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Welcome to PowerAlbum 2.10!
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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.
Table of Contents
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1. Installation
Super Art Pack Sound Files
Super Art Pack Photos
Using The PHOTO Album Files
Error Message Asking For Drive D:
Adding Video Files
2. New and Improved Features.
3. Information for Calendar Creator Users.
4. Picture Export Restrictions.
5. Video Import and Playing Problems.
1. Installation
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Super Art Pack Sound Files
Standard Installation copies the SOUNDS.ALB (catalog of all sounds)
to the \WINDOWS\POWERALB\ALBUMS directory (default directory). This
file is updated with the CD-ROM drive letter specific to your system.
If your CD-ROM drive letter is not D:, use this file instead of the
SOUNDS.ALB file on the CD-ROM.
All sound files are located on the Super Art Pack DISC 3. Ensure you
have DISC 3 inserted in your CD-ROM drive before attempting to play
sounds. Should you play sounds without DISC 3 in place, you will
receive an error message. To correct this error, acknowledge the error
message, insert the correct CD (DISC 3) into your CD-ROM drive, and then
play the sound you wish to hear.
Super Art Pack Photos
PHOTOS.ALB and PHOTOS16.ALB are catalogs of the same photographs; however,
the thumbnails in PHOTOS.ALB are 16 million colors while PHOTOS16.ALB
only uses 16 colors. Due to the increase in album size associated with
higher color palettes, we recommended that you load PHOTOS16.ALB if your
system has only 8 megabytes of RAM or lower to prevent your system from
operating too slowly.
Using The PHOTO Album Files
To use PHOTOS.ALB or PHOTOS16.ALB we recommend you load the album file from
the Super Art Pack DISC 2. If one attempts to use either one of the PHOTO
albums from DISC 1 an error message will appear asking for the DISC 2
to be inserted into drive D:. Inserting DISC 2 will remove the error
message; however, another error message may appear if one attempts to
select a different category from the same album file. This problem
does not appear on all systems, and can be avoided by using the album
files from DISC 2.
Error Message Asking For Drive D:
PowerAlbum DISC error messages are not drive letter sensitive. That is
PowerAlbum asks you to insert discs in drive D: regardless of what
drive letter is actually assigned to your CD-ROM drive. Insert your
discs into your CD-ROM drive, select OK to remove the error message and
run the program normally.
Adding Video Files
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 it may be used by
PowerAlbum.
2. New and Improved Features
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This release contains a substantial amount of new functionality.
a. NOTEBOOK STYLES.
There are 3 notebook styles form which to choose from. See
the "Options|Styles" menu item for a selection.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
3. Information for Calendar Creator Users
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PowerAlbum is fully compatible with versions 2.10 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.
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.
PowerAlbum 2.1 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 2.1 and Merge
the old album into the new one.
4. Picture Export Restrictions.
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The following limitations apply to Exporting Pictures in
PowerAlbum:
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.
We anticipate that these restrictions will not exist in a
future release.
5. Video Import and Playing Problems.
------------------------------------------------
If you cannot add or play video files try the following:
a) Make sure you have installed the Video For Windows Runtime
drivers as described in the Installation section above.
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.
Exit Windows, and try again.