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- Animated Screen version 5.2 for Windows 95/98/2000/NT
- (C) 1997-2000 PY Software, Inc.
- sales@pysoft.com
- http://www.pysoft.com
-
- Description:
- ------------
- Animated Screen lets you create Windows screen savers, stand-alone
- presentations and animated .GIF files that you can give to your friends
- and customers or publish at your Web site. You can also use Animated
- Screen to start your own screen saver business, selling custom shareware
- screen savers, with your company listed as the author.
- There are no distribution fees and, as an Animated Screen owner,
- you can distribute the animations that you create in unlimited
- quantities, royalty-free.
-
- Animated Screen lets you combine an unlimited number of words,
- sounds (in .WAV, .RMI and .MID formats,) and pictures (in .BMP, .GIF
- or .JPG formats.) When working with words, Animated Screen lets
- you determine the font, text color, and background color;
- you can also add special effects like shadows and extrusion.
- When working with sounds, you can use pre-recorded WAV or MIDI
- sound files, or you can use your PC and microphone to record your
- own soundtracks. When working with pictures, you can place multiple
- images on each screen, and determine how the images come and go,
- using both fixed and random placement as well as special effects
- such as bouncing images off the screen's borders, dropping
- images like raindrops, or creating fascinating star-and- meteor effects.
-
- You can distribute your Animated Screen presentations as Windows .SCR
- screen saver files, as stand-alone .EXE files, or as self-extracting
- files that will automatically install your presentations into your
- users' Windows System folders and set them up as standard screen savers.
- Animated Screen compresses your files so that they can be sent
- easily over the Internet.
-
- Animated screen is fastest tool for creating animated .GIF banners.
-
- Key features include:
- Smart frame and palette optimization
- One palette generation from multiple images
- Support for a wide range of image file formats (BMP, GIF and JPEG)
- Drag-and-drop image insertion and composition
- Visual composition
- View multiple frames simultaneously
- Global attribute change commands
- Complete palette control
- Layer image merging and export support
- Banner text creation
- Palette editing support
- Infinite looping control
-
- Changes in the new 5.2 version:
- Now, when you add an image, it can be converted to the number of
- BMP frames or keeps own format like GIF, JPEG or AVI. This can reduce
- the screen saver size because usually, animation, which contains
- images in original format has smaller size than animation with
- uncompressed BMP frames.
- Added a feature, which allows to set own icon for screen saver
- file or for the screen saver distributive. Also "Comments", "Company
- Name" and "Legal Trademarks" in the "File Properties" window can
- be changed.
- A "Size Consultant" feature has been added. It analyzes animation file
- and shows a list of recommendations how to decrease size of screen saver.
-
- Fixed bugs:
- JPEG images always have 256 colors.
-
- System Requirements:
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- Pentium(R) based IBM PC compatible computer (or higher);
- 64MB RAM;
- 20MB free disk space;
- Microsoft Windows 95/98/2000/NT 4.0;
- A mouse;
- A color monitor with a 65536 colors card;
- A sound card is recommended;
- A recording hardware (a microphone) is recommended.
-
- Protection:
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- Animated Screen is distributed as Shareware. This is not Freeware or
- Public Domain. You may use the shareware version for 30 days.
- If after 30 days you would like to continue using it, then You
- should purchase a license. After you pay, you receive Registration
- Name and Registration key from the author to tell Animated Screen that
- you have paid the shareware fee.
-
- Paying:
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- When you purchase an Animated Screen home license, you can sell
- or give away the screen savers that you create, but they will list
- PY Software as the author in the program's "settings" box.
-
- When you purchase the Animated Screen commercial license,
- you can enter your company into the program's "settings" box,
- and create shareware screen savers with shareware reminders,
- registration names and registration keys that allow users to register
- your screen savers with your company. Site license covers a single
- organization for an area of up to one hundred miles (160 km) in radius.
-
- For creating animated .GIF or .AVI files, it will be enough
- to purchase limited license for $29 US.
-
- Paying for Animated Screen is fairly simple.
- Postal, e-mail and fax paying:
- Open the Register program, that accompanies Animated Screen, by starting
- the file REGISTER.EXE. Enter your name, your email address, and the
- license you desire to purchase. Save or Copy or Print the data from
- the Register program and send the data and payment to Kagi Shareware.
-
- Email: shareware@kagi.com
- FAX: +1 510 652 6589
- Postal address:
- Kagi Shareware
- 1442-A Walnut Street #392-PZ
- Berkeley, California, 94709-1405
- USA
-
- Telephone Orders:
- Kagi takes telephone orders 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
- Kagi phone number is:
- +1 (510) 658-5244
- The system provides answers to common questions and if you wish to place an order
- it will transfer your telephone call to an answering service.
-
- Online registration via Internet:
- Online registration is available at secure order form:
- http://www.pysoft.com/registration_fr.html
-
- For further information open the REGISTER.HLP file.
-
- The fee for registered version of Animated Screen is:
- single license for creating animated .GIF files only $29.00;
-
- single home license $49.00;
- single home license with educational discount $29.00; *
- site home license $490.00; **
- world-wide home license $990.00; ***
-
- single commercial license $99.00;
- single commercial license with educational discount $49.00; *
- site commercial license $790.00; **
- world-wide commercial license $1900.00; ***
-
- * You can purchase a license with educational discount if you are a student,
- faculty member or staff member of an educational institution (K-12, junior
- college, college or university).
- ** Site license covers a single organization for an area of up to one
- hundred miles (160 km) in radius.
- *** World-wide license covers everyone in a single organization.
-
- Installation:
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- Run ASCRSTP.EXE program and follow the instructions.
-
- ***************************************************************************
- The program does not place any of parts in the Windows system directories
- and does not modified Windows libraries.
- ***************************************************************************
-
- Starting:
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- Start ANIMSCR.EXE from Windows environment (by double click in
- Windows Explorer for example).
-
- Uninstallation:
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- 1. Click the Start button
- 2. Click Settings
- 3. Click Control Panel
- 4. Double-click Add/Remove Programs
- 5. Select Animated Screen and click the Add/Remove... button
- 6. Click the Yes button to confirm deletion
-
- or manually
- delete all files in the directory created for Animated Screen
- and delete the directory too.
- Delete shortcut of Animated Screen from your Startup group (folder).
- Run REGEDIT.EXE program and delete key
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\PySoft\Animated_Screen
- from the registry.
-
- Distribution terms:
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- Animated Screen may be distributed freely in its original unmodified and
- unregistered form. The distribution have to include all files of its
- original distribution.
-
- ASCRSTP.EXE
- README.TXT
-
- If you like to bundle Animated Screen with other programs, goods, services,
- etc. you are selling in a registered form please feel free to contact us
- at: sales@pysoft.com to figure out the conditions.
-
- If you would like to distribute Animated Screen or other PY Software products,
- please contact sales@pysoft.com
-
- Disclaimer of warranty:
- -----------------------
- This software is sold "as is" and without warranties whether expressed or
- implied. Because of the various software and hardware environments into
- which this program may be put, no warranty of fitness for a particular
- purpose is offered.
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