WhereIsIt? version 3.95 Copyright (c) 1997-2008 Robert Galle All Rights Reserved MAIN DESCRIPTION MODULE ======================= The main description module (DescPlugin.dll) is the heart of WhereIsIt's description importing capabilities. It includes a number of description plugins, including the following ones: * File_id.diz descriptions (imports File_id.diz files as descriptions for parent folders or archive files) * Files.bbs description files (imports the contents of Files.bbs files as descriptions for files and folders located in the same folder, or in other folders if full path to item is provided) * Index.txt description files (imports the contents of Index.txt, 00index.txt,Catalog.txt,DirInfo,... and similar files as descriptions for files and folders located in the same folder, or in other folders if full path to item is provided. List of file names checked is user- configurable) * Descript.ion descriptions (imports the 4DOS/NDOS description file for files and folders located in the same folder) * 32-bit executable files (imports appended version information as description for 32-bit executable files, such as .exe, .dll, .vxd... * Audio files (imports details about MP3, AAC and WAV audio files as description, including ID3 tags if present. ID3v1 and ID3v2.2-ID3v2.4 are supported) * Windows Media Format Files (imports details from the Windows Media files, such as ASF, WMA, WMV,... files) * HTML files (imports some details from HTML file to be used as description, for example HTML document's title and description meta tag) * Archive descriptions (Imports comments embedded in compressed archive files, if they support this feature - Zip, Arj, Rar,...) * TTF fonts (extracts font name, style, and copyright notes from true type font files) * MS Office documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint - extracts document summary information such as title, subject, author, keywords, comment,...) * Visio documents (extracts document summary information such as title, subject, author, keywords, comment,...) * Word Perfect documents, version 7.0 or never (extracts document summary information such as title, subject, author, keywords, comment,...) * Quattro Pro documents, version 6.0 or never (extracts document summary information such as title, subject, author, keywords, comment,...) * Adobe Acrobat Documents (extracts document creation details such as title, author, etc. and optionally the bookmark tree (index), if available) * Ogg Multimedia Files (supports Ogg streams, including Ogg Vorbis audio files, description tags, including ID3v1 and ID3v2 and Ogg Vorbis' own tags, as well as Ogg Media (*.OGM) audio/video files, including embedded subtitles). * Adobe Illustrator Files (extracts document summary information such as title, author, creation date, and originating software). * Autocad DWG File Properties (extracts DWG file properties, if available in .DWG file. Note that only files created with AutoCAD 2000 (R15) or newer support file properties information). * MPEG-4 Audio/Video Files (imports technical details about MPEG-4 audio and video files, as well as ID3-like embedded information used in audio MP4 files). * AVI Video Files (extracts technical movie details such as resolution, compression/codecs used (a database of 600+ codecs is included), bitrate, quality, playtime etc. It also supports three different types of movie info tags, including basic AVI tags, extended INFO tags (abcAVI Tag Editor), and IDIVX tags). * Monkey's Audio Files (extracts technical details about *.APE and *.MAC files, and includes support for ID3v1, ID3v2, and APE tags). * Matroska Media Files (extracts technical details about *.MKV files, including tags, subtitles, chapters, and attachments). * FLAC Audio Files (extracts technical details about *.FLAC files, and includes support for ID3v1, ID3v2, and Vorbis Comment tags). * WavPack Audio Files (extracts technical details about *.WV and *.WVC files, and includes support for ID3v1, ID3v2, and APE tags). * NTFS File Summary Information (extracts NTFS file properties as description. Only available on disks formatted with NTFS file system). * Internet Shortcut Files (*.URL) * OpenOffice.org Documents (Extracts document properties such as title, subject, author, keywords, comment, statistics...) * MS Office OpenXML Documents (Extracts document properties such as title, subject, author, keywords, comment, statistics...) + XML Paper Specification Documents (Extracts document properties such as title, subject, author, keywords,... from *.XPS files) * Gadgets and Widgets (Extract file description from several different gadgets and widget files, including Vista Sidebar gadgets, Yahoo widgets, Adobe AIR widgets,...) Also included is a set of formatting plugins. Formatting plugins take the result of description plugins, description text, and convert or filter it in some way. * OEM-to-ANSI charset converter (converts text in OEM (DOS) character set to its appropriate ANSI representation. Only used with localized text) * DOS graphics characters filter (converts DOS graphics characters into more readable form under Windows. Should only be used if descriptions are in plain ANSI text - turn off with localized descriptions as they may use localized characters in place where graphics used to be) * Limited number of lines in description (limits the number of lines in imported text to first "n" lines) * Text optimizing filter (filters out whitespace characters and empty lines through user-definable options, cutting down the size of text and improving readability) * File name character case formatting (allows changing character case for cataloged files and folders, i.e. "FILE.TXT", "File.txt", or "file.txt") INSTALLING THE PLUGINS ====================== Since the DescPlugin.dll module is a part of WhereIsIt program it is installed together with the application itself. Just as any other plugin it is expected be located in subfolder "Plugins" in WhereIsIt's main folder; for example, "C:\Program Files\WhereIsIt\Plugins". No other installation is necessary, except maybe personalizing some settings for individual plugins that offer configurable parameters. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The DescAPI and DescPlugin.dll module are an integral 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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