Gloria Version 0.31
Copyright (C) 1999 Satoru Muto
All rights reserved.

Welcome to Gloria!
This is a beta version.

Contents

• Introduction
• Features
• System Requirements
• Installation and Launching
• Copyright
• Disclaimers
• Distribution
• Bug Reports and Feedbacks
• History

Introduction

Gloria is an image viewer. Gloria is developed with the Java language and can be executed on a variety of platforms, such as Windows and UNIX. Gloria is designed fully using the JFC/Swing. Gloria supports a plug-in mechanism that allow s one to add new functions to it.

Features

Basic features:

• Developed with the Java language
• Cross-platform
• Advanced GUI using the JFC/Swing

Main functions supported in this version:

• Loading JPEG and GIF images
• Saving an image in the JPEG format
• Slide show (automatic and manual)
• Preview (JPEG and GIF images)
• Printing
• Various image filters NEW!
• Plug-in NEW! (see separate documents for detail)

The following functions will be supported in a future release:

• Loading/Saving other image formats (BMP, PNG, etc.)
• Displaying images in thumbnails
• Advanced image manipulation with the Java 2D API

System Requirements

Must: A computer with a Java Virtual Machine compatible with the Java 2 Platform

Known platforms on which Gloria works:

• Windows 95 + Java 2 SDK v1.2 (JDK 1.2)
• Windows 98 + IME98 Service Release 1.1 + Java 2 SDK v.1.2 (JDK 1.2)

Note: You are advised to use the latest version of JDK or JRE.

Installation and Launching

First, extract files from gloria???.zip to a directory with an archive software. Then you will find the following files or directories.

gloria.jar	The body of Gloria
doc	Contains documents
codec	Contains image CODECs
filter	Contains image filters

The simplest way to launch Gloria is to execute the following command.

java -jar gloria.jar

On Windows, files with the "jar" extension may be registered as "Executable Jar File". Then you can also launch Gloria by double clicking the file.

At the first launch, a dialog to select language and set path to gloria.jar appears. Select preferred language from either Japanese or English. The path to gloria.jar is necessary so that Gloria can know the path to the documents or plug-ins.

You can change the language later by the following command.

java -Dgloria.lang=language -jar gloria.jar

where language should be replaced with a valid ISO Language Code, which is a lower-case two-letter code as defined by ISO-639.  "ja" (Japanese) and "en" (English) are supported at present.

A file named gloria.options, which stores options used in Gloria, will be created in user's home directory. (C:\Windows is the home directory of a user in Windows 95/98.)

Copyright

As indicated at the top of this document.

You can use this version without any fee, but Gloria will become a shareware in the future.

Disclaimers

The author accept NO LIABILITY for damages of any kind as a result of using this software and make NO WARRANTY, either express or implied, with respect to this software. This software is provided "AS IS", and you, its user, assume the entire risk as to its quality.

Distribution

Permission is granted to distribute this software subject to the following restrictions:

1. The origin of this software must not be misrepresented.
2. Give exact copies of the original version of this software.
3. You may not distribute this software for profit without written permission of the author.
4. This notice may not be removed or altered.

Bug Reports and Feedbacks

Bug reports will be welcome. Also, I appreciate your advice or suggestions.

Please send a bug report or comment to the following e-mail address.

E-mail: s-muto@eva.hi-ho.ne.jp

You can download the latest version on the Web page of Gloria.

URL: http://www.eva.hi-ho.ne.jp/s-muto/gloria/

History