Envision
the new way to experience the Web
User's Guide
Welcome to Envision: the new way to experience the Web. The World Wide Web is over a decade old, but until now we've been "browsing" it pretty much the same way we did 10 years ago. No more! Envision is the new way to experience the Web. Instead of Web pages in browser windows surrounded by text,
Envision automatically takes key images from Web sites and displays them in Web shows, outside the traditional confining windows of your Web browser. So far outside that they no longer even need to stay on your Macintosh!
With Envision you can create Web shows from any site or any topic, control which images are included in shows, customize the display of images (background, display interval, etc), and then:
- Export shows to be played by iEnvision on your iPhone or iPod Touch.
- Run shows on your Mac.
- Use shows' images for your Desktop Picture and Screen Saver display.
- Display images on your television, digital picture frame, iPod, and other devices through Envision Everywhere.
Table of Contents
Getting Started |
- System requirements
- Installation
- Purchasing Envision
- Entering a serial number
- The Welcome show
- Getting started
- Online help
- Mini-tutorial
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Watching a Show |
- Opening a show
- Play & pause a show
- Display mode - single images & thumbnails
- Window size
- The Info drawer & image information
- Sequential navigation
- Random access navigation
- Jump to the first image
- Going to an image's Web page
- Viewing multiple shows
- Viewing shows on the iPhone and iPod touch
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Making a Show |
- Make a new show from the Web
- Make a new show from a folder
- Make a new show from a topic
- Make a new show from a single image
- Saving a show
- Opening a saved show
- Preferences
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Customizing a Show's Content |
- The Settings dialog
- How Envision looks for images
- Choose the best page to start from
- Specify where (and when) Envision looks for images
- Specify criteria for the download & display of images
- Delete images from a show
- Un-delete images in a show
- Re-scan a site
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Customizing a Show's Display |
- Visual effects
- Window size
- The poster image
- Shuffle play
- Automatic starting and stopping of a show
- Hiding the toolbar and status bar
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Authoring for iEnvision |
- Saving shows for iEnvision - Basic
- Saving shows for iEnvision - Advanced
- Display differences between Envision and iEnvision
- Tips for the iPhone/iPod touch
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Saving & Using Images |
- Saving individual images
- Screensaver images
- Desktop image
- Envision Everywhere support
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Tips on Making a Good Show |
- Make a show & customize its content
- Customize the show's appearance
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Troubleshooting |
- Solutions to common problems
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Appendices |
- Notes on installation
- Supported image formats
- Envision and AppleScript
- Power-user shortcuts
- The Envision image cache
- The Envision scan log
- The Colors panel
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Inc. "Envision: the new way to experience the Web" is a trademark
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