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- ENTRIES/DETECTED
- ================
-
- These functions allow displaying and processing of previously found
- entries. Here is a description of the functions:
-
-
- * DISPLAY: Displays all found entries in a small table
- -------- within a window.
- Each entry can be clicked on with the mouse to
- show any graphic information and the specific
- thumbnail on the screen. The following additional
- functions are available:
-
- - View: Displays the corresponding graphics
- on the screen.
-
- - Remove: Removes the entry from the list
- of found entries.
-
- - Print list: Prints all found entries as a table
- (only picture name and file path)
- on a printer.
-
- - Cancel: Closes the window and returns to
- the main screen.
-
-
- * List: Shows all the found entries as a table on the screen.
- ----- The table can also be sent to a printer.
- The user can select between different output formats
- (see section ENTRIES/LIST).
-
- * Remove: Removes all found entries from the catalogue.
- -------
-
- * Delete: Deletes all found entries from the catalogue and also
- ------- deletes the corresponding graphic files.
-
- DANGER: ALL THESE GRAPHIC FILES WILL BE LOST FOREVER.
-
- * Reset: The number of found graphics will be reset so that a
- ------ new run has to be started to search for specific
- entries.
-
- * Reverse: The status of all found entries will be inverted.
- -------- Entries which had been declared as being found
- will now be deselected and vice versa.
-
- * Slideshow: Creates a slide show from all found graphics.
- -------- A menu appears where a kind of slide show
- (delay between graphics, replay order, etc.) can
- be defined.
-
- * Export: Exports all the found entries to a new catalogue.
- ------- A menu appears for entering the catalogue name
- and an additional description of the newly created
- catalogue to which the entries have to be copied.
-
- * Reorganise: With the PictureManager professional it is possible
- ----------- to recopy your graphic archives, for example
- sorted by motives, on your hard disk automatically.
- For this, the functions MARKED/REORGANIZE
- and DETECTED/REORGANIZE are available.
- With MARK ALL you may quite simply prepare a complete
- catalogue for further processing
- (e.g. reorganise, convert, export, etc.)
- But now back to reorganisation:
- For copying specific (or all) graphics of a catalogue
- to another directory, mark these or search for these
- - e.g. all graphics with automobile motives in it - via
- the function SEARCH PATTERN. After
- that use MARKED/REORGANIZE or DETECTED/REORGANIZE.
- A menu appears where the following settings have
- to be done: At first select a directory to which the
- chosen files should be copied to.
- By deactivation of the switch "Display error messages"
- you may suppress error messages during the copy
- procedure.
- In such a case, graphics already present will
- be overwritten without any further requests.
- If this is not wished to be done, the switch should
- be kept activated. By activating the switch "Take new
- data" the destination path of the graphic will be added
- to the current catalogue. With this action,
- PMPro will only use the new graphics for any further
- access. The last switch "Delete source graphics"
- will delete the original graphic without the
- possibility of ever getting it back (danger!).
-
- Hint: When reorganising your graphic archives on
- hard disk with this function, you should for safety
- reasons not immediately delete the source graphic.
- Sometimes hard disk errors may cause data to be lost.
- It is better to use "CATALOG/COPY"
- for creation of a duplicate
- catalogue and then reorganise the graphics (without
- deletion). Then take over the copies into the duplicate
- catalogue. Should all graphics have been recopied
- successfully, reload the original source catalogue.
- Now you may delete the recopied source graphic
- from there (via MARKED/DELETE or DETECTED/DELETE from
- the popup menu).
-
-
- * Convert: With MARKED/CONVERT or DETECTED/CONVERT you may
- -------- convert huge numbers of graphics into other graphic
- file formats automatically or for example apply
- just a colour reduction from 24BIT to 256 colours
- to these.
- After having called one of the two functions, a
- menu appears in which the following settings have to
- be made:
-
- * The directory where you wish to save the new graphic.
- * With the switch "take new data" the source graphic
- data will be replaced by those of the newly created
- graphic (path, name, type, colour depth, etc.)
- within the catalogue files.
-
- After that a second menu appears where a
- graphic file format and colour depth for the
- source files can be selected (please note, that
- not all of the possible graphics file formats
- support all colour depths). The switch "display error
- messages" will show any error messages during the
- conversion procedure (e.g. not enough memory) and
- warnings (request whether existing graphics should be
- overwritten). When disabled, graphics will always be
- overwritten. Also, no messages about any occurred
- errors will be indicated.
- The last switch "Delete source graphics" will delete
- the original graphics without a possibility
- of ever getting it back (danger!).
- When converting your graphic archives on hard disk
- with this function, you should for safety reasons not
- immediately delete the source graphics but instead
- do this when all graphics have been processed
- successfully.
-
- Example: With this function you may easily and very
- comfortably convert all graphics of a PhotoCD
- into IFF graphics with 256 Colours.
- In this special case you would have to do the following:
- Create a catalogue and read the PhotoCD by starting
- Expand/PhotoCD.
- Then select:
-
- * Entries/Mark all
- * Marked/Convert with the following switches:
- - display error messages
- - take new data
- - no deletion of original graphics
- - output format IFFCompByteRun1 and 256 Colours
-
- After entering the save path you have to start
- the conversion procedure. This will certainly take
- some time, since every PCD-graphic will have to be
- passed through a high quality colour
- reduction including dithering.
- After the conversion procedure has finished,
- all the PCD-files will have been stored as IFF-files
- on your hard disk.
- The new catalogue will from now on (via activation
- of "take data") access these IFF-graphics.
- You may now view, print, etc. your graphic whenever
- you want even without having the corresponding PhotoCD
- in the drive.
-
-
- * Add to LHA:
- -----------
- This function allow you to
- archive (or add to an archive) a number of marked/found graphics
- with LHA. So you have an easy way to store / archive your
- favorite pictures into one LHA-Archive!
-