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- Welcome to VisiMap Lite, version 2.5
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-
- Contents of this README file:
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- What is VisiMap Lite?
- About the License Agreement
- How to Register VisiMap Lite
- Notes for Registered Users of InfoMap Lite
- Installation of VisiMap Lite
- Quick Start
- Uninstalling VisiMap Lite
- About the Retail Version of VisiMap
- Your Comments and Suggestions
-
- What is VisiMap Lite?
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- VisiMap Lite is an easy-to-use creativity-enhancement and productivity-boosting
- tool (for Windows 3.1x, Windows 95 and Windows NT) for visual organisation,
- brainstorming, problem-solving, document outlining, planning, personal
- organisation, and many other day-to-day tasks. VisiMap Lite allows you to
- quickly and efficiently enter, visualise, restructure, and print, present, and
- communicate information using a simple, yet powerful, graphical metaphor that
- we call a 'visual map'.
-
- Its key features include:
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- - Interactive map construction and maintenance, providing you with immediate
- feedback.
- - An integrated QuickEditor makes it easy for you to attach (and edit) 'notes'
- to branches of your maps in a convenient split-screen mode.
- - Automatic map layout and drawing, leaving you to concentrate on content and
- structure.
- - A text outline view also lets you work in a 1-dimensional text outline view,
- and switch easily between this and the visual map view.
- - Branch icons: place graphical icons on branches of a map to give your maps
- added visual impact.
- - Versatile viewing and outlining functions allow you to view a map in
- different ways and with different levels of detail.
- - Style sheets and a colour palette allow you to control and change the use of
- colour and fonts.
- - Auto-levelling outline styles: a new outline style scheme allows you to
- define branch formats for each level in a map, and have VisiMap Lite apply them
- automatically.
- - Sophisticated printing facilities, both graphical and textual, give you
- comprehensive control on how your maps look on paper.
- - Full drag-and-drop reordering: you can fully restructure your map using
- drag-and-drop techniques.
- - Various flexible productivity and usability enhancers: Speed-entry, colour
- palette, subtree editing, auto-colouring, multiple page layouts, global
- find/replace, ... and much more!
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- About the License Agreement
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- VisiMap Lite is not free software. It is distributed as Shareware. This means
- you have the opportunity to freely evaluate VisiMap Lite at your leisure for a
- period not exceeding fourteen days. If, after that time, you find VisiMap Lite
- useful, you are obligated to purchase a license for its continued use. If you
- do not find VisiMap Lite useful, or you do not register it within fourteen
- days, you must discontinue its use. The full text of the VisiMap Lite license
- agreement, together with our Warranty Disclaimer can be found in the
- accompanying file LICENCE.TXT.
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- How to register VisiMap Lite
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- A license for the use of VisiMap Lite can be obtained by filling out the
- Registration Application Form found in the file ORDERFRM.WRI. Registration
- entitles you to a diskette of the latest version of VisiMap Lite together
- with your personal registration details (which will eliminate the
- registration reminder screens and remove the time limitation), technical
- support via telefax or EMail, and free access (via our web site) to any
- later 2.xx versions that may be published from time to time.
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- Please refer to the ORDERFRM.WRI file (copied to your system during
- installation of VisiMap Lite) for details on registration costs and
- procedures.
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- Notes for Registered Users of InfoMap Lite
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- If you are a registered user of CoCo Systems' InfoMap Lite, you can upgrade
- to VisiMap Lite 2.0 for a discounted registration fee. VisiMap Lite is
- backwards-compatible with InfoMap Lite, which means that it will work with
- all the maps and style sheets you created with InfoMap Lite.
-
- To upgrade to VisiMap Lite, please contact the same supplier from whom you
- registered your copy of InfoMap Lite for pricing and ordering details. If
- you registered your copy of InfoMap directly with CoCo Systems, you can order
- your upgrade on-line on the internet at http://www.coco.co.uk.
-
- Installation of VisiMap Lite
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- If you have not already done so, you can easily install VisiMap Lite by
- following the instructions here:
-
- (1) If you have the VisiMap distribution CD:
- Insert the distribution CD into your CD-ROM drive. If you have Windows 95 (or
- later) or Windows NT 4.0 (or later) the setup program should start
- automatically. If it does not, or you have Windows 3.x, run the program
- SETUP.EXE found in the root directory of your CD. Once the Setup program has
- loaded choose VisiMap Lite for installation, follow the on-screen
- instructions.
-
- (2) If you have the VisiMap Lite floppy-disk distribution set:
- Insert disk 1 of the distribution set into a floppy disk drive and run the
- program SETUP.EXE. Once the Setup program has loaded, follow the on-screen
- instructions.
-
- (3) If you have the VisiMap Lite self-installing distribution file:
- Simply run the distribution file and follow the on-screen instructions.
-
- If you are running the Windows 3.1/Windows NT 3.51 Program Manager or the
- Windows 95/Windows NT 4.0 explorer, Setup will give you the option of creating
- a program manager group or program folder. You will then be able to start
- VisiMap Lite by double-clicking the VisiMap Lite icon. If you choose not to
- create a program manager group or program folder, run VisiMap Lite by opening
- the Windows 3.1/NT 3.51 File Manager or Windows 95/NT 4.0 Explorer) and then
- double-click on VMLITE.EXE in the VisiMap Lite directory.
-
- Quick Start
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- Once you are running VisiMap Lite, please refer to VisiMap Lite's
- comprehensive on-line help for full details on its use. To access the VisiMap
- Lite on-line help simply press the F1 key. You might like to print the
- help topics found under 'Introduction' and 'How to ...'.
-
- When VisiMap Lite first loads, you will see one or more example map which give
- a brief overview of VisiMap Lite's main features.
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- Uninstalling VisiMap Lite
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- If, having installed VisiMap Lite, you wish for any reason to remove it from
- your hard disk you can use the UnInstall icon in the VisiMap Lite program
- group (if you elect not to create a program group of folder, SETUP will
- provide alternative instructions at the end of the installation process).
-
- About the Retail Version of VisiMap
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- VisiMap Lite is the personal edition of our retail product, VisiMap. To find
- out about VisiMap, please refer to the on-line help topic 'About the Retail
- Version of VisiMap'.
-
- Your Comments and Suggestions
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- Your comments and suggestions for future development of VisiMap Lite are
- welcome. Please forward them to CoCo Systems Ltd. at the following address:
-
- CoCo Systems Ltd.
- 2 Mortens Wood
- Amersham
- Bucks. HP7 9EQ
- United Kingdom
-
- Telephone: 07000-COCOTN (262686) (from the UK)
- +44 7000-COCOTN (262686) (from elsewhere)
- Facsimile: 07000-COCOFN (262636) (from the UK)
- +44 7000-COCOFN (262636) (from elsewhere)
- EMail: tech-support@coco.co.uk
- URL: http://www.coco.co.uk
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- August 1997,
- CoCo Systems Ltd.
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