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- Kudo« Image Browser(tm) for Windows Read only version
- (c) 1993 Imspace Systems Corporation.
- All Rights Reserved.
- San Diego, CA
- 619-272-2600
- November 1, 1993
-
-
- ******************************************************************************
- Thank you for sing Kudo Image Browser for Windows. You have chosen the
- best image and multimedia management tool available for Windows. We appreciate
- any comments or suggestions you might have that would help us provide the best
- product and service possible.
- ******************************************************************************
- Registration:
-
- This documents all the changes that the Kudo setup makes when registering
- Kudo Image Browser:
-
- - The installer searches for the Microsoft OLE 2.0 DLLs on your machine. Three
- things can happen as a result of this search:
-
- 1) If they are found (as the result of someone having installed
- another OLE 2.0 compliant application), and they are of the same or
- a newer version as the copies that Kudo is shipped with, then nothing
- is done.
-
- 2) If they are found but are of an older version than the
- copies Kudo is shipped with, then the Kudo installer will copy its
- newer versions over the existing ones, wherever it might find them
- on your machine.
-
- 3) If they are not found, Kudo places new copies of all the OLE 2.0
- DLLs into your windows\system directory.
-
- The OLE 2.0 DLLs are functionally an extension to the Windows 3.1 operating
- system, and so are effectively not a part of Kudo at all. This means that,
- once installed, they are available for all applications that support OLE 2.0,
- and need not be installed more than once. Other OLE 2.0 compliant applications
- will generally observe this convention, and will not duplicate these files in
- their installation if they are already present. For this reason, if you
- un-install Kudo, it may be risky to remove these files unless you are certain
- there are not other applications that rely on them. The OLE 2.0 DLLs are:
-
- ole2.dll
- ole2conv.dll
- ole2disp.dll
- ole2nls.dll
- ole2prox.dll
- compobj.dll
- storage.dll
-
- - An additional DLL, BWCC.DLL is installed following an identical procedure
- to the OLE DLLs. This file fills a support function and is shipped with
- many applications.
-
- - The Kudo installer determines if it needs to modify AUTOEXEC.BAT. You will
- be prompted before it modifies the file. If you agree to modification, the
- line:
- SHARE.EXE /L:500 /F:5100
-
- will be added to AUTOEXEC.BAT. If there is already a line present that loads
- SHARE, then that line will be modified to ensure that the /L and /F options
- are at least as large as the amount that Kudo requires.
-
- - The Kudo setup then registers Kudo as an application with Windows,
- and takes care of registering OLE 2.0 on your machine. Effectively, this
- modifies the registration database, REG.DAT, in your windows directory, and
- indirectly, your WIN.INI file. It is accomplished by running REGEDIT.EXE
- with the files OLE2.REG and KUDO.REG, which are in your CD-Rom Kudo
- directory. This operation can be repeated manually if REG.DAT ever becomes
- corrupted, see tech note file "REGEDIT.TXT".
-
- ********************************************************************************
- Known Registration Problems:
-
- Two situations have been observed to cause problems with the setup:
-
- 1) Installing to a PC that is configured as a diskless workstation can confuse
- the installer as to the whereabouts of your AUTOEXEC.BAT file. In this
- situation, the installer generally cannot access your boot drive. When the
- installer attempts to modify your autoexec file, it will probably come
- up with a path to an AUTOEXEC.BAT that doesn't exist, such as A:\AUTOEXEC.BAT.
- If this happens, you will need to make the modifications yourself. Select
- the option to NOT have the Kudo installer modify your autoexec file, and
- then, after the installation is complete, manually add the line:
- <path>\SHARE.EXE /L:500 /F:5100
- to your AUTOEXEC.BAT file. <path> is the full path to your DOS directory
- (or wherever SHARE.EXE exists). The /L & /F options are suggested minimums.
- If you are already loading SHARE in your autoexec, then you only need to
- ensure that you add the command line options to the SHARE statement. If
- the options are already there, and they are larger, then leave them alone.
- If they are there but are smaller, then use the values suggested here.
- You will need to reboot your computer for this change to take effect.
-
- 2) Installing to a network version of Windows can cause problems if the
- user does not have write privileges to some of the Windows directories.
- The Kudo installer may need to add some DLL's to your current windows\system
- directory. This directory will often be on a networked drive that is read-
- only when you are running a network version of Windows. You will get messages
- to the effect of "Can't write to file ... due to read-only protection...", etc.
- This indicates that you will need to have the network supervisor run the
- installation in supervisor mode to obtain proper write access to the
- necessary directories.
-
- *********************************************************************************
- General notes:
-
- Quark Place Module
- ----------------
- For Quark 3.1.2. and 3.2B Drag & Drop, you must copy the file m_quark.xxt
- (found in the CD-Rom directory where Kudo Image Browser is,
- to your Quark directory for Drag and Drop to work.
-
- Support for Scitex (.CT) files
- ------------------------------
- The Scitex image format is listed as a supported format in the manual and
- online documentation, but is not available at this time.
-
-
- Support for Microsoft AVI files and Apple QuickTime movies
- ----------------------------------------------------------
- By default, Kudo is configured to ignore both video formats that it currently
- supports - Microsoft Audio-Video Interleaved (.AVI) and Apple QuickTime movies
- (.MOV). This is because Kudo requires the AVI and QuickTime drivers to be
- present in order to read the respective file format. Without the drivers
- available, Kudo would generate errors if it encountered an AVI or QuickTime
- file.
-
- For this release, it is assumed that users wishing to catalog these video
- formats will already have the appropriate drivers installed. If you have these
- drivers installed, you can simply uncomment the line that designates the
- appropriate Kudo import filter from KUDO.INI (KUDO.INI is a configuration text
- file appearing in the directory in which you installed Kudo). This is how those
- lines appear in the default KUDO.INI file:
-
- ;;;;AVI - Microsoft Audio-Video Interleaved=filters\MAVI.FLT,AVI
- ;;;;MOV - Apple QuickTime Movie=filters\MMOV.FLT,.MOV
-
- Using Windows notepad or any other text editor, simply remove the semi-colons
- (';') that precede the appropriate line in order to enable Kudo to recognize
- that format. To enable recognition of AVI files for example, uncomment the
- AVI line as follows:
-
- AVI - Microsoft Audio-Video Interleaved=filters\MAVI.FLT,AVI
- ;;;;MOV - Apple QuickTime Movie=filters\MMOV.FLT,.MOV
-
- See "KUDOINI.TXT" for additional information about the KUDO.INI file.
-
- ***************************************************************************************
- Here is a list of the known problems:
-
- - Scrolling of the catalog window continues past the end of the thumbnail display.
-
- - The image quality of the thumbnails may be dependent upon the video board in
- use when cataloging. In particular, catalog quality may be reduced for certain images
- if you are running with less than a 256 color video card.
-
- - RLE compressed bitmaps are not currently supported.
-
- - Selecting a video driver resolution with large fonts, may force text into the
- thumbnail borders.
-
- - The "Info" dialogue does not repaint itself after being minimized.
-
- - Partial covering and uncovering of the "Notes" area of a selected thumbnail,
- will sometimes gray the uncovered portion of the "Notes" area.
-
- - When multiple catalogs are tiled, the status bar does not correctly display the
- number of images found.
-
- - The "Info" dialogue window stays on top even when other applications are overlaying
- Kudo.
-
- - When a user attempts to open a catalog that is in use by another user, the wrong
- message is displayed. The message "File is not a Kudo Catalog. . ." is displayed
- instead of the "Catalog in use. . ." message.
-
- - When double clicking a thumbnail that is associated with a program that no longer
- exists or is not available, the message "WinExec failed error code=2" is displayed
- instead of a more meaningful message.
-