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- ACDSEE VERSION 1.25
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- Congratulations on obtaining ACDSee, the fastest,
- easiest-to-use Windows image viewer available!
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- FEATURES OVERVIEW
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- * effective image browsing shell interface
- * supports most JPEG, Photo-CD, GIF, BMP, PCX, TGA and non-LZW TIFF files
- * rapid JPEG decompression
- * view images as they are decompressed
- * full-colour image previews
- * easy, quick image panning, even during decompression
- * supports 256, 32768, 65536 and 16 million colour screen modes
- * automatically launch other applications through file associations
- by clicking on document files
- * supports viewing & editing 4DOS descriptions
- * drag-and-drop support for single and multiple files
- * automatic or manual slideshow with optional read-ahead decompression
- * always-on-top and full-screen viewing window options
- * shrink image to fit window or screen
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- DISTRIBUTION
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- This shareware software may be freely distributed, provided that:
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- (1) Such distribution includes only the original archive supplied by
- ACD Systems, Ltd. You may not alter, delete or add any files in
- the distribution archive.
- (2) The distrubution does not include a registration number.
- In particular, you may not distrubute a registered version of ACDSee.
- (3) No money is charged to the person receiving the software, beyond
- reasonable cost of packaging and other overhead.
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- INSTALLATION
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~
- See install.txt file.
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- RUNNING
- ~~~~~~~
- You can start ACDSee from the Program Manager by double-clicking on its icon.
- You will immediately be presented with the Image Browser dialog where you can
- browse your directories for images to look at.
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- If you have made a File Manager association between image files and ACDSee,
- you can also start ACDSee from the File Manager by just double clicking on
- an image file.
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- You can supply one or more image files as the command-line arguments to
- ACDSee. You can even use wildcards. e.g., acdsee.exe *.jpg would start
- ACDSee and have it slideshow all the files in the current directory.
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- In addition, you may specify a startup directory on the command line.
- The directory name must end in a "\", or be one of ".", "..", r "<drive>:".
- ACDSee will start the Image Browser in the specified directory.
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- See the file ACDSEE.HLP for more details.
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