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March 26 2002
Version 2.00 g
Virtual Mechanics Inc.
Thank you for using IMS Web Dwarf Version 2 Virtual Mechanics free
WYSIWYG HTML and SVG Web Editor.
Welcome
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NO SPY-WEAR, NO AD-WEAR, NO JUNK-WEAR
Virtual Mechanics software applications do not display paid
advertising, are non-intrusive and non-reporting. They do not gather,
report, or in any other way intrude into a users computer or Internet
use other than as intended by the user for the design and publishing of
Web Pages and graphic content. See our Privacy Policy at
www.VirtualMechanics.com/company/privacy.html for more information.
PLEASE HELP US HELP YOU
Virtual Mechanics primary source of revenue is through the sale of its
software products. If you like this product please consider upgrading
to our professional products. Not only will you get Multi-Page
projects, anti-aliased graphics and titles, special effects, Tables,
Meta-Tags, Splines and much more, you will also help to keep this
product free for new users to try and of course you will get our full
appreciation.
Legal Notices
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NOTICE OF PROPIETARY PROPERTY
'IMS Web Dwarf', 'IMS Studio' and 'Interactive Multimedia System' are
all trademarks of Virtual Mechanics Inc. All manuals, documentation and
other support materials regardless of medium are the proprietary
property of Virtual Mechanics or its suppliers. Any proprietary
property of other companies whose products have been licensed to
Virtual Mechanics and are used in these programs, such as fonts, sound
effects, music, animation, clip art, spelling, dictionaries or
otherwise, remain the property of those companies. You agree not to
remove or deface any such notifications of proprietary restrictions
from any Virtual Mechanics products contained herein.
It is strictly forbidden to reverse engineer, attempt to reverse
engineer, decompile, or otherwise make use of any part of the core code
that constitutes IMS Studio or the code contained in any of its
applications including but not limited to 'IMS Web Dwarf'. Any such
activity will result in criminal prosecution and the pursuit of
damages.
COPYRIGHT.
IMS Web Dwarf is protected by copyright laws and international
copyright treaties, as well as other intellectual property laws and
treaties. All title and copyrights in and to the Software Product
including but not limited to any images, animations, tutorials, help
files and other text, JavaScript files and "applets" that are
incorporated into this Software Product, are owned by Virtual Mechanics
Inc. or its suppliers.
LICENSE
IMS Web Dwarf is a licensed Freeware product and may be freely
distributed and used provided full credit is given to Virtual Mechanics
and no fee is charged for its use. All rights to IMS Web Dwarf remains
the property of Virtual Mechanics.
Virtual Mechanics retains all rights to change or modify the terms of
use and distribution for its products at any time.
WARRANTY
This free software is provided "As Is" without warranty of any kind,
either express or implied including but not limited to, implied
warranties of merchantability of fitness for a particular purpose, non-
infringement and/or accuracy of information or that the software is in
any way error free since like all other major software products it
probably is not.
Installation and use.
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PLEASE BACKUP YOUR EXISTING PROJECTS.
If you are upgrading from Version 1 we strongly recommend that you
backup your Version 1 projects to a safe place (floppy, zip etc.) so
that they cannot be accidentally overwritten by a Version 2 file of the
same name.
Once you have backed up your existing projects you can install Version
2 into the same directory as your Version 1 program. You should then be
able to use your Version 1 projects in your new Version 2 program with
a minimum of changes.
Please note that although IMS Web Dwarf Version 2 can read your Version
1 IMS Projects, Version 1 cannot read projects that have been created
by Version 2. Please ensure that you maintain backups of your V1
projects in case you decide to revert to Version 1 for any reason.
TUTORIALS and HELP
Although this program is distributed free, it includes many advanced
features, functions and capabilities that you will not find even in
expensive commercial products. To optimize its use we have included
extensive documentation and hands-on tutorials. Both the Tutorials and
Help documentation can be accessed from the Help menu. You will also
find links to additional support aids including FAQ's and our on-line
newsgroup where you can post any problems or questions related to the
use this product.
VERSION 2 FEATURES
Version 2 has undergone significant changes, additions and updates from
Version 1. Some of these new features include:
1. Fully integrated support for SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) the new
standard from the W3C for vector graphics on the Internet. Simply
select HTML or SVG in the publisher to export your project in your
preferred format.
2. Enhanced vector editing including support for rounded rectangles,
pie's and arcs. Switch to Object Edit mode to interactively select,
move, rotate, stretch and skew most Objects including loaded bitmap
images.
3. Enhanced page layout including a Snap-to grid, Snap-to tabs, rulers
and pixel precision alignment.
4. Enhanced rendering with support for linear shading, cylindrical
shading, radial shading and transparency.
5. Rendering of Titles into the background to produce shaded bitmaps.
6. Enhanced Text editor with numerous updates including an Automatic
Link editor to quickly convert and edit your links.
7. A new Link Editor with settings for a title, underline, color,
target window and other options. Links will automatically be converted
to either an HTML or XML format when you publish HTML or SVG. Use the
wild card .* extension to let the program automatically assign links
with either a .html or .svg file type.
8. A new Quick Editor with rapid numerical display and updating of an
Object's transformations, geometry and shading.
9. Enhanced FTP Publisher including added support for NN6 and IE6 HTML
browsers and the Adobe SVG viewer.
10. New tutorials. Select the Help menu, How-To tutorials to learn how
to use this software.
To view the full list of Web Dwarf features visit
http://www.VirtualMechanics.com/dwarf or read the included tutorials
and documentation.
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REPORT PROBLEMS
Please report any problems you find in the program, tutorials or
documentation to bugs@VirtualMechanics.com
ENJOY
-Web Dwarf development team.
-Virtual Mechanics Inc.