ACDSEE VERSION 1.25
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        	Congratulations on obtaining ACDSee, the fastest, 
        	easiest-to-use Windows image viewer available!


FEATURES OVERVIEW
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 * effective image browsing shell interface
 * supports most BMP, GIF, JPEG, PCX, Photo-CD, PiNG, TGA and TIFF files
 * rapid JPEG decompression
 * view images as they are decompressed
 * full-colour image previews
 * easy, quick image panning, even during decompression
 * supports 256, 32768, 65536 and 16 million colour screen modes
 * automatically launch other applications through file associations 
   by clicking on document files
 * supports 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
 * supports printing to most print drivers

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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See install.txt file.


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.