----------------------------------------------------- CLIPFINDER version 1.01b PowerDRAW! SERIES. "Total productivity enchancement tools." ------------------------------------------------------ GREAT NEWS FOR CORELDRAW 5.0 USERS ! ------------------------------------ CLIPFINDER can search by keyword even in CORELDRAW 5.0 clipart .CMX files ! You can do it *ONLY* with CLIPFINDER becouse CORELDRAW 5.0 didn't support any search by keyword in clipart files. (OOPS!) GREAT NEWS FOR ALL CORELDRAW USERS ! ------------------------------------ CLIPFINDER v1.01b radicaly speed up searching by keyword from its previous version ! ( It's no reason to told how many times his searching ahead from standard CorelDRAW! seraching routines. ) Now You will work much more faster ! Introduction: Since you started using CorelDRAW!, You probably have noticed, that some features are not made very convinient, and some features are not present at all. Usually you wait for the next version of the program to come out, and hope that what you want will come true. Now you'll never have to wait for anything again! Today we introduce you to PowerDRAW! series was developed to enchance the existing features of CorelDRAW!, and to create new ones. All the programs in this series are developed by people that have big expirience in working with the product itself or by users' order. The program called CLIPFINDER, is the first program from the PowerDRAW! series. Description of program CLIPFINDER: As You know every professionaly developed CDR file contains keywords. Keywords always give the clearest explanation of the related image. Search by keyword is much more flexible because You could focus on "what you want" and not think about filenames. This is faster than search in picture reference book because same in meaning pictures could be located in different themes. CorelDRAW!, of course, supports search by keyword, but it has a VERY SAD DISADVANTAGE -- EXTRA LOW SEARCH SPEED. Our testings show: search on a CDROM that contained more than 9000 images took over 30(!) minutes of valuable time. Also you won't even be able to stop the search, not to mention not being able to switch to any other task. It is not very convinient for users, especially if you need to find several pictures fast. CLIPFINDER radically solves that problem. It actually makes search by keyword useful and convinient. When you use CLIPFINDER, search takes only several seconds! This is made possible because CLIPFINDER uses principial diferent technology from CorelDRAW!'s, it once scans all the .CDR files and creates a database of keywords and a database of filenames where they are found. After that, the search is performed in the created database and the ammount of data that needs to be scanned is reduced 300 times. Installation: To enjoy this program you need to have Windows 3.1 or later. Program distributed in ZIP archive. All you need to do, is unpack files (use PKUNZIP or equvivalent aplication) and place it into any directory on your hard disk. After that you should run CLIP.EXE from Windows. First CLIPFINDER shows you the introduction picture, and offers you to start the installation. To speed up the search, as said before, CLIPFINDER creates databases. You need to have enough disk space. Data bases created from .CDR files from 2 CDROMS that come with CorelDRAW! 4.0 take up more than 3.5MB of hard disk space. Program will ask you for the directory where you want to place the databases, and also the path to .CDR files. Program automatically scans all the subdirectories of the directory you appointed. After CLIPFINDER finishes the scanning, it offers you to appoint another directory. During that time you can insert another CDROM disk. If you don't want to add any more files, You simply click on CANCEL. After you finished, the database is created, and you can start using CLIPFINDER simply by running it again. Using CLIPFINDER: After you run CLIPFINDER you see its main window. To search by keyword, you first need to enter it, and click on SEARCH button (or Enter key). The results of the search in form: the whole keyword plus the filename containing it appear in the Keyword / File list box. You don't necessarely need to enter the whole keyword, you just need to enter its part and program will find all the words containing that part. Example: You enter word CAT and get files with keyword CAT as well as files with keyword DOG AND CAT. Program is not case sensetive, so feel free to enter it any way you like. Program limits the ammount of items found by 1024. If you enter a keyword that is found too often or a very short part of it, you may exceed that limit. Example: Search by keyword COREL. (This word is contained by all the images created by Corel company) ReInstallation: If you want to change the database you are using You need to use a text editor (NOTEPAD.EXE) to remove [CLIPFINDER] section in your win.ini file. Comaptibility: This programm carefully tested for compatibility. Now it compatible fith followed file formats: 1) CorelDRAW 3.0 2) CorelDRAW 4.0 3) CorelDRAW 5.0 4) CorelDRAW 5.0 Corel Binary Meta File (.CMX) Distribution: All programs in this series are distributed as shareware. It means, that you can get new versions and upgrades, and also technical support directly from authors of the programs. Distribution as shareware also means that if one of the programs in this series was not to your liking, you don't have to pay anything for it. But if you continue using the program for two or more weeks, you are welcome to register it. Registration: If you like a program, any program in this series you can register it. All the users, for example, that have registered CLIPFINDER will get its new version and also several additional programs from the PowerDRAW! series. Registered users will be notifited about new versions of products and get a free technical support. About the CLIPFINDER registration procedure and features of the new version read file REGINFO.TXT. How to reach the developers: All your questions and suggestions on how to make CLIPFINDER better, you can send to the author of this program, Sergey Tatarchenko: e-mail: sergey@zanas.msk.su FAX: (7-095) 928-77-51 TEL: (7-095) 220-05-68 All your suggestions about the PowerDRAW series can be sent to: e-mail: PowerDRAW@zanas.msk.su (developers divison) e-mail: piter@cams.usc.edu (distribution divison, Victor Piterbarg) or PowerDRAW! SERIES distribution centre. 1744, State st. apt.3 South Pasadena, CA 91030. USA.