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- USING THE KUDO IMAGE BROWSER
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- The Kudo Image Browser is a powerful tool for viewing, sorting, placing,
- and opening images. It is designed to be easy and intuitive to use. The
- button bar at the top of the Kudo Browser window contains five buttons.
- The first button on the left displays the images in small thumbnail view, the
- second button displays the images in large thumbnail view, and the third
- button displays the images in list format, which includes the assigned
- keywords for each image in addition to the large thumbnail.
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- The fourth button allows you to locate images by keyword. Keywords
- include image orientation information (horizontal or vertical), color
- information (red, blue, yellow, etc.), and other content-specific information
- about what is in the images. The fifth button displays technical information
- about the selected image, including file size in bytes, creation and
- modification dates, keyword information, file location, application creator
- and file type identification, and the image's canvas size. The image canvas
- size information can be viewed in pixels, inches or centimeters.
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- The images can be viewed in rapid succession in large thumbnail view by
- clicking on the riffle arrows located in the lower right corner of the browser
- window. By clicking and holding down the mouse on one of the arrows,
- the images are rapidly displayed one after another within a single window.
- The riffling speed can be increased by clicking and holding down the mouse
- and moving toward the end of the arrow.
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- The images can be previewed at larger sizes from within the browser
- application. On the Macintosh platform, double-click on the image. On the
- Windows platform, select the image and choose IMAGE PREVIEW from the
- pull-down menu or type Control-E. Depending on the size of the image and
- the speed of the computer being used, the preview may take several seconds
- to load.
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- The images can be opened by their parent applications directly from within
- the browser program if the appropriate parent application is resident on the
- computer. Double-click on the icon in the lower right corner of the image
- window when in large gallery mode, and the application will launch
- automatically.
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- The images can be placed directly into a layout application by clicking on
- the image, holding down the mouse button, and dragging the image from
- the Kudo Catalog Reader window to the picture box or page of the layout
- program. The image may also be exported to many layout and image
- editing applications by choosing PLACE from the IMAGE pull-down
- menu and selecting the desired program. The export function works only if
- the destination application is running simultaneously with the browser
- application.
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- PLEASE BE AWARE THAT THE KUDO BROWSER USES THE MEDIUM CANVAS LOW-
- RESOLUTION IMAGES.
- Your project may require use of the higher-resolution files.
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- Export filters are routinely updated for use with revised versions of the
- supported layout applications and can be found at the WWW site
- http://www.imspace.com/, which is maintained by Kudo creator Imspace
- Systems Corporation. Layout and editing applications currently supported
- by the PLACE command include Adobe PageMaker, QuarkXPress, Fractal
- Design Painter, Macromedia FreeHand, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Premiere
- and Adobe Photoshop.
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