Picture Story Help and Information for v3.0

The Picture Show Main Menu file name is PIC_SHOW.EXE.

Other Help Files:

• help_picture_show.htm - Picture Show Main Menu and Startup Help
• help_picture_story.htm - create linked picture pages and add text to them.
• help_picture_viewer.htm - create a slideshow.
• help_web_page_builder.htm - create linked picture Web Pages.
• help_movie_viewer.htm - create linked movie pages.
• help_print_size_calculator.htm - calculate the ultimate print size or resize image cuts.

The information in these help files will probably solve your problem faster that emailing me.
Email if the information in these help files does not solve your problem.
Be sure to include the email address you used to make payment so I can identify you as a registered owner of the program.

Menu Options and what they do:

1. Set Auto Mode time delay.
2. Set text color for the Html page.
3. Set background color for the Html page.
4. Create Picture Story.

8. List folders or change path.
9. List files in current folder.
0. Return to Main Menu.

How to Add Text Formatting:

11. How to add text to picture pages.
12. How to add a title to the Picture Story.
13. How to align pictures and text on a page.
14. Other text formatting features in Picture Story.

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Option 1. Set Auto Mode time delay.
This option allows you to enter a number representing how many seconds you want each picture displayed in Auto Mode.
You can enter zero 0 to set Auto Mode off on startup. Auto Mode can be turned on or off at any time.
Auto Mode automatically cylcles through all the jpeg pictures in the folder and then starts over with the first jpeg picture.
Manual Mode allows you to do the same manually. Backward, beginning, or end navigation is also allowed at any time.

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Option 2. Set text color for the Html page.
This options allows you to choose from 22 text colors or to enter a custom 7 character hexidecimal number.
If you enter a custom number, it must begin with the number sign # followed by 6 hexidecimal numbers.
The colors shown by the program are not Windows True Colors and therefore may not look right. The colors they
represent are Windows True Colors and will look like they should on the Html pages created.

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Option 3. Set background color for the Html page.
This options allows you to choose from 22 background colors or to enter a custom 7 character hexidecimal number.
If you enter a custom number, it must begin with the number sign # followed by 6 hexidecimal numbers.
The colors shown by the program are not Windows True Colors and therefore may not look right. The colors they
represent are Windows True Colors and will look like they should on the Html pages created.

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Option 4. Create Picture Story.
Creates a Html page using the settings you have set. This page is named after the name of the folder the page is created in.
Pictures are named after the folder name the program is run in.
For example: If you have ten jpeg pictures in a folder named Jane, the jpeg pictures would be renamed Jane01 thru Jane10.

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Option 8. List folders or change path.
The current path is listed at the top of the Window.
This option lists the subfolders in the current path and allows you to change to different folders on the current drive.
The current folder remains the same until you change it. It doesn't change when you change Programs.
This option is always Option 8 on all Program Menus.

Use the following commands with this option:
Input 0 or R + Enter to change to Root Directory of the current drive.
Input 1 + Enter to change to the previous folder in the current path - Back One Level.
Input the number before a folder name + Enter to change to that folder.
Input L + Enter to list files in the current folder. See Option 9 below for more information.
Press Enter without entering anything to return to the Menu after you find the folder you want to perform an action on.

List Folders only lists folders on the current drive. You cannot change to another drive.
Create a Shortcut on another drive and use the Shortcut to open the SFR_MENU.EXE Program from that drive.
List folders lists the folders on the drive the Shortcut is in.

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Option 9. List files in the current folder.
This option lists the files in the current folder. It does not serve any other purpose other than to let you view the files.
This option requests a File Type before it lists any files.
Enter an * (asterisk) to list all files.
Enter a File Type to view all files of that type in the current folder.
Input L + Enter to list the subfolders in the current path. See Option 8 above for more information.
Press Enter without entering anything to return to the Menu.
This option is always Option 9 on all Program Menus.
Click here for information on File Types.

Option 0. Return to Main Menu.
Enter zero 0 + Enter to return to the Main Menu.
Page settings are discarded when you return to the Main Menu. If you created a Html page, the settings will be restored
from that page the next time you execute the program in the same folder.

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11. How to add text to picture pages:

Execute the Picture Story option in the folder you want to create a Picture Story in without any text files first.
The Program will create empty text files with the proper names if none exist.
If text files with the proper file names already exit, their contents will be added to the Picture Story pages.

After you have text files with the proper file names,

• Open the file you want associated to a picture in a text editor such as Notepad.
• Type the text you want to add to your pictures.
• Save the file.
• Open PicStory.exe to have your text files associated to the picture pages.
• This process can be done as many times as you need.
• You don't have to have a text file for every picture. But, you can.

12. How to add a title to the Picture Story.

• Insert <title> before the first line of text in your text file. This is called a title tag and may be in lower or upper case.
• Example: <title>This is the title line for page one.
• The above example will center, in bold letters, This is the title line for page one at the top of your text on the html page.

13. How to align pictures and text on a page.

Use the <l>, <t>, <r> and <e> page alignment tags to align your pictures and text on a page.
Insert one of these tags before the first line of your text in the text file to align your text on a page as follows:

• Insert the <l> alignment tag before the first line of text to align your text on the left and the picture on the right.
• Insert the <t> alignment tag  before the first line of text to align your text at the top and the picture below.
• Insert the <r> alignment tag before the first line of text to align your text on the right and the picture on the left.
• Insert the <e> alignment tag before the first line of text  to align your text below your picture.

You can use a different page alignment tag for every picture. If no text file exists for a picture, the picture will be centered on the page. If you have a text file without an alignment tag, the text will be aligned on the right of the picture by default. Don't be afraid to use trial and error. The PicStory.exe program can be run as often as you please in any folder.

Example 1: 

• <t>Text goes here.
•  More text goes here...
• Save the text file using the same file name as the jpeg picture file name you want it associated to with a .txt extension.
  i.e. Jane03.txt file is associated with Jane03.jpg picture and it's contents are added to the Jane_03.htm file.

All text in the above file will be aligned above your picture.

Example 2:

• <l><title>This is a title line
• More text goes here...
• Save the text file using the same file name as the jpeg picture file name you want it associated to with a .txt extension.
  i.e. Jane15.txt file is associated with Jane15.jpg picture and it's contents are added to the Jane_15.htm file.

All the text in the above file will be aligned on the left of the picture and the title line will be centered, in bold, at the top. Don't be afraid to use trial and error. The PicStory.exe program can be run as often as you please in any folder.

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14. Other text formatting features in Picture Story.

There are two line alignment tags and three text formatting tags.

The two line alignment tags are:

1. Insert the <c> tag before any line of text in the body of your text to center that line of text.
2. Use the Tab key at the beginning of any line of text in the body of your text to indent that line. Each Tab will insert four spaces. Use multiple tabs to indent further. The Tab is only recognized at the beginning of the line. Tabs embedded in a line of text will be interpreted as one space.

The three text formatting tags are the:

1. <b></b> pair - bold text.
• Insert <b> before the text you want to be bold.
• Insert </b> after the text you want to be bold.
• Example: <b>This text is</b> will make This text is bold.
2. <i></i> pair - text in italics.
• Insert <i> before the text you want in italics.
• Insert </i> after the text you want in italics.
• Example: <i>Text in italics</i> will put your Text in italics.
3. <u></u> pair - underlined text.
• Insert <u> before the text you want underlined.
• Insert </u> after the text you want underlined.
• Example: <u>This text is underlined</u> will underline This text is underlined.

Be sure to use the ending tags </b>, </i> and </u> because all text following the <b>, <i> and <u> tags continues to be formatted until the ending tags are reached or the end of the text file.

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