*Please see the “Read Me” file for additional information.
QuickNailer 1.7
-- The Preview in Bulk and web site construction tool.
Contents
Quick Start Tutorial for First Timers
What is included in the QuickNailer package?
What is QuickNailer?
What can QuickNailer do?
What are QuickNailer's minimum requirements?
What is QuickNailer's recommended configuration?
How do I use QuickNailer?
Where do I get the latest version of QuickNailer?
What does QuickNailer cost?
What is QuickNailer's version history?
Quick Start Tutorial for First Timers
WARNING: Corrupted GIF files will crash QuickTime 2.5!
Please consider installing QuickTime 3.0 (but keep your old MoviePlayer). It corrects this problem as well as providing support for wide GIFs, layered Photoshop, progressive JPEG, TIFF, PNG, Targa, and BMP. Available from <http://www.quicktime.apple.com/>
See the Known Bugs section of the QuickNailer Help window for further details.
(Please contact us if this application crashes your computer. We want our software to work correctly no matter what system or computer you are using. Choose About QuickNailer in the application's menu and click the Bug Report button.)
First Time Using QuickNailer:
1. Launch the QuickNailer application program
2. Click the Demo, Day 1 button.
3. Press the [HELP] button or choose "Help" from the Window menu
4. Click the underlined text "First Time Importing Images" in the Help Window
5. Continue with those instructions…
What is included in the QuickNailer package?
QuickNailer <- application program
QuickNailer Help <- application program's user assistance file (in HTML format or a printable with SimpleText)
QuickNailer Read Me <- this file
Read Me <- general information
Register <- shareware register application program
the example footer <- example file demonstrating an HTML code snippet for use as a footer
•register web page address clip <- clipping file, http://order.kagi.com/?M1
Please make sure that all of these items are present before you upload copies of the software to online services or internet FTP sites.
What is QuickNailer?
Do you have more images than you can comfortably manage? Or, do you need an easy and flexible way to make image indexes for your web pages? Maybe you just want to know what is taking up all the space on the server *right now* and print a report.
QuickNailer gracefully combines an intuitive image thumbnailer, font viewer, contact-sheet maker, and media cataloger with a flexible and complete tool for producing HTML image indexes with image maps, frames, or linked pages.
Try out QuickNailer today and you'll find it the easiest and most powerful way to view and organize media with an unbeatable price, outstanding performance, plenty of features, and an uncluttered, finely crafted user interface. Made by hard working artists and engineers who care passionately about the Macintosh.
With QuickNailer you can:
->Import a few or a few thousand digital media files (including Layered Photoshop, Progressive JPEG, animated GIF, TIFF, MPEG, AVI, QuickTime Movies, EPS preview, TIFF, PNG, BMP, etc. etc.) by dragging-and-dropping anything (files, folders, volumes, shared disks, CD-ROMs, aliases), pressing of a folder hot key, or using the astoundingly fast-opening QuickNailer Media Catalogs.
->Generate fully-functional multiple indexed web sites (automatic image conversion, image tables, client side image maps, frames, navigation buttons, color schemes, insert HTML header and footer files, tab-delimited data files); Export WYSIWYG contact-sheets (useful for submitting multiple index files to internet newsgroups); Save several types of fast loading media catalogs; Print to Postscript or QuickDraw printers.
->Preview media (as variable-size thumbnails displayed with the information most relevant to you, individual images, slide shows [with QT movie playback], cell animation, tiled images [optional text or image overlay], all at any magnification level); View fonts dynamically (with single styled character copy for that perfect dingbat).
->Perform file maintenance (edit file name or comments, put file in trash, launch file using any application software, move file to another folder, open file's folder).
->Search and rank by keyword relevancy (using full path name, comments, file name, folder name, volume name); Find similar files (using image, file name, file size, creation date); Search for color; Find representative files from each folder; Find corrupt or damaged files.
QuickNailer includes an integrated hyper-linked help system and tutorial (printable). The program is PowerPC accelerated and has been rigorously tested and internationalized. This version is available in English, German (Deutsch), and French (Français) languages.
Major new features for version 1.6 include: French (Français) language; Support for MPEG and AVI; Playback of animated GIF and PNG; Modification date sniffing; Menu Command Floating Window; Find Similar Files by matching image; Better file opening with Adobe Photoshop; Automatically rename files on collision; Several bug fixes and much more.
What can QuickNailer do?
√ Search shared disks, volumes, folders, or the Desktop for media files of the following types:
• 'MPEG' Motion Picture Expert Group
• 'VfW ' AVI / Intel Audio-Video / Video For Windows
• '8BPS' Adobe Layered Photoshop 3.0
• '8BPS' Adobe Photoshop 2.5
• 'TIFF' Tag Image File Format
• 'JPEG' Progressive JPEG
• 'PNG ' Portable Network Graphic
• 'BMP ' Windows Bitmap
• 'TPIC' Targa Picture
• '¶MCa' QuickNailer Media Catalog
• 'EPSF' Encapsulated Postscript with PICT preview
• 'XDOC' Quark XPress with PICT preview
• '..CT' Scitex CT with PICT preview
• 'JPEG' Joint Picture Expert Group
• 'JFIF' Joint Picture Expert Group
• 'GIFf' CompuServe Graphic Interchange Format
• 'MooV' Apple QuickTime Movie
• 'PICT' Apple Macintosh Picture
• '.SGI' SGI Image
• 'clpp' Drag & Drop Clipping
• 'PICS' Picture Sequence
• 'SCRN' Startup Screen
• 'PNTG' Claris MacPaint
• 'qtif' Apple QuickTime Image File
• and many more as QuickTime advances
√ Import media files by dragging & dropping shared disks, volumes, folders, files, or aliases
√ Present thumbnails of media files in a self-organizing window with user-selected image information
√ Save the thumbnails as:
• media catalog
• contact-sheet image(s)
• HTML index page(s) with linked image pages, client side image maps, and frames
• tab-delimited data file
√ Preview the contact-sheet or HTML index via a user specified browser
√ View fonts dynamically
√ View typeface character matrix and styled character copy
√ Keyword search and relevancy ranking
√ Ranking similar files
√ Search for color
√ Find representative files from each folder
√ Find corrupt or damaged files
√ Animate still or cell images
√ Present images in their own window at any magnification level
√ Present QT movies in their own window at any magnification level
√ Show image and movie information
√ Present a slide show that also plays QuickTime movies
√ Tile images and view with text or pictures superimposed
√ Rename and recomment media files
√ Open media files with user specified application software
√ Find and open the folder containing the media file
√ Put media files in the trash
√ Copy a thumbnail to the clipboard
√ Drag & drop media files to other folders or application software
√ Run PowerPC accelerated
What are QuickNailer's minimum requirements?
• 68020 CPU
• 4MB RAM
• System 7.1
• QuickTime 2.5
What is QuickNailer's recommended configuration?
• 68040 or PowerPC CPU
• 8MB RAM
• System 7.5.5 or newer
• QuickTime 3.0 or newer
How do I use QuickNailer?
QuickNailer has an integrated help system that you can use by selecting “Help” from the Window menu or pressing the [HELP] button.
Note: If you have registered QuickNailer and are using it on a PowerPC machine, ensure that you have properly installed Apple's "World Script Power Adapter" extension for maximum performance. This extension is used extensively by the U.S. version of the system software for sorting, finding word breaks, and diacritical marks stripping.
Where do I get the latest version of QuickNailer?
QuickNailer updates are released frequently. Browse the author's web site <http://www.amug.org/~sbaber> for the latest versions of this and other software.
What does QuickNailer cost?
• Single user license:
Qty Shareware Price Each
1 US$ 18
2-4 US$ 12
5-24 US$ 10
• Site license:
1+ US$ 245
* Open the "Register" program to convert from US dollars to your local currency.
* Evaluation period is 18 days.
What is QuickNailer's version history?
v1.0, 1997 April 17
-- First public release of QuickNailer.
v1.2, 1997 June 2
-- Implemented searching/ranking all imported file's by terms found in file name, folder name, file's Finder comments.
-- Implemented sorting, viewing, and HTML emitting of file's Finder comments.
-- Implemented HTML "image" directory option.
-- Implemented progress window and abort key when importing files.
-- Implemented hyper-linked help window.
-- Implemented change fonts in the appearance panel.
-- Implemented helpful message in thumbnails window.
-- Implemented support for Adobe Illustrator files which contain a 'PICT' preview.
-- Added "Open All" button for the Open... dialog box.
-- Added "Preview Via Browser" to Save As... dialog box.
-- Added more basic colors.
-- Internationalized numbers.
-- Internationalized sorting.
-- Internationalized word breaking.
-- Improved automatic thumbnail selection method when using Drag & Drop or the "Import Desktop" command.
-- Improved appearance with Aaron /Kaleidoscope.
-- Improved Unix filename conversion.
-- Documented a Quick Start Tutorial.
-- Bug fix: Preference file version control problem corrected.
-- Bug fix: Cursor now always "obscured" instead of hidden on full screen slide shows.
-- Bug fix: Reduced the aggressiveness of window placement so that new primary windows will not appear on monitors that are unavailable.
-- Bug fix: Cut, copy, paste text now works between QuickNailer and other application software.
-- Bug fix: Progress Window's Stop button is reenabled after alert box.
-- Bug fix: Inability to use files on some ISO 9660 discs has been corrected.
-- Tested: 32-Bit Addressing Off.
v1.3, 1997 August 22
-- Implemented high speed media catalog file format and read/write support.
-- Implemented HTML code fragment header/footer files in web site generation.
-- Implemented extracting HTML code from file's Finder comments.
-- Implemented Linked Images without generating secondary HTML page in web site generation.
-- Implemented Linked Image tiling on secondary Image Page.
-- Implemented Apply Caption Font in web site generation.
-- Implemented multiple HTML index pages.
-- Implemented multiple contact-sheets.
-- Implemented separate, printable Help file.
-- Implemented thumbnail grid styles.
-- Implemented Slide Show Timed Advance mode toggle with space bar key.
-- Implemented QuickTime movie playback in full-screen slide show.
-- Implemented QuickTime movie duration and audio track information in Info Window.
-- Implemented a thumbnail file not found indicator.
-- Improved quantity pricing.
-- Improved sorting speed significantly.
-- Improved HTML index large size images, uses original images.
-- Improved Preview Via Browser behavior.
-- Improved Tile Window text overlay samples with selectable font and size.
