-----------------------ACDSee 5.0.1 Readme File -----------------------(c) ACD Systems, 2003. All rights reserved. -------Contents -------1.

Upgrading from ACDSee 4.0 1.1 Converting an older ACDSee database 2. Adding files to the database 2.1 Cataloging files in the database 3. Bug fixes in ACDSee 5.0.1 4. Known issues in ACDSee 5.0.1 ---------------------------1. Upgrading from ACDSee 4.0 ---------------------------When you upgrade from ACDSee 4.0, it is recommended that you convert your databa se to an ACDSee 5.0.1 database. Converting your older database transfers your da tabase information so that you won't have to reenter items such as keywords, ima ge descriptions, and dates. 1.1 Converting an older ACDSee database 1. Click Tools | Database | Convert Database. 2. Select the desired .ddf file. 3. Click Open. ------------------------------2. Adding files to the database ------------------------------ACDSee adds items to the database as your browse your files. You can use the Cat alog utility to add groups of files to the database without first having to brow se the files. 2.1 Cataloging files in the database 1. Click Tools | Database | Catalog Files. 2. Click the Browse button. 3. Select a folder of files that you want to catalog. 4. Click OK. 5. Select or change the Catalog options. 6. Click OK.

For further details on the Catalog options, click the Help file from the Catalog dialog box. ---------------------------3. Bug fixes in ACDSee 5.0.1 ---------------------------1. Windows XP: can t paste a file into the deepest folder. 2. Windows XP: user 1 trying to modify a file created by user 2. 3. When viewing the contents of one or more categories in the file list, the fil e list does not update after items are deleted in the Viewer. 4. Pressing one or more keys to jump to the first/next file list item beginning with those letters does not always work correctly in thumbnail mode. 5. The selection anchor does not always update correctly. 6. The search command is sometimes disabled. 7. The <T><B><M> keys don t work in the Viewer when in full screen mode. 8. ACDSee crashes after opening and then closing a second Browser window. 9. Albums show file extension in Folder tree When renaming an album. If the user removes the file extension, the album is no longer recognized. 10. 'Percentage of original' resize tool functioning incorrectly. 11. Paper Size settings are restricting printouts to less than page. 12. Slide show occasionally crashes in full screen mode. 13. Windows XP: Renaming a file with a long file name crashes ACDSee. 14. Windows XP: ACDSee crashes when trying to print to a printer with a name gre ater than 68 characters. 15. Renaming an album causes the album to disappear. 16. Configure Editors button unavailable. 17. Cannot send support request through InTouch. License number missing. 18. Keyboard shortcut 'End' does not work as expected when in List Mode. 19. Opening images from explorer opens two instances of ACDSee. 20. Auto Exposure batch function only applies the change to first image, others are unchanged. 21. ACDSee 5 crashes when you are in View mode. 22. ACDSee 5 does not pull up editor using Shift-E command while in View mode. 23. ACDSee 5 crashes when viewing Eudora's email folder. 24. Slide Show freezes when using manual pop-up buttons to reverse the image.

25. Remove duplicate thumbnail size key. 26. Feature request - ACDSee - 'B' keyboard shortcut available in older version re-introduced. 27. ACDSee does not show expand or collapse button on CD sub-folders. 28. Preview of selected image not shown when preview pane turned on. 29. Crash merging two single-page TIFFs into a multi-page TIFF. 30. Batch rename -- no default for "Start at:" field. 31. Screen capture send to editor generates temp file on desktop. 32. Deleting using Ctrl M in Viewer crashes ACDSee. 33. Date/time not updated after Change Time Stamp when browsing a category. 34. Rename function generates an error message on duplicate files and does not o ffer a rename option. 35. Compression of JPEGS by batch command not easily adjustable. 36. ACDSee closes when attempting to open an Archive containing .url files. 37. Favorites Pane 38. TIFF file issue. 39. ID_Media and ID_PS warning boxes interfere with silent installation. 40. Users unable to navigate to Subfolders or Collapsed Folders (+ sign not avai lable). 41. Export/Import Database Info does not include category information. ------------------------------4. Known issues in ACDSee 5.0.1 ------------------------------1. Encoding multi-page DCX files does not work correctly - only the single page DCX files can be encoded. 2. Decoding a gray-scale TIFF with JPEG compression does not work correctly. 3. ACDSee cannot convert a multi-page TIFF to itself. 4. Images on Photo Discs cannot be associated with Categories. 5. Exiting ACDSee while a long operation is in progress (like copying or moving significant numbers of files) may cause ACDSee to fail. Wait for the operation to complete before exiting ACDSee. 6. SendPix may fail if it is the very first function used after a fresh install of ACDSee. 7. Photo Disc s update function does not correctly deal with CDs whose structure h as changed. Drag and Drop issue.

8. When the screen is set to 16-bit color, and an image is acquired from the cli pboard and then saved as a BMP, the image will be black. Save to another format . 9. Changing the user interface layout while the View tab is displayed may cause the screen to refresh incorrectly. Restarting will refresh the interface correc tly. 10. Slides shows created with multi-page files as part of the file list, but whe re the first file is a single image file, may not work correctly. 11. Printing from ACDSee without the default printer connected may cause errors. 12. Browsing an empty disk or CD may display: "Warning: an error occurred while reading the contents of this folder." 13. If the ACDSee database date for an image is changed, the calendar view infor mation is not updated. Press the F5 key to refresh the calendar view. 14. The file replace interaction may produce the message: "[file name]: Cannot c reate a file when that file already exists." when replacing a read-only file. 15. Rotating or flipping an image in multi-page files when applied to all pages of the current image may not work correctly when multiple images are selected an d the first image has only one page. 16. Inserting an ampersand (&) into an image description will cause an underscor e to display in the Thumb+Details mode. To display an ampersand, enter 2 in a r ow (&&). 17. Choosing a folder in the folder tree and choosing "Move to" from the Edit me nu causes a spurious error message. The move completes successfully. Moving fr om the file list view works correctly. 18. Moving or copying files in ACDSee will retain any category information assoc iated with the file. If the file is moved with a program other than ACDSee, the category information will be lost. 19. Occasionally the printing dialog can be hidden behind another window. Press ing Alt-Tab and selecting ACDSee will correct the problem. 20. Choosing the "Reset to Default" function from the Options dialog will reset the file display mode to Thumbnails. 21. The "New Media Detected" dialog box may display when a CD drive drawer is cl osed, even if these is no disk in the drive. 22. GIF comments are not preserved when an image is resized, rotated or the expo sure changes. 23. ACDSee's RAR support does not include RAR 3.0. 24. Specifying slide show options on the command line will not work correctly if a wild carded (e.g. *.JPG) filename is included. Also, for reversed slideshows , the first image in the directory always appears first, followed by the rest in reverse order. 25. Certain QuickTime (.mov) files do no display correctly when the zoom size is 100%.

26. Browsing a network shortcut from the Browser Pane is very much slower than b rowsing via the Network Neighborhood. 27. ASF and WMV files cannot be played on Win98 unless Windows Media Player v7.1 or later is installed. 28. The Help hint for Sort by Date is incorrect - ACDSee sorts by 'Last modified time' not 'Creation time'. 29. The timeline slider may not function correctly with videos longer than 35 mi nutes. 30. Thumbnails on folders no not correctly refresh when the sort order is change d. 31. Viewing the license agreement may cause "spool32" errors if there is no defa ult printer attached to the system. 32. Batch rename does not work for files selected from the Calendar or Category views. 33. If Photo Discs images disappear from the file list pane when browsing in Pro perties view, restart ACDSee to see the images again. 34. Entering very large (1000 or more) values into the thumbnail size values wil l cause odd behavior in the browser. 35. After changing the "Connect to ACDInTouch automatically" option, ACD InTouch must be started for the option to be recognized. 36. The progress indicator may appear to "stick" halfway through a resize operat ion when working on very small files.