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- WhereIsIt? version 3.26
- Copyright (c) 1997-2002 Robert Galle
- All Rights Reserved
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- MAIN DESCRIPTION MODULE
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- The main description module (DescPlugin.dll) is the heart of WhereIsIt's
- description importing capabilities. It includes a number of description
- plugins, including the following ones:
-
- * File_id.diz descriptions (imports File_id.diz files as descriptions for
- parent folders or archive files)
- * Files.bbs description files (imports the contents of Files.bbs files as
- descriptions for files and folders located in the same folder, or in
- other folders if full path to item is provided)
- * Index.txt description files (imports the contents of Index.txt,
- 00index.txt,Catalog.txt,DirInfo,... and similar files as descriptions
- for files and folders located in the same folder, or in other folders
- if full path to item is provided. List of file names checked is user-
- configurable)
- * Descript.ion descriptions (imports the 4DOS/NDOS description file for
- files and folders located in the same folder)
- * 32-bit executable files (imports appended version information as
- description for 32-bit executable files, such as .exe, .dll, .vxd...
- * Audio files (imports details about WAV or MP3 audio files as description,
- including ID3 tags if present)
- * Windows Media Format Files (imports details from the Windows Media files,
- such as ASF, WMA, or WMV files)
- * HTML files (imports some details from HTML file to be used as description,
- for example HTML document's title)
- * Archive descriptions (Imports comments embedded in compressed archive
- files, if they support this feature - Zip, Arj, Rar,...)
- * TTF fonts (extracts font name, style, and copyright notes from true type
- font files)
- * MS Office documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint - extracts document summary
- information such as title, subject, author, keywords, comment,...)
- * Visio documents (extracts document summary information such as title,
- subject, author, keywords, comment,...)
- * Word Perfect documents, version 7.0 or never (extracts document summary
- information such as title, subject, author, keywords, comment,...)
- * Quattro Pro documents, version 6.0 or never (extracts document summary
- information such as title, subject, author, keywords, comment,...)
- * Adobe Acrobat Documents (extracts document creation details such as title,
- author, etc. and optionally the bookmark tree (index), if available)
- * Vorbis Ogg Audio Files (extracts embedded comments like author and title,
- and audio stream details, including sampling rate and average bitrate)
- * Adobe Illustrator Files (extracts document summary information such as
- title, author, creation date, and originating software).
- * Autocad DWG File Properties (extracts DWG file properties, if available
- in .DWG file. Note that only files created with AutoCAD 2000 (R15)
- or newer support file properties information).
-
- Also included is a set of formatting plugins. Formatting plugins take the
- result of description plugins, description text, and convert or filter
- it in some way.
-
- * OEM-to-ANSI charset converter (converts text in OEM (DOS) character set
- to its appropriate ANSI representation. Only used with localized text)
- * DOS graphics characters filter (converts DOS graphics characters into
- more readable form under Windows. Should only be used if descriptions
- are in plain ANSI text - turn off with localized descriptions as they
- may use localized characters in place where graphics used to be)
- * Limited number of lines in description (limits the number of lines
- in imported text to first "n" lines)
- * Text optimizing filter (filters out whitespace characters and empty
- lines through user-definable options, cutting down the size of text
- and improving readability)
-
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- INSTALLING THE PLUGINS
- ======================
- Since the DescPlugin.dll module is a part of WhereIsIt program it is
- installed together with the application itself. Just as any other
- plugin it is expected be located in subfolder "Plugins" in WhereIsIt's
- main folder; for example, "C:\Program Files\WhereIsIt\Plugins". No
- other installation is necessary, except maybe personalizing some settings
- for individual plugins that offer configurable parameters.
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- The DescAPI and DescPlugin.dll module are an integral part of the WhereIsIt
- software package and as such a copyrighted material. Using or distributing
- these librarires for any purpose other than running them as a part of
- WhereIsIt is prohibited and in violation of copyright laws.
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