User manual DATAVIZ CONVERSION PLUS SUITE

[. . . ] Instantly. User's Guide ® Don't Get Caught With a File You Can't Open! User's Guide Conversions Plus Windows 95, 98, NT 4. 0 and 2000 DataViz, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means without permission in writing from the publisher. © Copyright 1997, 1999, 2000 by DataViz, Inc. Trumbull, Connecticut U. S. A. MacOpener, Conversions Plus, MacLinkPlus, Desktop To Go, and Documents To Go are registered trademarks of DataViz, Inc. Table of Contents Welcome to Conversions Plus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Terms Used in This Manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] Print When viewing a file, you can either print the entire file or a selected portion. If you would like to print the entire file, click <Print> and Conversions Plus will print the file as you see it on your screen. To print a selection, highlight the portion of the file you wish to print and select <Print>. Convert You can choose to convert file(s) by selecting the file(s) and clicking <Convert>. The steps you will encounter when converting a file are the same as the ones described in Chapter 1, "Using and Converting Files". Launch From the View Window, you can launch the file being viewed in the program it was created in, assuming you have the program on your machine. To do this, simply click <Launch>. Viewing Attachments Received in Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express or Exchange Mail Conversions Plus can view the contents of any attachment received in Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express or Exchange Mail. If you receive attachments through any of these mail packages, you can quickly view the contents of these files by simply right-clicking on the attachments and selecting "Quick View". Chapter 2: Viewing and Printing Files 23 The following screen shows an attachment received in Microsoft Outlook. By right clicking on the file and selecting "Quick View", you can instantly view the contents of any attachment. Viewing Compressed Files If at any time you choose to view a compressed file, Conversions Plus will bring you to the "Archive Viewer" window which will be discussed in Chapter 3, "Decompressing Files". Within the Archive Viewer window, you will see a list of files in the archive and can view any or all of the files. Viewing Files Using the Conversions Plus Program As mentioned in Chapter 1, the Conversions Plus program gives you an Explorer like interface to locate files. You can view files using Conversions Plus by launching it from the Conversions Plus Program Group, selecting the files and choosing "View". As with right-clicking, the product will present the file in the "File Viewer" window and provide you with options for handling the file. 25 Chapter 3 Decompressing Files Often times, files you download from the Internet or receive via e-mail are compressed to save space (and transfer time). Conversions Plus will allow you to open a compressed file and extract, view or print its contents. It will allow you to decompress any file that was created using the most popular compression formats, including Zip, Gzip, Tar, and z. How to Decompress Files When you install Conversions Plus, you will have the option to use it as your default decompression utility. If you choose it as your default, all compressed files on your PC will appear with the Conversions Plus compressed file icon shown below: Using Conversions Plus to decompress these files is easy. Simply double-click on the file, and Conversions Plus will display the contents of the compressed file in the Conversions Plus "Archive Viewer" window. 26 Chapter 3: Decompressing Files You will notice in this window that you have the option to extract, view, convert or launch any file contained in the archive. Extracting Files You can extract files to a specific location in a variety of ways. The easiest is to click on the desired files and click <Extract>. When you do this, Conversions Plus will prompt you to choose a location to save the extracted files. Once you have chosen where to put the extracted files, click <Extract>. The files you selected are now in their original format in the chosen folder. Chapter 3: Decompressing Files 27 You can also drag and drop file(s) from the Archive Viewer window to any folder in the Windows Explorer (including the desktop). Viewing Files Within the Archive Viewer window, you have the option to view any of the files listed. To use this feature, simply highlight the file(s) and click <View>. [. . . ] For example, a request to convert a Microsoft Word file from the Macintosh to a WordPerfect file on the PC utilizes the Microsoft Word Reader and the WordPerfect Writer. A complete list of converters included with the product is provided in Appendix C. Features Supported Conversions Plus concentrates on providing quality translations in all of its conversion paths. You will find that virtually all formatting is supported within any given translation. The features converted within a document are dependent upon those that a particular program supports. [. . . ]