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- JPG Cleaner for DOS, Win32 Console and Win32
- Copyright (c) 2000, 2001 Rainbow Software
- Special thanks to PiT.
- Version 2.3
- -------------------------------------------
-
- Installation:
- Unpack ZIP file to a directory on hard drive.
-
- Uninstallation:
- If you have saved any settings, use the "Remove Settings" function in
- JPG Cleaner first.
- Delete all JPG Cleaner files from that directory.
-
- Package contents:
- -----------------
- JPGCLEAN.EXE - JPG Cleaner for DOS
- JPGCLN32.EXE - JPG Cleaner for Win32 Console
- JPGCLN95.EXE - JPG Cleaner for Win32 (with User Interface)
- JPGCLN95.HLP - JPG Cleaner Win32 Help File
- JPGCLN95.CNT - Help File Contents
- README.TXT - this readme file
-
- Description:
- ------------
- JPG Cleaner is simple but powerful utility for cleaning JPG files from
- anything that is not picture data. Commonly used programs such as Adobe
- Photoshop are writing additional information into JPG file that isn't needed
- for correctly displaying the picture:
- - Texts such as File written by Adobe Photoshop, Creator: PolyView(R) Version
- 3.32 by Polybytes, LEAD Technologies Inc. V1.01
- - Picture previews (sometimes even bigger than main JPG data!)
- - Color Management data
- All this data is useful only when opening the file in program that created it.
- Other programs such as Internet Browsers are just skipping this data, so the
- data is downloaded ant then thrown away! Just use this program when publishing
- JPG files on the Internet and your JPG files become smaller (if they contain
- non-picture data) with NO QUALITY LOSS.
-
- Usage of DOS and W32Console versions is very simple.
- Just type "jpgclean.exe picture.jpg" to clean picture.jpg file
- or "jpgclean.exe *.jpg" to clean all JPG files in current directory.
-
- The Win32 version is easy-to-use. Here are step-by-step instructions.
- 1. Select the JPG files to clean by adding them to Input List. This can be
- done using the Add button near the Input List or by dragging the files on
- JPG Cleaner window from Windows Explorer. To remove a file from input list,
- select it and click the Remove button (or right-click and select Remove
- from the pop-up menu). To clear the list, click Remove All button
- 2. Select output directory, if you want or leave it same as the input
- directory (default setting). If you want to specify output directory,
- uncheck the box Same as Input and click Browse button to select directory.
- 3. Configure the settings you want.
- 4. Click the Start button and watch the process (or leave it running in
- background and do some other work). You can pause and then resume the
- process by clicking the Pause/Resume button.
- 5. After the process is complete, you can save the output log (as you can see
- it in the log window) to a text file by clicking the Save Log button.
- Win32 version also contains context-sensitive help. You can access it by
- click the small question mark (?) in title bar and then click the component
- you want the help with.
-
- ZIP file contains DOS, W32Console and Win32 versions. W32Console version can
- only be run in Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000 and supports long file names.
- DOS version runs everywhere and supports only DOS 8.3 file names.
- Win32 version runs in Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000.
-
- System requirements:
- --------------------
- Win32 & Win32 Console version: computer that can run Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000
- DOS version: any computer with 286+ (286 or better) processor
-
- Distribution:
- -------------
- This program is free. You can distribute and use it anywhere you want, but:
- 1. Don't modify the program or documentation.
- 2. Distribute it in the original ZIP archive, so it will be virus-free.
- 3. Distribute it free-of-charge only (except for media price).
- 4. You can't base your bussiness on cleaning JPGs with this program.
-
- Version history:
- ----------------
- v2.3
- - fixed bug with headerless JPG files (thanks to Leona Bassein) in all
- versions
- JPGCln95 (thanks to John Fidel):
- - NEW shows total size in KB, MB, GB (and TB :-) in status bar
- - FIX fixed preview window resizing bugs
- - NEW shows errors even when "Display More Information" is disabled
- v2.2
- - FIX Windows version now works correctly when Large Fonts are enabled
- (thanks to John Webster)
- - Copyright messages changed (2000->2001)
- v2.1
- - Unknown Error #183 bug probably fixed (I never get this error anyway)
- - NEW Support for Exif JPEGs (e.g. from Kodak DC280 Digital Camera)
- (thanks to Alan Seiden)
- - fixed bug corrupting files containing $C2 block (Pegasus Imaging Corp.)
- (thanks to Ernesto Miguel Rocha Gonzalez)
- - fixed elapsed time displaying with different regional settings
-
- v2.0
- - fixed bug corrupting files containing more than one $C4 block (files from
- Sony Mavica FD-91 digital camera) in all versions (thanks to Bob Malarz)
- - fixed some problems with preview window's focus
- - fixed problems cleaning files with read-only attribute (console versions)
- - NEW Updated command-line versions to support all advanced features of GUI
- version and also recursive directory scanning
- - NEW Option to delete not only corrupt files, but also unknown ones
- - NEW Always on top function (in system menu)
- - NEW Settings can be saved into registry (and also loaded back :)
-
- v1.9
- - fixed bug corrupting JPG files containing $C4 block (advert.jpg from SEA)
- in all versions (thanks to Alexandr Ivanenko)
- JPGCln95:
- - pop-up menu in input list now pop-ups when mouse button is released
- - JPG Cleaner's main window can be now resized or maximized
- - NEW resizable JPG preview window
-
- v1.8
- JPGCln95:
- - better total file size calculation (50% faster), message displayed in
- status bar when counting total size
- - mouse cursors didn't work properly, so they're disabled now
- - NEW minimize button in the processing window
- - unlimited log size when saving, but it doesn't fit to the log window
- - fixed occassional Access Violation when processing is stopped
- - .log extension is automatically added when saving log files and the
- filename you entered has no extension
- - updated help file
-
- v1.7
- A lot of bug fixes in JPGCln95:
- - registry access for reading the JPG icon is now read-only
- (should now work corectly in Windows NT, untested)
- - better dialog for selecting the output path
- - backup is now disabled when output directory is not same as input
- - filemode is now read-only when opening files for reading (less problems
- with Windows NT and Read-Only files)
- - error is reported to the log when file can't be open
- - input file is now closed when output already exists and overwrite disabled
- - error reporting to log for problems when renaming files (jpg->bak,tmp->jpg)
- - hopefully, this will fix the problems that some people have
- - NEW Support for all known JPG files extensions (.JPG .JPEG .JPE .JFIF .JFI)
- - NEW Error processing (ignore/delete corrupt files) now works
- - NEW Elapsed Time now works
- - NEW Support for adding entire folders (including subfolders) to the list
- (new button and also drag&drop support)
- Warning: working with a lot of files can be really slow because it tooks
- Windows a lot of time to process such a large list
- - some modifications to speed program when working with a lot of files
- - NEW Hourglass mouse cursor is shown when program is busy
- - help file updated with the new features
- JPGCln32:
- - FIX FindClose was missing, probably causing memory leak
-
- v1.6
- - NEW JPG Cleaner for Win32 with easy-to-use Graphical User Interface
- and also help file
- - renamed the JPGCln95 to JPGCln32
-
- v1.5:
- - fixed problems when .bak files already present (mainly DOS)
- - fixed Unknown header problem when there is something before header
- - fixed bad cleaned value in Win32
-
- v1.4:
- - First public version
-
- Visit the Rainbow Software Home Page for updates.
- Send bug reports to: rnbw@geocities.com
- If you find a JPG file, which this program cannot handle, send it to the above
- address.
-
- Contact:
- --------
- home page - http://rainbow.ht.st
- my e-mail - rnbw@geocities.com