Help/About flap - additions
You will note that there are some slight alterations and a number of additions in relation to the Help/About flap of the HTML Slideshow LITE version:
1) The tips that were immediately apparent on the flap can now be seen by clicking on the new red icon.
2) The "Internet Help" (see green icon) refers to this very page on the Internet. Clicking on this icon will open up the page in a new Internet Explorer browser.
3) You can now print out the picture on display by clicking on the printer icon. There are some notes on this immediately below.
The other items on the Help/About flap are either common to the LITE version (see instructions) or have been dealt with already in this PLUS version Help.
Printing
A click on the printer icon mentioned above will open up the current picture on show in the Internet Explorer. Before printing, make sure your printer is appropriately prepared using the FILE menu with Page Setup. If you have a picture which is wider than it is high, then be sure to choose Landscape orientation rather than Portrait.
One item to watch particularly is that if the pictures to be printed are close to the screen resolution you are using (e.g. 800x600 or 1024x768 pixels), the Internet Explorer is likely to lop a chunk off the side of your picture without so much as a "by your leave"! So in order to reduce this possibility, the picture sent by the HTML Slideshow to the Internet Explorer is not, in fact, the original. It is the picture which has been adjusted (possibly reduced) to fit on your screen. If you really need to print using the originals, then you will have to do this using an external graphics printing program.
Selecting pictures
Most of us prefer to keep complete groups of pictures together in the same place, but when it comes to uploading our pictures on the Internet for distribution to other people, we prefer to be more selective and to leave out a number of the pictures. This is a simple task, but if we do not have a ready preview of the pictures we are evaluating and a convenient means of marking the selected pictures, it becomes a chore. In the HTML Slideshow PLUS, you can now do this very easily.
If you move the mouse to the top of the main screen to reveal the thumbnails flap, you will note that there is a new little command button in the top right-hand corner with a red arrow on it. If you click on this little button, a set of controls for picture selection and copying will be shown. If you click on the same button again, the controls will be hidden. Here they are:
If you right-click on the same thumbnail again, it will be removed from the list.
So this is how you specify a subset of your pictures to be saved separately.
The "Clear Sel" button will remove all items from the list above it.
The selected "Copy" option shown in the example indicates that all the pictures in the list are to be copied to a new folder. If, however, you select the "XCopy" option, this will mean that all the pictures in this list are NOT to be copied, implying that all other pictures are to be copied. Or in other words "Copy all the pictures except these!"
Suppose you wanted to copy all the pictures. The easiest way would be to have absolutely no items in the list whatsoever and to choose the "XCopy" option. Or in other words, "Copy all the pictures except none at all!"
If you want to export the program to the new folder as well, mark the "Cpy Prog" checkbox.
Suppose you wanted to copy the program alone, and none of the pictures. How would you do it? Very simply have no items in the list and check the "Cpy Prog" box.
That's enough examples, in case you get lost in the logic of it all! In practice, it is not difficult at all.
Finally, when you have made your positive or negative selection, click on the "Copy Pics" button at the bottom to choose the folder where the pictures and/or program will be saved.
For now, then, it is to be hoped that the HTML Slideshow PLUS Help has been sufficient. If you have any further questions, do not hesitate to get in touch with the author of the software by e-mail:
Bob Warren
