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- SLIDES SHOWER INTRODUCTION
- The multimedia screen saver for Windows.
-
-
- FEATURES
- --------
- * Performs slide shows with background music, transitional effects.
- * Slide show invokable from the Windows' Screen Saver.
- * Prints hardcopy of images to any Windows-supported printer.
-
- Slides Shower displays all images files in any directory you select.
- The software is capable of recognizing over 40 image file formats
- including BMP, JPEG, Kodak Photo CD, TIFF, Windows Metafile, PCX,
- DCX, CALS Raster, MacPaint, GEM Image, Microsoft Paint, Macintosh
- PICT, LEAD CMP, etc.
-
- Photo albums created by Images Control (another graphics software
- package written by me) can also be used in Slides Shower screen
- savers. From the Windows Control panel, simply choose "Slides
- Shower" as your screen saver and select your favorite album for
- the slide show.
-
- You can obtain a hardcopy of any image you like during the slide
- show simply by pressing the "P" key. A print preview window will
- appear to let you position and resize the image before printing.
-
-
- WHERE TO DOWNLOAD THE LATEST SHAREWARE VERSION?
- -----------------------------------------------
-
- http://members.aol.com/doanc2/ slshwxxx.zip
-
- or ftp members.aol.com
- <anonymous>
- <your e-mail address>
- cd doanc2
- dir
- binary
- get slshxxx.zip
-
- NOTE: (substitute the xxx for the current version number)
-
-
-
- DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE SHAREWARE AND REGISTERED VERSIONS?
- ----------------------------------------------------------
- Shareware: * Recognizes Windows BMP, WMF, and OS/2 BMP.
- * Play audio CD in the background.
- * Performs 29 transitional special effects.
-
- Registered: * Recognizes over 40 different image formats.
- * Play audio CD in the background.
- * Performs 29 transitional special effects.
- * Prints hardcopy of images during slide show.
-
-
- HARDWARE/SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS
- ------------------------------
- Hardware Requirements:
-
- * Windows-based PCs (386 or better).
- * Standard VGA (or Windows-accelerated card).
- * A mouse or trackball.
- * TWAIN-compliant scanners or digital cameras (optional).
- * Windows supported-printers (optional).
- * Sound blaster card or compatible (optional).
-
- Software Requirements:
-
- * Microsoft Windows 3.1/3.11/95/NT workstation.
-
- Slides Shower was designed and tested under Microsoft Windows 95 on
- a 100 MHz PCI Pentium-based computer with 16 MB of RAM, a 1 MB PCI
- Diamond Stealth SE.
-
- Slides Shower was also tested under Windows 3.1/95/NT workstastion on:
- 1) 150 MHz PCI Pentium-based computer with 32 MB of RAM, 2 MB PCI
- Diamond Stealth VRAM (S3-968).
- 2) IBM P5-133 with 32 MB or RAM, 1MB PCI Diamond Stealth DRAM (S3-764).
- 3) AST Bravo LC 4/33s with 8MB of RAM, 512K ATI video card.
-
-
-
- OPERATION
- ---------
- Once the slide show screen saver started, you can have it interrupted by
- a mouse click, a key press, or both. This can be set under "Options" on
- the menu.
-
- During the slides show, any other keys will stop the slide show, except
- these 3 keys:
- * Press "C" to access the configuration screen.
- * Press "P" to print the current image.
- * Press "A" to verify the version number.
-
- If you select the "Play audio CD" box, don't forget to put an audio CD
- in the drive so when the screen saver activates, the CD will be played
- automatically.
-
- The default time delay between slide show is 2 seconds, you can set this
- to a faster or longer interval by clicking "Show Interval" under "Options".
-
- The "Display image properties" is useful for scanning through a directory
- and display all known images along with their properties such as file
- size, resolution, and color depths. This caption can be turned off by
- checking off the "Display image properties" box.
-
- You can either use the default random wipe pattern or have Slides Shower
- sequentially cycle through all 29 transitional effects.
-
- Those of you purchased the Images Control suite (a photo album builder
- and image processing/enhancement package), you can use the photo albums
- you built for the slide show. Be sure to select the "Images Control
- photo album" in the "Image Source" section, then click on the file
- dialog icon to select the album you want.
-
- If you have problem printing in the registered version, you may want to
- bypass the "Colors Optimization" box in the print preview menu.
-
- If you have problem with a disappearing mouse, press "C" to bring up the
- configuration menu and press CTRL+M to restore the mouse.
-
- The password timeout varies from computer to computer, depending on the
- speed of the machine. If someone interrupts the screen saver and the
- security option was turned on, a password window will appear and stay
- on for only whatever time specified in the "Password Timeout" menu and
- will disappear. The faster your computer is, the faster this window
- will disappear, in this case, set this value to a higher value to allow
- you time to enter a password before the password window disappear.
-
- WARNING:
- --------
- If you previously set a password and the screen saver is currently
- password protected, you must remember the exact password to disable it.
-
-
-
- SUPPORTED IMAGE FILE FORMATS
- ----------------------------
- Slides Shower was developed using LEAD Technologies LEADTOOLS VBX
- Professional. Below is the list of image file formats which Slides
- Shower supports:
-
- LEAD. This is the LEAD CMP compressed format for grayscale and color
- images.
-
- JFIF. This is a JPEG File Interchange Format with full color spacing
- (YUV 4:4:4).
-
- LEAD1JFIF.
- This is a JPEG File Interchange Format with YUV 4:1:1 color
- spacing, to produce a smaller JFIF file.
-
- LEAD2JFIF.
- This is a JPEG File Interchange Format with YUV 4:2:2 color
- spacing, to produce the smallest JFIF file.
-
- JTIF. This is a JPEG Tagged Interchange Format with full color spacing
- (YUV 4:4:4).
-
- LEAD1JTIF.
- This is a JPEG Tagged Interchange Format with YUV 4:1:1 color
- spacing, to produce a smaller JTIF file.
-
- LEAD2JTIF.
- This is a JPEG Tagged Interchange Format with YUV 4:2:2 color
- spacing, to produce the smallest JTIF file.
-
- TIFF. This is a tag-based file format designed to promote universal
- interchanges of digital image data. Because TIFF files do not
- have a single way to store image data, there are many versions
- of TIFF. Slides Shower supports the most common TIFF formats.
-
- MPT. This is a multipage TIFF format that enables a file to contain
- more than one image. It is handled the same as a regular TIFF
- file, except for the multipage feature.
-
- TIFF LZW.
- These files use the Tagged Image File Format with LZW compression.
-
- TIFF CCITT.
- These are compressed TIFF files that are commonly used for FAX
- transmission and document imaging.
-
- TIFF CCITT Group 3.
- These are TIFF CCITT files in a format that is more advanced
- and more compressed than TIFF CCITT.
-
- TIFF CCITT Group 4.
- These are TIFF CCITT files in a format that is more advanced
- and more compressed than TIFF CCITT Group 3.
-
- IOCA (ICA).
- This is the Image Object Content Architecture developed by IBM.
-
- WinFax Group 3.
- This is a FAX format created by Delrina for Group 3 support.
-
- WinFax Group 4.
- This is a FAX format created by Delrina for Group 4 support.
-
- FAX Group 3.
- This is a raw FAX format (without a header) for Group 3 support.
-
- FAX Group 4.
- This is a raw FAX format (without a header) for Group 4 support.
-
- Truevision TGA (TARGA).
- This is a file format created by Truevision Inc.
-
- PNG (Portable Network Graphics).
- This is a replacement for the GIF format. It is a full-featured
- (non-LZW) compressed format intended for widespread use without
- legal restraints.
-
- Photoshop 3.0 (PSD).
- This is the format produced by the Adobe Photoshop graphics
- editor.
-
- Windows Bitmap (BMP).
- This is a file format created by Microsoft. Some BMP images are
- compressed with an RLE type compression.
-
- Windows Metafile (WMF).
- These files are not bitmap based images. A Windows metafile
- consists of a collection of device independent functions that
- represents an image. When a program loads a metafile, these
- functions are executed to obtain the image.
-
- PCX. This is a file format created by ZSoft. This format compresses
- its image data with the RLE type compression.
-
- DCX. This is a multipage PCX format that enables a file to contain
- more than one image. It is handled the same as a regular PCX
- file, except for the multipage feature.
-
- PostScript Raster (Encapsulated PostScript).
- These files are used primarily on PostScript printers. These
- printers usually offer more variety of fonts and higher
- resolution than standard laser printers. EPS files will work on
- any PostScript compatible printer and any end user application
- that supports placement of EPS files in its work space.
-
- OS/2 Bitmap (OS/2 BMP).
- These are files created on an OS/2 operating system.
-
- CALS Raster.
- These are 1-bit CCITT Group 4 CALS raster files. CALS is a U.S.
- government standard.
-
- MacPaint (MAC).
- These Macintosh Paint files are commonly used for monochrome
- clip art.
-
- GEM Image (IMG).
- These files are native to the Graphical Environment Manager
- developed by Digital Research.
-
- Microsoft Paint (MSP).
- These files from early versions of Windows are used for black-
- and-white drawings and clip art.
-
- WordPerfect (WPG).
- These are WordPerfect raster files.
-
- SUN Raster (RAS).
- These files are native to Sun UNIX platforms.
-
- Macintosh Pict (PCT).
- These files, produced using Macintosh QuickDraw, are used in
- desktop publishing and imaging applications.
-
- LEAD 1BIT.
- These are 1-bit LEAD compressed files.
-
- PCD.
- These are Kodak PhotoCD files. These read-only files can
- contain multiple resolutions. You can specify which of the
- resolutions to read.
-
- NOTE: Because of the battle between Unisys and many software
- developers over the GIF format royalty fees, Slides Shower does not
- support GIF. Instead, Slides Shower supports a new rising star that's
- supposed to be a much better replacement for GIF called PNG (Portable
- Network Graphics). CompuServe has adopted PNG and has been shifting
- their support for GIF to PNG.
-
-
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- REGISTRATION
- ------------
- The registration fee is $14. As of this writing, I only accept money
- orders, cashiers checks, bank checks, or personal checks. Please fill
- in the registration form in the REGISTER.TXT file and mail it along
- with your payment to:
-
- Chris Doan
- 4891 Clairemont Mesa Blvd., #401
- San Diego, CA 92117
-
- For my bookkeeping purposes, please refrain from sending cash. But if
- you must send cash, please also include a written order so I can keep
- track of my users.
-
- For quick activation, registered users will receive a temporary license
- file through internet e-mail (uuencoded or MIME-encoded). The license
- file will recognize you as a registered user and allow you full access
- to all Slides Shower features. Your permanent license file registered
- in your name (or your company name) and the latest version of Slides
- Shower will be in the mail the next business day.
-
- Those of you have access to CompuServe can register Slides Shower on
- line and receive the registered version within 24 hours (SWREG #11126).
-
- International users may transfer $US 14 directly to my Bank of America
- account. There will be an additional processing fee of $10 because
- that's how much my bank charges my account for Money Transfer Service.
- You will have to contact me by e-mail to obtain my account number for
- this type of payment.
-
- A site license is required by a corporation, company, educational
- institution, or governmental agency for use of Slides Shower software
- on the total number of computers that will use the software.
-
- Thank you for your interest in Slides Shower.
-
- Chris Doan
- doanc@worldnet.att.net
- 102425.1613@compuserve.com
-
- San Diego, California
- November 1996
-