README.TXT                  February 1, 2000
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        Family Archive Pro Shareware
               Version 1.2

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    "Keep your family memories alive!"

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Family Archive Professional is a program for the managing graphical data collections.

It is primary intended to keep the family photos in order, but can be used to organize art collections or any other graphical stuff. You have Archive where your photos are kept. Any of these pictures can be placed into Albums. You can have several Albums at once to organize your collection - say special Album for some event (My wedding Album), or for some person (My son Joe), or whatever you want. Each picture from Archive can be included in several Albums. You can create portable Albums to share with your friends or relatives. Such Albums are simply Windows executables running without special installation. Pictures from Album can be displayed in full-screen mode, four pictures to a screen, or as thumbnails. Slide-show full-screen presentation is also available.

You can organize your pictures by Family Events as well. This is a special kind of Album with assigned date and attached memo.

Pictures to put in Archive can be scanned from inside the program or imported from disk. They can be exported and printed to have copies. You can support several Archives and make copies of them.

Various tags can be assigned many to classify them pictures search or organization: people at the pictures, date of photograph, category, comments, and so on. You can easily modify tags and perform fast searches for the items you need. It is even possible to add voice comments to your photos. Such comments can be recorded from inside the program or imported from disk.

In Professional edition you can process pictures in Archive with Magic Glass, make the Archive password protected. This version supports numerous picture formats for import and export. Family Archive Standard edition with less features is also available.

This is shareware product with 30-day trial period.

You can set free screensaver based on your Albums. This screensaver can be downloaded from our sites:

http://ism.webjump.com/products/famarch

http://members.xoom.com/insoftmedia/products/famarch

http://ism.sptl.org/products/famarch

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 File:                 fap12s.zip (3.33M)
 Version:              1.2.0.1
 Status:               Shareware
 Distribution:         Freely distributable "as-is" 
 Last updated:         February 1, 2000
 Minimum requirements: Windows'95/98/NT4/2000
 Installation:         Use winzip or pkunzip to unpack the
                       file and run FAP120s.EXE
 Author:               InSoftMedia Ltd.
 Web site:             http://ism.webjump.com
                       http://members.xoom.com/insoftmedia
                       http://ism.sptl.org


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  TABLE OF CONTENTS
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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 Family Archive - personal 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 to your friends or relatives? It was awful, was not it? With our new program you forget about that headache!

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 picture, date of photograph, category (portrait, family, whatever 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 your 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?

You can create portable Albums from your Archive. It is simply Windows programs with no installation needed. Share such Albums with your friends and relatives! You can send them on diskettes or by e-mail.

In addition to the Family Archives you can use now Family Events, which are the special sort of Albums with assigned date and comments. You can have unlimited number of Family Events.

You can make simple and intuitive processing of your pictures using Magic Glass.

We worked hard to make our product effective and intuitive tool. It is fast - we used professional approach, put everything into 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/NT4/2000

We invite you to be online with it on our WEB sites:
http://ism.webjump.com/products/famarch
http://members.xoom.com/insoftmedia/products/famarch
http://ism.sptl.org/products/famarch

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 or digital camera;
- 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;
- Backup copies of the Archive creation;
- Multiple Archive support;
- Archive password protection;
- Picture editing functions.
- portable Albums, which do not need installing.
- Magic Glass to make simple and intuitive image processing.

2. Installation
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Copy file fap12s.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 or running uninstall from created program group.

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 166 MHz PC;
- Windows 95/98/NT4/2000;
- 16 Mbytes RAM;
- 640x480 256 color VGA display;
- 6 Mbytes of free space on hard drive.

Recommended configuration:

- Pentium compatible 233 MHz PC;
- Windows 95/98/NT4/2000;
- 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 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, 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.

By clicking the book on the table you will come to the Family Events screen. Family Event is a kind of Family Album with assigned date and comment. You can have unlimited number of Family Events (remember that 'only' 120 Albums are allowed), create Albums from Events and vice versa.

You can set program options 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 $34.95 U.S. Registration can be provided by Internet, e-mail, phone, 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 insoftmedia@softhome.net. You can find useful tips and updates for the program on Family Archive WEB page http://ism.webjump.com/products/famarch , 
http://members.xoom.com/insoftmedia/products/famarch ,
http://ism.sptl.org/products/famarch . We will be glad to have your comments about our Family Archive by e-mail insoftmedia@softhome.net.
