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User’s Interim Manual GraphicConverter 7.4.1 Programmed by Thorsten Lemke Manual by Hagen Henke This manual is under construction as many details of GraphicConverter have been changed in version 7. For updated versions please visit : http://www.lemkesoft.com/manuals-books.html Sales: Lemke Software GmbH PF 6034 D-31215 Peine Tel: +49-5171-72200 Fax:+49-5171-72201 E-mail: [email protected] In the PDF version of this manual, you can click the page numbers in the contents and index to jump to that particular page. © 2001-2011 Elbsand Publishers, Hagen Henke. All rights reserved. www.elbsand.de Sales: Lemke Software GmbH, PF 6034, D-31215 Peine; www.lemkesoft.com This book including all parts is protected by copyright. It may not be reproduced in any form outside of copyright laws without permission from the author. This applies in particular to photocopying, translation, copying onto microfilm and storage and processing on electronic systems. All due care was taken during the compilation of this book. However, errors cannot be completely ruled out. The author and distributors therefore accept no responsibility for any program or documentation errors or their consequences. This manual was written on a Mac using Adobe FrameMaker 8. Almost all software, hardware and other products or company names mentioned in this manual are registered trademarks and should be respected as such. The following list is not necessarily complete. Apple, the Apple logo, and Macintosh are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc., registered in the United States and other countries. Mac and the Mac OS logo are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. Copyright for all pictures in manual and on cover: Hagen Henke except for all blossoms from www.photocase.de. 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Typesetting: Hagen Henke Version 1.6, Lorenzkirch 2011 Contents Introduction Welcome to GraphicConverter . .5 System Requirements . .5 Installation . .5 Update . 10 Mac OS 10.7 Lion. 11 Support . 14 This Manual . 14 Starting the Program and Opening a Picture . 15 Converting a Picture with Save as... 19 Saving and Closing . 24 Save a Copy as... 24 Convert & Modify . 24 Work Environment . 46 Internet Preparing Pictures for the Internet . 58 Save for web. 62 Comparing Pictures . 64 Pictures in E-mails . 66 Pictures in mobile phones . 70 Slices . 70 Photo Albums on the Internet (Catalog) . 72 Uploading and Downloading Documents . 83 On Paper Paper Format . 85 Printing . 86 Print Catalog . 88 Print Folder . 93 Processing Pictures Cropping for Photo Prints . 93 Picture Size . 98 Viewing & Sorting The Browser . 100 Pictures on your iPod . 148 Slide show . 149 Find duplicate files . 157 Special 3 Shortcuts . 161 Supported Formats . 163 Index . 192 4 Welcome to GraphicConverter Introduction After dealing with installation of the program, the first section of this manual looks at the most important functions for everyday use. Welcome to GraphicConverter GraphicConverter converts pictures into other picture formats allowing you to use graphics files from other computer systems, for example. The most important functions are: – Converting the most frequent Atari, Amiga, UNIX, Organizer and IBM graphics formats to and from Macintosh formats. Numerous format-related parameters can be configured (page 19). – Image editing – Multiple conversion (page 24) – Importing Pictures from Digital Cameras – Browser for quick viewing of all pictures contained in a folder (page 100) – Slide show (page 149) – Automatic creation of Internet pages with picture indices for download (page 72) – Picture processing including dithering – Remove red eyes – Simple text conversion (page 27) – Print pictures indices (page 88) We wish you all the best in your work with GraphicConverter. System Requirements GraphicConverter 7.x requires Mac OS X 10.5 or newer. Click here to download older versions of GraphicConverter for almost any older Mac OS. Installation Summary: Copy GraphicConverter onto your hard drive and start the program. From version 5.1, GraphicConverter is a multi-language program that starts in the language set in the International section of the System Preferences. The languages available are: German, English, French, Danish, Sweden, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), Czech, Dutch, Catalan and Russian. This manual is stored inside the GraphicConverter program file that is a so-called package. Packages can be opened by selecting Show Package Contents from the context menu in the Finder. They then work in the same way as folders. All 5 Installation documentation for GraphicConverter is under the path Contents / Documentation. If you want to install a newer version of the documentation, simply overwrite the old file with the new one. You may not change the names. In Mac OS X, plug-ins are copied to the Library / Application Support / GraphicConverter / Plug-ins folder. User plug-ins are copied to the Users / ˜ / Library / Application Support / GraphicConverter / Plug-ins folder. The tilde character ˜ stands for the name of the respective user. User plug-ins are only available to the respective users. One very easy way to install plug-ins is to drag them onto the GraphicConverter program icon. After a query, they will be automatically copied into the correct folder. Mac OS X already supports a large number of USB scanners. Connect your scanner and select File / Scan / Scan with Image Capture.... If you want to use the functions of the software supplied with the scanner, please follow the instructions in the scanner documentation. Step By Step Installation You may have downloaded GraphicConverter from the Internet or received it on a CD or GraphicConverter may already have been installed on your computer. Please read the paragraph that applies to you below. Possibility 1: You downloaded GraphicConverter from the Internet: Double-click the file, which has been downloaded, if a window with a volume image does not open automatically. A volume image is a volume, which can be used like a normal volume, even though it only exists in the RAM. The following volume image appears on the desktop: 6 Installation Double-click the volume image to open it. In Mac OS X, drag the GraphicConverter folder into the Applications folder on your hard drive. Installation is not complete. To delete the volume image from the RAM, click it and press Command-E (Eject). Open the Programs folder on your hard drive and start the GraphicConverter program by double-clicking. To make opening GraphicConverter easy, we recommend dragging the program file into the dock. Alternatively you can drag the file to the Desktop while holding down the Command and Option keys to create an alias via which you can start the program. Possibility 2: You received GraphicConverter on CD: Double-click the CD to open it. A window will open where other software is available in addition to GraphicConverter. CADintosh is a program for professional technical drawings, which you can test and license separately. FontBook shows all installed fonts in tables. If you decide to use these 7 Installation programs on a regular basis, you will need to pay a license fee to the respective software producer. You may find further products from Lemke Software GmbH on the CD. Open the GraphicConverter folder and then the folder for your Mac OS. The following window opens if you are using Mac OS X: If you have a Macintosh with Intel processor, you need to double-click the GraphicConverter Universal Binary.dmg file to install the volume image. Please read on above under Possibility 1. If your computer has a PowerPC processor, double-click the GraphicConverter X.dmg file. Possibility 3: GraphicConverter was already.