Teach Yourself VRML 2
in 21 Days

by Chris Marrin

(c)1997  Sams.net Publishing
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Getting Started

This document explains how to use this CD-ROM and provides information on it's layout and contents.

Information explaining the programs found on this CD and their location is located below.

What's on the CD

The following is a breakdown of what's on the CD by location:

Guide to the CD-ROM - the file you're reading now.

Source Folder - The author has provided source code for you to inspect while you read the book.

VRML 2 Specification Folder - The VRML 2 Specification documentation.

Strata Demos Folder - StrataVision™ 3d 4.0 Demo, StudioPro™ 1.5.1 PPC Demo, StudioPro™ Blitz Demo. and Strata MediaPaint™ Demo.

HTML Editors and Utilities Folder
Contains the following applications:

BBEdit Lite 3.5.1 - BBEdit Lite is a freeware derivative of BBEdit 3.5, the popular and critically acclaimed text editor for programmers, HTML authors, on-line-service users, and anyone else who needs to edit plain-text
files.

BBEdit 4.0 Demo - BBEdit is a high performance text editor for the Macintosh. The purpose of a text editor is to prepare text for transport across communications links (as in an email system), processing by another program (such as a compiler, HTML renderer, or database system), and to serve for light-duty text composition tasks. In contrast to a word processor, whose purpose is to prepare documents for optimal visual presentation, the focus of a text editor is on the transformation and manipulation of text as data, rather than on manipulation of visual attributes (such as style or color).

HTML Editor 1.1.1 - HTML Editor is a semi-WYSIWYG editor for creating HTML documents.

HTML Markup 2.0.1 - Convert existing documents to HTML

WebMap 2.0b9 - WebMap for the Macintosh allows you to create imagemaps for your HTML pages on the Web.

HTML edit 1.7 - HTML.edit is freeware, Macintosh-based editor for the HyperText Markup Language, the text-based coding used for documents on World Wide Web (WWW).

HTML Web Weaver - HTML Web Weaver is an HTML editor, designed to simply creation of World Wide Web pages.

Media Utilities Folder
Contains the following applications:

ScrapIt Pro 5.13- ScrapIt Pro, is the editable, searchable multimedia scrapbook... and a mini-word processor to boot!  Need a place to store, sort, display and search all of your text notes, sounds, GIF files, JPEG files, QuickDraw 3D files?  Look no further, ScrapIt Pro is the utility you've been looking for!

Fast Player 1.1 - Fast Player is a QuickTime movie player, with special options for fast and smooth playback.  It can be used to flatten QuickTime movies for use with non-Mac QuickTime players.

GIFConverter 2.3.7 - GIFConverter can open and read several graphic file formats, including GIF, TIFF, RIFF, PICT, JPEG (JFIF), MacPaint and Thunderscan. It can write these formats, as well as black-and-white EPS.

Sparkle 2.4.5 - Sparkle 2.4.5 A mac-look-and-feel MPEG and QT player and converter.  Sparkle plays MPEGs, PICTs and QT movies and converts between them. It is multifinder friendly and, with enough memory, will open multiple documents at once.  On a PowerPC Sparkle 2.4.5 REQUIRES Sound Manager 3.1 which you can obtain from  ftp://ftp.support.apple.com//pub/apple_sw_updates/US/mac/System Software/Other System Software/Sound_Manager_3.1.hqx.  On a 68K system you do not need SoundManager 3.1 but without it you won't be able to use .WAV or IMA sound files.

Graphic Converter 2.4.4 - Graphic Converter converts the most common ATARI, Amiga and IBM formats to Macintosh and back again.   Graphic Converter can convert between more than 70 image formats.

SoundApp - SoundApp will play or convert sound files dropped onto it.

Utilities Folder
Contains the following applications:

Adobe's Acrobat Reader

ZipIt 1.3.5 - The zip format of file compression is a standard on almost all computers except the Macintosh. ZipIt is a program that is designed to allow Mac users to easily create and decompress zip archives, especially to facilitate the exchange of data between platforms. ZipIt has a complete Macintosh interface, so it should be intuitive for the average Mac owner to use. In addition, ZipIt is able to compress Macintosh files using the MacBinary format, which allows it to fully reconstruct any Macintosh file, including applications, without sacrificing compatibility with other zip implementations. ZipIt is a shareware product; please see the section entitled “Registration” for full details.

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