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- PICALBUM (VERSION 1.00)
- Copyright (c) 1995 Ziff Davis Publishing Company
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- PICALBUM by Michael J Mefford First Published April 9, 1996
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- About PICALBUM
- PicAlbum finds all the bitmaps on your hard disk,
- displays them, and lets you organize them in picture albums. The
- bitmaps are not actually moved; the albums use references to the
- bitmaps on your disk. The bitmap file types PicAlbum supports are
- .BMP, .DIB, .PCX, .GIF, TIFF, and Targa. PicAlbum is a 16-bit Windows
- application that runs compatibly under Windows 95.
-
- Usage
- To install PicAlbum, copy all its program files to a directory
- on your hard disk, then create an icon for PicAlbum in the folder of
- your choice.
-
- To create an album, click on the leftmost button above the Albums list.
- A dialog box will prompt you for the name. Next, select which direc-
- tories to search for bitmaps by clicking on the leftmost button above
- the Directories list box. This will bring up the Bitmap Directories
- dialog box.
-
- When you have finished building your Directories to Scan list and have
- checked the bitmap types you want to include, click the OK button to
- return to the main window. The directories you selected will appear in
- the Directories list box in the lower-left quadrant. To begin scanning,
- click the right-arrow button above the Directories list box. When
- scanning is complete, all the bitmaps in the selected directories of
- the types you specified will appear in the Directory Bitmaps list box
- in the lower-right quadrant.
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- You can review the bitmaps by scrolling down the list. A thumbnail of
- the highlighted bitmap file will appear to the right of the list box.
- To get a better look, double-click on the thumbnail. When you see a
- bitmap that you want to place in an album, highlight the album, then
- highlight the bitmap(s) and click the up arrow above the Directory
- Bitmaps list box. You can also use drag-and-drop.
-
- Support Help for PC Magazine's free utilities can be obtained elec-
- tronically in the Utilities section of ZD Net's Tips forum
- (GO ZNT:TIPS). The authors of current utilities generally visit this
- forum daily. You may find an answer to your question simply by reading
- the messages posted in the forum. If the author is not available and
- the forum sysops can't answer your question, the Utilities column
- editor, who also checks this forum each day, will contact the author
- for you.
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- Michael J. Mefford is a contributing editor of PC Magazine.
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