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- NaviPress 1.1 áfor Windows
- Read Me
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- NaviPress is an integrated browsing and WYSIWYG authoring tool for the World
- Wide Web. NaviPress was designed both to make WWW authoring more accessible to
- beginners and to save valuable time and effort for professional Web publishers.
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- System Requirements:
- * To use NaviPress, you should have at least a 386 with 8 megabytes of RAM.
- You should also have Windows 3.1 or later and at least 5 megabytes of free
- disk space.
- * 8 megabytes or more of RAM are recommended.
- * You should have an Internet service provider, a modem, and the appropriate
- connection software.(Trumpet winsock, Chameleon, etc) If you do not
- already have a WINSOCK.DLL, one will be installed that allows you to
- operate NaviPress locally. If you install a network connection later you
- will need to delete the winsock.dll in the navipress directory for
- NaviPress to use the network.
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- Installing NaviPress
- 1. Double-click on the Setup.exe. It will prompt you for a directory in
- which to install NaviPress.
- 2. Launch NaviPress by double-clicking on its icon.
- 3. NaviPress does not insist that you set a proxy server and a name server
- but it is highly recommended that you set them using
- Tools=>Preferences=>Network.
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- Notes and Hints:
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- General Authoring:
- * NaviPress is rather strict about enforcing legal HTML. When using
- NaviPress to edit pages which were created outside of NaviPress, it may
- change HTML which does not comply to the HTML 3.0 standard and
- specifications when saving it. á
- * In HTML the formatting information for a paragraph is located before the
- paragraph, unlike word processors where the formatting information is
- located at the end of the paragraph. Thus when selecting text to replace
- formatting, copy/paste, or drag/drop it is necessary to include the
- carriage return before the paragraph if you want the formatting to be
- included.
- * Using the MiniWeb view NaviPress allows the user to Edit=>Cut or
- backspace/delete an icon (subsequently deleting the object) without the
- presence of a confirmation dialog box.
- * NaviPress does not "lock" files. When concurrent editing of the same page
- is occurring changes may be overwritten. Be careful and use reload often
- if multiple people are editing the same page concurrently.
- * To edit text or images which are links without following the link hold
- down the Control (Ctrl) key and click with the mouse.
- * To create a MiniWeb out of a directory, or to regenerate a MiniWeb that
- isn't showing all of the files that it should (after moving files outside
- of NaviPress) use the Webize dialog by pressing Ctrl-Shift-W (or choose
- Tools=>Webize from the MiniWeb view).
- * Double-click on a link to display the linked page in a new window.
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- Tables
- * Selecting (highlighting) a table in the page view requires that the
- paragraph before and after the table be selected. Dragging the mouse
- across or double clicking on a table will not highlight it but dragging
- the pointer from the paragraph above to the paragraph beneath (or
- vice-versa) will select the table.
- * Selecting tables within tables and tables at the end of the page: áWhen a
- table is the first or last item in a table cell the table is not
- selectable with the mouse. áThis is because the selection of a table
- requires the selection of a paragraph before and after the table. It is
- easy to avoid this problem once you are aware of it. When creating tables
- nested within tables insert paragraphs into the table cell (by hitting
- Return) and place the cursor between these paragraphs when choosing Create
- Table. áExtra paragraphs can be easily deleted later.
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- If you find yourself in this state, the workaround is to add a <P> tag at
- each end of the table you are trying to select:
- 1. Highlight some of the table content (as a refernce point) and
- choose Tools=>Show HTML.
- 2. The highlighted selection should be highlighted in the Show HTML
- window.
- Insert <P> before the beginning table tag (<TABLE BORDER .....>) to
- insert a paragraph before the table.
- 3. Insert a <P> tag immediately after the closing table tag (</TABLE>)
- to insert a paragraph after the table
- 4. Select Parse and Close from the file menu in the Show HTML window.
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- * Typing in tables: Resizing tables on the fly as text is inserted is a lot
- of work and the typing speed in tables can be slower as a result. The more
- cells there are in the table, the slower the typing will be.
- * Alter Table will remove table attributes that are not authored through the
- NaviPress menus (e.g. Align=).
- * Using Undo and Redo in Tables sometimes requires two Undos/Redos for
- certain functions (e.g. Merge Cell).
- * The display of table border and contents becomes disjoint when inserting
- text into a table that contains ALIGN = CENTER in the <TABLE ...>
- tag.áCausing the screen to refresh will correct the display.
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- Lists
- * More that one list element on the same line occurs when there are lists
- nested inside a list without a paragraph tag between the list tags. áThis
- only happens when Edit Complex lists is set. áIt is impossible to insert
- text between two such list elements from the page view. The workaround is
- to manually add <P> tags after the <LI> tag in the Show HTML window.
- * Exiting from nested lists: NaviPress only allows one level at a time to be
- exited. If you wish to exit multiple nested levels, choose Format=>Exit
- List Format multiple times and delete the unwanted list elements when
- finished.
- * Nested lists may not show Paragraph Alignments (other than left)
- correctly. You may see some text appear crowded together; try aligning
- left to space it correctly.
- * Deleting nested list items: When deleting inner levels from a multi-nested
- list (e.g. deleting the 2nd and 3rd level items from a nested list with 4
- nested levels), list elements (bullets, numbers) can be left in odd
- positions. Saving and reloading should fix the display.
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- MiniWebs
- * Short Menus (Tools=>Preferences=>General) are disabled.
- * If MiniWebs don't reflect the contents of the directory, Webize.
- NaviPress can't tell if a MiniWeb filename has been changed outside of
- NaviPress. If you change, add, or delete files or links in a MiniWeb
- outside of NaviPress, or ever notice that the MiniWeb view is not
- reflecting the true status of the directory, be sure to webize/regenerate
- the MiniWeb.
- * Use the display control dialog (under the View menu) to hide icons for
- external links, images, etc. if you find the MiniWeb Web view has too many
- icons to be useful.
- * Filename change in MiniWebs
- o does not update links in subwebs.
- o does not update links in image maps
- o removes anchor extensions from links it changes
- * When editing long filenames in a MiniWeb using a list view (Name, Title,
- or MIME type) the file name display allows for ~27 characters. áAfter that
- the text exceeds the filename box and is displayed behind the title. áThe
- workaround is to use the Web view to rename files longer than 27
- characters.
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- Display
- * NaviPress does not display transparent gifs. áNaviPress will match the
- background color, but not a background image. When browsing amongst pages
- referencing the same transparent gif but with different background colors
- you may notice that the background color for the gif is cached as the
- color of the first visited page. áHitting reload will display the image
- with the current background color.
- * NaviPress shares the color pallete between NaviPress windows and with
- other applications. When a window does not have all of the colors it is
- requesting the display will look weird. áThis is most apparent on images
- and backgrounds and is generally noticed when a page is loading or when
- there is another window or application in the foreground. Bringing the
- window to the foreground should correct this.
- * Dragging a selection over a floating image will cause the image to flash
- while the mouse button is depressed.
- * NP handles <center> tags differently than Netscape. NaviPress is stricter
- about the placement of tags and has a preferences item to choose whether
- the display will conform to Netscape extensions or the HTML 3.0
- specification.
- * Background images flash when typing text.
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- Miscellaneous
- * Opening or editing a page with a large amount of text (>100K) is very slow
- with NaviPress, and NaviPress will crash if given a file that is too large.á
- * Using Elements=>Image Map on an existing Image Map will remove any
- attributes from the IMAGE MAP tag (e.g. BORDER=0) that are not authored
- through NaviPress menus.
- * Check Links will indicate "Could not find ..." when there is a redirect at
- the specified URL.
- * There is no File=>Quit option áfromáthe 'Show HTML' window. áThis is a
- feature to prevent people fromátrying to close the window by using quit,
- due to the fact that they are used in Netscape's "show source" which
- lauches an independent text editor.
- * Within a <Center> tag: Elements=>Get Attribute (or Elements=>Image, Link,
- Image Map, or Anchor with such an attribute already selected) will always
- change the selection to the first attribute item within the Center tag.
- * The hotlist window does not have a horizontal scroll bar. áTo read long
- URLs the window may be resized larger.
- * NaviPress does not support printing on Windows 95.
- * The Save As progress gauge sometimes indicates "Full" during the entire
- save.
- * NaviPress may give an error when printing forms.
- * The horizontal scroll bar at the bottom of a text area overlaps the last
- line of text for text areas with aácertain number of rows.
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- Last Updated: November 2, 1995
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