About PhotoVP
PhotoVP
is a very powerful Photo View and Print software.
It works on
Windows 98/2000/NT/XP.
With PhotoVP, you can:
- View your photo or image in the most popular formats: .bmp, .jpg, .gif,
.png, .tif, .ico, .wmf, .emf.
- View your photo in three modes: window, actual size, and full
screen.
- Navigate through all the photos in one folder by using previous
button, next button, first button, and last button.
- View your photos in one folder by slide show in two mode: window
mode and full screen mode.
- Rotate or flip your photo on the fly in window view mode.
- Change the size of the thumbnail on the fly.
- Print you photos or images in three ways: one photo a time,
multi-photos multi-copies and multi-pages, and thumbnails in
the folder.
- Print your photo in the predefined size: 4'x6', 5'x7', 6'x8',
7'x9', 8'x10'; the actual image size, the paper size, or your own
defined size.
- Select which photo to print and how many copies to print for all
the photos in a folder very easily.
- Choose whether to clip the image to print a true, say 4'x6'
photo, or a little bit smaller photo but with all the content in
it.
As you will see, PhotoVP has all the functions you need to view and
print your photos. So why spend $200, $100, or $50 on software to view
or print your
photos and you only use 50%, 20%, or even 10% of the functions of the
software! For only US$9.98, PhotoVP give you a new choice!
System requirements
- Microsoft.NET Framework Runtime. If you have not install it, you can download it free
from Microsoft, just click the following link:
English Download.
or
http://download.microsoft.com/download/.netframesdk/Redist/1.0/
W98NT42KMeXP/EN-US/dotnetredist.exe
- Operation systems: any one of:
Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP
- 64 MB RAM or more
- 30 MB free disk space
- VGA - True Color video mode
Installation:
- If you have not download Microsoft.NET Framework Runtime, just
follow the above link to download and install it first.
- Install PhotoVP by just click or double-click the setup file:
PhotoVPsetup.exe and follow the instruction.
After installation, the setup program will add a menu item in
Windows explorer's context menu (see figure below). You can use this
menu item (Browse with PhotoVP) to start PhotoVP and browse all the
image files on the selected folder.
"Browse with PhotoVP" context menu in Windows
explorer.
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File Operations
 Open - Open
photo or image in the most popular formats: .jpg, .gif, .png, .tif, .ico,
.wmf, .emf.
Note: You can also drag a image file to PhotoVP to open it!
Save As - Save the image in the "View" window with one of
the following format: .bmp, .jpg, .gif, .png, .tif. You can use this
function to change the image format.
Properties - Display the properties of the image file, like size,
format, etc, as the following figure shows:
Exit - Close PhotoVP.
Note: If you can't close PhotoVP by click the "Close"
button on the caption bar, use this "Exit" menu.
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View Operations
PhotoVP let you view your photo or image in many ways: in a window
(Best Fit), display the photo in its original size (Actual Size), in
"Full Screen" mode, or in "Slide Show" mode. You
can also navigate all the photos in one folder by using the navigation
buttons. At the same time, you can rotate or flip the photo in the
View window on-the-fly!
Best Fit - the photo size is zoomed to fit the View window's size in order to show all
parts of the photo (see the following figure). You can change the size
of the View window in order to see your photo in a larger or smaller
size.
Note: Photos or images with smaller size than the View Window
don't change their size to fit the window size.
Screen shot 1: All three windows are displayed with thumbnail size
100x75 and Best Fit view mode
Actual Size - the photo is
displayed in it's actual size. If the photo is large than the View window
size, horizontal or vertical scrollbar is added to the View window and
you can use them to see other parts
that is not show in the View window initially (see figure below).
Screen shot 7: All three windows are displayed with thumbnail size
25x20 and Actual Size view mode
Full Screen - display the photo using the full screen. Depend upon
your choose of "Best Fit" or "Actual Size", the
photo on the full screen will also displayed on "Best Fit"
or "Actual Size" mode. But for better view, you may want to
change the view mode to "Best Fit" before using the
"Full Screen" mode.
In order to leave the full screen mode, just double-click on any place
of the screen or press the Esc key.
Next - display next photo or image in the current folder.
Previous - display previous photo or image in the current folder.
First - display the first photo or image in the current folder.
Last - display the last photo or image in the current folder.
Slide Show - display all the photo in the current folder in slide show mode.
This will display all the photos in a folder repeatedly in about 2
second intervals until you push this button again.
Note: Slide show will also stop if you change the current
folder or the size of the thumbnail.
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Rotate Operations
Rotate Right (rotate 90 degree clockwise) - rotate the photo in the
View window 90 degree clockwise. You can push this button again to
rotate another 90 degree and more....
Note: After rotate certain degree, you can save the rotated
photo to another file.
Rotate Left (rotate 270 degree clockwise) - rotate the photo in the
View window 270 degree clockwise (see the following figure).
Screen shot 8: All three windows are displayed with thumbnail size
200x150 and Actual Size view mode and a 270 degree rotation.
180 Degree - rotate the photo in the View window 180 degree
clockwise.
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Flip Operations
Flip Horizontal - flip the photo in the View window horizontally.
Note: After flip, you can save the flipped photo to another
file.
Flip Vertical - flip the photo in the View window vertically.
Both - flip the photo in the View window both horizontally and
vertically.
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Thumbnail Operations
200x150 - set the size of thumbnails to 200x150 (see figure below).
Screen shot 4: Only Thumbnail window is displayed with thumbnail size
200x150 and Print Selection Control.
100x75 - set the size of thumbnails to 100x75.
50x38 - set the size of thumbnails to 50x38.
25x20 - set the size of thumbnails to 25x20.
Note: If the "Print Selection Control" is displaying,
thumbnails can't be set to this size.
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Window Operations
There are three windows in PhotoVP: Directory window, Thumbnail
window, and View window. Window operations let you choose to show or
hide some of these windows in order to make more space for other
windows.
Hide/Show Directory window - hide or show the Directory window to make
more space for the Thumbnail window or View window (see figure below).
Screen shot 2: Only Directory and View windows are displayed with
thumbnail size 100x75.
Hide/Show Thumbnail window - hide or show the Thumbnail window to make
more space for the Directory window or View window (see figure below).
Screen shot 5: Only View windows are displayed.
Hide/Show View window - hide or show the View window to make more
space for the Directory window or Thumbnail window (see figure below).
Screen shot 3: Only Directory and Thumbnail windows are displayed with
Print Selection Control.
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Print Operations
PhotoVP has powerful print functions. There are three modes
(methods) to print your photo in PhotoVP: Single photo mode,
Multi-photo multi-copy multi-page mode, and thumbnail mode. There are
also many predefined print size you can use directly.
4'x6' - set the print size to 4'x6'.
5'x7' - set the print size to 5'x7'.
6'x8' - set the print size to 6'x8'.
7'x9' - set the print size to 7'x9'
8'x10' - set the print size to 8x10'
Fit to Paper - set the print size as large as the print paper (see
figure below).
Note: If you choose the print size to Fit to Paper, the
"Clip to Fit Size" has no effect.
Print preview with print size set to Fit to Paper.
Actual Size - set the print size to the actual size of the image.
For simplicity, the actual size of an image is calculate as the pixel
size divided by 100, for example, if the width of an image is 640
pixel, then the actual size of this image is set to 640/100 = 6.4
inch.
Note: "Clip to Fit Size" has no effect under this
setting.
User Defined Size - set the print size to what size you want using
the following dialog window:
Note: Please note that the unit is inch for the user defined
size.
The following figure shows a print preview window with a user
defined print size of 3'x2':
Print preview with user defined size of 3'x2' and multi-copy
selection.
Clip to Fit Size - Most often, the ratio (width : height) of an
image is not the same as the ratio of the print size. So if you want
to print all the content of an image using certain print size, the
actual printing will not be as wide or high as you expect, depending
upon the difference of the ratio. For example, in the following
figure, the top photo is a little bit narrower and the bottom photo
shorter.
Print preview without setting the "Clip to Fit Size".
If you want the printings be same as the print size you set, just
choose (select) the "Clip to Fit Size" menu item. Then the
printings will be exactly the same as the print size, but some part of
the photo (the right or the bottom) will not be printed, as the
following figure shows:
Print preview with the "Clip to Fit Size" selected.
Note: Sometimes maybe you want the left or top part be clipped
instead of the right or bottom part. How can you do this? In Single
Print mode, by rotating or flipping the photo, you can get this
effect, as the following two figure shows:
Clip top or left part by rotating the photo.
Show Print Selection - show or hide the Print Selection Control:
When you don't wont to print multiple copies or multiple photos at
the same time, you usually don't need to show the Print Selection
Control. Whenever you select to show this control, the print mode is
set to Multi-photo Multi-copy Multi-page mode (see figure below). Then
you can choose which photo to print and how many copies you want to
print, as show in screenshot 3.
Note: The Print Selection Control can't be displayed if the
thumbnail size is set to 25x20.
Print preview in Multi-photo Multi-copy Multi-page mode.
Select/Clear All - Select all the photos in current folder or clear
all the selection.
Set Print to Thumbnail - set the print mode the Thumbnail mode. In
this mode, both print preview and print are direct to thumbnail
printing. So all the photos in the current folder are printed using
the current thumbnail size. For example, the following figure shows a
thumbnail printing with current thumbnail size of 200x150:
Print preview in Thumbnail mode with thumbnail size 200x150.
Page Setup - Show the Page Setup dialog to select paper size, paper
margins, and printer etc.
 Print Preview - Show
the Print Preview dialog.
Note: Although there is a print button in the print preview
dialog, you are strongly advised to use the Print menu item or Print
button on the toolbar of PhotoVP to print your photo, for the print
button on print preview dialog sometimes function abnormally.
 Print - Show the Print
dialog.
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Help Menu
Help - Show this help information.
Online Registration - Register PhotoVP online from RegNow. It's
save, fast, and best of all, it's cheap! Just US$9.98! So register
now if you have not.
 About
PhotoVP - Show the following window,
which display the user name and license code if you have registered PhotoVP.
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Reasons to register
PhotoVP a "Shareware". You are entitled to evaluate
the software for 30 days without having to pay. After 30 days, if you
decide to keep the software, you must register your copy with us for a
small amount of fee.
Ways to register:
Price: $9.98 USD.
Please send the registration fee through PayPal
to:
rliu2@chuma.cas.usf.edu
In you email, please include the following information:
| First Name: |
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| Last Name: |
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| Company: (optional): |
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| Email: |
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After receiving your registration fee, an email with the
registration code and instructions will send to you immediately.
It's faster and safe to register your copy of PhotoVP from RegNow. Just
use the following link to register online:
https://www.regnow.com/softsell/nph-softsell.cgi?item=6519-5
After registration, you can get the registration
code immediately on the web site.
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Distribution (Shareware Version)
You are licensed to make as many copies of the UNREGISTERED
SHAREWARE VERSION of PhotoVP as you wish and distribute them to
anyone, but you must distribute all the files. You are also licensed
to save the UNREGISTERED SHAREWARE VERSION of PhotoVP to your software
library for others to download.
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