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NaviPress 1.1 áfor Windows
Read Me
NaviPress is an integrated browsing and WYSIWYG authoring tool for the World
Wide Web. NaviPress was designed both to make WWW authoring more accessible to
beginners and to save valuable time and effort for professional Web publishers.
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System Requirements:
* To use NaviPress, you should have at least a 386 with 8 megabytes of RAM.
You should also have Windows 3.1 or later and at least 5 megabytes of free
disk space.
* 8 megabytes or more of RAM are recommended.
* You should have an Internet service provider, a modem, and the appropriate
connection software.(Trumpet winsock, Chameleon, etc) If you do not
already have a WINSOCK.DLL, one will be installed that allows you to
operate NaviPress locally. If you install a network connection later you
will need to delete the winsock.dll in the navipress directory for
NaviPress to use the network.
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Installing NaviPress
1. Double-click on the Setup.exe. It will prompt you for a directory in
which to install NaviPress.
2. Launch NaviPress by double-clicking on its icon.
3. NaviPress does not insist that you set a proxy server and a name server
but it is highly recommended that you set them using
Tools=>Preferences=>Network.
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Notes and Hints:
General Authoring:
* NaviPress is rather strict about enforcing legal HTML. When using
NaviPress to edit pages which were created outside of NaviPress, it may
change HTML which does not comply to the HTML 3.0 standard and
specifications when saving it. á
* In HTML the formatting information for a paragraph is located before the
paragraph, unlike word processors where the formatting information is
located at the end of the paragraph. Thus when selecting text to replace
formatting, copy/paste, or drag/drop it is necessary to include the
carriage return before the paragraph if you want the formatting to be
included.
* Using the MiniWeb view NaviPress allows the user to Edit=>Cut or
backspace/delete an icon (subsequently deleting the object) without the
presence of a confirmation dialog box.
* NaviPress does not "lock" files. When concurrent editing of the same page
is occurring changes may be overwritten. Be careful and use reload often
if multiple people are editing the same page concurrently.
* To edit text or images which are links without following the link hold
down the Control (Ctrl) key and click with the mouse.
* To create a MiniWeb out of a directory, or to regenerate a MiniWeb that
isn't showing all of the files that it should (after moving files outside
of NaviPress) use the Webize dialog by pressing Ctrl-Shift-W (or choose
Tools=>Webize from the MiniWeb view).
* Double-click on a link to display the linked page in a new window.
Tables
* Selecting (highlighting) a table in the page view requires that the
paragraph before and after the table be selected. Dragging the mouse
across or double clicking on a table will not highlight it but dragging
the pointer from the paragraph above to the paragraph beneath (or
vice-versa) will select the table.
* Selecting tables within tables and tables at the end of the page: áWhen a
table is the first or last item in a table cell the table is not
selectable with the mouse. áThis is because the selection of a table
requires the selection of a paragraph before and after the table. It is
easy to avoid this problem once you are aware of it. When creating tables
nested within tables insert paragraphs into the table cell (by hitting
Return) and place the cursor between these paragraphs when choosing Create
Table. áExtra paragraphs can be easily deleted later.
If you find yourself in this state, the workaround is to add a <P> tag at
each end of the table you are trying to select:
1. Highlight some of the table content (as a refernce point) and
choose Tools=>Show HTML.
2. The highlighted selection should be highlighted in the Show HTML
window.
Insert <P> before the beginning table tag (<TABLE BORDER .....>) to
insert a paragraph before the table.
3. Insert a <P> tag immediately after the closing table tag (</TABLE>)
to insert a paragraph after the table
4. Select Parse and Close from the file menu in the Show HTML window.
* Typing in tables: Resizing tables on the fly as text is inserted is a lot
of work and the typing speed in tables can be slower as a result. The more
cells there are in the table, the slower the typing will be.
* Alter Table will remove table attributes that are not authored through the
NaviPress menus (e.g. Align=).
* Using Undo and Redo in Tables sometimes requires two Undos/Redos for
certain functions (e.g. Merge Cell).
* The display of table border and contents becomes disjoint when inserting
text into a table that contains ALIGN = CENTER in the <TABLE ...>
tag.áCausing the screen to refresh will correct the display.
Lists
* More that one list element on the same line occurs when there are lists
nested inside a list without a paragraph tag between the list tags. áThis
only happens when Edit Complex lists is set. áIt is impossible to insert
text between two such list elements from the page view. The workaround is
to manually add <P> tags after the <LI> tag in the Show HTML window.
* Exiting from nested lists: NaviPress only allows one level at a time to be
exited. If you wish to exit multiple nested levels, choose Format=>Exit
List Format multiple times and delete the unwanted list elements when
finished.
* Nested lists may not show Paragraph Alignments (other than left)
correctly. You may see some text appear crowded together; try aligning
left to space it correctly.
* Deleting nested list items: When deleting inner levels from a multi-nested
list (e.g. deleting the 2nd and 3rd level items from a nested list with 4
nested levels), list elements (bullets, numbers) can be left in odd
positions. Saving and reloading should fix the display.
MiniWebs
* Short Menus (Tools=>Preferences=>General) are disabled.
* If MiniWebs don't reflect the contents of the directory, Webize.
NaviPress can't tell if a MiniWeb filename has been changed outside of
NaviPress. If you change, add, or delete files or links in a MiniWeb
outside of NaviPress, or ever notice that the MiniWeb view is not
reflecting the true status of the directory, be sure to webize/regenerate
the MiniWeb.
* Use the display control dialog (under the View menu) to hide icons for
external links, images, etc. if you find the MiniWeb Web view has too many
icons to be useful.
* Filename change in MiniWebs
o does not update links in subwebs.
o does not update links in image maps
o removes anchor extensions from links it changes
* When editing long filenames in a MiniWeb using a list view (Name, Title,
or MIME type) the file name display allows for ~27 characters. áAfter that
the text exceeds the filename box and is displayed behind the title. áThe
workaround is to use the Web view to rename files longer than 27
characters.
Display
* NaviPress does not display transparent gifs. áNaviPress will match the
background color, but not a background image. When browsing amongst pages
referencing the same transparent gif but with different background colors
you may notice that the background color for the gif is cached as the
color of the first visited page. áHitting reload will display the image
with the current background color.
* NaviPress shares the color pallete between NaviPress windows and with
other applications. When a window does not have all of the colors it is
requesting the display will look weird. áThis is most apparent on images
and backgrounds and is generally noticed when a page is loading or when
there is another window or application in the foreground. Bringing the
window to the foreground should correct this.
* Dragging a selection over a floating image will cause the image to flash
while the mouse button is depressed.
* NP handles <center> tags differently than Netscape. NaviPress is stricter
about the placement of tags and has a preferences item to choose whether
the display will conform to Netscape extensions or the HTML 3.0
specification.
* Background images flash when typing text.
Miscellaneous
* Opening or editing a page with a large amount of text (>100K) is very slow
with NaviPress, and NaviPress will crash if given a file that is too large.á
* Using Elements=>Image Map on an existing Image Map will remove any
attributes from the IMAGE MAP tag (e.g. BORDER=0) that are not authored
through NaviPress menus.
* Check Links will indicate "Could not find ..." when there is a redirect at
the specified URL.
* There is no File=>Quit option áfromáthe 'Show HTML' window. áThis is a
feature to prevent people fromátrying to close the window by using quit,
due to the fact that they are used in Netscape's "show source" which
lauches an independent text editor.
* Within a <Center> tag: Elements=>Get Attribute (or Elements=>Image, Link,
Image Map, or Anchor with such an attribute already selected) will always
change the selection to the first attribute item within the Center tag.
* The hotlist window does not have a horizontal scroll bar. áTo read long
URLs the window may be resized larger.
* NaviPress does not support printing on Windows 95.
* The Save As progress gauge sometimes indicates "Full" during the entire
save.
* NaviPress may give an error when printing forms.
* The horizontal scroll bar at the bottom of a text area overlaps the last
line of text for text areas with aácertain number of rows.
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Last Updated: November 2, 1995