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- Welcome to PowerAlbum Multimedia 2.00
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- This readme file contains important information about this
- PowerAlbum release. It includes a list of new features,
- restrictions, and solutions to problems you may encounter.
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- Table of Contents
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- 1. Installation.
- 2. New and Improved Features.
- 3. Information for Calendar Creator Users.
- 4. Picture Export Restrictions.
- 5. Video Import and Playing Problems.
- 6. STB Pegasus VLB Board Problem.
- 7. Changing CD-ROM Drive ID Letter.
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- 1. Installation
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- If you plan on adding Video files to your albums, you must first
- run Setup on the enclosed CD-ROM. This will install the
- Microsoft Video for Windows drivers onto your system so that
- they may be used by PowerAlbum.
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- 2. New and Improved Features
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- This release contains a substantial amount of new functionality.
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- a. NOTEBOOK STYLES.
- There are 3 notebook styles form which to choose from. See
- the "Options|Styles" menu item for a selection.
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- b. MULTIMEDIA SUPPORT.
- You can now add Sound (WAV) and Video (AVI) files to your
- albums. If you plan on adding and/or playing video files,
- you must first install the Microsoft Video Drivers by
- running Setup on the enclosed CD-ROM. You must have a
- sound card properly installed on your system in order to
- play sound files.
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- c. PLAY SOUNDS AND DISPLAY PICTURES SIMULTANEOUSLY.
- Select the "Picture|Assign sounds to pictures" or
- "Picture|Assign pictures to sounds" menu items to
- associate pictures and sounds.
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- d. REMOVABLE MEDIA SUPPORT.
- When adding pictures from removable media (e.g. CD-ROMs,
- floppy disks, etc.), you can tell PowerAlbum the name of
- the disk and it will prompt you for that disk later.
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- e. AUTOMATIC ALBUM SCANNING.
- Have PowerAlbum flip through it's pages and display the
- entire album contents for you without touching a single
- key. You can select the types of albums items to display
- (i.e. pictures, videos) and for the number of seconds.
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- f. EXPORT PICTURES TO NEW FORMATS.
- You can now convert your pictures to other file formats.
- See the Picture Export Restrictions section for a list of
- restrictions.
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- g. IMPROVED THUMBNAILS.
- Select Options|Preferences to change the number of colors
- used. PowerAlbum will support video cards which can
- display 16, 256, 65536, and 16 million colors. If you
- have existing albums, you must rebuild the thumbnails in
- order to get the improved thumbnails.
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- h. CREATE CATEGORIES AUTOMATICALLY.
- You can now have PowerAlbum scan your hard disk and create
- category names for you. The category names can be based
- on the type of file or the path it originated from.
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- i. COPY PATHS TO CLIPBOARD.
- You can now copy a picture or sound file path (or the
- picture) to the clipboard as text for pasting into another
- application's edit control.
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- 3. Information for Calendar Creator Users
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- PowerAlbum is fully compatible with versions 2.00 and above of
- Calendar Creator for Windows. However, in order to access many
- of the new features. You must run PowerAlbum as a standalone
- product. This is because the menu bar is not available while
- being run from within Calendar Creator.
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- For example, if you wish to use a new notebook style, load your
- album from the standalone version of PowerAlbum, change the
- style and then save the album. The next time you access it
- from Calendar Creator, your album will be displayed in the new
- notebook style.
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- PowerAlbum 2.0 can also work with albums from Calendar Creator
- for Windows, version 1.00. However, to use these albums, it
- is necessary to open a New album in PowerAlbum 2.0 and Merge
- the old album into the new one.
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- 4. Picture Export Restrictions
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- The following limitations apply to Exporting Pictures in
- PowerAlbum:
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- 1) No vector image can be exported to a JPG.
- 2) No JPG can be exported to a vector.
- 3) No PCD can be exported to another raster format.
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- We anticipate that these restrictions will not exist in a
- future release.
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- 5. Video Import and Playing Problems
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- If you cannot add or play video files, try the following:
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- a) Make sure you have installed the Video For Windows Runtime
- drivers as described in the Installation section above.
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- b) If you are recieving error message #675, select File|Run
- from the Program Manager and enter "REGEDIT". Once REGEDIT
- is running, select File|Merge Registration File... menu item
- and select the VFW.REG file in your program directory.
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- Exit Windows, and try again.
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- 6. STB Pegasus VLB Board Problem
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- If you experience problems changing Preferences and immediately
- changing the Style to Large thumbnails, try the following:
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- a) Change Preferences.
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- b) Change Style to either Small or Medium thumbnails. (This is
- an interim step.)
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- c) Change Style to Large thumbnails.
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- 7. Changing CD-ROM Drive Letter
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- If your hardware configuration changes, resulting in a new ID
- letter for your CD-ROM drive, you will have to reinstall the
- multimedia albums. Use the Custom Install option on the
- CD-ROM provided with this software. Select the Multimedia File
- option and reslect the albums to be installed. This will reset
- the CD-ROM drive ID letter; the first time you open PowerAlbum,
- the albums will be processed and changed to point to the new
- drive letter to access your multimedia picture files.
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