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Welcome to VisiMap Lite, version 2.5
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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?
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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August 1997,
CoCo Systems Ltd.