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WELCOME TO PORTFOLIO 5.0!

Portfolio 5.0 lets individuals, workgroups or enterprises manage
digital assets in visual catalogs with its advanced client/server
capabilities.

Extensis Portfolio has a wide variety of features, including:
* Client/Server
* Scriptability
* New presentation features
* New views
* Tools for getting information from other databases
* Internet support
* Improved file format support
* And much more!

Portfolio 5.0 Requires:

Macintosh:
* System 8.1 through MacOS 9.0
  - MacOS 8.6 or higher recommended
* Apple Power Macintosh or PowerPC compatibles
* A minimum of 6MB of application RAM
* 20MB of free hard disk space
* QuickTime 4.1.1 or higher strongly recommended
  - This is available on the Extensis CD
* Thousands of colors strongly recommended
* Open Transport 1.1 or higher (If you will be connecting
  to catalogs being served by Portfolio Server software)

Windows:
* Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, or Windows 2000
* Pentium
  - Pentium 133MHz or faster recommended
* 32MB of system RAM
* 20MB of free hard disk space
* If you are using Windows 95, Internet Explorer 4.0
  or above is required.
* For some of the example scripts included with Portfolio 5.0 to
  function properly, Internet Explorer 5.0 or above is required.
* QuickTime 4.1.1 or higher strongly recommended
  - This is available on the Extensis CD
* Thousands of colors strongly recommended
* TCP/IP Services (If you will be connecting to catalogs
  being served by Portfolio Server software)


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About Us

The Extensis Products Group of creativepro.com, Inc.
develops, publishes, markets and supports productivity
software for creative professionals. From design through
output, Extensis products and services make the process of
creating, editing, assembling and managing digital content
for print and electronic publishing more productive and efficient.
Extensis award-winning productivity software for Microsoft Windows,
Macintosh OS and the Internet is distributed worldwide.

We offer fully functioning demos of all our products at our
web site; please visit us soon at www.extensis.com and download our
productivity enhancing software.

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To reach us for technical support or general questions
please use one of the following methods:

Ph: 503-274-7030
Fax: [phone]
Internet: [e-mail]
Web:  www.extensis.com
Our website includes a detailed, up-to-date
FAQ/troubleshooting page for Portfolio.  If you have
troubleshooting or functionality questions, please visit
www.extensis.com or contact Extensis technical support.

Mail:
Extensis Products Group
1800 SW First Ave.
Suite 500
Portland, OR  97201

Extensis Europe:
Zonnebaan 34
3606 CB Maarssen
The Netherlands
Phone #[phone]
Fax   #[phone]
Internet: [e-mail]

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What's Installed:

Macintosh:
  Extensis Portfolio 5.0 directory will contain:
  - Portfolio
  - ReadMe
  - Register Portfolio 5.0
  - Portfolio Help (folder containing Online Help files)
  - Filters (folder containing translators)
  - Scripts (folder containing AppleScripts demonstrating
       common scripting functions)

Windows:
  Program Files directory will contain:
     Extensis\Portfolio 5.0 directory
     - EToolbox.dll
     - Portfolio.exe
     - Portfolio.tlb
     - Portfolio5.tlb
     - Register Portfolio 5.0.exe
     - Portfolio 5.0 ReadMe.txt
     - Portfolio Help (folder containing online help files)
     - Filters (folder containing translators)
     - Scripts (folder containing executables demonstrating
       common scripting functions)

Additional support files for both platforms are also
available on the Extensis CD.

Please register using one of the built-in electronic
registration methods. If you do not have a printer or
access to the Internet, you may fill out the registration
card in the back of the manual.

About the Demo
If you have not purchased a serial number for Portfolio,
you can run it as a full-functioning demo for 30 days.
After this period expires, Portfolio will convert into a
Browser version.  This version only allows read-only
operations, so you will not be able to create catalogs or
add items to catalogs. Additionally, the Browser only
operates in a single-user setting, so you will be locked
out of any networked catalog that another user is
accessing.  If you do access a networked catalog, all other
users will be locked out of that catalog until you close the
catalog.


Using the UnInstall utility (Windows only):
In order to remove Portfolio you will need to run the
Add/Remove Programs option from the Control Panel.


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Software Technical Notes:

**Translators for some of the file types not currently supported
will be offered for free download as they become available.
Registering your copy of Portfolio 5.0 will assure that you
will be notified when these translators are available.

*Powerpoint - The current powerpoint translator is unable to extract
text information from the files for use in document text indexing.
Therefore text within Powerpoint files cannot be searched at this time.
*On Windows, when the option to create disk previews is checked,
if the folder to which the images are to be saved is on a volume
that has been locked or a volume that has been removed, the images
are not saved. You will not receive a message indicating that the disk images
were not created.
*Some Tif images with alpha channels may not preview correctly
on the Windows platform.
*Text Block fields (such as the Description field) are indexed
one word at a time; phrase searches will always fail on Windows.
When Portfolio 4.0 string fields (like Description or large custom
string fields) are converted to Text Block fields they will still be
indexed in the old fashion if they were indexed in the first place:
phrases entered into old or new records will still be found by searches.
* QuickTime is used on both Mac and Windows to
translate a number of raster image and multimedia formats.
As a result, we strongly recommend you install QuickTime
4.1.1. The installers for both platforms are available on the
Extensis CD.
* Portfolio 5.0 Macintosh will conflict with Kaleidoscope
2.0. The only workaround at the present time is to disable
Kaleidoscope.
* On the Mac, Portfolio uses Internet Config to determine
how to handle various URL types that are entered into URL
fields. Internet Config is installed as part of your OS.
If Internet Config is not installed or is configured
incorrectly, URL links in Portfolio may not work or may
produce unexpected results.


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Manual Addenda:
Categories can only be created while in Administrator mode.  Path as Categories
option is only available in Admin mode.

*Creating categories during a background cataloging operation behaves
differently between platforms. With a catalog open in
Administrative mode, Background Cataloging
automations have the following behavior:
**On Windows, silent Background Cataloging automations do not add the path
as Categories in Administrative mode, while on the Mac they do.
**Non-silent Background Cataloging automations on Windows will add categories
for only the first directory that contains files. Files in lower directories
in the hierarchy are not applied to any category when they are added. This continues each time the Background Cataloging automation finds new files in
the Watch folder, and adds new records. By contrast, the Mac applies any records
added via Background Cataloging to their proper categories (as long as the catalog
remains in Administrative mode and the Cataloging Options remain the same).
*Categories can only be created in Administrator mode. Items can be applied to existing categories in any access mode other than
Reader mode. This applies to both platforms.

If you are using Windows Background cataloging and wish to categorize your
records, some confusion can be avoided by doing the following:
**Initially add the directory you wish to set as the Background Cataloging
Watch folder in Administrator mode in one of the following ways: (A) Set the
Path as Categories in the to Selected Folders and add the directory via regular cataloging methods; or
(B) Drag the folder you wish to set as the Background cataloging Watch folder into
the Categories palette. Either of these methods will set up the directory structure
as it appears on disk inside the categories palette. You can then set your Background
Cataloging automation to the desired directory.
**After setting up the directory structure, do one of the following to prevent
categories from being created by cataloging: (A) Background Cataloging
automations use current Cataloging Options settings, reset the Path as
Categories in the General tab of the Cataloging Options to None; or (B) Since
categories are not created at all during silent background cataloging on Windows,
set the Background Cataloging automation to run in silent mode; or (C) Since
categories can only be created in Administrator mode, switch access modes to
Publisher or below before running Background Cataloging automations.
**Finally, you will need to make sure to assign any additional items added via
Background Cataloging after completing initial step to their proper categories. This can be done in any access mode greater than Reader mode.
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