Congratulations on choosing PicaLoader - a fully automated, multithreaded, link-following, picture-retrieving robot that will retrieve all the pictures you want from any part of the Internet. The program can also manage the downloaded pictures with a built-in thumbnail browser.
With the advanced HTML analyzing engine, you can download any picture from the Internet, even pictures linked by JavaScript, VBScript and JScript. Pictures can be filtered by size, definition, color depth, etc., with the high-powered, pre-reading picture filter engine.
PicaLoader can auto-reject duplicate pictures, resume broken downloads, save every picture's name, size, creation time, download time, referrer URL, and the picture's notes for you. You can use the built-in picture filter profile or define your own.
With the built-in pagination Thumbnail Browser, you can quickly and efficiently find, organize and preview pictures. You can sort, search, copy, or move the pictures you have downloaded, and even set a password for your project, which may contain up to 700,000 pictures.
The user interface is designed for quick access to tools, and there are many customization features. Screen layout, the order of pictures, and many options can be customized to suit your preferences. PicaLoader is a fast and easy-to-use product that everyone from novices to professionals can use and enjoy.
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The Main has several panes to help you manage and access your project and pictures.Some of the user interface features include:
Thumbnails and a picture preview to quickly recognize pictures.
Tabbed pages that open to different panes and give you quick access to project and profiles, to monitor downloading, and to report the download result.
A toolbar and a statusbar.
Options
You can change Browse window's option using the Main toolbar shortcut buttons or by clicking on Options in the View menu.
To show or hide different areas
1. Click View.
2. Select one of the following:
Toolbar
Status Bar
Project Window
Preview Window
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The Preview pane shows a preview of the currently selected picture.
To control the display of the Preview pane:
Click View | Preview Pane.
To open the preview picture in the Viewer:
Double-click the preview picture.
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In Project pane, you can manage your tasks in the project and profiles.
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In the Main pane, you can manage your pictures, monitor downloading, and manage the profiles.
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Create a new Project. PicaLoader will create a root item in the Tasks Tab, the item' is "New Project", and the Main Pane will auto-switch to the Option Tab, where you can fill in the options as the project's default options.
ToolBar
ShortCut Ctrl+N
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Open an existing project and display pictures in Picture tab. Current project will be closed.
ToolBar
ShortCut Ctrl+O
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Save the active project's options.
ToolBar
ShortCut Ctrl+S
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Re-generate all the picture thumbnails and save thumbnails into the thumbnail database file (Thumbnail.dat)
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Remove deleted pictures' thumbnail from the thumbnail database file.
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Remove deleted pictures' information from the project database file (PicaInfo.dat).So you can remove the deleted pictures.
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Set a password for the active project. PicaLoader will ask you for the password next time you open this project.
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Exit PicaLoader.If you are downloading pictures, you must Pause or Abort the download first.
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Create a new task. The Main pane will auto-switch to the Option tab. You can enter the starting address and other download options immediately.
ToolBar
See also:
Option Tab
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Remove selected task.
ToolBar
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Change a task's name.
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Set all the task's status pointers to Enabled. When you Start download, all the enabled tasks will be downloaded.
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Set all tasks' status pointers to Disabled.
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Start to download all enabled tasks.
ToolBar
See also:
Monitor Tab
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Pause current download and save queued links. The next time you Start download, PicaLoader will ask you whether to resume this paused download.
ToolBar
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Abort current download.
ToolBar
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Create a new profile. The Main pane will auto-switch to the Profile Form. You can fill the form immediately.
See also:
Profile Form
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Remove selected profile. It is not advisable to remove the build-in profiles.
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Change selected profile's name.
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Search for pictures matching specific criteria.
See also:
Search Pictures Dialog Box
Searching for Pictures
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Delete selected pictures. The deleted pictures will not be download again when you re-start downloading the project, if you want retrieve deleted pictures, you should select Optimize project data in Project Menu.
See also:
Optimize project data
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Copy selected picture to another folder.
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Move selected picture to another folder.
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Set the selected picutre's status to Checked.
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Set all selected task's pictures' status to unchecked. If you select the Root in the task tree, you set all pictures in the project.
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Set all selected task's pictures' status to 'Checked'. If you select the Root in task tree, you set all pictures in the project.
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Invert all selected task's pictures' status. If you select Root in task tree, you set all pictures in the project.
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Delete all 'Checked' pictures in the project.
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Copy all 'Checked' pictures in the project to another folder.
ToolBar
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Move all 'Checked' pictures in the project to another folder.
ToolBar
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Set selected picture as Windows desktop wallpaper in centered mode - place the picture in the center of the screen. If the picture is larger than the screen, it is shrunk to fit.
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Set selected picture as Windows desktop wallpaper in tiled mode - display the picture in full dimensions in a tiled pattern that fills the entire desktop.
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Remove the Windows desktop wallpaper.
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Show or hide Toolbar.
See also:
Toolbar
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Show or hide Status Bar.
See also:
Status Bar
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Show or hide Project pane.
See also:
Project pane
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Show or hide Preview pane.
See also:
Preview pane
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Shows picture items using thumbnail icon. The Picture tab and Search Tab change respectively.
See also:
Picture tab
Search tab
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Display information about each item. The Picture tab and Search Tab change respectively.
See also:
Picture tab
Search tab
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Sort by picture's original filename.
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Sort by picture's file size.
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Sort by picture's format.
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Sort by picture's create time.
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Sort by picture's download time.
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Sort by picture's Notes.
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Sort by picture's Referrer URL.
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Sort by picture's width.
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Sort by picture's height.
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Sort by picture's width*height(Area).
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Sort by picture's definition.
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Brings up the Options dialog box for customizing PicaLoader.
See also:
Option Dialog
How to Customize PicaLoader Using Options
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Display the table of contents for this online Help.
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Searchs in this online Help.
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Displays the Index to this online Help.
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Display help for clicked on buttons, menus and windows.
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Register PicaLoader.
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Purchase PicaLoader on-line.
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Visit PicaLoader's Homepage.
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Display program information, version number and copyright.
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PicaLoader's View window displays your pictures one at a time in full resolution while still giving access to most of the functionality available in Browse mode. The View window, also known as the Viewer, opens a sequence of pictures to be viewed one at a time. Other features include:
To open a picture in the Viewer, do one of the following:
Select a picture in the Browser and press Enter.
Double-click a picture.
Click right button,in pop menu,select View.
To return to Browse mode, do one of the following:
Press Esc or Enter.
Double-click on the picture.
Click right button,in pop menu,select Close.
Navigation
If there are more than one picture in the browser you can use the following means of navigation.
Page Up: Displays the previous picture.
Page Down: Displays the next picture.
Space: Set current picture as checked.
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General:
Proxy Server: PicaLoader can work via HTTP proxy servers. If your Internet/Intranet system requires that you connect to a proxy server, check "Connect to the internet using a proxy server" and specify your proxy parameters. If you do not know your proxy settings, contact your system administrator or service provider. Most proxies do not require authentication. However, if your proxy server requires an account and password, enter the username and password. PicaLoader will automatically handle proxy authentication when it runs your project.
Agent Identity: Browsers, webspiders, and other Internet client programs can broadcast their identity when making requests for files. Although it's considered good netiquette to broadcast your true identity, sometimes a remote server will look at the agent identity to determine what type of data to send it or whether to send it data at all. For example, some websites will not send frame links to older Microsoft Internet Explorer browsers, which were not capable of reading frame links. Although PicaLoader defaults to broadcasting its true identity, you may wish to change its identity if a site appears to be unresponsive to PicaLoader, yet works with your browser.
Anonymous broadcasts no identity at all.
PicaLoader 1.0 broadcasts the string "PicaLoader <current version number>.
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows.98) option will cause PicaLoader to identify itself as Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 running under Windows 98;
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows.NT 5.0) option will cause PicaLoader to identify itself as Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 running under Windows 2000;
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98) option will cause PicaLoader to identify itself as Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 running under Windows 98;
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0) option will cause PicaLoader to identify itself as Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 running under Windows 2000.
Download:
Connection:
Max Connections: Specifies the number of simultaneously retrieved files. By default the number is set to 5, but if you are working via a dedicated line, xDSL, Cable Modem or other fast way, you can increase this number.
Timeout: Number of seconds to wait before a timeout occurs.
Pause between connections: Pause between successive connections to server, in seconds. Set this to several seconds to protect webservers from overloading.
Max retries: Maximum number of retries if a connection or download fails. If download is not finished, PicaLoader will resume download next time it connects.
Don't use IE cookie: Don't use Internet Explorer cookie when connecting to server.
Disk space:
Disk free space limit Stop download if free disk space drops below this limit in kilobytes.
Max pictures each time download:
Max pictures each time download limit the number of pictures downloaded each time. If limit is reached, download will pause. You can resume download next time.
Browser&Viewer:
Browser:
Thumbnails per page: Specifies the number of thumbnails display in Pictures tab and Search tab.
Auto select new picture: When a new picture is downloaded, auto select it in Pictures tab.
Store thumbnails: Store thumbnails into Thumbnail.dat, This greatly enhances the speed at which PicaLoader gathers thumbnails.
Viewer:
Fit picture: Fit the picture into Viewer.
Full size: Show full picture in Viewer, if picture larger than Viewer, you can Panning/Scrolling it.
Slide Show:
Sequence:
Forward: Show pictures in forward sequence.
Reverse: Show pictures in reverse sequence.
Repeat: When sequence end repeat from start.
Time(Automatic)Slide Show:
Delay(Second): Delay between each pictures.
Project:
New Project Default Type:
Standard Project: When create new project, set the project as standard project, which save downloaded pictures into 38 folders, up to 700,000 pictures per project.
Lite Project: When create new project, set the project as "Lite" project, which save downloaded pictures into one folder, up to 20,000 pictures per project.
Show Tips of the day at StartUp.
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The toolbar provides buttons that access some of the frequently used commands in the menus. To activate a command, click its toolbar button. If a command is unavailable, its button appears grayed-out.
To control the display of the Toolbar:
Click View | Toolbar.
Toolbar Shortcut Buttons
Create a new project.
Open an existing project.
Save the active project.
Start download enabled sites.
Pause current download.
Abort current download.
Create a new task.
Remove selected task and all pictures of this task.
Searches for pictures matching specific criteria,and show search result in Search pane.
Brings up the Options dialog box for customizing PicaLoader.
Delete selected picture.
Copy selected picture to another folder.
Move selected picture to another folder.
Show current picture's properties.
Shows picture items using thumbnail icons.
Display detail information about each item.
Display program information, version number and copyright.
Display help for clicked on buttons, menus and windows.
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You can copy or move one or more pictures to another folder in the Picture tab or Search tab.
If you move pictures in one tab, they will disappear in the other tab at the same time.
To Copy to/Move to one picture from the Browser:
1. Select the picture.
2. Do one of the following:
Click Picture | Copy to/Move to.
Right-click the picture and select Copy to/Move to.
3. Specify the target folder.
To Copy to/Move to an picture from the Viewer:
Right click the picture and select Copy to/Move to.
To Copy to/Move to more pictures from the Browser:
1. Do one of the following:
If you want to copy/move a few pictures, check the pictures you want to copy/move, even they are not on same pages.
If you want to copy/move much pictures, check the pictures you not want to copy/move, then select Invert checked in Picture menu.
2. Select Copy checked to/Move checked to in Picture menu.
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There are many application options that you can configure.
To access PicaLoader options, do one of the following:
Click the Options shortcut button.
click View | Options.
In the Options dialog box, set the options.Click OK.
Note:
There are many option settings and throughout this help file instructions are provided on how to use particular options.
The Options dialog box also contains help messages. You can press the Help button on the Options dialog box to see it.
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PicaLoader is not freeware. You are entitled to use it for evaluation purposes without charge for a period of 30 days. If you want to use PicaLoader after the 30-day evaluation period you must pay a registration fee. For information about prices and ordering details (credit cards, voice, fax, and snail mail) please go to
www.VOWSoft.com/purchase.htm
By purchasing PicaLoader you are not only paying for what you have, but also investing in the future. Once you become a registered user, all upgrades of this software will be available to you free of charge. Registration also entitles you to receive lifelong free technical support via e-mail.
Note! Before you register, make sure you have the latest version of the software. The latest version is always can be downloaded from the following web page:
