------------------------------ Installing the Netscape Plugin ------------------------------ To install the 32 bit Netscape plugin, all you need to do is copy the file called NP32FG**.DLL into your Netscape plugin subdirectory. The plugin directory will be a subdirectory of your main Netscape program directory. The path may look like c:\Netscape\Navigator\program\plugins When Netscape Navigator starts up, it will search the plugins directory and install the Formula Graphics plugin. You can check this by selecting "About plugins" from the Help menu. ---------------------------------- Formula Graphics Multimedia System ---------------------------------- Formula Graphics can be used to develop interactive multimedia presentations. It has an easy to use interface and there are no limits to the bitmaps, animations, sounds and interactivity that can be brought together. It can be used to develop business applications with databases. Information can be displayed using hypertext and graphs. It has a powerful object oriented language with over 500 instructions, operators and functions. Presentations can be played from floppy disk, or cdrom, or as screen savers, or played directly through the internet, or embedded in a web page or other document. Formula Graphics has programmable 3D graphics and animation which can be used to create arcade quality games. It has palette management and supports any color resolution. It has many bitmap and animation file formats including AVI and internet GIF animations and can be used to convert between any of these file formats. The Formula Graphics multimedia authoring system can be downloaded for free from http://www.harrow.com.au/formula -------- Features -------- * Bitmaps, animations, sprites, video, sound, buttons, dialogs, graphs... * Easy to use graphical interface with powerful multimedia development system. * 256 color dynamic palette management makes palette handling quick and easy. * Support for 24 bit color presentations using GIF, FIF, JPEG and TGA formats. * Numerous animation formats with transparent areas and palette management. * Convert bitmaps or animations to AVI with sound or Netscape GIF animations. * Animated 3D Studio objects and TrueType 3D titles in realtime with textures. * Scrolling transparent hypertext with topic and keyword search, and printing. * High speed multimedia language with animation and unlimited interactivity. ------------- More Features ------------- Formula Graphics has plain, tiled or stretched background bitmaps, stretched and rotated pictures with transparency, colored text with drop shadows, Help compatible hypertext, HTML, 256 color or 16 bit color synchronous or asynchronous animations with transparency, AVI or MOV video, 3D key framed animations, 3D key framed animations, animated 3D truetype text with bevels and texture mapping, windows sound, midi and CD audio, text and picture buttons, hot areas and hot colors with unlimited interactivity. Edit boxes, list boxes, combo boxes, menus, progess bars, 2D and 3D graphs. Another key feature is the high performance object oriented multimedia language. The language has over 500 different instructions, functions and operators. It features bitmap manipulation, sprite collisions, database connectivity, 3D modeling and internet programming and can be used to give unlimited amounts of interactivity to your games and presentations. Formula Graphics is the only multimedia system that has dynamic palette management for 256 color presentations. As the presentation plays, palette colors are allocated and deallocated and images are mapped to the changing palette. Any number of bitmaps and animations with different palettes can be displayed on the same screen. Animation is the strongest feature of Formula Graphics. The system handles five animation file formats and four styles of playback, as well as Video for Windows. Animations can be made to blend subtly into the background as complex shapes rather than appearing as boring square boxes. Using Formula Graphics powerful 2D and 3D animation tools you can include 3D Studio mesh files directly into your presentation. You can also animate 3D beveled title text with texture mapping for real graphical impact. Formula Graphics provides the quickest and easiest way of utilizing all of the multimedia power that the Windows operating system has to offer. It is so simple to use and yet it places no limits on the author's creativity. No other package has found such an effective solution to multimedia authoring. ------------------- Harrow Software P/L ------------------- GPO Box 1722 Sydney NSW 2001 Australia Australia phone: 02 9967 4033 International phone: 612 9967 4033 International fax: (612) 810 2077 World Wide Web: http://www.harrow.com.au/formula http://www.magna.com.au/~formula Email: formula@magna.com.au September 1996 ---------------------