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97 Copyright (c) 1997-2009 Robert Galle All Rights Reserved GRAPHICS DESCRIPTION PLUGINS ============================ Graphics description is a supplemental plugins module for importing details about most often used graphic file formats in use today. All plugins provide details such as width, height, and color depth of the picture, and most of them (GIF, JPG, TIFF, PSD, and PNG) can extract more detailed information if available, as well. Graphics formats supported for description importing: Windows or OS/2 Bitmap Files (*.BMP) CompuServe Bitmap Files (*.GIF) JPEG Bitmap Files (*.JPG, *.JPEG, *.JFIF) ZSoft Paintbrush Files (*.PCX) TIFF Bitmap Files (*.TIF, *.TIFF) PNG Bitmap Files (*.PNG) Adobe Photoshop Files (*.PSD) Targa Bitmap Files (*.TGA,*.VST) Nikon Digital Camera Raw Files (*.NEF) Canon Digital Camera Raw Files (*.CRW) Zeiss LSM 5 Files (*.LSM) Icon Files (*.ICO) Digital Camera Support ---------------------JPEG, TIFF, and CRW plugins include additional support to extract exposure information commonly embedded in images transferred from digital cameras. Please note however that not all cameras use the same format for storing these details, and they are generally lost if image is edited. First two plugins include support for the ISO-standardized EXIF format that is supported by most newer digital cameras today and by few different manufacturers, and are capable of exporting details such as camera model, shutter and aperture values, flash usage, focal length used etc. The CRW plugin supports Canon's raw files, and its propriety CIFF description format found in such files. THUMBNAILS PLUGINS ================== Thumbnail plugins can import smaller version of images to be stored in catalog as a reference. Graphics formats supported for thumbnails importing: Bitmap Image Thumbnails (*.BMP, *.RLE, *.DIB) CompuServe Image Thumbnails (*.GIF) JPEG Image Thumbnails (*.JPG, *.JPEG, *.JFIF) PNG Image Thumbnails (*.PNG) ZSoft Paintbrush Image Thumbnails (*.PCX, *.PCC, *.SCR) Kodak Photo-CD Image Thumbnails (*.PCD) TIFF Image Thumbnails (*.TIF, *.TIFF, *.FAX) Photoshop Image Thumbnails (*.PSD, *.PDD) Targa Bitmap Thumbnails (*.TGA, *.ICB, *.VDA, *.VST) SGI Image Thumbnails (*.SGI, *.BW, *.RGB *.RGBA) Portable Pixel/Gray Map Image Thumbnails (*.PPM, *.PGM, *.PBM)

Autodesk Image Thumbnails (*.CEL, *.PIC) Windows Metafile Thumbnails (*.WMF, *.EMF) Icon Images (*.ICO) Cursor Images (*.CUR, *.ANI) Encapsulated PostScript Files (*.EPS) Application Icons (*.EXE) Disk Custom Icons (*.*) MP3 Attached Picture Thumbnails (*.MP3) Adobe Illustrator Thumbnails (*.AI) Canon EOS Digital Camera Raw Files (*.CRW) Nikon Digital Camera Thumbnails (*.NEF) Zeiss LSM 5 Thumbnails (*.LSM) Maya IFF Thumbnails (*.IFF) Folder Thumbnails (FOLDER.JPG, COVER*.JPG, COVER*.GIF, *FRONT*.JPG) Office XML Document Thumbnails (*.DOCX,*.DOCM,*.DOTX,*.DOTM,*.XLSX,*.PPTX, *.ODT,*.ODS,*.ODP,*.ODG,*.ODB,*.ODF,*.SXW,*.SXC,*.SXD,*.SXI,*.SXM,*.SXG) Gadgets and Widgets Thumbnails (*.GADGET, *.WIDGET, *.WDGT, *.WGT, *.AIR) RUNTIME PLUGINS =============== Runtime plugins are different from the others as they are not automatic and are not run at scanning time, but rathar later on user's request from a menu option. Such plugins are interactive and typically require user's input. "Internet Movie Database (IMDB)" plugin Imports detailed movie details from IMDB online archive, including cast, rating, plot outlines, user's comment, etc. If available, movie's cover image is also imported as thumbnail. Plugin is available for running on video files, folders, and disks. "TV Series Database (TheTVDB)" plugin Imports detailed TV series and episodes information from TheTVDB.com online database. Information includes series and episodes overviews, cast, rating, network and airing information, posters and screenshots as thumbnails etc. Plugin is available for running on video files, folders, and disks. "Import any picture as thumbnail" plugin A simple plugin that allow you to pick any cataloged file and folder, and use this plugin to assign it any supported image file as a thumbnail. Thumbnail preview and color adjustments are also available. "Assign video frame as thumbnail" plugin A built-in video player with ability to capture any frame, and use it as a thumbnail in WhereIsIt. LIMITATIONS =========== Enhanced PostScript Files (*. EPS) and Adobe Illustrator Thumbnails (*.AI) plugins only handle files with available bitmap preview. Not all files of those types may have a preview embedded. Adobe Illustrator files before version 7 do not support thumbnails and will not be handled by this plugin. "Assign video frame as thumbnail" plugin requires DirectX 8.1 or newer in order to be able to capture frames. It should go without saying that support for different kind of files and formats highly depends on installed codecs on the system. Additionally, some video codecs are not supported for capture, mostly due to unsupported color space. Some codecs can be set to render video in RGB color space instead of YUV, and turning off rendering to overlay may

help getting capture function available. INSTALLING THE PLUGINS ====================== Just as any other plugin, DescGraphics.dll is expected be located in subfolder "Plugins" in WhereIsIt's main folder; for example, "C:\Program Files\WhereIsIt\Plugins". No other installation is necessary, the program will automatically detect and include plugins. You can enable, disable, or setup individual plugins in program's settings. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------4.00 (6. February 2003) ----------------------+ Added Internet Movie Database (IMDB) runtime plugin. 4.01 (9. February 2003) ----------------------+ IMDB plugin: Added support for OFDb (DE) site, ability to directly enter movie's URL if known in advance, improved filtering of HTML tags from imported descriptions. 4.02 (17. February 2003) -----------------------+ IMDB plugin: Improved handling of international and special characters in text imported from HTML data. 4.10 (19. April 2003) --------------------+ Added new runtime plugin: Assign any picture as thumbnail. 4.20 (14. May 2003) ------------------+ Added new video player runtime plugin (v0.10), with ability to assign any chosen video frame as a thumbnail for video file. 4.21 (26. May 2003) ------------------+ JPEG thumbnail plugin: Added support for CMYK JPEG files. 4.30 (9. June 2003) ------------------+ Improved EXIF and IPTC support with additional details and customizable descriptions, adjusted OFDb support in the Internet Movie Database plugin due to web site changes. 4.32 (2. September 2003) -----------------------* Improved EXIF support, fixed resource leak in the Cursor Images plugin. 4.34 (2. September 2003) -----------------------* Adjustments to the IMDB plugin to address recent URL format changes at IMDB web site. 4.35 (16. December 2003) -----------------------+ Added the Nixon NEF Raw Files thumbnails plugin.

4.36 (31. December 2003) -----------------------+ IMDB plugin: Optimized for less user interaction. 4.37 (8. January 2004) ---------------------* IMDB plugin: Adjusted for changed web pages on the IMDB web site. 4.38 (27. January 2004) ----------------------+ New description plugin extracting digital camera information in CIFF format from Canon raw files (CRW). 4.39 (1. February 2004) ----------------------* Fine tuned search results parsing for the IMDB plugin. 4.40 (16. February 2004) -----------------------+ Added support for additional video file formats in IMDB and Video Player plugins. 4.41 (15. March 2004) --------------------* IMDB plugin: Changed URL encoding to be compatible with RFC 1738. This allows using some more unusual characters in movie title queries. + IMDB plugin: Added support for importing movie thumbnails in GIF and PNG formats. 99% of IMDB site has thumbnails in JPG format, however there are some movie entries with GIF thumbnails as well. 4.42 (13. April 2004) --------------------* IMDB plugin: added detection for server-side redirected URLs, in case of IMDB site movies where search result didn't return the list of matches, but the movie page directly. Such movies didn't offer most of the plot outlines that were otherwise available. 4.43 (12. June 2004) -------------------* IMDB plugin: IMDB.com web site has had some changes in HTML format once again, resulting in missing thumbnails and movie URLs. Plugin is updated. 4.44 (18. June 2004) -------------------+ Added Zeiss LSM 5 Thumbnails plugin. 4.45 (19. June 2004) -------------------+ Improved detection of 10-bit and 12-bit grayscale TIFF files packed as 16-bit TIFF files. 4.46 (2. July 2004) ------------------+ Improved Zeiss LSM 5 Thumbnails plugin. 4.47 (27. July 2004) -------------------+ Added Zeiss LSM 5 description plugin. 4.48 (13. August 2004)

---------------------+ Updated JPEG image library, added support for JPEG CYYK images. 4.49 (20. August 2004) ---------------------* IMDB plugin: Adjusted for changed web pages on the IMDB web site. 4.50 (7. November 2004) ----------------------+ Added a new option to JPEG and TIFF thumbnail plugins, allowing pictures to be rotated according to the EXIF tag, if available + Updated JPEG code, tweaked support for CYYK, CMYK JPEG files, and certain types of TIFF files (plane-separated). + Updated the "Assign Picture as Thumbnail" runtime plugin. + Updated IMDB plugin for latest changes on the OFDB.de web site. 4.51 (13. November 2004) -----------------------* IMDB plugin: Adjusted for changed web pages on the IMDB web site. 4.52 (19. December 2004) -----------------------+ Fine tuned EXIF orientation tag support in TIFF and JPEG files, added photo orientation information to EXIF description text. + Enabled IPTC support for TIFF files. * Fixed handling 16-bit grayscale TIFF images. 4.53 (26. December 2004) -----------------------* IMDB plugin: Adjusted for changed web pages on the IMDB web site. 4.54 (29. December 2004) -----------------------* IMDB plugin: Cleaned up imported IMDB URL addresses. 4.60 (16. July 2005) -------------------* IMDB plugin: Adjusted for changed web pages on the IMDB web site. 4.61 (20. August 2005) ---------------------* Minor adjustments to the Nikon NEF description plugin. 4.62 (22. August 2005) ---------------------* IMDB plugin: Adjusted for changed search page on the IMDB web site. 4.63 (6. November 2005) ----------------------+ Updated support for .CR2 files in the Canon Digital Camera Raw Files plugin + fine tuning of some other plugins. 4.70 (21. November 2005) -----------------------+ Rewritten EXIF and IPTC support, allows for extracting of any available EXIF or IPTC tag through tag numbers. + Improved data formatting for many EXIF tags. + Added support for EXIF makernote tags for several digital camera manufacturers.

4.74 (4. March 2006) -------------------+ Added new "Maya IFF Thumbnails" plugin, * Fixed processing of certain JPEG files for EXIF extraction, some JPEG files saved in a bit different file format failed to extract EXIF record. * Adjusted processing and error handling for 16bps RLE compressed SGI files. 4.76 (10. April 2006) --------------------* Adjusted EXIF rotation handling. 4.77 (29. July 2006) 4.78 (27. August 2006) ---------------------* IMDB plugin: Adjusted for changed web pages on the IMDB web site. 4.80 (10. October 2006) ----------------------+ Rewritten video player plugin with better support for capturing video frames as thumbnails. 4.81 (29. November 2006) -----------------------+ New PNG engine, with full transparency and interleaving support + Tweaked JPEG decoder settings for better quality 4.82 (19. February 2007) -----------------------* Addressed several small memory leaks. * Fixed low quality of thumbnails imported from 8-bit colored PNG files. * IMDB plugin: Adjusted for new design of IMDB web site. 4.85 (28. June 2007) -------------------* IMDB plugin: Adjusted for changed search results formatting on IMDB web site. 4.87 (9. October 2007) ---------------------* All plugins support Unicode file names and Unicode descriptions 4.88 (5. December 2007) ----------------------* IMDB plugin: Adjusted for changed search results formatting on IMDB web site. 4.90 (28. January 2008) ----------------------* Improved resiliance to invalid or damaged files. 4.91 (19. February 2008) -----------------------* Improved .ICO files thumbnails plugin, new .ICO description plugin. 4.92 (21. February 2008) -----------------------* Adjusted IMDB plugin for changed web site layout on the OFDb web site. 4.93 (24. March 2008) --------------------* Adjusted IMDB plugin for changed web site layout on the OFDb web site.

4.94 (5. April 2008) -------------------+ Added new "Office XML Document Thumbnails" plugin, extracting available thumbnails from MS Office OpenXML and OpenOffice.org documents. 4.95 (9. May 2008) -----------------* IMDB plugin: Adjusted for changes on IMDB web site. 4.96 (18. May 2008) ------------------* Fixed custom formatted descriptions for several different description plugins. 4.97 (30. May 2008) ------------------+ Improved XML parser + Added "XML Paper Specification Documents" description plugin, extracting documentproperties form *.XPS files. * Added new "Gadgets and Widgets" description plugin, extracting file description from several different gadgets and widget files, including Vista Sidebar gadgets, Yahoo widgets, Adobe AIR widgets,... * Adjusted handling OfDb user comments in the IMDB plugin 4.98 (13. June 2008) -------------------+ Added support for storing plugin's settings in configuration file instead of system registry. 5.00 (2. October 2008) ---------------------* Fixed a problem with incorrect custom formatted descriptions. 5.01 (17. November 2008) -----------------------+ IMDB plugin: Updated user interface, removed progress window flickering, new file name filtering, improved quality of imported thumbnails. 5.02 (1. December 2008) ----------------------+ IMDB plugin: Updated for handling multiple items at once. + Import any picture as thumbnail plugin: Updated for handling multiple items at once. 5.03 (13. December 2008) ----------------------+ IMDB plugin: Updated for modified search results page on the IMDB site. 5.10 (13. January 2009) ----------------------+ IMDB plugin: Added ability to run other description plugins. 5.20 (4. June 2009) ----------------------Added new runtime plugin: TV Series Database (TheTVDB) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------The DescAPI and DescGraphics.dll module are a part of the WhereIsIt software

package and as such a copyrighted material. Using or distributing these librarires for any purpose other than running them as a part of WhereIsIt is prohibited and in violation of copyright laws. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------