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- Slide Librarian
- Version 1.0
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- First release - Release date: December 1997
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- Author: Nick J Hunter, SpanSoft
- 8 Juniper Hill, Glenrothes, KY7 5TH, Scotland
- Tel: National: (01592) 743110 International: +44 1592 743110 voice/fax
- E-mail: SpanSoft@compuserve.com
- Web: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/SpanSoft
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- Please refer to the VENDINFO.DIZ file for complete details
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- SpanSoft is a member of the Association of Shareware Professionals (ASP)
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- The product
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- Slide Librarian lets you catalogue your slide (transparency) library on your
- PC. This makes it easy to search for specific slides by title or keywords
- and to create slide shows and talks.
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- You can also use the system to keep track of where your slides are. Some may
- be out on loan for example. SpanSoft also produce a professional version of
- this program aimed at organisations who run a lending library. Please
- contact us for details of Slide Librarian Pro or visit our Web site.
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- As well as recording details of each slide (such as title, keywords, image
- quality, etc), Slide Librarian will also store an image of each slide. So if
- you have the equipment to scan or digitise your slides you can actually see
- the pictures on your PC. As well as "slide-sized" thumbnails of each slide
- you can store full-screen images of each slide. Just double-clicking on a
- thumbnail brings up the full-sized image.
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- Slide Librarian will print out slide labels to your specification. Each
- slide is given a number and category prefix so that once your slides are
- labelled, it's easy to pick out the ones you need for a slide show. You can
- include any of the slide details on the label as well as a "stamp" such as
- your name, copyright, etc.
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- Slide shows or talks are constructed on a "light table". You use keywords or
- simple SQL statements to find the slides you want from the database and then
- drop the slides onto the light table. You can now move the slides about into
- the order you want and then save that particular slide show in case you need
- it again.
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- Slide Librarian will print out a Running Order, Picking List or Contact
- Sheet for the slide show currently on the light table.
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- The Running Order print shows the slides in the order they appear on the
- light table. This is the order in which the slides should be loaded into the
- projector. The Picking List print shows the same slides sorted by slide
- number so that you can retrieve the slides from your library easily. The
- Contact Sheet is a printed copy of the light table.
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- Any slides which have been booked out (ie. they are not currently available)
- are indicated on the light table.
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- You can get a quick summary of a slide's data just be right-clicking on the
- image on the light table and of course the full-sized image by double-
- clicking.
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- If you do not have the equipment to scan your slides, Slide Librarian will
- work just as well without slide images. In place of the pictures you will
- see the slide title.
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- If you already have a database catalogue of slides on your PC, Slide
- Librarian can import your existing data via a delimited text file. Slide
- images can be added easily at a future date.
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- New features, enhancements and bug fixes
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- (see the on-line help for a complete list)
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- Version 1.0 - December 1997
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- First release.
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- System requirements
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- IBM compatible PC - Pentium 100
- SVGA monitor set at 800x600 pixels and 16bit (HiColor, 64,000 colours)
- 16Mb RAM
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- Hard disk space:
- 5.5Mb - program and ancillary files
- plus either
- 13kb per slide (thumbnail images only)
- or
- up to 741kb per slide (includes full-sized images with 24bit colour)
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- Image capture system (scanner, video snapshot, etc) (recommended)
- Printer (recommended)
- Windows 95 (required)
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- Registration
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- This product is SHAREWARE. The version on this release disk is a fully
- functional evaluation copy which the user may install and use free of charge
- for 30 days. After that time, if the user wishes to continue use, a fixed
- registration fee of 25 Pounds Sterling is payable to us.
- Registration reminder screens are used in the program, increasing in
- severity when 30 days have passed.
- Upon registration the user will receive a registration key with which to
- register the software and the latest version on disk.
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- Vendor information
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- Installing for vendor evaluation:
- Run SETUP.EXE from disk 1 to install to your PC.
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- Terms:
- See the VENDINFO.DIZ file for full details of our distribution policy and
- Distribution Licence. You are only permitted to distribute this product if
- you comply with the terms of the Distribution Licence.
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- All program and documentation files and the information contained in them
- are copyright (c) SpanSoft 1997. The Borland Database Engine and
- associated files are copyright (c) Borland International 1994-96.
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- LIMITED DISTRIBUTION LICENCE
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- You may distribute this version of Slide Librarian, completely
- unaltered and including all the files, without further
- permission on condition that:
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- 1) You identify it as shareware.
- 2) You leave all intellectual property (copyright) notices in place.
- 3) SpanSoft does not request that you stop distribution.
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- To distribute in modified form, you must consult the appropriate
- VENDINFO.DIZ data record, which is hereby incorporated by reference. Any
- distribution satisfying all the distribution requirements expressed in
- that data record is hereby authorised.
-
- Permission to distribute the Slide Librarian package is not
- transferable, assignable, saleable, or franchisable. Each person or
- organisation wishing to distribute the package must independently satisfy
- the terms of this limited distribution licence.
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- SpanSoft may revoke any permissions granted here, by notifying you in
- writing. All rights not expressly granted here are reserved by SpanSoft.
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- If you have any problems, questions or suggestions please do not hesitate to
- contact us.
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