USER MANUAL: SACRED ANIMALS ALBUM AND SLIDE SHOW

1) INSTALLATION
   a) Make certain you are in Windows. The installation program
   will not run in DOS.
   b) Put Disk 1 (or the shareware disk) into your floppy drive.
   From you File Menu choose the Run option. Type a:\setup.exe or
   b:\setup.exe, depending upon whether a or b is the letter
   assigned to your 3 1/2" diskette drive. Click on OK.
   c) Alternatively, open the directory and file display for
   your floppy drive and double click on setup.exe.  
   
2) Either accept the default path and directory for installation or 
edit to your own specifications. Choose whether or not to install 
SACRED ANIMALS as one of your screen saver options in the 
Desktop Item of the Control Panel. Notice that the word 'default' in 
the dialog is confusing. There is no 'default' screen saver in the 
Desktop Item. If you choose this option, SACRED ANIMALS will be 
installed as just one of your screen saver choices under the name 
MINICAT in the proper alphabetical position. See below for an 
explanation of 'MINICAT'.  See the text file 'Your Windows Screen 
Saver in the album for detailed information about SACRED 
ANIMALS as a screen saver and how to configure it. 

3) The installation will create a program group called MINICAT
with a single item in it also called MINICAT. You may change
the title of this icon to SACRED ANIMALS if you wish but there
are reasons not to do so as explained below.

4) Double Click upon the MINICAT icon and the opening screen of
MINICAT is displayed. Notice the bar on the upper right which
is labeled either SACRED ANIMALS SHAREWARE or SACRED 
ANIMALS (for the registered version). Click on this bar and you
will be presented with the SACRED ANIMALS album main screen. 
If you pause at this opening screen for several seconds, a
slide show of all images in the album will begin in the left
hand window. Notice that you can only exit the program from
this opening screen using the Close Button.

5) PLEASE READ ALL TEXT FILES, THEY ARE IMPORTANT AND
IDENTIFIED BY THE BOOK ICON. THESE FILES INCLUDE A 
MANUAL FOR USING SACRED ANIMALS ALBUM, LICENSE, 
ORDER FORM FOR REGISTRATION, INSTRUCTIONS FOR 
CONFIGURING THE SCREEN SAVER, ETC. UNLESS YOU
ARE AN EXPERIENCED WINDOWS USER, PLEASE DO NOT SKIP 
THIS MATERIAL!!

6) At the bottom of the album main screen are buttons for a
variety of operations whose functions are self evident (well
almost): 
        a) Back (to opening screen); 
        b) Index (of items in album); 
        c) Search (associated text files on key words); and 
        d) Left and Right which are disabled in SACRED ANIMALS 
            because all album items can be displayed on a single         
            screen. 
        e) The Print button on the main album page does NOT
             print full size images, only text items such as the manual     
             and text files associated with images. Printout of text           
             associated with images will have a thumbnail image with 
             the text.
         f) Slide Show will begin a slide show of all images and the
            display may be customized: the buttons on the left
            side of the screen to do so should not need explanation.
            If you stop the Slide Show, the Description button can
            display associated text which can be printed with a               
            thumbnail image.
           
7) To read the important text files, click on the book icon for
each. The information will be displayed and can be printed with
the Print Button.

8) To view an image at 640 x 480 resolution, click the
thumbnail on the main album page. The image will quickly be
displayed at this size with buttons for Description (display 
associated text); Print (image) and Close (back to album main 
page). If you choose to print the image a dialog is displayed in 
which you can size the image to the page. The smaller the image 
size on the page, the quicker the printout. THE COPY BUTTON IS
ONLY ENABLED IN THE REGISTERED VERSION OF SACRED 
ANIMALS. It will put a true color (16.7 million colors) copy of the 
image on the Windows Clipboard to be pasted into a graphics 
editor of your choice in order to make graphics files for further use. 
See the text file 'Royalty Free Graphics Files' for additional
explanation.

9) Why the strange terminology? What does MINICAT and 
   CATALOG mean? 
   a) SACRED ANIMALS is the first in a long series of visionary
   art and historic transportation photo album/screen savers to
   be released by Reality Software with this interface. The entire 
   collection is  called a Mini-Catalog (MINICAT) and each product 
   within MINICAT is a CATALOG. The CATALOG name in this case 
   is SACRED ANIMALS and the CATEGORY is SACRED ANIMALS 
   SHAREWARE or SACRED ANIMALS (i.e. registered version). 
   CATEGORY names appear on the MINICAT opening screen as   
   Table of Contents listings on the right. These listings are active 
    and clicking on them brings you to a main album screen as you
    now know. 
   b) As further publications are released in this series, it will
   be possible for you to have each listed as a CATEGORY in the
   Table of Contents of a single MINICAT. Each publication can be
   integrated into the MINICAT you now have.
   
10) How to Uninstall (Delete) Sacred Animals
   a) From Program Manager's File Menu, choose Run .. Type
   c:\makecat\minicat.exe /u and click OK. A dialog will be
   presented with a list of MINICAT CATALOGS available for
   deletion. Choose SACRED ANIMALS and click Uninstall. 
   b) Edit this path statement as necessary if you edited the
   default destination directory during installation.
   c) SACRED ANIMALS will be completely removed from your hard
   drive. If you later wish to use SACRED ANIMALS, it must be
   re-installed from your program disks.
    
ENJOY!   
             
    

            
