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- - CATALOG WIZARD 2.0 -
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- 1. OVERVIEW
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- Catalog Wizard 2.0 expands directories containing image
- files to full thumbnailed Web galleries thus enabling fast
- and adjustable publishing of images. Page layout, the look
- and the feel of image galleries are fully customizable
- allowing integration to any custom Web design or existing
- Web sites. Innovative and easy user interface turns Web
- page coding and publishing into a simple procedure without
- loss in areas of quality or compatibility.
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- 2. MAIN FEATURES
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- * Catalog Wizard creates thumbnailed versions of original
- image files to a catalog page. This decreases size and
- loading time of HTML pages and allows browsing of image
- catalogs over the Internet, even with modem connection.
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- * Clicking a thumbnail in a catalog page opens the original
- image file embedded into a new HTML page. Structures and
- hypertext links allowing moving to previous and next images
- is also generated.
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- * Catalog Wizard offers support for multiple catalog files.
- To avoid generating too big HTML pages you may set the
- number of thumbnail rows on each page. When this option is
- selected, the hypertext links between pages is generated
- automatically.
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- * Custom text maybe inserted into Web pages containing image
- originals. Easy user interface in the Image Description
- Editor lists all files in the source image folder and shows
- the thumbnail of the selected file. When an image file is
- selected from the list the text can be entered via general
- text editor. The text may even contain HTML tags if so
- desired. All the entered descriptions are saved into local
- harddisk and can be edited, changed or removed later.
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- * Catalog Wizard allows you to create an automated Web
- slideshow. The showing time is defined first, after which
- the image files are loaded into browser. After the last
- image is shown a new cycle will start. This provides
- infinite sliding of images in Web without reloading of
- pages.
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- * Adjustable horizontal and vertical size of thumbnails in
- pixels.
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- * Thumbnails in catalogs can be sorted by image name, size,
- date. Sorting order may be ascending or descending.
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- * Possibility to select which file details are shown in an
- image catalog page. The details are file name, file extension,
- date and size.
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- * Adjustable number of thumbnails per row.
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- * Adjustable text colors and font sizes.
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- * Adjustable HTML page background.
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- * Support for background sounds on HTML page.
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- * Support for JPEG, PNG and BMP images.
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- * Etc..
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- 3. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
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- * Windows 95/98/NT/2000
- * 16 MB free RAM
- * 5 MB free harddisk space
- * Microsoft Internet Explorer / Netscape Navigator 4.0 or
- later
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- 4. INSTALLATION
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- Unzip files to temporary directory and run setup.exe.
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- 5. DISTRIBUTION POLICY
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- Catalog Wizard is shareware and it may be distributed
- freely under following conditions:
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- * No money is charged to the person/company receiving the
- software beyond reasonable cost of packaging.
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- * You may not modify, delete or add any files in the
- distribution archive.
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- * You may not distribute a registered version of Catalog
- Wizard.
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- * You made not include Catalog Wizard in any commercial
- product or make Catalog Wizard part of other product.
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- For more information about distribution policy contact the
- author.
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- 6. DISCLAIMER
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- IMPORTANT-READ CAREFULLY:
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- THIS SOFTWARE AND THE ACCOMPANYING FILES ARE SOLD "AS IS"
- AND WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES AS TO PERFORMANCE OR MERCHANTABILITY
- OR ANY OTHER WARRANTIES WHETHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED. THE
- ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE SOFTWARE
- IS BORNE BY YOU.
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- BECAUSE OF VARIOUS HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE ENVIROMENT INTO WHICH
- CATALOG WIZARD MAY BE INSTALLED, NO WARRANTY OF FITNESS FOR A
- PARTICULAR PURPOSE IS OFFERED.
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- THE GOOD DATA PROCESSING PROCEDURE DICTATES THAT ANY SOFTWARE
- IS FULLY TESTED WITH NON-CRITICAL DATA IN NON-CRITICAL ENVIROMENT
- BEFORE RELYING ON IT. THE USER MUST ASSUME THE ENTIRE RISK OF
- USING THE SOFTWARE.
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- 7. VERSION HISTORY
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- 2.0 130301
- * PNG (Portable Network Graphic) support added.
- * All graphic algorithms improved.
- * Lanczos-3 filtering algorithm is now used when thumbnailing
- images.
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- 2.0 120301
- * GIF support removed.
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- 2.0 090301
- * Helvetica added to default font list.
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- 2.0 010301
- * Some minor changes to on-line help.
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- 2.0 010227
- * Installation registry key renamed.
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- 2.0 010226
- * About Box added into Advanced Settings dialog.
- * Default directory set as application directory when
- selecting default image and background image and
- background sound.
- * Network paths are now supported.
- * Some minor changes to on-line help.
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- 2.0 010225
- * Windows standard 'Browse for Folder' dialog is now used.
- * 'Select folder' button added to Image Desciption Editor.
- * 'Browse for folder' dialog does not open anymore, when
- Image Description Editor is launched.
- * Some minor changes to Catalog Wizard.
- * Some minor changes to Image Description Editor.
- * Some minor changes to on-line help.
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- 2.0 010223
- * Some minor changes to Install Shield scripts.
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- 2.0 010222
- * Removed Image Description Editor Button from user Interface.
- * Some minor modifications
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- 2.0 010219
- * Added option to add standard footer text below of each
- generated HTML page.
- * In case of multiple catalog files, generated file names
- do not contain spaces or special characters any more.
- * Selectable thumbnail background color
- * Selectable font in generated catalog pages.
- * New improved file handling algorithms and data structures.
- * Sorting thumbnails ascending or descending by file name,
- date or size.
- * Selectable file details to be shown in catalog pages.
- * Automated Web slide show option added. Catalog Wizard can
- create cycling slide shows with selectable slide delay.
- * Hyperlink text "Catalog" is replaced with text "Index" in
- generated image HTML pages.
- * Image Description Editor allows adding custom text into
- generated HTML pages.
- * Navigation texts are now editable.
- * URL encoding is used in case of non-alphanum characters.
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- 1.0.5 000511
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- * Corrected white thumbnail problem when processing really
- large image.
- * Thumbnailing algorithm was also improved to achieve better
- image quality.
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- 1.0.4 000508
- * Memory freeing problem after loading failure fixed.
- * Problem when parsing HTML file path fixed.
- * When lauched from explorer or command line and target
- directory does not contain supported image files, no
- message is shown anymore.
- * In catalog title and header input fields value [date]
- now expands to current date in generated catalogs.
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- 8. KNOWN LIMITATIONS
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- 8. LATEST VERSION
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- Is downloadable from URL http://www.iki.fi/osq/catalog/
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- Comments about software, future development ideas, feature
- requests, possible bug reports, etc: send e-mail direct to
- me at oskari.vuori@iki.fi.
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- Copyright (c) 1999-2001 Oskari Vuori
- All Rights Reserved
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