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- MEDIATHUMB (C) Copyright 1999 Bernard Deveza
- Version 1.5
- 1 June 99
-
- Web site: http://members.aol.com/bdeveza/
- E-mail : bdeveza@aol.com
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- CONTENT
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- 1. Program description
- 2. System Requirements
- 3. Installation or updating a previous version.
- 4. Localization
- 5. License
- A. Technical support
- B. Features list
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- 1. Program description
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- MediaThumb is a media browser and a graphics viewer, file manager for images,
- sounds, video.
- It make thumbnails of your image files and has many features
- to make easy your life:
- image file search, file conversion, image manipulation,
- Batch converter, renamer, keywords, categories, printing utility, drag & drop between applications, catalog of your cdrom images etc.
- MediaThumb supports many image formats available on Windows.
- Mediathumb is multilingual English, French, Italian, Spanish.
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- For a list of features, see at the end of this document.
-
- Full Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows NT compatibility
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- 2. System Requirements
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- To run MediaThumb, you need Windows 95/98 or Windows NT. A minimium
- 100MHz Pentium CPU is recommended.
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- 3. Installation
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- Simply Run the install program and run MediaThumb.exe.
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- If you are updating a previous version of MediaThumb,
- Simply, Run the install program and choose the same directory where
- the previous version was installed.
- The older version will be overwrited by the new version.
-
- Note: If you received MediaThumb on a magazine CD or from some
- software library, please visit the MediaThumb home page at
- http://members.aol.com/bdeveza/,
- to ensure you have the newest version.
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- 4. Localization
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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- This program is "international" and currently supports 4
- languages (could be selected in the Options menu).
- Now available: English, French, Italian, Spanish.
- If you can help us to implement support for other languages,
- please drop us a line - you'll get a free Personal registration!
- and % from sales.
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- 5. License
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- MediaThumb is shareware. This means:
-
- - All copyrights to MediaThumb are exclusively owned by the author -
- Bernard Deveza.
- - Anyone may use this software during a test period of 30 days.
- Following this test period of 30 days, if you wish to continue
- to use MediaThumb, you MUST register.
- - Once registered, the user is granted a non-exclusive license to
- use MediaThumb on one computer
- (i.e. a single CPU) at a time, for any legal purpose. The
- registered MediaThumb software may not be rented or leased, but may
- be permanently transferred, if the person receiving it agrees to
- the terms of this license. If the software is an update, the
- transfer must include the update and all previous versions.
- - The MediaThumb unregistered shareware version may be freely distributed,
- provided the distribution package is not modified. No person or
- company may charge a fee for the distribution of MediaThumb without
- written permission from the copyright holder.
- - MediaThumb IS DISTRIBUTED "AS IS". NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND IS EXPRESSED
- OR IMPLIED. YOU USE THIS SOFTWARE AT YOUR OWN RISK. THE AUTHOR WILL
- NOT BE LIABLE FOR DATA LOSS, DAMAGES, LOSS OF PROFITS OR ANY OTHER
- KIND OF LOSS WHILE USING OR MISUSING THIS SOFTWARE.
- - You may not use, copy, emulate, clone, rent, lease, sell, modify,
- decompile, disassemble, otherwise reverse engineer, or transfer the
- licensed program, or any subset of the licensed program, except as
- provided for in this agreement. Any such unauthorised use shall
- result in immediate and automatic termination of this license and
- may result in criminal and/or civil prosecution. All rights not
- expressly granted here are reserved by Bernard Deveza.
- - Installing and using MediaThumb signifies acceptance of the terms and
- conditions of this license.
- If you do not agree with the terms of this license you must remove
- MediaThumb files from your storage devices and cease to use the product.
-
- A. Technical support
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- Technical support is available by e-mail addressed to Bernard Deveza
- at:
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- bdeveza@aol.com
- I will try to reply to all messages but only registered users can expect
- a quick answer.
-
- Please include the following information when requesting support:
-
- - program version (from "About" dialog)
- - registred name (if you're a registered user)
- - where did you get MediaThumb from (http or ftp site).
- - Windows 95/98/NT version
- - full description of your problem - provide as much information
- as possible to allow duplication of the problem: place of error,
- sequence of your actions, etc.
- - files causing problems may be submitted in one of two ways:
- * by e-mail attachment, but only if less than 1MB in size
- * by URL
- all files must be compressed in .zip format.
-
- Note: before requesting technical support, please ensure that you
- are using the latest version of MediaThumb available from
-
- http://members.aol.com/bdeveza/
-
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- B. Features :
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- The main interface is divided into 5 resizeable panels.
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- -1 Thumbnails panel
- -2 Explorer panel
- -3 Directories list panel
- -4 Image info panel (categories, keywords, description)
- -5 view real size image panel
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- All operations can be made with the mouse.
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- - The thumbnails can be resized dynamically with a slider.
-
- - You can move, copy, delete, rename images.
-
- - Drag & drop between applications : You can work with your preferred image editor by double clicking the
- thumbnail(s) or by dragging the thumbnail(s) directly into your editor.
-
- - Each image can have up to four categories, up to ten keywords and a description.
- With that you can easily organize your images.
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- - Powerful search : You can search images with the following criteria :
- Name, file types, categories, keywords, file size, file date, file time, image height, image width, color depth.
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- - Renaming image(s) : You can rename one or many images at once, very useful when you have a digital camera
- or a scanner and names like "kif000032.jpg, kif000033.jpg, kif000034.jpg".
-
- - Quick' retouch : This powerful tool allows complex image manipulations thru simple clicks.
- For each filter combination the function calculate eight images differently modified. You just have to choose
- your preferred image.
-
- - Batch function :
- In only one operation, you can :
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- - Convert the file type.
- - Change the color depth.
- - Resize by resampling.
- - Apply filters : Luminosity, RGB, Sharpen etc.
- - Apply complex filters with Quick' retouch.
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- - Scan : You can scan a directory, a group of directories, hard drives, cdroms...
-
- - Cataloging Cdroms disks and removable disks.
- This is very useful when you work with Cd-roms because you can always see the thumbnails
- even if the cdrom is not in the unit. With the cdrom's name, you'll see where
- images are stored. Of course, you can assign categories, keywords etc. and make
- searches on these images.
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- - The program allows to manage :
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- Hard disks,
- Removable disks,
- Cdroms,
- Network Disks.
- You can change your configuration as you want.
-
- The program can manage different letters for the same disk.
- No problem if you have three drives one day and ten another day.
- No problem if the same disk is "E\" or "H:\" depending of your configuration.
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- - Print and preview
-
- - Work with the file explorer of Mediathumb to manage files operations. You can move, copy, delete, folders,
- etc.
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- - Thumbnails directories list : For quick access, at the bottom left you have the directories containing images.
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- Images Manipulation
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- - Acquiring : Acquiring images from scanners, digital cameras etc.
- - Capture : You can capture image screen, image window and edit the captured image.
- - Changing the color depth,
- - Resampling images.
- - Resizing images
- - Add nice borders to images
- - Image fusion, this function allows to merge two images to make a new image.
- - Incrustation.
- - Multiples filters...
-
- - MediaThumb supports many image formats available on Windows :
- '*.bmp;*.dib;*.gif;*.jif;*.jpeg;*.jpg;*.pbm;*.pcx;*.pgm;*.png;*.ppm;*.tif;*.tga;*.wmf;*.emf;*.ico;*.pcd';
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- - Multimedia :
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- The multimedia viewer allows to work with sounds, midi files, audio cds and videos.
- You have a useful playlist allowing to play a list of files.
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