Welcome to VisiMap Lite, version 2.5 ------------------------------------- Contents of this README file: What is VisiMap Lite? About the License Agreement How to Register VisiMap Lite Notes for Registered Users of InfoMap Lite Installation of VisiMap Lite Quick Start Uninstalling VisiMap Lite About the Retail Version of VisiMap Your Comments and Suggestions What is VisiMap Lite? -------------------- VisiMap Lite is an easy-to-use creativity-enhancement and productivity-boosting tool (for Windows 3.1x, Windows 95 and Windows NT) for visual organisation, brainstorming, problem-solving, document outlining, planning, personal organisation, and many other day-to-day tasks. VisiMap Lite allows you to quickly and efficiently enter, visualise, restructure, and print, present, and communicate information using a simple, yet powerful, graphical metaphor that we call a 'visual map'. Its key features include: - Interactive map construction and maintenance, providing you with immediate feedback. - An integrated QuickEditor makes it easy for you to attach (and edit) 'notes' to branches of your maps in a convenient split-screen mode. - Automatic map layout and drawing, leaving you to concentrate on content and structure. - A text outline view also lets you work in a 1-dimensional text outline view, and switch easily between this and the visual map view. - Branch icons: place graphical icons on branches of a map to give your maps added visual impact. - Versatile viewing and outlining functions allow you to view a map in different ways and with different levels of detail. - Style sheets and a colour palette allow you to control and change the use of colour and fonts. - Auto-levelling outline styles: a new outline style scheme allows you to define branch formats for each level in a map, and have VisiMap Lite apply them automatically. - Sophisticated printing facilities, both graphical and textual, give you comprehensive control on how your maps look on paper. - Full drag-and-drop reordering: you can fully restructure your map using drag-and-drop techniques. - Various flexible productivity and usability enhancers: Speed-entry, colour palette, subtree editing, auto-colouring, multiple page layouts, global find/replace, ... and much more! About the License Agreement --------------------------- VisiMap Lite is not free software. It is distributed as Shareware. This means you have the opportunity to freely evaluate VisiMap Lite at your leisure for a period not exceeding fourteen days. If, after that time, you find VisiMap Lite useful, you are obligated to purchase a license for its continued use. If you do not find VisiMap Lite useful, or you do not register it within fourteen days, you must discontinue its use. The full text of the VisiMap Lite license agreement, together with our Warranty Disclaimer can be found in the accompanying file LICENCE.TXT. How to register VisiMap Lite ---------------------------- A license for the use of VisiMap Lite can be obtained by filling out the Registration Application Form found in the file ORDERFRM.WRI. Registration entitles you to a diskette of the latest version of VisiMap Lite together with your personal registration details (which will eliminate the registration reminder screens and remove the time limitation), technical support via telefax or EMail, and free access (via our web site) to any later 2.xx versions that may be published from time to time. Please refer to the ORDERFRM.WRI file (copied to your system during installation of VisiMap Lite) for details on registration costs and procedures. Notes for Registered Users of InfoMap Lite ------------------------------------------ If you are a registered user of CoCo Systems' InfoMap Lite, you can upgrade to VisiMap Lite 2.0 for a discounted registration fee. VisiMap Lite is backwards-compatible with InfoMap Lite, which means that it will work with all the maps and style sheets you created with InfoMap Lite. To upgrade to VisiMap Lite, please contact the same supplier from whom you registered your copy of InfoMap Lite for pricing and ordering details. If you registered your copy of InfoMap directly with CoCo Systems, you can order your upgrade on-line on the internet at http://www.coco.co.uk. Installation of VisiMap Lite ---------------------------- If you have not already done so, you can easily install VisiMap Lite by following the instructions here: (1) If you have the VisiMap distribution CD: Insert the distribution CD into your CD-ROM drive. If you have Windows 95 (or later) or Windows NT 4.0 (or later) the setup program should start automatically. If it does not, or you have Windows 3.x, run the program SETUP.EXE found in the root directory of your CD. Once the Setup program has loaded choose VisiMap Lite for installation, follow the on-screen instructions. (2) If you have the VisiMap Lite floppy-disk distribution set: Insert disk 1 of the distribution set into a floppy disk drive and run the program SETUP.EXE. Once the Setup program has loaded, follow the on-screen instructions. (3) If you have the VisiMap Lite self-installing distribution file: Simply run the distribution file and follow the on-screen instructions. If you are running the Windows 3.1/Windows NT 3.51 Program Manager or the Windows 95/Windows NT 4.0 explorer, Setup will give you the option of creating a program manager group or program folder. You will then be able to start VisiMap Lite by double-clicking the VisiMap Lite icon. If you choose not to create a program manager group or program folder, run VisiMap Lite by opening the Windows 3.1/NT 3.51 File Manager or Windows 95/NT 4.0 Explorer) and then double-click on VMLITE.EXE in the VisiMap Lite directory. Quick Start ----------- Once you are running VisiMap Lite, please refer to VisiMap Lite's comprehensive on-line help for full details on its use. To access the VisiMap Lite on-line help simply press the F1 key. You might like to print the help topics found under 'Introduction' and 'How to ...'. When VisiMap Lite first loads, you will see one or more example map which give a brief overview of VisiMap Lite's main features. Uninstalling VisiMap Lite ------------------------- If, having installed VisiMap Lite, you wish for any reason to remove it from your hard disk you can use the UnInstall icon in the VisiMap Lite program group (if you elect not to create a program group of folder, SETUP will provide alternative instructions at the end of the installation process). About the Retail Version of VisiMap ----------------------------------- VisiMap Lite is the personal edition of our retail product, VisiMap. To find out about VisiMap, please refer to the on-line help topic 'About the Retail Version of VisiMap'. Your Comments and Suggestions ----------------------------- Your comments and suggestions for future development of VisiMap Lite are welcome. Please forward them to CoCo Systems Ltd. at the following address: CoCo Systems Ltd. 2 Mortens Wood Amersham Bucks. HP7 9EQ United Kingdom Telephone: 07000-COCOTN (262686) (from the UK) +44 7000-COCOTN (262686) (from elsewhere) Facsimile: 07000-COCOFN (262636) (from the UK) +44 7000-COCOFN (262636) (from elsewhere) EMail: tech-support@coco.co.uk URL: http://www.coco.co.uk ----------------- August 1997, CoCo Systems Ltd.