatile. Open one file out of a directory full of bitmaps and navigate to the next or previous with the cursor keys. No installation required.

Getting Started

Please start with chapter Main Menu.

Supported Image formats (with thanks to Mike Lischke):

•	TIFF images (*.tif; *.tiff), extended base line implementation
1..16 bits per sample
indexed, grayscale, RGB(A), CMYK, L*a*b*
uncompressed, packed bits, CCITT T.4, Thunderscan, Deflate, new style JPEG

•	GFI fax images (*.fax),

•	SGI images (*.bw, *.rgb, *.rgba, *.sgi)
1..16 bits per sample
indexed, grayscale, RGB(A)
uncompressed, RLE

•	Autodesk images files (*.cel; *.pic) old style only
8 bits per sample, indexed and uncompressed

•	Truevision images (*.tga; *.vst; *.icb; *.vda; *.win),
5 and 8 bits per sample
grayscale, indexed, 15 bits RGB (555), 24 bits RGB(A)(888)
uncompressed, RLE

•	ZSoft Paintbrush images (*.pcx, *.pcc; *.scr)
1..8 bits per sample
grayscale, indexed, RGB
uncompressed, RLE

•	Kodak Photo-CD images (*.pcd)
8 bits per sample in YCbCr in any resolution (192 x 128 up to 6144 x 4096)

•	Portable pixel/gray map images (*.ppm, *.pgm, *.pbm)
1 and 8 bits per sample
grayscale, indexed, RGB uncompressed

•	Dr. Halo images (*.cut, *.pal)
8 bits per sample indexed, RLE compressed

•	CompuServe images (*.gif)
1, 4, 8 bits per sample indexed, compressed

•	SGI Alias/Wavefront images (*.rla, *.rpf)
8 bits per sample RGB(A), RLE compressed

•	Standard Windows bitmap images (*.bmp, *.rle, *.dib)

•	Photoshop images (*.psd, *.pdd)
1, 8, 16 bits per sample
indexed, RGB, CMYK, CIE L*a*b*
uncompressed and packed bits

•	Paintshop Pro images (*.psp)
1, 4, 8 bits per sample
indexed, grayscale, RGB
uncompressed, RLE and LZ77
single-layered files only!

•	Portable network graphic images (*.png)
1, 2, 4, 8, 16 bits per sample
indexed, grayscale alpha, RGB(A), LZ77 compressed

All trademarks or registered trademarks are properties of their respective owners.

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JPegger: Main Menu
Main Menu

Description of commands found in menus

The main menu provides access to many of the functions of Vallen JPegger. The most often used functions are also available via a tool bar. Move the cursor over the tool bar to get a tool tip for each button. For each button there is a menu item which is described in detail.

Menu File

Standard file operation commands. See chapter Menu File for details.

Menu Edit

General edit functions. See chapter Menu Edit for details.

Menu View

General view functions. See chapter Menu View for details.

Menu Image

Provides image editing functions like rotate and flip (mirror). See chapter Menu Image for details.

Menu Tools

Additional tools. See chapter Menu Tools for details.

Menu Help

Calls the online help system.

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JPegger: Menu File
Menu File

The File menu offers well known Windows functionality for opening and closing projects, as well as printing. This menu can be found by File out of the main menu.

 Open (shortcut <Ctrl+O>)

Opens a new image. All images in the same directory of the file opened are shown in the file list at the left hand side of the window (see also chapter File Order).

 Browse (shortcut <Ctrl+B>)

Opens a dialog that allows one to browse for another folder to show.

 Close (shortcut <Alt+F4)

Closes the currently open image and clears the file list.

 Print (shortcut <Ctrl+P>)

Opens the Print Preview dialog for printing the current image.

 Print thumbnails

Opens the Print Preview dialog for printing thumbnails. The print size for the thumbnails is defined in Preferences.

Copy file to (shortcut <Ctrl+C>)

Opens a dialog to browse a target folder to copy the currently opened file to.

Move file to (shortcut <Ctrl+X>)

Opens a dialog to browse a target folder to move the currently opened file to.

Rename file (shoprtcut <F2>)

Asks for a new file name to rename the file.

Delete file (short cut <Del>)

Moves the currently opened file to the recycle bin.

Preferences (shortcut <Ctrl+R>)

Opens the Preferences dialog box that to allows to modify file format associations and certain start-up defaults.

Most recently used file list (MRU-list)

The MRU-list is a history list that allows one to quickly access the most recently used files.

Exit

Quits Vallen JPegger.

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JPegger: Menu Edit
Menu Edit

The Edit menu provides functions that affects the currently loaded image. This menu can be found by Edit out of the main menu.

Clipboard commands:

 Copy

Copies the currently shown image to the clipboard.

 Paste

Pastes an image from the clipboard into JPegger. This will also clear the file list as the current directory is no longer valid.

Screen capture commands:

 Full screen capture

Screenshot of whole screen.

 Topmost window

Screenshot of topmost window below Valle JPegger

Directory sort commands:

Sort by Name, Size, Time

Sorts the current file list accordingly (see also chapter File Order, these functions are also available there).

Random Order

Randomly orders the file list. Each click on this item reorders the list. Useful for a slide show (see below).

Desktop wallpaper commands

Set centered, tiled, stretched

Sets the currently shown image as desktop wallpaper. Display the image either centered, tiled or stretched. Stretched wallpapers require Windows 98/2000 or higher and might not work on Windows 95 based machines.

Clear desktop wallpaper

Removes the current desktop wallpaper and shows the default background.

Slide show commands

 Slide show (shortcut <F10>)

Starts and stops the slide show mode. When started all images in the file list are shown sequentially in the current order. When the end of the list has reached the slide show restarts on top of the list automatically. See also chapter Slide show Mode. See Preferences for slide show time interval.

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JPegger: Menu View
Menu View

The View menu provides functions that affects scale the loaded image is shown. This menu can be found by View out of the main menu.

Toolbar

Shows the toolbar if checked.

Tool tips

If checked then tool tips (hints) are shown in a yellow box for all controls when the mouse is moved over the same control for more than half a second. When you got used to the toolbar you might find it more comfortable to switch of the tool tips.

Scale to fit ( [image])

Scales the currently loaded image that it exactly fits completely into the window.

Scale  50% ( [image]), 100% ( [image]),  200% ( [image])

Scales the currently loaded image accordingly based on the original image size. There are more scale size available with the mouse (see also chapter Mouse Panning and Zoom).

Flip thumbnails ( [image])

This function flips the thumbnails from left to the right hand side. There is a separate chapter on this issue.

Full screen (shortcut <F11>)

Shows Vallen JPegger full screen without window border and taskbar. Press <F11> again or <Esc> to reset.

Full screen image (shortcut <Ctrl+F11>)

Shows the image full screen. Press <Ctrl+F11> again or <Esc> to reset.

 Minimize (shortcut <Ins>)

Minimizes JPegger quickly.

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JPegger: Menu Image
Menu Image

The image menu provides some image editing functions.

Flip horizontally/vertically

Provides a simple mirror function.

Resample Image

Opens the Resample dialog to resample (resize) the image

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JPegger: Resample Image
Resample Image

Resizing an image

This dialog box is available via Resample Image out of Image menu.

First specify the image dimension units. Then specify the new dimensions or give a scale factor for either horizontal or vertical size.

The Resolution is the scale factor used for converting image size in pixels to any units. The Resolution is saved only in "BMP" format.

Check Anti-Alias to use the slow but high-quality Lanzcos algorithm for resampling the image. If not checked a faster Triangle algorithm is used.

Check Aspect-ratio if you want to keep the given with to height ratio of the image when resizing.

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JPegger: Menu Tools
Menu Tools

The Tools menu provides additional helpful tool functions. This menu can be found by Tool out of the main menu. This menu will be subject to change with future versions.

Find duplicate images

Browses the current open folder for duplicate identical images. If you are working with many images then it easily happens that you have the same image more than once as a result of copy or backup operations. To filter out those images easily use this function.

There is a popup window after operation showing a results report. In this example five binary identical image pairs have been detected. This report is saved in the windows temporary folder and can be printed with the printer icon on top.

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JPegger: Preferences, start-up options
Preferences

Start up Options

This dialog box is available via Preferences out of File menu.

Start-up options :

If Load last open image on start is checked  then Vallen JPegger automatically loads the image that was shown the last time when the program was closed.

Key stroke options:

Check Quit Vallen JPegger with <Esc> if you want JPegger to quit after pressing the <Esc> key. Normally JPegger is terminated via Exit out of the File menu or <Alt+F4> only.

Full screen options:

If Hide cursor in full screen is checked then the cursor is hidden when an image is shown in full screen image mode (see menu View).

With Show image information in full screen checked some file information like file name and size and file index is shown on the left hand side in full screen mode.

Hint:	The former Start in full screen mode option has been replaced by command line option /fs. The default image scale has been superseded by command line option /sc:<scale>.

Print options:

These options allow to add an image information line when printing. Check all items you whant to see printed in a line below the image.

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JPegger: Preferences, slide show
Preferences

Slide show settings

This dialog box is available via Preferences out of File menu.

Slide show time interval

Setup the time interval for slide show mode in seconds. Vallen JPegger internally uses read-ahead to keep the interval as exact as possible as long as the time required for loading and decompressing the image is shorter than the specified time interval.

Valid range is from 100 milliseconds up to 1 hour.

Slide show always in full screen

If checked then full screen mode is enabled automatically when slide show is started. Full screen is disabled when slide show is terminated.

Hint:	You can also use a command line option if you want to start Vallen JPegger in Slide show mode.

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JPegger: Preferences, setup
Preferences

Setup

This dialog box is available via Preferences out of File menu.

Click Create desktop icon to add or update a desktop icon link to the current location of  the executable Vallen JPegger file. A dialog pops up that allows you set some command line options.

See chapter command line options for detailed description of individual switches. The switches checked in this dialog will be added to the desktop icon and therefore are your future default options.

To remove the desktop icon, click Remove desktop icon.

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JPegger: Preferences, thumbnails
Preferences

Thumbnails

This dialog box is available via Preferences out of File menu.

Specify the size of the thumbnails to be shown. Please select the thumbnail size carefully. The bigger the thumbnails are, the more memory is required. Sizes bigger than 200 pixels slow down the handling and might produce problems on Windows 9x based machines.
Also depending on the number of thumbnails shown and installed memory.

Note:	For Windows 9x based machines select thumbnail sizes not bigger than 200 pixels.

Thumbnails are printed via "Print thumbnails" out of menu file. When printing the base image size of the thumbnails is identical to the thumbnail size in pixels specified here.

Additionally a thumbnail size in mm can be specified. The thumbnail image is scaled to fit inside this size. The size specified here is exactly the size the thumbnail image is printed. Around the image a frame is drawn in a distance of 1mm to each edge. But you can specify the offset which is the distance between the thumbnail images.

Use the thumbnail size in mm, the offset in mm, and the page settings to define how many thumbnails you want to print on one page.

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JPegger: Preferences, file associations
Preferences

File associations

This dialog box is available via Preferences out of File menu.

Use this dialog box to select which files your computer opens automatically using Vallen JPegger.

Each line in the list represents one specific file extension with the according file format description. Click on a row to check/uncheck it.

Already registered file extensions are shown checked when the dialog box is opened. Uncheck those to remove existing associations.

Click the "Register..." button when finished your selection. Then all checked extensions will be associated to Vallen JPegger. All associations that have been previously performed and are not checked will be removed.

Note:	No modifications are performed as long as the "Register..." button has not been pressed.

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JPegger: Keyboard Shortcuts
Keyboard Shortcuts

Navigating through bitmaps

Simply open a file using File/Open.

The following keyboard commands are available to navigate through bitmaps:

<Home>	Show the first image in the directory

<End>	Show the last image in the directory

<Up>	Show the previous image

<Down>	Show the next image

<Page-Up>	Skip the previous 10 pictures

<Page-Down>	Skip the next 10 pictures

<+>	Zoom in (same as left mouse click on image)

<->	Zoom out (same as right mouse click on image)

<x>	(Multiply key, numeric keypad), Scale image by 100% relative to the original

When the image is shown in full screen mode, some of the keys do have a different meaning:

<Up>	Vertical panning up

<Down>	Vertical panning down

<Left>	Horizontal panning left

<Right>	Horizontal panning right

<Page-Up>	Show the previous image

<Page-Down>	Show the next image

The following commands are also available via "View" menu or tool bar:

<F5> ( [image]) 	Auto scale image to fit into the window

<F6> ( [image])	Scale image by 50% relative to the original

<F7> ( [image])	Scale image by 100% relative to the original

<F8> ( [image])	Scale image by 200% relative to the original

Other scales are possible via mouse click on the image. A left mouse click zooms into the picture, up to 1000%, a right mouse click zooms out down to 25%. You also can use the <+> and <-> keys to zoom in and out.

<Ctrl+C> ( [image])	Copies the currently shown image to the clipboard.

<Ctrl+V> ( [image])	Pastes an image from the clipboard into JPegger. This will also clear the file list as the current directory is no longer valid.

<Ctrl+R>	Opens Preferences dialog box.

<Ins> ( [image])	Minimizes JPegger

<F11>	Shows Vallen JPegger full screen without window border and taskbar. To reset press either <Blank> or <Return> or <Escape> (Escape might be used to quit Vallen JPegger. See Key stroke options in Preferences).

<Ctrl+F11>	Shows the image full screen. To reset see description above for <F11>.

<Return>	Same as <Ctrl+F11>, also double click on thumbnail or file list entry.

<Ctrl+F4> ( [image])	Closes currently open image.

<Ctrl+P> ( [image])	Opens the Print Preview dialog for printing.

< Del>	Moves currently open image to the recycle bin (file delete)

<F2>	Renames the image

See the main menu for more shortcuts.

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JPegger: Mouse Panning and Zoom
Mouse Panning and Zoom

Scrolling and zooming the bitmap

Panning:

When viewing an image zoomed, meaning that the bitmap is bigger than the window and scrollbars are visible, then only a section of the bitmap is visible. To pan the bitmap you can use either the scrollbars or use Mouse Panning:

Click with the mouse somewhere in the picture and hold the left mouse button. Then move the mouse while the button is down. The cursor changes to [image] and the whole image moves with the mouse and allows you to show quickly invisible parts of the bitmap.

In full screen mode you also can use the cursor keys (<Left>, <Right>, <Up>, <Down>) for panning.

Hint:	Mouse Panning is available only when the bitmap zoomed, indicated by visible scrollbars.

Zooming:

You can zoom the display with the mouse: First click once on the image to change the cursor to [image]. Then any further left mouse click zooms into the picture up to 1000%, a right mouse click zooms out down to 25%. The current scale factor is shown in the status bar on the bottom of the window. You also can use the <+> and <-> keys on the numeric keypad for zooming. The ‘Multiply’ key on the numeric keypad resets the scale to 100%.

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JPegger: File Order
File list

Ordering the files according to your needs

Specify the order of the files with the Edit menu. Files can be ordered by:

Name:

This is the default. Files are ordered by name like in the Windows Explorer.

Size:

Files are ordered by size. Smaller files at the beginning. This is useful for searching for images which are identical except the name. So identical images have the same size and are ordered together.

Time:

Files are ordered by time. Older files at the beginning. This is useful when downloading files from the internet. To check if files have properly stored just look at the newest files.

Random Order:

Files are ordered at random. Interesting for Auto Show only.

Sorting with the file list:

The file list on the left hand side of the windows can also used to sort the window. Click on the according columns to sort forward. Click again on the same column to sort backwards. The file list always shows all images found in the current directory. This directory is defined by the path from where the last bitmap has been opened.

Hint:	Not all columns might be visible when starting JPegger. You can resize the width of the file list with the mouse. To do so click on the right hand side of the file list, keep the button pressed and move the mouse horizontally.

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JPegger: Folder Tree
Directory Tree

Changes folders with a single click

A directory tree is displayed in addition to the file list.

The directory tree works intuitively. If you click on a folder this folder is used exactly like using the Browse function.

A complete screen shot of Vallen JPegger including directory tree can be found on Overview.

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JPegger: Slide show Mode
Slide Show Mode

Automatically showing images

The Slide show mode allows one to show all the bitmaps sequentially in the specified order. The Slide show mode is started and terminated (toggle function) via Slide show out of the Edit menu or via shortcut <F10>.

During slide show mode no menu is shown.

If any of the keyboard shortcuts are pressed the Slide show is terminates also.

The time interval each bitmap is shown is freely definable in Preferences.

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JPegger: Flip thumbnails
Flip thumbnails

Select the best layout

The Flip thumbnails ( [image]) function flips the thumbnails from the page control on the left hand side to the bigger right hand side. When this function is disabled (default) then the file list and the thumbnails share a page control on the left hand side of the window. You find this function in the menu View or as toolbar icon [image].

When enabled the thumbnails flip to the right side and thumbnails and image share the same page control.

Both display modes are identical by the way they work. Find out for yourself which is most adequate for you. A screenshot of both display modes is also shown in the Overview chapter.

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JPegger: Sound interface
Sound interface

Play any MP3 or Midi file while viewing images

There was a request from a school of arts who are producing their own educational CD with images of ancient paintings. They already are using JPegger for their CD and wanted to add spoken comments for each folder on the disk.

For them we added a special sound interface which allows to automatically play back WAV, MP3 or Midi files when opening a folder. Now you can use this interface also for playing your own comments or listen to music while browsing through your images.

To use this option for your own images you simply have to add an INI file to your folder with the format explained below. Use any text editor like Notepad and create a file inside your image folder with the filename "jpegger.ini".

[SoundSetup]

FileNameMP3=intro.mp3

FileNameMid=passport.mid

When Vallen JPegger opens a new folder it first checks for the file "jpegger.ini". If there is one it checks for the section "SoundSetup".

There you can place the entries "FileNameMP3" and/or "FileNameMid". Behind these key entries you specify the filenames of the sound files to play back (here a MP3 file "intro.mp3" and a midi file "passport.mid"). Be sure to give a path relative to the current folder of the directory when creating CDs. A good practice is to copy the sound files into the same directory where the images are because then you do not have to specify a file path.

In the example above a Midi file and a MP3 file are specified. So both files will be played back at the same time. If you need only one sound file then remove any of the entries.

JPegger doesn’t analyze the sound file type. Therefore it doesn’t matter if the Key "FileNameMP3" specifies a MP3, WAV, or Midi file. Same is valid for "FileNameMid" It only expects it to be a valid sound file and the necessary hardware to exist.

If the sound file doesn’t exist or no sound hardware or required driver is installed JPegger simply ignores this setup. The default media player plug-in is used for audio play back.

Hint:	If you want to playback more than one MP3 title during a slide show, then use a MP3 tool to concatenate your MP3 titles together into a larger new one and specify this new file for JPegger to playback.

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JPegger: Command line interface
Command line interface

Start up with your own options

Especially when you are placing Vallen JPegger on a CD then you might want to start it up with predefined options. The following command line is defined:

Command line definition:

jpegger [-?] | [-help] [-ft] [-fs] [-ss:<delay>] [-sc:<scale>] [-ui] [-q] <image>

Description:

-? 	Pops up a short command line help, same as –help.

-help	Pops up a short command line help, same as -?.

-ft	Flip thumbnails on start

-fs	Start up in full screen mode

-paste	Paste clipboard contents on start

-mw	Maximize window on start

-ss:<delay>	Start up in slide show mode. You must specify the slide show interval in milliseconds as <delay>. If you specify -ss:5000 the slide show interval is set to 5000ms equivalent to an interval of 5 seconds.

-sc:<scale>	Start up scale in percent. Default is zero (-sc:0) which scales the image to fit inside the image area. To scale the image to 100 percent on start use –sc:100.

-ui	Uninstall, removes all registry entries and desktop icon.

-q	Quit, use in combination with –ui.

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JPegger: Uninstalling Vallen JPegger
Uninstalling Vallen JPegger

To keep JPegger compact there is no installation program. As a result there is no uninstall program provided as it is not really needed. Simply remove the files (README.TXT, JPegger.EXE, JPegger.CNT and JPegger.HLP) from where you copied them to.

If you registered any file extensions to Vallen JPegger be sure to unregister all of them.

To remove all other registry modifications made by Vallen JPegger to save its settings, run the following command line once:

jpegger /ui /q

See command line options for more options. Vallen JPegger doesn’t make any other changes to the registry (exception: desktop wall paper settings via command).

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JPegger: Join our Team!!
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Note:	If you are looking for a full-time job in the Munich area (Germany) in the field of nondestructive testing please contact us today!

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JPegger: Version History
Version History

Changes between releases

V3.4x Major Update

•	Stability problems resolved on W98SE based systems.

•	Print options added in Preferences,  allows to print filename below image.

•	Command line option "-paste" added

•	Image resize/resample added

•	Explorer and e-mail buttons added in Help menu.

•	File save support added

•	Image mirror

•	New directory tree

•	Directory tree now permanently shown without command-line option.

•	Explorer context menus

•	Screen shot functions added

V3.3x Major update

•	Some shortcuts have changed (Page-up/Down for next image in full screen, regular cursor keys for panning; Full screen with enter or double click).

•	Faster full screen image.

•	Sound interface added.

•	Directory tree added.

•	Tools menu: Find duplicate files.

•	File information in full screen mode.

•	Image file compare added to search for duplicate images.

•	Enhanced command line support added.

V3.1x Feature update

•	Thumbnail print support included.

•	Sort by type added.

•	Minor bug fixes and improvements.

V3.0 Major update

•	This version history has been added to help (ZDNet Request).

•	Version numbering changed.

•	Thumbnails added

•	Image file filter supports individual open filters for each format (ZDNet request).

•	Shortcut for "Delete File" <Ctrl+Del> has been changed to <Del> (ZDNet request).

•	Exact slide show time interval can be specified in preferences (ZDNet request).

•	Extended preferences dialog box.

•	Desktop icon support.

•	Shortcuts added for Copy and Move file commands (ZDNet request).

•	Desktop wallpaper setup added.

•	Problems with 1-bit BMP-files removed

•	Palette problems with 256 color icons removed

•	Better handling for invalid image files

•	Multi threading

•	Auto-update when images are deleted or moved

•	Many internal modifications to improve performance, speed, stability and usability.

R2000.1201: Major update

•	Full screen support with <F11> and <Ctrl+F11> (by user request).

•	New keyboard shortcuts and <+> and <-> to zoom in and out (by user request).

•	New Preferences dialog for start-up options (by user request).

•	File format associations (by user request).

•	File rename added.

•	Command line support improved.

•	Browse directories opens with the last open directory.

•	Minor bug fixes.

•	Improved help system

R2000.1101: Major update

•	Toolbar added.

•	Tool tips and basic hints for beginners added.

•	Context menus added for file list.

•	Command line support.

•	Help system completely revised.

R2000.0831: Major update:

•	New image file list allows quick access to any image in current directory.

•	More image formats added and better compatibility with special formats.

•	Improved mouse panning and zooming.

•	Better support for large images.

•	Better performance and higher stability

R2000.0804: Minor Update

•	Some new image formats and minor bug fixes.

•	Improved image decoder.

R2000.0621: Minor Update

•	Vallen JPegger doesn't create default directories under c:/vallen/ anymore.

R2000.0531: Release

•	First public version.

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Sales Related Requests:

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Phone Number:

+49-8178-9674-400

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Freeware:

http://www.vallen.de/freeware

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Feedback: Features, Bugs, Ideas
Feedback

About Features, Bugs, Ideas

We welcome your feedback regarding software.

If you have ideas for new features send us your feedback. If you detect bugs, even wrong spelled words, please inform us.

Please include the following information with your feedback:

•	Product name and version number (important, see About or Info box of Vallen software, available via About button or Info from the Help menu).

•	Operating system (see About or Info box of Vallen software, available via About button or Info from the Help menu).

•	Brief description of the problem and its reproducibility

•	Conditions under which the problem occurs. Best is a step-by-step instruction how to reproduce the problem.

•	If possible include sample data files (PRI, TRA, VAC, VAE) to reproduce the problem. With VisualAE™ you can export parts of your data file.

Hint:	When reporting Bugs please be as precise as possible. Please provide all information required to reproduce the problem quickly. Please provide sample data files if possible. The faster we can understand and reproduce your problem the faster we can help you.

For suggestions to improve help text pages or printed documents, please click here.

Please send your e-mail messages to: support@vallen.de

Thank you for your cooperation.

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Feedback: Documentation
Feedback

About Documentation

We welcome your feedback concerning our documentation. Please let us know your comments and suggestions for improvements (e.g. by e-mail).

Please include the following information with your feedback:

•	Product name and version number

•	Printed manual or online help

•	Topic-ID (can be found in Online-Help at the end of each topic page below line)
Example: Topic-ID of this page is „Feedback_Documentation".

•	Document code and page number (for printed materials, pdf-, and WinWord documents)

•	Brief description of content (for example, are you reviewing step-by-step instructions that are inaccurate, grammatical errors in a specific paragraph, information that requires clarification or more details, etc.).
If you are working on online documentation please copy the text to be changed in a separate document.

•	Your suggestion for how to correct/improve documentation. Mark your changes (e.g. by bold formatting) if modifying online documentation.

Please send your e-mail messages to: support@vallen.de

Thank you for your cooperation.

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Trademarks

VisualAE™, VisualClass™, VisualTR™, AMS3 and AMSY4 are trademarks of Vallen-Systeme GmbH in Germany, U.S.A. and other countries.

Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.

Other brands and their products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be noted as such.

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Copyright

Copyright © 1986-2001 by Vallen-Systeme GmbH, Germany. All rights reserved.

Information in this document is subject to change without notice.

No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or any means electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording for any purpose other than the purchaser’s personal use without the written permission of Vallen-Systeme GmbH.

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Freeware
Vallen Freeware

Very useful tools

Vallen Freeware are useful tools for different purposes. Vallen Freeware is available either from the internet or from the Vallen AE-Suite CD-ROM in the directory ‘Freeware’.

Please check the internet at http://www.vallen.de/freeware for regular updates.

You are authorized to use Vallen Freeware, and of course any kind of feedback is highly welcome.

For details regarding the different tools please see the documentation belonging to each tool respectively.

Vallen Freeware is coming as is, without any warranty regarding functionality or reliability. Vallen-Systeme GmbH disclaims all warranties for Vallen Freeware. We shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, consequential, or incidental damage arising out of the use or inability to use Vallen Freeware.

Vallen-Systeme GmbH reserves the right to modify, withdraw, or start selling Vallen Freeware tools without prior notice.

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Vallen-Systeme File Extensions

The following file extensions are specific for Vallen-Systeme software:

.vac	contains all settings used for data acquisition with Acquisition32

.pri	contains the AE-data acquired with Acquisition32

.tra	contains the acquired TR-data with Acquisition32

.vat	contains TR-data acquired with TR-Recorder

.vae	contains the analysis setup for VisualAE™

.vtr	contains the analysis setup for VisualTR™

.trf	feature file containing results e.g. from the Feature Extractor or a VisualClass™ Classifier

.vcs	VisualClass™ project file

.vcf	VisualClass™ Classifier file

Hint:	For analysis the analysis setup files (e.g. .vae or .vtr) have to have the same name like the data files (e.g. .pri, .tra, .trf), but different extensions. It is possible to copy and rename an analysis setup to use it with other data files.

File extensions used only by MultiPlot (the predecessor of VisualAE™):

.flt	filter definition

.lsp	location setup parameters

.mps	defining the analysis setup for MultiPlot

Other, well known formats like .jpg, .bmp, or .txt are used as well.

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Printing: Page settings

How to Adjust Printouts

This is the standard print dialog. This dialog appears every time before printing in all Vallen programs. Specify all page setup settings in this dialog.

Hint:	This dialog is sizeable. For a bigger display of the preview area you maximize the dialog to full screen with the Maximize Icon on the top right corner of the dialog. You also can zoom and pan the Print Preview Area. See below for more information.

Orientation:

Specifies which page orientation: portrait or landscape. If Fit on Page (see below) is checked the output size on page is adjusted automatically.

Units:

Specifies the units (mm or 0.001 inch) for the size and position values.

Position on Page:

Defines the position on page in the specified units. You can either define the position on the page manually or select Center on page.

Size on Page:

Defines the size on the page in the specified units. You can either define the size manually or select Fit on page for automatic adjustment. Fit On Page will use all space available on the page with a standard 2 cm border to all four corners.

Print preview area:

All changes done in the page settings are immediately shown here. If the cursor is over this area it changes into a magnifying glass indicating zoom functionality. Click the left mouse button to zooms the display up. The right mouse button zooms the display down. When the display is zoomed, keep the left mouse button pressed while moving the cursor to pan the display.

In addition this dialog is sizable. You can also enlarge the whole dialog to full screen for a better overview.

Status line:

This status line shows the current print status. It also shows in the left most panel if more than one preview pages have been generated.

Hint:	Use <Page-Up> and <Page-Down> key to get from one preview page to another.

Bitmap:

Opens the Save Bitmap dialog to save the graphics as bitmap for later print out or import into any other application.

This option is available is selected Vallen applications only.

Print:

Opens a dialog to select a printer and starts printing.

Close:

Quits this dialog.

Help:

Shows this help text.

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Printing: Print to Bitmap

Save Bitmap or Copy to Clipboard

The Save Bitmap dialog will save the output into a Windows BMP-file instead of sending it to the printer. This is useful for adding graphics to reports.

Bitmap Settings

Dimensions:

The width and height of the bitmap should be specified in mm. Use pixel dimension only if you are aware how the printer driver will interpret your bitmap. The resulting units (pixels when dimension is in mm, or mm when dimension is in pixels) are shown below the edit fields. Also the estimated size (in bytes) of the bitmap is shown.  After importing the bitmap into e.g. Windows Word or PowerPoint, set the size of the bitmap in the final document to the size here specified. This ensures an optimum pixel resolution considering the size of the bitmap, the printer resolution and the purpose of the printout. (See next paragraph)

Bitmap Resolution:

The bitmap resolution is defined in pixels per inch (ppi) and corresponds usually to the used printer resolution for both, reports and OHP transparencies. If the bitmap is for an on-line presentation with screen resolution, use the "Current screen resolution" as shown in the menu. If the bitmap dimension is given in mm, the program automatically optimizes the pixel resolution according to the size and purpose of the bitmap. This avoids disturbing effects, such as truncation or doubling of single pixel items in the final document.

Note:	A printer resolution in dots per inch (dpi) is usually equal to pixels per inch (ppi). Since some printer modes compose each colored pixel by several dots, the definition "ppi" is more straight for bitmaps.

Font Scale Factor:

A Font Scale Factor of 1,0  creates text fonts of size 10pt. (3,53mm) which is well suited for printed reports. (Bitmap dimension must be specified in mm). For OHP- transparencies you might prefer a bigger font, e.g. 14pt. This is achieved by setting the  Font Scale Factor to 1.4 (14pt divided by 10pt).  A Font Scale Factor lower than 1.0 is helpful with diagrams with large comment fields or many planes.

Color depth:

The color depth defines the number of colors available for the bitmap. The larger the color depth the larger the bitmap size (in bytes). In most cases 16 or 256 colors are sufficient. If disk and memory space is not limited you can always use 64K colors 64K colors or True Color mode

Note:	The bitmap size should not exceed the available main memory. If it does, then the creation of the bitmap might last up to minutes or even longer.

Save

Asks for a filename for the bitmap file. File type is uncompressed Windows BMP-file or standard compressed JPG-file.

Copy

Creates the image and copies it into clipboard for instant use in another application.

Data Compression and File formats

You can either save the bitmap either in Windows standard .BMP-format (uncompressed) or in .JPG format. You can change the output format with the file type combo box in the Windows Save Dialog after pressing the Save button.

The BMP-format is the best with respect to quality and standard but will produce huge files.

The JPG-format is produces smaller files but uses a lossy data reduction method. That means that a bitmap saved in JPG-format has a lower quality than before saving. This also happens when opening a JPG file and saving it again as JPG file. So there is a quality loss each time when saving as JPG. So, when using the JPG-format, you should move the compression slider to Better Quality.

Which format to use depends on your application. An optimum according to size and quality is to save a bitmaps as BMP-file first. If file size is a problem, use any third-party program (e.g. Paint Shop Pro, http://www.jasc.com) in a second step to convert the BMP-file into TIF-format (LZW-compression) which offers a high compression rate without losses. We cannot implement the TIF-LZW-compression directly as it is patented and a license fee is to be paid for each unit sold. After having converted the file into another non-lossy format you can delete the original BMP-file to save disk space.

Step-by-step printing into a bitmap:

1.	Specify the dimensions of the bitmap in the Printer Page Settings. The position on page will be ignored.

2.	Define the output resolution in this menu (the resolution should be equal to a value close to your printer resolution, but usually not more than 300 pixels per inch). If you already know the final size of the bitmap in your report and the resolution of the printer you will use to print your report, you can create a bitmap which can be printed in your report without any resolution loss or aliasing effects.

3.	Specify the color mode according to the printer you will use to print your report. Black and white will produce optimized results for monochrome (laser) printers.

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Printing: Troubleshooting
Printing Troubleshooting

Known Problems with Printing

About Windows and Printers

When we developed the DOS-based MultiPlot program we had to make a printer driver for each printer we wanted to support. But printers changed quickly. There are many new models every year and today there is no chance anymore to write a printer interface even for the most common printer models.

So one of the reasons for Windows to become popular surely was the common printer interface. Every printer comes with a Windows printer driver and should work in plug-and-play mode.

But although if driver specifications for printers are clearly defined we found out that some printers or printer drivers are more compatible than others. That means that printer drivers even of the same company might support (or not) different functions and have different bugs.

We cannot give support for your specific printer. We guarantee that we are using only standard Windows functions when printing which are thoroughly tested on selected printers. So if you experience any problems when printing please first try to get the latest printer driver from your printer vendor or from the internet. There are more differences between drivers that one might expect.

If you could solve a specific problem with your printer

Please send us your documentation feedback about your solution that we can improve this troubleshooting section. Please give us and other customers the chance to profit from your results and send us a description of your problem, your printer type and what you did to solve the problem. Thank you very much for your cooperation.

The following is a list of known problems:

The printout is different from what expected

Description:

If you detect a problem with printing, e.g. the printout is different from what you expect, please first try to find out if there is a problem with the program or with the printer.

Solution:

Use Save Bitmap and compare the resulting bitmap with the printout. The programs basically make no difference if printing to a bitmap or to printer. So if you get different results you have an indication that there might be a problem with the printer driver.

Get latest updates for your printer driver and check the trouble shooting section in the internet of your printer manufacturer.

Picture overlay on diagram is not printed

Description:

There is a diagram with a picture overlay. The picture is shown on screen but when printing the diagram is printed without the picture overlay. When using Save Bitmap the picture overlay is drawn correctly. Also cases have been reported where the printer driver hangs while printing the picture. This effect has been reported especially with the printer drivers for HP LaserJet and DeskJet printers included with Windows 98/2000 installation.

Solutions:

•	A fail safe solution is to use Save Bitmap to create a bitmap and print it later.

•	Get latest updates for your printer driver and check the trouble shooting section in the internet of your printer manufacturer.

•	Try to use RAW-format instead of EMF in the printer settings (Start/Settings/Printer/Details/Spool-Settings).

Polygons or clusters are not printed at all or printed in "white"

Description:

There is a diagram with clusters or polygons from a Polygon Processor. When displayed on screen everything looks fine. When printing on a monochrome printer (laser printer) the polygons and/or clusters have disappeared. If there is a correlation diagram with many symbols then it looks like the cluster frame overwrites the symbols in white color (paper color). This effect has been reported especially with the printer drivers for HP LaserJet and DeskJet printers included with Windows 98/2000 installation.

Solutions:

•	Get latest updates of your printer driver from the web site of your printer manufacturer.

•	Check the trouble shooting section of your printer manufacturer in the internet.

Legend texts are not centered vertically

Description:

This is a typical HP LaserJet problem. If you make a printout from e.g. VisualAE™ and look at legend texts inside frames (e.g. the lower description line where the file information can be found) then the text is not vertically centered inside the frame. All texts are a little bit too high. This effect has been reported especially with the printer drivers for HP LaserJet and DeskJet printers included with Windows 98/2000 installation.

Solutions:

•	Get latest updates of your printer driver from the web site of your printer manufacturer.

•	Check the trouble shooting section of your printer manufacturer in the internet.

Correlations with thousands of symbols print too slowly

Description:

When printing correlations with thousands of symbols it might take minutes until the page is printed. This is a general problem as there is a lot of data to be transferred to the printer which takes some time. However there are possibilities or even workarounds to reduce the problem.

Solutions:

•	Use Save Bitmap and produce the printouts later.

•	Use Raster graphics instead of vector graphics in the printer settings (Start/Settings/Printer). Then the graphics is drawn on the host machine which in most cases is significantly faster than the vector operations of laser printers.

•	Specify a lower resolution in the printer settings.

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