          Welcome to PhotoImpact Viewer 4.0 Freeware Version

This ReadMe First document provides basic information about PhotoImpact
Viewer. If you have any questions about how to use this product, please
refer first to the program's online help. Also, visit the PhotoImpact
Viewer and Ulead Web Utilities pages on our web site
(http://www.ulead.com/products/framens.htm) for FAQ updates, tips and
techniques, special promotions, free software, and other useful
information.


Table of contents

1.      How to install this program?
2.	System requirements
3.	What is PhotoImpact Viewer?
4.	Technical support
5.	Providing feedback and suggestions
6.	What is Ulead PhotoImpact web image editor?
7.	Distribution program


1. How to install this program?

Run Pivwr40.exe directly to install PhotoImpact Viewer 4.0 Freeware
Version. 


2. System requirements

.       Windows 95 or Windows NT 3.51 or higher
.       486-DX2/DX4 or Pentium-compatible systems
.       8 MB RAM
.       5 MB available hard drive space for program files
.       Windows-compatible pointing device
.       True Color or HiColor display adapter and monitor (recommended)


3. What is PhotoImpact Viewer?

PhotoImpact Viewer is a simple but powerful 32-bit image viewer for
Windows 95 and NT, provided as Freeware by Ulead Systems, Inc.
PhotoImpact Viewer includes the following major features:
.       Viewer can be easily configured as a Web browser image viewing
        helper program
.       Viewer can be easily configured as a Windows image viewer for
        selected file formats
.       Viewer can be easily configured into Windows Explorer's context
        menu
.       Supports various image types as well as animated GIF files
.       Image Open, Print, and Save As another image file format
.       Complete PhotoCD option support
.       Drag `n' Drop to open files in the following file formats: BMP,
        CLP, CUR, DCS, EPS, FAX, GIF, ICO, IFF, JPG (JPEG), IMG, MAC,
        MSP, PCD, PCT, PCX, PIC, PNG, PSD, PXR, RAS, RLE, SCT, SHG, TGA,
        TIF (TIFF), and WMF. Many file format variations are supported.
.       More file format filters will be available from Ulead web site.
.       Open active image into PhotoImpact Image Editor or another
        user-selected image editor
.       Conveniently access recently opened files
.       Fit page or centered image printing with optional title field
.       32-level image Zoom In/Out with handy numerical pad "+", "-" key
        support
.       Full screen and Fit in window image display
.       Convenient global view panning when displaying an image larger
        than current window
.       Image Rotate commands for viewing landscape or portrait image
        conveniently
.       File format conversion via Save As command
.       Detailed file format attributes and file properties display
.       Close All command
.       Comprehensive on-line Help

For more information about PhotoImpact Viewer and how to use it, refer
to the online help. It can be viewed by clicking the help button that
appears in most of the program's dialog boxes, from the Help menu, or by
clicking the Help document icon from Windows Viewer.


4. Technical support

For users of this Freeware version PhotoImpact Viewer, if you have any
questions, we encourage you to read the PhotoImpact Viewer on-line help
and web pages on our web site (http://www.ulead.com). We offer
absolutely NO technical support for this Freeware version of PhotoImpact
Viewer. If you discover a bug in the program, please kindly send your
report to support@ulead.com.tw. Necessary changes will be made and the
FAQ page will be updated. We suggest you check our web site often.


5. Providing feedback and suggestions

Your comments and suggestions to improve our software are most welcome.
Please send them to webutility@ulead.com.tw. Thank you for your time and
support.


6. What is Ulead PhotoImpact web image editor?

GETTING ON THE WEB has become a top priority for individuals, groups and
companies everywhere. And when you say Web, you mean graphics and images.
To meet the special challenges of web imaging, Ulead PhotoImpact now
brings you WebExtensions, a comprehensive set of productivity tools to
make imaging for the Web as convenient, fast and easy as creating images
for all your other documents. PhotoImpact with WebExtensions is the
perfect companion for Microsoft FrontPage, Adobe PageMill and Netscape
Navigator Gold.

Although very handy and useful, PhotoImpact Viewer is only a very small
part of the complete PhotoImpact technology. The full version of
PhotoImpact includes a state-of-the-art object-based image editing
module along with many other powerful tools, such as GIF/JPEG SmartSaver,
GIF Animator, Explorer, Screen Capture, Album and CD Browser, to make
your work easier. If you like this product, you owe it to yourself to
check out the full version. (http://www.ulead.com/webex/we.htm)

PhotoImpact GIF/JPEG SmartSaver, PhotoImpact GIF Animator, PhotoImpact
GIF optimizer, PhotoImpact Album, PhotoImpact Viewer and PhotoImpact
Screen Capture are just parts of the PhotoImpact and WebExtensions
technology developed for Ulead PhotoImpact with WebExtensions - the
ultimate web imaging tool. If you have already purchased Ulead
PhotoImpact with WebExtensions package, you already have many of these
web utilities and technologies. Just don't forget to come back often to
download the latest update of PhotoImpact SmartSaver, Viewer, GIF
Optimizer, and GIF Animator. All Trial versions of SmartSaver v1.x, GIF
Optimizer v1.x, Viewer v4.x, Explorer v4.x and GIF Animator v1.x will be
installed as a permanent extension to your existing PhotoImpact, making
these Web utilities completely free to existing Ulead PhotoImpact users.


8. Distribution program

If you would like to distribute Freeware PhotoImpact Viewer 4.0 on your
CD-ROM, Web page or FTP site please feels free to do so. You must,
however, keep PhotoImpact Viewer's single EXE file in its original form
as distributed by Ulead Systems. If you would like to distribute other
Ulead Web Utilities products or Trial versions, please contact
webutility@ulead.com.tw.


Copyright 1996 - 1997, Ulead Systems, Inc.

All rights reserved. Ulead is a registered trademark and Ulead
PhotoImpact is a trademark of Ulead Systems. Some of the product names
used are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders
and are used for identification purposes only.
