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ArtShow 4 Documentation
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Corel Artshow 4 CD-ROM showcases a stunning selection of high
quality designs that were entered into the Fourth annual
CorelDRAW World Design Contest. Over 3000 CorelDRAW
designs are easily accessible using our unique graphical user
interface. Incorporating both a powerful database engine and an
easy to use interface, Corel ArtShow allows you to find the image
you want, every time. Also, each Design is fully editable due to
Corel ArtShow's integrated operation with CorelDRAW and
CorelPHOTO-PAINT. Learn and use many of the techniques of the
world's finest CorelDRAW experts or sit back and enjoy the
beautiful screen savers and challenging puzzles based on these
designs. Anyway you use it, Corel Artshow is for you.
The Corel Artshow 4 CD-ROM contains numerous complementary
programs. These vary from programs such as CD-Audio to demos of
MIDI software from companies such as Voyetra and Midisoft. Let's
take a quick peak at some of what Corel Artshow 4 has to offer.
The Corel Artshow 4 Program
---------------------------
The Corel Artshow 4 Program is a full featured Windows viewing
program, created using Microsoft's Visual Basic. It allows quick
searching and viewing on any of the beautiful designs that were
entered into our $1,000,000 Design Contest. The Corel Artshow
viewer has many interesting and easy to use features, but we will let
you find those out for yourself. To run Corel Artshow follow the
instructions explained in the QuickStart section of the manual.
Corel CD-Audio for Windows
--------------------------
Corel CD-Audio simulates a CD player and allows you to play your
favorite music CDs from your CD-ROM drive. The CD-Audio
window has been designed to look and work just like the control
panel on a home CD player. Interactive on-line help menus guide you
through all of the options. Extensive utilities let you customize the
set-up and performance of your CD-ROM drive, and create
catalogues of all your music CDs. You can even select your own
color scheme to personalize the CD-Audio control panel. Corel CD-
Audio is fully compatible with all CD-ROM drives that support
audio. CD-Audio is available for installation by running the main
installation program and saying Yes when asked if you want to install
CD-Audio.
Corel ArtView Screensaver for Windows 3.1
---------------------------------------
The Corel ArtView is a screensaver module that is compatible with the
screensaver program that is built into both Window 3.1 and Windows
with Multimedia Extensions 1.0. The Corel Artshow 4 installation
will copy the needed files over to your Windows directory. Once the
installation is completed successfully you must activate it from
within the Desktop icon found in the Control Panel. This screensaver
module will search any attach CD-ROM drives and try and display
any bitmap images it finds on discs placed in them. It will display
files in the BMP, PCX, GIF and Kodak PhotoCD format. If it can't
find any images on a CD inserted in you CD-ROM player it will
search your hard drive for any viewable pictures. Use the SETUP
button to include or exclude different directories, and to set the order
in which the bitmaps will appear. If Corel ArtView can't find any
bitmap images to view, it will default to a lovely bezier curve
pattern. Be sure to start this little gem running!
Voyetra Technologies
--------------------
Many of the MIDI songs found on the Corel ArtShow 4 CD-ROM
were composed by musicians working at Voyetra Technologies.
Voyetra Technologies, a leading developer of PC Music Software,
offers a full line of sound editing tools for multimedia productions.
From sequencers and MIDI Music Clips to a full range of MIDI
hardware Voyetra has it all! For more information on Voyetra
products and how to get them, there is Windows based demonstration
included on this CD-ROM. While in the Program Manager, Click on
Run...in the FILE menu, Type the CD-ROM drive letter followed by
a colon and a backslash then the directory VOYETRA
(:\VOYETRA\), finally type TBOOK VOYETRA.TBK and press
ENTER. The whole thing should look like this:
G:\VOYETRA\TBOOK VOYETRA.TBK.
MidiSoft Corporation
--------------------
Another biggie in the development of PC Music Software, MidiSoft
has various multimedia packages ranging from full blown Windows
sequencers to music teaching software. Many of the MIDI music files
found on this product, were provided courtesy of Midisoft
Corporation, and were created by Steve Peha, Ben Hippen, George F.
Litterst, and Tracy Hurst of Music Technology Associates. Midisoft
has included a demoed version of their sequencer package Recording
Session which offers standard MIDI sequencing features, as well as
an editable musical notation display. To see more about Midisoft and
to run their Recording Session run the install program in the Midisoft
directory. To do so, Click on Run... in the FILE menu then type the
CD-ROM drive letter followed by a colon and a backslash with the
directory MIDISOFT following. Then type INSTALL.EXE and press
ENTER. Again the whole thing should look like this:
G:\MIDISOFT\INSTALL.EXE
The Corel Demos
---------------
There is a self-running Dos based demo for you to run. It demonstrates
all of the powerful features found in the new CorelDRAW 4.0. To
run the demo, from DOS, please go to the directory called
DRAWDEMO and type DEMO4 then press ENTER. There is also a CorelDRAW
3.0 Demo found in the same directory as the CorelDRAW 4.0 Demo.
Anything Else!
--------------
We may have placed other utilities or demos on the Corel ArtShow 4
CD-ROM after the printing of this manual. Please take a look at the
root directory of the CD-ROM for any extra batch files or directories
that may contain many different untold goodies!
System Requirements
===================
MS-DOS or PC-DOS operating system version 3.1 or later
Microsoft Windows Version 3.0 or later
Microsoft CD-ROM Extensions version 2.2 or later
IBM PC or compatible with 80386 or higher
2 MB of RAM
CD-ROM player
Color VGA Display with 256 at 640x480
Additional Recommendations:
Multimedia PC or equivalent
Microsoft Windows 3.1 or Windows with Multimedia Extensions 1.0
4 MB of RAM or more
CorelDraw version 3.0 or later
QuickSTART
==========
You need a CD-ROM player including device drivers and MSCDEX
2.2 or later properly installed. Also Microsoft Windows 3.0 or later
must be properly installed on your hard drive. Once these two
requirements are fulfilled, do the following.
- Open Microsoft Windows 3.0 or later (Windows 3.1 is strongly recommended)
- Open the Program Manager
- Click on Run...in the FILE menu
- Type the CD-ROM drive letter followed by a colon and a backslash (:\)
- Type SETUP and press ENTER
Once the SETUP program is started, instructions on the screen guide
you through the installation. The installation automatically installs
Corel Artshow 4 and the Corel ArtView screensaver. The program will
ask you if you would also like to install Corel CD-Audio. To run any
of the related programs after installation, click on the appropriate
icon in the Corel Artshow 4 group.
The Corel ArtView screensaver is copied to your hard drive on
installation, but needs to be activated by selecting the Control Panel
from the Program Manager group Main. From within the Control
Panel you must select the Desktop icon. Simply set Corel ArtView as
your default screensaver and your on your way.
If you are running Windows with Multimedia Extensions, or
Windows 3.1 with a sound card, Corel Artshow will recognize this
fact and automatically take advantage of its multimedia specific
features.
Before you use the Corel Artshow 4 CD-ROM please read the User
Licence Agreement found near the last page of this text. By using
the Corel Artshow program or any other material found on the CD-
ROM, you indicate your acceptance of the User Licence