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- PowerMapper 2.0 Beta 2 readme.txt
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- PowerMapper is a 32-bit Windows application that creates graphical site
- maps in HTML/GIF format. PowerMapper comes in two flavors:
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- Registered Version
- The fully functioning commercial version.
-
- Evaluation Version
- A freely distributable version that contains all the features of the
- registered version, except:
-
- - maps can only be used for evaluation purposes
- - there is a background watermark on all maps
- - JPEGs are produced instead of GIFs (JPEGs are roughly twice the
- size of the equivalent GIF)
-
- You can purchase a Registered Version from http://www.electrum.co.uk/
-
- Running Setup
- =============
- Run the enclosed Windows installer mapdem20.exe or mapper20.exe. This
- setup wizard guides you through the setup process, letting you choose
- where PowerMapper will be installed. A de-installer is also included
- which is accessed from the Add/Remove Programs Control Panel.
-
- Supported Platforms
- ===================
-
- Hardware: 486/Pentium PC with 256 color display or better and 16MB of
- RAM (32MB recommended for mapping large sites)
- Software: Windows 95 or NT 4.0 with Internet Explorer 3.0 or later
-
- The software will not run on Windows 3.1 or NT 3.51. The software also
- runs with Internet Explorer 4.0, but has not been extensively tested.
-
- Reporting Bugs
- ==============
-
- Please refer to support.htm that describes the information we need when
- you report bugs to Technical Support. Please give as much technical detail
- as possible and include a URL which reproduces the problem, if possible.
-
- Questions & Feature Requests
- ============================
-
- Send questions and feature requests to support@electrum.co.uk.
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- Contents of Release
- ===================
-
- The directory where you installed PowerMapper should contain these files:
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- Mapper.exe the PowerMapper application
- Readme.txt the readme file
- License.txt the license agreement
- help\ directory to hold help files
- Logos\ directory to hold company logos
- Logos\Logo.bmp default graphic used by 3D Button style
- Logos\Icon.bmp default graphic used by 3D Button style
- Logos\win graphics used by Tree View style
- Logos\mac graphics used by Tree View style
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- Documentation
- =============
-
- The help directory contains HTML documentation that can be viewed with any
- browser. You can get to the main help page from the PowerMapper Help menu.
-
- Known Problems
- ==============
-
- Beta 2 contains a number of outstanding problems which will be fixed shortly.
-
- - The Update command discards any drag and drop structure changes
- - Problems drawing Isometric style if Home Page contains just one link
- - Not deleting some temp files when mapper quits
- - TreeView style doesn't work on IE 3.0 for Macintosh
- - You may experience problems mapping local files with IE 4.0
-
- See the Troubleshooting section of the documentation (trouble.htm)
-
- Version History
- ===============
-
- You can find the latest version at http://www.electrum.co.uk/mapper/
-
- 2.0 beta 2
-
- Features:
- - Check Site command: produces a summary of problems found on site
- - Page and Site properties contain a Problems tab describing errors found
- - Mapping Options Setting to ignore all cgi-bin scripts
- - Thumbnail on map gets highlighted when page icon in tree view is selected
- - All saved HTML/GIF files now go in a folder with the same name as the .SITE file
- - Context help for property pages and style dialogue
- - more than 3 levels on Electrum style maps
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- Fixes:
- - Layout problems in Page cloud style
- - JavaScript errors in Tree View style
- - Broken progress indicator during crawling
- - Preview for tree view map style
- - Clipping and overlapping problems with new page markers
- - Background color of whats new icons fixed
- - Type URLs appearing Recent Files list
- - Tidied up Map Style dialogue
- - More accurate progress indicator during load/save
- - Update not adding new pages to structure
- - Toolbar update problems
- - and a host of others...
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- 2.0 beta 1
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- Features:
- - Maps more than 3 levels deep
- - New "Page Cloud" map style
- - New "Tree View" interactive map style
- - Update command: only revisits changed pages
- - Check Site command: produces a summary
- - Now runs HTML editors and validators
- - Follows links in JavaScript
- - Printing maps
- - Marking new/changed pages on maps
- - Turning off error markers
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- Fixes:
- - Problems mapping large sites due to browser cache filling up
-
- 1.02 Maintenance release
-
- Features:
- - Optional extraction of links from imagemaps (always extracted in previous versions)
-
- Fixes:
- - Stalls on pages containing Java applets
- - More reliable crawling
- - Internal error when generating Table of Contents style
-
- 1.01 Retail version for BuyDirect.com
-
- Features:
- - Optional extraction of links from Java applets
- - Better short titles
- - ALT attribute now inserted into image maps (so graphical maps can be viewed in Lynx)
-
- Fixes:
- - Bad page thumbnail colors
-
- 1.0 Initial release
-