CDE 0.5 Installation and Release Notes
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* What is CDE?

  The Chess Diagram Editor (CDE for short) is a utility for creating,
  inserting and editing standard chess diagrams in documents.  The
  diagrams can be further edited as well as printed out on any printer
  that supports Windows.

  CDE is freeware. Use it or abuse it as much as you like.

* What do I need to use CDE?

  + MS Windows 3.1 or later. 
    Earlier versions of Windows do not contain the required OLE libraries.

  + A mouse. 
    This version of CDE does not support keyboard navigation fully.

  + A word processor or other software that can handle embedded objects.
    Some programs can only handle linked objects -- CDE won't work with
    those. The following applications are known to work with CDE:

	* Write			(Standard Windows utility)
	* Cardfile		(Standard Windows utility)
	* Word for Windows 2.0	
	* Paradox for Windows 4.5
	* Symantec Q&A Write 3.0

  + A supported chess font.
    Without a chess font, you can't edit or print chess diagrams.
    The current release of CDE supports the following fonts:

	Adobe Cheq 
	ISDiagram & ISDiagramLR
        Linares & Linares Diagram
	Linotype Game Pi Chess
	PROchess AmerDiag
	Tilburg

    See below for further information about vendors/sources for these
    fonts.

The CDE distribution
====================

The CDE distribution contains:

	README.TXT	this file
	CDE05x.EXE	a self extracting archive (x indicates  the
			micro-release number)

The CDE05x archive further contains:

	CDE.EXE		the main program
	CDE.INI		a default initialization file
	HELP.WRI	short help information


Installing CDE
==============

1.  Copy the CDE distribution to a suitable directory of you choice, and
    unpack the files by executing the self-extracting archive. It's
    called CDE05x.EXE or something similar.  It will unpack the files
    mentioned above.

    You'll need less than 300K disk space to install and run CDE.

2.  From Windows, run the CDE.EXE program once, by using the File/Run...
    command in the program manager, or by double-clicking on the program
    in the file manager.

    This installs the OLE server information in the registration database.

    A message box that says if the installation was successful or not
    is shown.

    Note:  After installation CDE can only be run by selecting the
	   Edit/Insert Object... menu from an OLE client, such as Write.
           Trying to run CDE by double-clicking on the file will only
           produce an error message.

3.  That's it.

    Now use Write to read the the help.wri text file for some further
    information on using CDE.


Uninstalling CDE
================

If you need to remove CDE from your system, just delete the contents of the
CDE directory. This will leave harmless OLE information about CDE in the
WIN.INI file, and in the registration database. 

If you wish to remove also this information, you'll need to:

1. Edit the WIN.INI file with your favourite editor. Find the [embedding]
   section in the WIN.INI file.  It will contain a CDE line that looks
   something like this:

   [embedding]
   ...
   CDE=Chess Diagram,Chess Diagram,C:\CDE\CDE.EXE,picture

   Remove this line.

2. Start the REGEDIT.EXE program. You'll find it in the Windows directory.
   Select the Chess Diagram entry in the list of known file types, and delete
   it. 

   If you start REGEDIT with the -v option, instead select the CDE key, and
   delete it and its subkeys.


Fonts
=====

CDE current supports the following fonts from these vendors/sources
listed below.  All these fonts are commercial except for Cheq which
exists in free versions.

Adobe Systems Inc:
	Cheq			(Adobe font pack 171, version 001.003)
	Linotype Game Pi Chess	(Adobe font pack 240)

	Adobe fonts can be obtained from practically any font or software
	vendor.

	The very first version of Cheq (001.000) was posted to the
	Internet newsgroup comp.sources.misc and archived in volume 7 of
	that group). CDE tries to support all variants of this version
	-- for more information, see the section 'Using Adobe Cheq' in the
	help.wri file.

	Some Internet FTP sources for the free version of Cheq are:

	Site:			File:
	-----			-----
	ftp.germany.eu.net	/pub/comp/msdos/mirror.garbo/fonts/cheq.zip
	ftp.luth.se		/pub/pc/os2/fonts/atm/cheq.zip

	Note: You'll need Adobe Type Manager to run these or any other
	Type 1 font on Windows.


Alpine Electronics:
	Linares
	Linares Diagram

	Alpine Electronics	
	526 West 7th Street
	Powell, WY 82435


Chess Assistant:  
	ISDiagram
	ISDiagramLR

	Part of Chess Assistant software?

	InformSystems Inc.		e-mail: cav@ldis.cs.msu.su
	123424 P.O. Box 90		phone:	+7(095)-939-1024
	Moscow				fax:	+7(095)-269-0998
	Russia


Chess Chow:
	PROchess AmerDiag

	The PROchess AmerDiag font is part of the CC-Publisher Deluxe
	software distribution.  For further information, contact:

	Chess Chow
	Attn: FONTS
	PO Box 3348
	Church St. Station
	New York, NY 10008


Chessworks Unlimited:
	Tilburg

	Tilburg is really an annotation font, intended to be used for
	chess score annotations. It has partial support for diagrams:
	piece glyphs are provided, but no diagram borders.

	Contact:

	Chessworks Unlimited		e-mail: chesswks@netcom.com
	PO Box 1048
	El Granada, CA 94018-1048


CDE Author
==========

CDE was created by:

	Anders Thulin		e-mail:  ath@linkoping.trab.se
	Rydsvagen 288
	S-582 50 Linkoping
	SWEDEN

Bug reports or suggestions for new features are always welcome.