TECHNICAL NOTES

Using more than one window

To speed up downloading of images, it may be useful to open the image in another window. This may be achieved by clicking on the link with the right mouse button on a PC or holding down the mouse button on a Mac. This will give you the option of opening the link in a new browser window. Click on this option and you can then continue reading the index or requesting another image while the first image file is downloading.

Sources

The source documents and volume numbers are quoted at the top of each index section. The page numbers are included in the filename for each image as the last four characters e.g. LA631057.gif was scanned from the Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly of NSW 1863 page 1057. The file name is on the right hand side in the "Location" window on the browser toolbar. If the file name is not visible it may be seen by clicking on the extreme right hand end of the "Location" window on the toolbar.

Image Quality

Documents were scanned at a resolution of between 150 and 200 dots per inch (dpi). Although these are relatively low resolution images, they are also of relatively small file size and therefore download more quickly than high resolution images of the same format. They are at the same time of sufficiently high resolution to be legible and produce an acceptable hard copy.

The quality of the images varies according to the quality of the original documents. Many of these are faint, skewed, and may show high levels of "bleed-through". If you have trouble reading any of the documents, please let us know.

Printing

Success in printing the images will depend to a large extent on the printer you use. In some cases you may need to use a word processor, or a graphics or photo-paint program to get a full page print-out.

If you have a recent version of Windows which incorporates the Imaging viewer (present in the Accessories section) you can first save the image file to disk. If you later open the image file using the Imaging program you should be able to print the whole image. Sometimes you may need to set the paper orientation to landscape for wide pages. If you do not have the Imaging viewer it may be downloaded from the Microsoft software download web site
Microsoft's installation instructions are as follows:
To install Imaging, follow these steps:
1.Download the IMGINST.EXE file to an empty folder on your hard disk.
2.After you download the IMGINST.EXE file, double-click it to extract the files it contains.
3.Double-click the Readme.txt file that is extracted in step 2 to open it.
4.Follow the instructions in the Readme.txt file.

To install the downloaded Imaging program in Netscape Navigator as your preferred TIFF viewer, first click on Edit. Then go to Preferences, then to Navigator, then to Applications. Scroll down the list of file types and check for TIFF Images or TIFF Documents. If neither of these is present, click on New Type and type the following in the window which appears:
Description of type: TIFF Images
File extension: tif tiff
MIME Type: image/tiff
Application to use: C:\Windows\Wangimg.exe

If you have Microsoft Word, you can first save the image file you are viewing to disk and then open Microsoft Word and click on the following options: Insert: Picture: From File. Highlight the image file you wish to print and click on the Insert button. Microsoft Word will then import the image file onto a document page and you can print that page.

If you are unable to print the image files using the above methods, you can email us a list of the files you want printed. We will print the files and send them to you for a charge of $2 for the first page and 20 cents per page thereafter.

It is also possible to download special image viewers from the Web. An example of these is Docview from http://www.informatik.com. This shareware viewer has a zoom function, allows full page printing and will also display TIFF Group 4 images (although not as effectively as the Imaging program or the CPC View plug-in discussed below).

Image Types and Viewers

Most of the images are standard GIF files and can be viewed on any of the common browsers. Some of the image files are Group IV TIFF compressed files and will require a special viewer such as the Imaging viewer (now included with Windows ) or the CPC image viewer. The Imaging viewer may be downloaded from the Windows software download web site.

The CPC View program is available on the Web from http://www.cartesianinc.com For details of the availability of the latest version of Internet Explorer see http://www.microsoft.com/downloads. The latest version of Netscape Navigator should be available from your Internet service provider or through www.netscape.com.

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