AddDepth®  1.1 - Windows(TM) Version -- Two-Disk Version Read Me File  
      Copyright (c) 1992-1995  Ray Dream, Inc.  All rights reserved.  
  
WELCOME  
  
Thank you for purchasing AddDepth for Windows. This document contains  
important information that is not included in the AddDepth User's Guide.  
  
                          ***  CONTENTS  ***  
  
TWO DISK VERSION
REGISTRATION  
SYSTEM REQUIREMENT NOTES  
DOCUMENTATION OMISSIONS AND ERRATA  
COMPATIBILITY NOTES  
TIPS & TROUBLESHOOTING  
CONTACTING RAY DREAM  
  

TWO DISK VERSION

This disk set contains a limited installation version of AddDepth Windows. 
Running SETUP.EXE from these disks will install the latest version of 
AddDepth, a reduced set of AddDepth Wizard Templates, plus sample files 
and clip art files required for the tutorial.

The Ultimate Symbol clip art, FontBank typefaces and remaining Template 
Wizards are available on the CD-ROM only. If you have a CD-ROM drive you 
should install from the AddDepth CD-ROM that came with your package.

If you do not have access to a CD-ROM drive you can order a complete 
floppy-disk installation set from Ray Dream by sending in the AddDepth 
Floppy Disk Order Form card included in your AddDepth package. A shipping 
and handling fee of $9.50 will be charged.
  
REGISTRATION  
  
Registering your copy of AddDepth brings you a number of benefits 
including free technical support, advance information on product updates 
and information on other Ray Dream products. Please take the time to fill 
out the registration card enclosed in your AddDepth package and return it 
to us at Ray Dream, postage paid. Be sure to place one of the product 
serial numbers labels on the card before mailing it.  
  
SYSTEM REQUIREMENT NOTES  
  
The calculations required to manipulate graphic images in 3D are 
significant. AddDepth will run on a minimally configured 386 PC with 4 
MB of RAM, but performance will be sluggish and AddDepth may be 
unable to handle complex files under a minimal configuration. Faster 
processor speeds and increased amounts of RAM in your PC will 
significantly increase AddDepth's performance. 

DOCUMENTATION OMISSIONS AND ERRATA  
  
1) Toolbars: By default, the toolbar is docked along the top edge of the 
screen, below the menu bar. You can "undock" the toolbar if you prefer to 
access the tools from floating palettes instead--just drag a toolbar away 
from the edge of the screen, and it becomes a floating palette. You can 
change the palette's shape by dragging its lower right corner; tools can be 
arranged in a single horizontal row, a single vertical column, or any of 
several intermediate configurations.

To "re-dock" the palette, drag it back to the edge of the screen or
double-click on the palette.

  
COMPATIBILITY NOTES  
  
1)   The Windows version of AddDepth has been tested with the most 
popular video adapter cards currently on the market. The proliferation of 
video adapter cards with proprietary video drivers has made it difficult to 
test all the video cards currently in use today.  If you are experiencing 
some video problems, please make sure that you are using the most 
current video driver provided by the video adapter manufacturer. Most 
video adapter card manufacturers have a BBS where you can download 
the latest video driver or the manufacturer will send you the updated 
driver software upon request.    
 
2)  COMPATIBILITY WITH CorelDRAW!.

EPS files and CorelDRAW! 3.0 or CorelDRAW! 4.0 - An .EPS file contains a 
thumbnail preview. This thumbnail preview can be in .WMF or .TIF format. 
CorelDRAW! expects to see a .TIF thumbnail and will error out when attempting 
to open an EPS file generated from AddDepth because AddDepth uses 
.WMF as its thumbnail preview format. See section 3 below.   

Importing Adobe Illustrator files in CorelDRAW! - When importing Adobe
Illustrator files CorelDRAW! does not support clipping paths. If you 
have gradients or decals on an object front face they will not be clipped.    

You cannot open CorelDRAW! 5.0 files in this version of AddDepth. 
An easy work-around is to save your CorelDraw! 5.0 files in CorelDraw! 
4.0 format.   
  

3) CHOOSING  YOUR INTERCHANGE FILE FORMATS

To Import from:		use:		
CorelDRAW!  		CorelDRAW! 3.0 or 4.0 format
Adobe Illustrator	Adobe Illustrator 3.0 format
Aldus FreeHand 		Aldus FreeHand 3.1 format
Other software		Adobe Illustrator format. WMF and CGM as a second choice. 

To Export to:		use:
CorelDRAW! 		Adobe Illustrator 3.0 format or WMF if you have gradients and decals.	
Adobe Illustrator 	Adobe Illustrator 3.0 format
Aldus FreeHand 		Aldus FreeHand 3.1 format
Pagemaker		EPS
Quark			EPS
Word			EPS
Micrografx Designer	WMF
Adobe Photoshop		AI

TIPS & TROUBLESHOOTING  
  
1)   AddDepth 's Style Palettes are stored in memory. If you build a large 
Style Palette by adding many styles, it will consume larger amounts of 
RAM. To reduce this memory consumption, we recommend building 
several smaller Style Palettes rather than one large one. See Pages 5-19 
through 5-24 of the AddDepth User Guide to learn more about managing 
your Style Palettes.  

2)   .WMF, Clipboard export and Printing to non Postscript printers. When exporting object with gradients or 
decals on the front face or back face AddDepth needs to clip them. 
This is a time and memory consuming process. The number 
of steps in a gradient fill when exporting to WMF is limited at 20. 
This limit can be changed in the ADDDEPTH.INI file by changing 
the MaxNbrGradationBandsInExportWMFandCGM=20 to a higher value. Please note that 
the higher the limit is set the longer it will take to copy 
to the clipboard, to export as .WMF or to print. 

3)   There is no direct way to change or modify the name of a style once it 
has been created in the Style Library, but there is an easy work-around. 
Select "Edit Styles Palette" from the Effects menu, select the style you 
want to rename, and click on the "Duplicate" button. Enter the new name 
for the style, and then delete the style with the old name.  
  
4)   There is an additional keyboard command for selecting objects in 3 
dimensions: Alt-click to select an object hidden behind another object. You 
can select an object which is behind another object by holding down the 
Alt key while clicking on the first object with the mouse. If you have more 
than one "layer" of objects, continue to click with the option key held 
down to select objects that are hidden behind objects that are closer to 
you.  
  
5)   If you have minimized multiple document windows, occasionally the 
icons will not be visible. If you click on the document name the invisible 
icon will reappear.  
  
6)   You cannot access Help by pressing F1 in either the Open or Save 
dialog. You can access the context-sensitive help for these dialogs by 
pressing on the Help button.  
  
7)   No progress dialog is displayed when opening a FreeHand file. The 
hourglass cursor is displayed in its place.  
  
8)   To Tile your document windows horizontally, press the Ctrl key while 
selecting the Tile menu item in the View menu.  
  
9)   The Ctrl+Q key combination will exit AddDepth.
  
10)  The Backspace key will clear an object or multiple objects.

11)  A style can not be applied directly to a 3D box because it is a 
special object. It should first be ungrouped before a style can be
applied to it (Don't forget to regroup it before moving or rotating).

12)  Press the Ctrl+R key combination to toggle between wireframe mode
and preview mode. The wireframe mode is good for object placement
relative to other objects or to the page. Once the desired layout 
has been reached, toggle from wireframe mode back to preview mode 
to see how the final artwork looks.  
  
13)  When using template wizards, the position of the artwork relative to the page when
viewed on screen may change when the image is printed. This may vary, depending on the type 
of printer that is used. In most cases, even though the wizard artwork is not centered on screen,
it will be centered when printed. In order to get an accurate preview of the position of the object 
relative to the page, before printing select the Print Setup command which is located under the 
File menu. After clicking on the OK button, the artwork on screen will be positioned relative to 
the page as it would be when printed.

CONTACTING RAY DREAM  
  
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