ACDSEE VERSION 1.4
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        	Congratulations on obtaining ACDSee, the fastest, 
        	easiest-to-use Windows image viewer available!


FEATURES OVERVIEW
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* attractive, effective and easy-to-use interface, including toolbars, 
  status bars and on-line help
* support for most BMP, GIF, JPEG, PCX, Photo-CD, PNG, TGA and TIFF files
* rapid JPEG decoding
* fast, full-colour image previews
* file system browser front end lets you quickly browse through your 
  images and other files
* image display during decoding process
* selectable dithering modes for high quality output
* fast scrolling and zooming, even during decoding process
* innovative system for deleting, renaming, copying and moving files
* support for document launching, editing and printing via file associations 
* powerful file association editor
* facility for viewing & editing 4DOS descriptions
* drag-and-drop support for single and multiple files
* automatic or manual slideshow with optional read-ahead decompression
* always-on-top and full-screen viewing window options
* shrink image to fit  window or screen option
* batch image printing
* optional single-instance mode makes ACDSee the perfect viewer for use as
  a helper application
* set the desktop wallpaper

DISTRIBUTION
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This shareware software may be freely distributed, provided that:

(1) Such distribution includes only the original archive supplied by 
    ACD Systems, Ltd. You may not alter, delete or add any files in 
    the distribution archive.
(2) The distrubution does not include a registration number.  
    In particular, you may not distrubute a registered version of ACDSee.
(3) No money is charged to the person receiving the software, beyond 
    reasonable cost of packaging and other overhead.


INSTALLATION
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Simply run the included EXE setup program from any directory.
This program will guide you through the installation process.

UNINSTALLATION
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Should you wish to uninstall ACDSee, simply run the included uninstall
utility.  (DO NOT JUST DELETE THE PROGRAM FILES.)  The uninstall utility will 
cleanly remove the program and any changes made to your system by the 
installation process.

RUNNING
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You can start ACDSee from the Program Manager by double-clicking on its icon. 
You will immediately be presented with the Image Browser dialog where you can 
browse your directories for images to look at.

If you have made a File Manager association between image files and ACDSee, 
you can also start ACDSee from the File Manager by just double clicking on 
an image file. 

You can supply one or more image files as the command-line arguments to 
ACDSee.  You can even use wildcards.  e.g., acdsee.exe *.jpg would start 
ACDSee and have it slideshow all the files in the current directory.

In addition, you may specify a startup directory on the command line.  
The directory name must end in a "\", or be one of ".", "..", r "<drive>:".  
ACDSee will start the Image Browser in the specified directory.


       	See the file ACDSEE.HLP for more details.