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Welcome to PowerAlbum Multimedia 2.00
-------------------------------------
This readme file contains important information about this
PowerAlbum release. It includes a list of new features,
restrictions, and solutions to problems you may encounter.
Table of Contents
-----------------
1. Installation.
2. New and Improved Features.
3. Information for Calendar Creator Users.
4. Picture Export Restrictions.
5. Video Import and Playing Problems.
6. STB Pegasus VLB Board Problem.
7. Changing CD-ROM Drive ID Letter.
1. Installation
---------------
If you plan on adding Video files to your albums, you must first
run Setup on the enclosed CD-ROM. This will install the
Microsoft Video for Windows drivers onto your system so that
they may be used by PowerAlbum.
2. New and Improved Features
----------------------------
This release contains a substantial amount of new functionality.
a. NOTEBOOK STYLES.
There are 3 notebook styles form which to choose from. See
the "Options|Styles" menu item for a selection.
b. MULTIMEDIA SUPPORT.
You can now add Sound (WAV) and Video (AVI) files to your
albums. If you plan on adding and/or playing video files,
you must first install the Microsoft Video Drivers by
running Setup on the enclosed CD-ROM. You must have a
sound card properly installed on your system in order to
play sound files.
c. PLAY SOUNDS AND DISPLAY PICTURES SIMULTANEOUSLY.
Select the "Picture|Assign sounds to pictures" or
"Picture|Assign pictures to sounds" menu items to
associate pictures and sounds.
d. REMOVABLE MEDIA SUPPORT.
When adding pictures from removable media (e.g. CD-ROMs,
floppy disks, etc.), you can tell PowerAlbum the name of
the disk and it will prompt you for that disk later.
e. AUTOMATIC ALBUM SCANNING.
Have PowerAlbum flip through it's pages and display the
entire album contents for you without touching a single
key. You can select the types of albums items to display
(i.e. pictures, videos) and for the number of seconds.
f. EXPORT PICTURES TO NEW FORMATS.
You can now convert your pictures to other file formats.
See the Picture Export Restrictions section for a list of
restrictions.
g. IMPROVED THUMBNAILS.
Select Options|Preferences to change the number of colors
used. PowerAlbum will support video cards which can
display 16, 256, 65536, and 16 million colors. If you
have existing albums, you must rebuild the thumbnails in
order to get the improved thumbnails.
h. CREATE CATEGORIES AUTOMATICALLY.
You can now have PowerAlbum scan your hard disk and create
category names for you. The category names can be based
on the type of file or the path it originated from.
i. COPY PATHS TO CLIPBOARD.
You can now copy a picture or sound file path (or the
picture) to the clipboard as text for pasting into another
application's edit control.
3. Information for Calendar Creator Users
-----------------------------------------
PowerAlbum is fully compatible with versions 2.00 and above of
Calendar Creator for Windows. However, in order to access many
of the new features. You must run PowerAlbum as a standalone
product. This is because the menu bar is not available while
being run from within Calendar Creator.
For example, if you wish to use a new notebook style, load your
album from the standalone version of PowerAlbum, change the
style and then save the album. The next time you access it
from Calendar Creator, your album will be displayed in the new
notebook style.
PowerAlbum 2.0 can also work with albums from Calendar Creator
for Windows, version 1.00. However, to use these albums, it
is necessary to open a New album in PowerAlbum 2.0 and Merge
the old album into the new one.
4. Picture Export Restrictions
-------------------------------
The following limitations apply to Exporting Pictures in
PowerAlbum:
1) No vector image can be exported to a JPG.
2) No JPG can be exported to a vector.
3) No PCD can be exported to another raster format.
We anticipate that these restrictions will not exist in a
future release.
5. Video Import and Playing Problems
-------------------------------------
If you cannot add or play video files, try the following:
a) Make sure you have installed the Video For Windows Runtime
drivers as described in the Installation section above.
b) If you are recieving error message #675, select File|Run
from the Program Manager and enter "REGEDIT". Once REGEDIT
is running, select File|Merge Registration File... menu item
and select the VFW.REG file in your program directory.
Exit Windows, and try again.
6. STB Pegasus VLB Board Problem
----------------------------------
If you experience problems changing Preferences and immediately
changing the Style to Large thumbnails, try the following:
a) Change Preferences.
b) Change Style to either Small or Medium thumbnails. (This is
an interim step.)
c) Change Style to Large thumbnails.
7. Changing CD-ROM Drive Letter
--------------------------------
If your hardware configuration changes, resulting in a new ID
letter for your CD-ROM drive, you will have to reinstall the
multimedia albums. Use the Custom Install option on the
CD-ROM provided with this software. Select the Multimedia File
option and reslect the albums to be installed. This will reset
the CD-ROM drive ID letter; the first time you open PowerAlbum,
the albums will be processed and changed to point to the new
drive letter to access your multimedia picture files.