MAPSTER, v.0.2.2
Copyright (c) 1998-1999 Matthew C. Gushee

Mapster is a simple graphical tool for generating client-side
imagemaps for web pages. It is written in Tcl/Tk, so you will need the 
wish program and the Tcl/Tk libraries installed.

*Emacs users may be interested in 'htmlx.el', which contains a function
to help you use mapster together with Emacs.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
    (at your option) any later version.

    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
    GNU General Public License for more details.

    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
    along with this program; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to
    the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
    Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

Acknowledgements
================

Thanks to Bob Apthorpe for pointing out several bugs and misfeatures
in version 0.1., and to Henry Meyerding for prompting me to finally
solve (more or less) the persistent package loading problem.


What you can and can't do with mapster:
=======================================

You can ...
-----------

load an existing GIF image; with a suitable image converter (which you
must obtain separately), you can also import JPEG, PNG, and TIFF
images.

draw rectangles, circles, and polygons on top of an image.

move them.

delete them.

change the color of drawn objects, as well as the background, from
dark to light and vice-versa, for visibility.

give each area a descriptive name, which is included as an HTML
comment in the output. Hopefully, that will help you figure out which
area is which.


You can't ...
-------------

create the actual image for your image map, or edit it in any
way. All Mapster really does is find the coordinates of the
shapes you draw, and spits them out in HTML-ified form.

do any fancy HTML or scripting tricks.


** For more info, read the User's Guide (mapster-user.html). **


CAUTION!
========

This is an alpha release! It has only been tested on a Linux system
with Tcl/Tk 8.0, and not very thoroughly at that. So far I have found
it to be usable in a limited way. There are undoubtedly bugs, some
that I know about (see the BUGS file), some that I don't.


Contacting the Author
=====================

Suggestions for improvement are welcome! Please send email to:

mgushee@havenrock.com
