	  PhotoFinish 2.x Release Information / Read Me File

Thank you for purchasing PhotoFinish, a ZSoft image processing program 
for the Windows environment. 

PhotoFinish 2.0 and higher has many additional features to make 
it even easier to use. These features include calibrating your 
devices, an AutoEnhance command to let the program automatically 
enhance your pictures, and an AutoScan command to let the program 
automatically scan and enhance images. In addition, there are 
several new tools and commands to enhance your images. Some 
commands that were on the Edit menu in PhotoFinish version 1.0 
are now on a new menu named Image. A new feature, the Viewer 
command on the File menu, lets you easily view and manage your 
picture files. 

For a complete list of the new features in PhotoFinish, 
please see the Update topic in the PhotoFinish Help program.

The rest of this file includes additional information and corrections 
that became available after the PhotoFinish documentation was printed.

For a list of supported scanners, see Supported Scanners in this
file.

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If you let the PhotoFinish Setup program copy all files to your 
PhotoFinish directory, remember to add the PhotoFinish directory 
to your path. Most systems set their path in the AUTOEXEC.BAT 
file. Other systems use a separate batch file to set their path. 
Use a text editor, such as Notepad, to add PhotoFinish to your path. 
For example, your path statement might look like this: 
PATH C:\;C:\DOS;C:\Photo

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If you are using a disk compression program, such as Stacker, 
do not set your virtual memory path to a compressed volume. If 
you do so, you may not be able to open PhotoFinish. If this 
happens, you must edit the [ZSoftVM] section of your WIN.INI 
file and set your virtual memory path to an unstacked volume.

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If you plan to install a scanner for use with PhotoFinish on a 
system that has one or more ZSoft scanner drivers already installed, 
you must delete any reference to the old ZSoft scanner drivers 
from your CONFIG.SYS or AUTOEXEC.BAT file before installing PhotoFinish.

Use a text editor to make the changes to your files. If you are 
not sure which line of your CONFIG.SYS or AUTOEXEC.BAT file to 
modify, refer to the documentation from your older ZSoft program 
for information about your specific scanner and its CONFIG.SYS 
or AUTOEXEC.BAT entry.

PhotoFinish's Setup program can automatically add the updated 
ZSoft scanner drivers to your CONFIG.SYS file or AUTOEXEC.BAT. 
Your older ZSoft applications will work with the new drivers.

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The Display Calibrate Monitor command is unavailable for 16 
color VGA display drivers.

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Thumbnail preview pictures are saved to disk with an 
extension that begins with an exclamation point. For 
example, a thumbnail preview of a .PCX file has the extension
of .!px. If you cannot save a file to the disk or directory 
where the picture is, the thumbnail file is saved to a 
PhotoFinish subdirectory named THUMNAIL.

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Supported Scanners

Following is a list of scanners supported by PhotoFinish.

Canon IX-12 Used with the Canon Interface Board, Chinon N-207 
(3000) Parallel Interface board, Chinon N-207 (3000) Serial 
Interface, Complete PC Flatbed Scanner, Complete PC FullPage 
Scanner, Complete PC Hand Scanner/400, Complete PC Half Page 
Scanner, Complete PC Half Page Gray Scale Scanner, Complete 
PC Half Page Scanner/400, DAK Soul Snatcher Video Grabber VG-100, 
Datacopy 230 with the 111 Interface Card, Datacopy 730GS 
with the 111 Interface Card, DFI Handy Scanner 2000, DFI Handy 
Scanner 3000, DFI Handy Scanner 3000 Plus, DFI Handy Scanner 
CHS 4000, Epson ES-300C/GT-6000, Epson GT-4000, Epson 
ES-600C/GT-6500, Epson ES-800C/GT-8000, Fujitsu 3191, Genius 
GS-4500, Genius GS-C105, Howtek Personal Color Scanner, Howtek 
ScanMaster, HP ScanJet, HP ScanJet Plus, HP ScanJet IIc, IBM 3117,
Intel SatisFAXtion Hand Scanner, Jovian SuperVIA video capture, 
Logitech ScanMan, Logitech ScanMan Plus, Logitech ScanMan 256 
and Logitech ScanMan 32, Logitech ScanMan for Microchannel, Marstek 
105 Hand Scanner, Marstek 128 Hand Scanner, Marstek 128 Hand 
Scanner with old interface card, Marstek 800 Hand Scanner, 
Marstek M6000CG, Microtek 200A, 200C Used with the PCX Board, 
Microtek 300A, 300C, 300G, 300Z Used with the PCX Board, Microtek 
400C, 400G Used with the PCX Board, Microtek 600G, 600Z Used 
with the PCX Board, Microtek 800G, 800Z Used with the PCX Board, 
Microtek 1850 Used with the PCX Board, Mitsubishi SC-7500, Mouse 
Systems Pagebrush Color, Niscan/GS, Niscan Spectra, Panasonic FX-RS307, 
Panasonic FX-RS505, Panasonic FX-RS506, Ricoh IS11 with the ISI-8 
Interface Board, Ricoh RS312 with the ISI-8 Interface Board, 
Ricoh RS312 with the ISI-8 Interface Board (256 Gray mode), Ricoh 
RS320 with the ISI-8 Interface Board, Sharp JX-300, Sharp JX-320,
Sharp JX-450 and Sharp JX-450 for Microchannel

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ZSoft has included a batch file that will remove PhotoFinish 
from your hard disk in the event you need to uninstall the program. 
This file is called UNINSTAL.BAT. This file deletes the PhotoFinish 
directory and any subdirectories attached to the PhotoFinish 
directory. This file also deletes any PhotoFinish program files 
(DLL's) that were copied to your WINDOWS directory.

To remove PhotoFinish from your hard disk:
1 Change to your PhotoFinish directory.
2 Type UNINSTAL followed by your WINDOWS directory.
  For example, if your WINDOWS directory is located on C,type:
  UNINSTAL C:\WINDOWS
3 At the Warning, choose Yes to remove PhotoFinish from your hard 
  disk, choose No to leave PhotoFinish on your hard disk.
4 You must manually remove the PhotoFinish program icons and group 
  icons by using the File Delete command on the Program Manager menu  
  bar. For more information, see your Windows documentation.
5 You must manually remove the PATH = statement from your AUTOEXEC.BAT 
  file if you choose to copy several program files (DLL's) to your 
  PhotoFinish directory during Setup. For more information, see your
  DOS documentation.


