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- PhotoFinish 2.x Release Information / Read Me File
-
- Thank you for purchasing PhotoFinish, a ZSoft image processing program
- for the Windows environment.
-
- PhotoFinish 2.0 and higher has many additional features to make
- it even easier to use. These features include calibrating your
- devices, an AutoEnhance command to let the program automatically
- enhance your pictures, and an AutoScan command to let the program
- automatically scan and enhance images. In addition, there are
- several new tools and commands to enhance your images. Some
- commands that were on the Edit menu in PhotoFinish version 1.0
- are now on a new menu named Image. A new feature, the Viewer
- command on the File menu, lets you easily view and manage your
- picture files.
-
- For a complete list of the new features in PhotoFinish,
- please see the Update topic in the PhotoFinish Help program.
-
- The rest of this file includes additional information and corrections
- that became available after the PhotoFinish documentation was printed.
-
- For a list of supported scanners, see Supported Scanners in this
- file.
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- If you let the PhotoFinish Setup program copy all files to your
- PhotoFinish directory, remember to add the PhotoFinish directory
- to your path. Most systems set their path in the AUTOEXEC.BAT
- file. Other systems use a separate batch file to set their path.
- Use a text editor, such as Notepad, to add PhotoFinish to your path.
- For example, your path statement might look like this:
- PATH C:\;C:\DOS;C:\Photo
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- If you are using a disk compression program, such as Stacker,
- do not set your virtual memory path to a compressed volume. If
- you do so, you may not be able to open PhotoFinish. If this
- happens, you must edit the [ZSoftVM] section of your WIN.INI
- file and set your virtual memory path to an unstacked volume.
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- If you plan to install a scanner for use with PhotoFinish on a
- system that has one or more ZSoft scanner drivers already installed,
- you must delete any reference to the old ZSoft scanner drivers
- from your CONFIG.SYS or AUTOEXEC.BAT file before installing PhotoFinish.
-
- Use a text editor to make the changes to your files. If you are
- not sure which line of your CONFIG.SYS or AUTOEXEC.BAT file to
- modify, refer to the documentation from your older ZSoft program
- for information about your specific scanner and its CONFIG.SYS
- or AUTOEXEC.BAT entry.
-
- PhotoFinish's Setup program can automatically add the updated
- ZSoft scanner drivers to your CONFIG.SYS file or AUTOEXEC.BAT.
- Your older ZSoft applications will work with the new drivers.
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- The Display Calibrate Monitor command is unavailable for 16
- color VGA display drivers.
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- Thumbnail preview pictures are saved to disk with an
- extension that begins with an exclamation point. For
- example, a thumbnail preview of a .PCX file has the extension
- of .!px. If you cannot save a file to the disk or directory
- where the picture is, the thumbnail file is saved to a
- PhotoFinish subdirectory named THUMNAIL.
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- Supported Scanners
-
- Following is a list of scanners supported by PhotoFinish.
-
- Canon IX-12 Used with the Canon Interface Board, Chinon N-207
- (3000) Parallel Interface board, Chinon N-207 (3000) Serial
- Interface, Complete PC Flatbed Scanner, Complete PC FullPage
- Scanner, Complete PC Hand Scanner/400, Complete PC Half Page
- Scanner, Complete PC Half Page Gray Scale Scanner, Complete
- PC Half Page Scanner/400, DAK Soul Snatcher Video Grabber VG-100,
- Datacopy 230 with the 111 Interface Card, Datacopy 730GS
- with the 111 Interface Card, DFI Handy Scanner 2000, DFI Handy
- Scanner 3000, DFI Handy Scanner 3000 Plus, DFI Handy Scanner
- CHS 4000, Epson ES-300C/GT-6000, Epson GT-4000, Epson
- ES-600C/GT-6500, Epson ES-800C/GT-8000, Fujitsu 3191, Genius
- GS-4500, Genius GS-C105, Howtek Personal Color Scanner, Howtek
- ScanMaster, HP ScanJet, HP ScanJet Plus, HP ScanJet IIc, IBM 3117,
- Intel SatisFAXtion Hand Scanner, Jovian SuperVIA video capture,
- Logitech ScanMan, Logitech ScanMan Plus, Logitech ScanMan 256
- and Logitech ScanMan 32, Logitech ScanMan for Microchannel, Marstek
- 105 Hand Scanner, Marstek 128 Hand Scanner, Marstek 128 Hand
- Scanner with old interface card, Marstek 800 Hand Scanner,
- Marstek M6000CG, Microtek 200A, 200C Used with the PCX Board,
- Microtek 300A, 300C, 300G, 300Z Used with the PCX Board, Microtek
- 400C, 400G Used with the PCX Board, Microtek 600G, 600Z Used
- with the PCX Board, Microtek 800G, 800Z Used with the PCX Board,
- Microtek 1850 Used with the PCX Board, Mitsubishi SC-7500, Mouse
- Systems Pagebrush Color, Niscan/GS, Niscan Spectra, Panasonic FX-RS307,
- Panasonic FX-RS505, Panasonic FX-RS506, Ricoh IS11 with the ISI-8
- Interface Board, Ricoh RS312 with the ISI-8 Interface Board,
- Ricoh RS312 with the ISI-8 Interface Board (256 Gray mode), Ricoh
- RS320 with the ISI-8 Interface Board, Sharp JX-300, Sharp JX-320,
- Sharp JX-450 and Sharp JX-450 for Microchannel
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- ZSoft has included a batch file that will remove PhotoFinish
- from your hard disk in the event you need to uninstall the program.
- This file is called UNINSTAL.BAT. This file deletes the PhotoFinish
- directory and any subdirectories attached to the PhotoFinish
- directory. This file also deletes any PhotoFinish program files
- (DLL's) that were copied to your WINDOWS directory.
-
- To remove PhotoFinish from your hard disk:
- 1 Change to your PhotoFinish directory.
- 2 Type UNINSTAL followed by your WINDOWS directory.
- For example, if your WINDOWS directory is located on C,type:
- UNINSTAL C:\WINDOWS
- 3 At the Warning, choose Yes to remove PhotoFinish from your hard
- disk, choose No to leave PhotoFinish on your hard disk.
- 4 You must manually remove the PhotoFinish program icons and group
- icons by using the File Delete command on the Program Manager menu
- bar. For more information, see your Windows documentation.
- 5 You must manually remove the PATH = statement from your AUTOEXEC.BAT
- file if you choose to copy several program files (DLL's) to your
- PhotoFinish directory during Setup. For more information, see your
- DOS documentation.
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