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EasyThumb version 1.0 Windows 95/98/NT

This help-file will help you use EasyThumb.

With EasyThumb you can covert images and make thumbnails from images. EasyThumb supports 5 image formats; JPEG, GIF, BMP, WMF and EMF.

Choose topic:

What is "thumbnail"?

Image formats (step 3 or 4)

Name format (step 3 or 4)

FAQ

History

Bug list

Requirements

If you have found bugs or you have something to ask about EasyThumb or other things E-mail to me "toni.helenius@saunalahti.fi", you can also visit my homepage "http://www.saunalahti.fi/tonihele". From my homepage you can get the latest versions of EasyThumb!

EasyThumb is fully free so you can distribute it freely as long as you don't modify it!

EasyThumb is made by ToniArts, Toni Helenius. This help was made by Toni Helenius.

Special thanks to Juho Jokinen "http://www.saunalahti.fi/juosjo" for drawing ToniArts logo.


History
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History

EasyThumb's programming history:

Versio 1.0: First version.


Bug list
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Bug list

Bug list:

Versio 1.0: No bugs found.

Help EasyThumb's development: Report bugs, thank you!

N.B! If you get the error message:"Access violation at address xxxxxxx...", then tell me the address (xxxxx...). Thank you!


Requirements
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Requirements

EasyThumb's requirements aren't really tested, but here is somekind of speculation:

486/DX2 66MhZ

8mB RAM

about 2mB of free harddrive space

Windows NT 3.51 (or newer), Windows 95/98

EasyThumb is most likely to work in every future 32 (or more) bits operating systems.


FAQ
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FAQ

FAQ comes from words "Frequently Asked Questions". I have also collected questions about my programs in general to here.

Q1. Are ToniArts' programs year-2000-compatible?

A1. Yes.


Name format
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Name format

Name format is EasyThumb's own setting, which should be used especially when e.g. making thumbnails to the same directory where the source files are. With this setting e.g. image image.jpg can be save to thumbnail as imagetn.jpg (in example name format field would be: <same>tn). Name format-setting is very easy to use; it defines image's save name with a help from "tags" and other text:

<same> = Original name.

<inc> = "Counter". First image would be saved as 1.xxx, second as 2.xxx etc.

So <same>freetext<inc> setting would save image.jpg's thumbnail e.g. as imagefreetext1.jpg.


Image formats
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Image formats

As said earlyer, EasyThumb supports 5 image formats; JPEG, GIF, BMP, WMF and EMF. If you are creating thumbnails for use in the internet it is recommended that you use JPEG- or GIF-format, maybe preferably JPEG-format, because then you can reduce quality of the image which can be seen in small file size and increased speed in downloading. But both; JPEG- and GIF-formats are supported in most of the browsers.

BMP-, WMF- ja EMF-formats can be read with Paint-program which comes with Windows. Reading JPEG- and GIF-formats  usually needs either a advanced image editing tool or internet browser.


What is thumbnail?
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What is thumbnail?

Thumbnail means a shrinken version of original image. These are usually used in internet; lets think about image-gallery in internet. If images there were showed as large 800x600 good quality images and about 100 on a single page. Downloading the page would take hours, but if they were thumbnails; there could be thousands of thumbnails on a single page without downloading taking hours. Sometimes besides the size quality is also reduced.

You can reduce the quality of the images in EasyThumb by putting the destination files in to JPEG-format and altering the quality from JPEG-options.