Thank you for installing BR's PhotoArchiver 3.2.2
Please take time to read this file.

If you downloaded this program from another site than 
http://www.br-software.com/ or http://www.photoarchiver.com/,
please check this site to see that you have the latest version.



License
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BR's PhotoArchiver is shareware. You can try it free for 60 days. During
this period all functionality of the program will be available. At the
end of this period, all editing and import functions will stop working,
but you may still view your images. To restore full functionality, you
have to register the PhotoArchiver and pay the license fee (see
http://www.photoarchiver.com/register.html. You will then receive a
license code that will restore full functionality.

You are free to distribute the complete package (the file photoarchiver.zip)
in any way wou want, but GIVING THE LICENSE CODE TO OTHERS IS ILLEGAL.
Each license code is unique and traceable. 

System Requirements
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Windows95/98/ME/NT4 and Windows 2000.
3 MB diskspace + room for database and images
32 MB memory
Pentium 100 MHz 
Graphic resolution of at least 800x600 and 65535 colours 
is recommended. Will work on 640x480, but 256 colours will 
not work well.
Supports JPEG and uncompressed TIFF.

Installation
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Install by clicking the file setup.exe in this archive.
The installation procedure will be automatic, but you 
can choose where to place the program files. By default 
all files will be placed in \program files\PhotoArchiver. 
The file PhotoArchiver.ini will be created in your default 
windows directory. This file should NEVER be moved or edited.
This file contains information that would normally go into 
registry, but I have choosen to place this information in a
 separate file.

Uninstall
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This program can be completly uninstalled from the 
Control Panel as long as you don't put any new files 
into the program directory.


Just another image organizer?
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The idea behind this program is different from most 
image cataloging programs. Instead of browsing directories 
of imagefiles, you import a reference to the files into a 
database. You can then forget all about where the files are 
located. Enter a description for each picture describing 
where and when the picture was taken, and a general description. 
This can be done very fast; either by using the text 
entered for one picture as default for the next or by 
specifying a range of pictures to update. All words in 
the description are searchable. Each picture may also be 
assigned to one or many categories (or albums). 
You may choose to search within one or all categories or you
may display all pictures in a certain category.

This makes a very powerful system for locating a certain 
picture. Some time ago, I needed to locate a picture of 
a Portugese Man of War that I took some years ago. 
I didn't remember which year it was taken so locating 
the picture by browsing directories would have taken time 
(I have several thousands pictues on my hard disc sorted by year). 
I just entered 'Portugese +man' in the searchfield and 
the picture was located (and displayed) in less than one second.


Getting started
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1. Create a new photoarchive from the file menu
2. Import pictures
3. Add description to the imported pictures

Please refer to the online help for more details. 
We recommend that you read the getting started chapter 
before beginning to use BR's PhotoArchiver.


Support
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If you should need help using BR's PhotoArchiver, please 
check our webpages at http://www.photoarchiver.com/.  
Frequent problems and known bugs will be described here. 
Please make sure you're running the latest version.
If you do not find any answer to your problem here, please send
an email to:
                         support@br-software.com

Suggestions for improvement of program and help-files are most welcome. 
Please let me know if your think parts of the program is difficult 
to use or the help-file is unclear. Please send any comments to the 
above address.

DISCLAIMER
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THIS SOFTWARE IS DISTRIBUTED "AS IS". BY INSTALLING THIS SOFTWARE YOU AGREE 
THAT 'BR SOFTWARE', ALSO KNOWN AS 'RIIBER SOFTWARE', IT'S OWNER, OFFICERS, 
OR EMPLOYEES CANNOT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OR FINANCIAL LOSS, 
DIRECT OR INDIRECT, CAUSED BY INSTALLING AND USING THIS SOFTWARE.

ACKNOWLEGEMENT
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BR's PhotoArchiver is partly based on the work of the Independent JPEG Group.


HISTORY
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Changes in version 3.2.2 (22-oct-2001)
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- & in id was translated to _. This has now been fixed.

- it was possible to enter too long category names. This would make
  it impossible to query these categories.

- several bugs in the add photos routine have been fixed.

- photos from Kodak PictureCD(R) would fail because of partial EXIF 
  information in the image.

- the category TO_BE_DESCRIBED was not assigned to the first photo
  of an import.

- a search would sometimes return wrong number of photos.

- you can now delete one or more photos by pressing the Delete-key.


Changes in version 3.2.1 (04-oct-2001)
--------------------------------------
- a couple of bugs in the photo index import routine have been fixed.

- PhotoArchiver wouldn't allways 'remember' which files in a folder
  that had been imported. The problem have been fixed but may require
  that you you run 'File->Photo Index Maintenance->Reorg Photo Index'.

- PhotoViewer would not search in data entered in User Defined fields.
  This have now been fixed.

- the first file in a folder was not added when you selected to add
  all the files in a folder (without selecting any files).

- PhotoArchiver would not remember last used photo index on startup
  if the path of the photo index was very long (>80 characters).
  

Changes in version 3.2.0 (22-sep-2001)
--------------------------------------
- picture information window added. This will show information about
  a picture, including EXIF from JPEGs.

- The 'When' field will be filled in automatically when adding pictures
  that contain EXIF information (will extract date from EXIF).

- The Progress popup window do now have an abort button so you can 
  abort long operations. Some operation cannot be aborted as this
  may leave the database inoperable.

- you can now refresh all thumbnails in one operation.

- a command to reindex the photo index have been added. This can be used
  in the unlikely event that the indexes in the photo index get corrupted.

- a resource leak that could cause the screen to turn white has been fixed.
 

Changes in version 3.1.3 (25-aug-2001)
--------------------------------------
- if you didn't select any files for import and pressed the import-button,
  answered Yes to the prompt whether you wanted to import all files, nothing
  would happend. This has now been fixed.

- pulldown list for storage location didn't work. This has been fixed.


Changes in version 3.1.2 (17-aug-2001)
--------------------------------------
- if you created a new category the very first time you run PhotoArchiver
  the Photo Index could get corrupted. You got the question whether you
  wanted to upgrade the database and if you answered yes, the Photo Index
  got scrambled. This has been fixed.

- under certain circumstances, only some of the selected photos would get
  updated when running Bulk Update. This has been fixed.

- you can now remove pictures from TO_BE_DESCRIBED using Bulk Update.


Changes in version 3.1.1 (12-aug-2001)
--------------------------------------

- wrong thumbnails would be shown if you added some pictures, deleted some,
  and then added some more. You had to restart PhotoArchiver to 
  see the right thumbnails. This has been fixed.

- PhotoArchiver would not 'remember' that a image had been imported if 
  there were any uppercase characters in the directory name. This has been fixed.
 

Changes in version 3.1.0 (06-aug-2001)
--------------------------------------

- printing added. You can print 1,2, or 4 pictures per page.
  Captions is not supported yet.

- PhotoArchiver would sometimes give an error if you created a new
  folder from the Folder Felect form. This has been fixed.

- gamma adjustment also implemented in PhotoViewer. 


Changes in version 3.0.8.0 (29-jul-2001)
----------------------------------------

- First time startup has been improved. You will now be
  propted for new Photo Index creation.

- The term Photo Archive has been replaced with the term Photo Index
  as this describes the use of the datafiles better.

- Some improvements to the menues to make PhotoArchiver easier to use.


Changes in version 3.0.7.0
--------------------------

- it is now possible to set a gamma adjustment for images. You specify
  gamma in per cent of original gamma. 100% equals no adjustment. There is
  a small overhead in gamma adjustment so setting this to anything other 
  than 100 will make things a little slower. You set the gamma in the 
  preferences form (ctrl-s).

- categories and User Defined fields are now saved when you create a CD.

- Slideshow feature in BR's PhotoViewer will loop untill stopped.


Changes in version 3.0.6.0
--------------------------

- User can now select whether the value in User Defined Fields 
  are displayed under the picture in the main window. This is 
  selected in the Preferences form.

- Current thumbnail was always first in the thumbnail window when  
  using cursor keys to go to next/previous picture. This is changed
  so thumbnails will only scroll when current picture is outside the
  window.


Changes in version 3.0.5.1
--------------------------

- fixed bug that caused program to crash if a query prodused one picture
  and then you deleted this picture.

- fixed bug that made it possible to import an image file more than once
  if some of the characters in the filename were uppercase.


Changes in version 3.0.5
------------------------
- words in the last user defined field were not searchable. Fixed.

- done some modifications to the word splitt routine. Special characters 
  at end of word will be trimmed in the index.

- images are sorted before displayed if needed.


Changes in version 3.0.4
------------------------
- program would crash if you tried to specify a CD as outout directory 
  when running the create CD function. This is not allowed anymore.

- adding a picture to a category by right-clicking the thumbnail added
  the wrong picture to the category. Fixed.

- creating a CD would hang the computer if the image file had been renamed
  and the name had not been changed in PhotoArchiver.

- Creating Web pages would crash if the image file had been renamed
  and the name had not been changed in PhotoArchiver.


Changes in version 3.0.3
------------------------
- creating images for web-publishing did not work for grayscale jpegs. Fixed.

- CDs created by PhotoArchiver would not run on NT4 (CDFS). Fixed.

- the import pictures function sometimes allowed import of prevoiusly
  imported pictures. Fixed.

- PhotoViewer would not always locate the database on the CD. Fixed.

- PhotoViewer sometimes gave an MFC42.DLL error on NT4 and Windows95.
  Fixed.

- improved online dokumentation.


Changes in version 3.0.2
------------------------
- File>Exit did not exit the program. Fixed.

- part of the table was erased if user clicked on a line below
  the active table lines. Fixed.

- files without an extention but ending with jpg or tif were imported.
  Fixed.

- after running a bulk update, the current picture would show the text
  of the last picture updated by Bulk Update. Fixed.

- crash in KERNEL32.DLL when creating a CD. Fixed.

- new shortcut keys for navigating the thumbnail view. PageUp, PageDown,
  Home, and End.
 

Changes in version 3.0.1
------------------------
- bug in file counter for web-pages. Caused the thumbnail page to 
  be overwritten. Fixed.

- text in thumbnail view was not updated when modifying picture 
  caption. Fixed.

- thumbnail mode '1 column with text' did not always get the 
  correct width. Fixed.


Changes in version 3.0.0
------------------------
- new thumbnail views. You may now display 1,2,4,6, or 8 columns
  of thumbnails.

- images can be selected from the thumbnail view by left-click-ctrl and
  left-click-shift. Ctrl-a will select all. Ctrl-d will deselect all.
  The selection will be remembered even if you exit the program.

- delete, bulk update, Generate Web, and Create CD can work on selected 
  images.

- images and extract of database can be copies to a directory. You can
  move this directory to a CD that you can send to friends. Included on
  this CD is BR's PhotoViewer 1.0 that can be used to view the images
  on the CD. The Viewer can be made to start automatically when CD is 
  inserted. No software will be installed on the system where you view
  the CD.

- WWW page generation has been improved so you can have more than one 
  set of pages on a site. Photos that are members of more than one set
  will only be stored once.

- popup information window in thumbviews.

- added support for scroll wheel. This will scroll the thumbnail view when 
  cursor is placed inside the thumbnail view.

- thumbnails can be created when images are imported.

Changes in version 2.2.4e
-------------------------
- no warning was given when trying to create a category containing a space.

- no warning was given telling you how many days are left of the trial period.

- the category selector in the toolbar was not always updated when creating
  a new category. This have now been fixed.

- online help has been updated. Added information on the maintenance menu
  and how to back-up your photo archive. 


Changes in version 2.2.4d
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- network drives did not show up when importing pictures. This has been fixed.

Changes in version 2.2.4c
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- fixed another bug that sometimes caused picture import to hang. This
  happened when importing from a removeable device or if you deleted the
  directory you imported from. PhotoArchiver would then hang when doing 
  the next import.


Changes in version 2.2.4b
-------------------------
- fixed bug in picture import. Progress bar was not allway properly updated.

- picture import would sometimes hang. This seemed to happen on NEW
  installations and have been seen on Window ME and NT4 SP6. This has now
  been fixed.

Changes in version 2.2.4a
-------------------------
- fixed bug in thumbnail caching. A link to the thumbnail cache could be lost.

- a couple of bugs related to switching between archives has been fixed.

- handling of thumbnail scrollbar have been modified.

- bug that could cause a general protection fault at startup has been fixed. The bug
  would trigger if the last picture in the selection was active at shutdown.

- handling of separators in CSV-file import have been improved.


Changes in version 2.2.4
------------------------
- minor bugfixes


Changes in version 2.2.3 Beta
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- minor inconsistency fixed in the Rename Image Reference Form.

- the import-fix in 2.2.2 introdused a new bug. The import would add one
  / to the path for each image imported. Filenames became very strange
  but still works (d:/pic/2000/////////////////img0100.jpg). This has
  been fixed. 


Changes in version 2.2.2
------------------------
- creating a new Custom Field sometimes caused the database pointer from 
  that field to be offset by 1. This caused data to be displayed in 
  the wrong field. This has been fixed.

- import of image files from the root-directory of a device caused the
  filename to be stored in wrong format. This has been fixed.

   
Changes in version 2.2.1
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- the way you assign pictures to categories has been rewritten.

- it's now possible to add/remove more than one category in one operation
  in Bulk Update.

- it's now possible to rename a reference to a directory of pictures. F.ex.
  if you have moved a directory from your HD to CD.

- fixed a bug in the picture import. Pictures were sometimes marked as 
  not imported even if they had been imported.


Changes in version 2.2.0
------------------------

- the picture import routine has been completly rewritten. It is now
  more like File Manager. You can now select one or more directories and
  all files in that directoy will be imported.

- number of user defined fields have been increased. The user defined fields
  have been changed to look like a table. 

- comma separated datafiles (CSV) can be imported. One column of this file
  contain the filename of the photo to import information to. This 
  functionallity is intended for importing EXIF information.

- many menu functions have a shortcut command defined. (see menus for more
  information).