Family Archive 1.1.1s
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This document contains important information pertaining to this release of Family Archive. Please, read it carefully before start using product.

0. Introduction
1. Main features
2. Installation
3. System requirements
4. How to start
5. Product registration
6. Technical support

0. Introduction
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Try our new product Family Archive - personal database utility to keep your family archive of photographs in order! Every family has a lot of paper pictures. Do you remember the last time you tried to find some pictures to show your friends or relatives? It was awful, was not it? With our new program you will forget about that headache!

With our program you will be able to scan you pictures and photos on paper, or you can load them from disks to put them into archive. You can assign many tags to classify these documents: persons on the picture, date of photograph, category (portrait, family, any you want), comments, etc. You can even to add voice comment to your photo! You can easily modify tags, perform fast search for the item you need.

All you have inside you personal archive can be placed into numerous albums. It makes the classification of your archive really easy! You can place one picture in more than one album if you want to. You can show these albums to your friends, or you can arrange the album for special event. What about the anniversary of your wedding day?

We worked hard to make our product effective and intuitive tool. It is fast - we used professional approach, put everything in databases. This makes item search rally fast. It is disk space saving - we keep pictures in database using JPEG compression, so you save 10-20 times of your hard drive! You can easily search for your favorite picture using thumbnail view. You can mark persons and places on your pictures as "hot zone" and add comment to it. Of course, you can print any of pictures or export it.

This shareware version of Family Archive is for Windows 95/98. We will release the commercial version of this product soon. It will include more exciting features: image processing, import/export into numerous image formats, etc. We invite you to be online with it on our WEB site http://ism.webjump.com or http://ism.sptl.org.

1. Main features
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- Graphic database with powerful search;
- JPEG format for keeping photos reduces disk space for archive ~10 times;
- Input for any TWAIN compatible scanner;
- Each picture can be inserted in several albums;
- Rich search facilities;
- Text and voice comments;
- Slide show with the pictures from selected album;
- Hot zones on pictures to make comments;
- Fast search using thumbnails.

2. Installation
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Copy file FA11s.exe to the temporary folder on your computer. Run this file and follow the instructions. You can uninstall this product from your computer using item Add/Remove program from Control Panel.

Warning! Our product uses Borland Database Engine (BDE). If you have older version of this product installed on you computer it may be damaged as a result of updating. To avoid problems you create backup copy of BDE before installation Family Archive.

3. System requirements
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Minimum configuration:

- Pentium compatible 133 MHz PC;
- Windows 95/98;
- 16 Mbytes RAM;
- 640x480 256 color VGA display;
- 6 Mbytes of free space on hard drive.

Recommended configuration:

- Pentium compatible 166 MHz PC;
- Windows 95/98;
- 32 Mbytes RAM;
- 800x600 24-bit display;
- 12 Mbytes of free space on hard drive.

4. How to start
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To start using Family Archive run it from start menu created during the installation. You will see room (main screen) with several objects in it. Some of them are highlighted when mouse cursors goes over them. These objects are the buttons for providing different actions. You can obtain help information about objects by clicking right mouse button on them. If mouse pointer will stay over some objects for a while you will also see hint with its short description.

Here is a list of active objects in main screen:

- 'Archive' inscription on the bottom of drawer;
- 'Exit' inscription on the door;
- Albums pictures on drawer's shelves;
- Book on the table;
- Wastebasket;
- Cat;
- Wall clock.

When you click on 'Archive' inscription you will go to the Archive processing window. There you can add and delete pictures in Archive, add tags and comments to pictures, create 'hot zones' over the objects on pictures, etc. The pictures you have in Archive can be places in Albums.

You can create Albums from main screen by clicking on empty place of drawer shelves, of by clicking on the book on the table. Simple dialog asks to define options for the new album. You can move albums over the shelves, or you can remove them dragging to the wastebasket. Note, that after this operation pictures from Album still be in Archive, and you can insert them into other albums. To open Album click on it, and you will see album pages with four pictures. You can turn over pages by clicking on curled page corners. If you click the picture you will see the screen with one picture.

Here you will see more icons, and you will be able to use more options. Try thumbnails for fast pictures search, full screen mode, and slide show! You also will be able to see your 'hot zones' with attached comments, and listen to the voice comments.

You can set some options for the program using Options dialog, which will appear when you click wall clock in the main screen.

When you bother with our program (we hope it will never happen) you can exit it by clicking 'Exit' on the door.

We worked hard to make our program attractive and easy to use. Enjoy it!

5. Product registration
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Please read the license agreement for complete information. You are free to use this product for evaluation purpose for 30-day period. After this period you must to register.  The registration fee for personal use is $40 U.S. Registration can be provided by e-mail or fax. Registration removes nag screen appearing after 30-day evaluation period and eliminates 50 pictures limit for keeping in Archive.

6. Technical support
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Technical support is provided by e-mail ism@sptl.org. You can find useful tips and updates for the program on Family Archive WEB page http://ism.webjump.com/products/famarch.htm or http://ism.sptl.org/products/famarch.htm . Please, send your comments about the product to ism@sptl.org.
