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- GRAPHICS GEMS READ ME
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- Welcome to our CD-ROM. Along with this text file you will find a GEMPDF
- directory (folder) and operating system specific directories (folders). The
- GEMPDF directory (folder) contains the Acrobat data files. The individual
- directories (folders) for DOS, Macintosh, Windows and UNIX contain
- Acrobat Readers and a directory (folder) labeled APPENDIX. The APPENDIX
- directory (folder) contains source listings for that particular operating
- system.
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- INSTALLATION FOR DOS AND WINDOWS:
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- You will need to move the appropriate Reader to your system and
- decompress it in order to use it. The Macintosh, DOS and Windows Readers
- are self extracting.
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- NOTE: DO NOT INSTALL BOTH DOS AND WINDOWS READERS. If you have Microsoft
- Windows installed on your system, DO NOT install the DOS Reader (DOSREAD.EXE).
- You MUST install the Windows version of Reader
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- 1.) Open the directory called "PC"
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- FOR DOS:
- 2.) Open the directory "DOS"
- 3.) Execute the the application "DOSREAD.EXE".
- 4.) Follow the prompts.
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- FOR WINDOWS:
- 2.) open the folder "WINDOWS".
- 3.) Double-click on the application "ACROREAD.EXE".
- 4.) Follow the prompts
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- How to use this CD-ROM:
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- NOTE: If you need to learn about how to use the Acrobat Reader in general,
- please see the "Reader Help" and the "Reader Tour" Acrobat files included on
- this CD-ROM.
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- 1.) The basics: Acrobat presents a set of pull down menus and, below this,
- a tool bar. The pull downs -- File, Edit, View, Tools and Window -- are
- fairly self evident and, in any case, the more useful functions are
- replicated in the tool bar.
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- 2.) Open MAIN.PDF from the GEMPDF directory on your CD-ROM drive.
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- 3.) Getting started: You are initially presented with a "main" PDF file.
- This is the launching point to all of the books included in the CD. We present
- the user with a "book mark" view initially e.g.the screen is divided between a
- subject -- initially an image of the cover of the CD-ROM -- and, to the left,
- a list of book marks. Click on "Starting Point". This takes you to a main
- menu of books. Click on the book that you desire to browse.
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- 4.) Using a book: You can change the presentation of the book in a number of
- ways. In the tool bar from the left, if the first (page) icon is clicked the
- book mark will no longer be displayed. Clicking the next icon to the right
- will redisplay the book marks. The size of the page on the display can be
- altered by either the "zoom" icons (+ & -) or the "page" icons to the right.
- When zoomed, one can move the page around by using the "hand" icon or using
- the scroll bars. The recorder buttons (arrows) allow the user to navigate
- from page to page, start or end and fast forward or fast rewind.
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- 5.) Finding things: There are several ways to find things other than simply
- looking through the document page by page. Using the book mark you can select
- CONTENTS and find hyperlinks to each content item. Similarly, the INDEX is
- also hyperlinked to each indexed item. Finally, any keyword item that you may
- need to search on is available through the "binocular" icon in the tool bar
- or "find" selection found in the "tool" menu. For subsequent finds use the
- "find again" function in the "tool" menu.
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- Also, for each book in the book mark window, there is a "contributors" section
- which contains the names and locations of the contributing authors for the
- volume.
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- NOTE: Each book is a single search area -- e.g. you CANNOT search across
- books.
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- 6.) Printing: Acrobat allows you to print a single page or a range of pages
- by simply selecting the "print" option from the "file" menu.
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- 7.) Source code: Each operating system directory (folder) contains not only a
- READER directory (folder) but also an APPENDIX directory (folder). Within
- this directory (folder) are a series of ASCII files containing source code
- used by the text, one or more readme files and errata files for errors in
- the source. Also here is a table of contents file relating the source files
- to the text pages where they are referenced.
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- Please note that file names were truncated for the DOS and UNIX APPENDIX
- listings as the original file names were too long.
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- For more information:
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- For the most recent updates to code or errata please go to the anonymous FTP
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- princeton.edu (128.112.128.1)
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- and look at:
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- pub/Graphics/GraphicsGems/GemsIV
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- Acrobat is the trademark of Adobe Systems, Inc.
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