BEFORE YOU PURCHASE and INSTALL
Your
computer should be fully
updated from Microsoft Windows Update. As with all application
installations, it is recommended that you disable your antivirus and
firewall software before you launch the installer for this application.
This helps prevent interference from these security applications that
could potentially corrupt the installation. Make sure you are
logged into a Windows account with full admin rights. If you are using
an account with limited rights, the installation, activation and
registration of this application will not work properly. Read the
Browser Compatibility section below along with the Common Problems and Helpful Hints sections at the end of this web page
to ensure CCPro will fit your needs..
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Content-Cataloger PRO adds new features which include
3 new layouts for oversized (huge) collections, exclusion of duplicate
filenames, and automatic creation of thumbnails. You won't be
disappointed with this release, but if the original version suits your
needs stick with it. |
Content-Cataloger products allow you to create your very own personalized catalogs of your
digital media library in seconds! Organize
all your content with a visual catalog that can open in almost any web
browser (IE, Firefox, Chrome, Opera) and don't just settle for
text-only searching again! User customizable searching criteria,
personalized titles and date stamping to keep your
catalogs current. You can see in the comparison image below how
much easier it will be to manage most content collections regardless of
type (music, movies, photos, 3D)... |
Just a minute! Click the image below to check out this real-world example demonstrating the beauty and power of cataloging with Content Cataloger for a 3D Content collection. |
{complete catalog image using Tiny layout} |
Features
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PRO Features |
* Automatically create separate thumbnail images to reduce browser overload for large image collections of high-resolution digital photos and graphics. |
* Eliminate catalog images with duplicate filenames for smaller easier to use catalogs. |
* Three more layout styles including "Tiny" for compressed collections with many entries. |
Standard Features |
* Instantly create Visual Catalogs of your digital media collections with graphics images: Music, Photos, Apps, Graphics, 3D Content and more... |
* Save one complete catalog of all your media; or create as many catalogs as you need for each category in your library. |
* Completely dynamic! When your content changes, quickly create a replacement catalog with ease. |
* Do you ever forget where you placed that important media file? No need to worry, just click the Open Folder link found below each image entry in catalogs and it will open the folder for you. |
* Image-driven search engine creates html catalog of all images matching your search criteria that are compatible with almost any modern web browser (IE, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, etc). |
* Your media is never altered or moved, it stays where you like it. |
* Each catalog is imprinted with date created to keep track of when catalog last updated. |
* Choose your own Title/Description to categorize your catalog. |
* Choose the shape style of images placed in your catalog: Square (Small or Big), Portrait or Landscape. |
* Save and Load configurations for catalogs you refresh often. |
* Need hardcopy of your catalog? Simply print your catalog to any PDF creator (ie Adobe Acrobat, PDF995) and keep it for yourself or share with your family and friends (great for photo albums). |
* Use CCpro to create product pages for your own business and/or websites. |
Quick Start Guide
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When
you start Content Cataloger PRO (CCpro), you will notice that all the
controls/options are contained in one user-friendly screen. If
you are not sure what a section is about, click the small Instant Help
icons that look like question marks "?" for a quick description. |
STEP-1: Choose the location of your desired content (see Notes). |
STEP-2: Choose the name and location of your catalog. |
STEP-3: Decide how you want catalog entries sorted. |
STEP-4: Create a Title to be included in your catalog. |
STEP-5: Decide how to filter your search for catalog entries. |
STEP-6: Choose the graphics image types to include. |
STEP-7: Decide if you want to create separate thumbnail images for catalog. |
STEP-8: Choose the image style for your catalog. |
STEP-9: Click the Create Catalog button and whalah!!! |
NOTE: If you may update this catalog again, be sure to Save your Config. |
Browser Compatibility
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Content-Cataloger
products are compatible with all popular web browsers (IE, Chrome,
Firefox, etc). However, for those of us who have been around for
awhile, we realize that not all web browsers are created equally.
That said, be sure to use the browser best suited for the requirements
of the catalogs you wish to create. For most people, Internet
Explorer will suffice but in those cases of users creating catalogs of
large collections of high-resolution digital images, we recommend using
Chrome or Firefox. |
BROWSER LIMITATIONS: We
highly recommend a 500-5000 limit on matching catalog entries as a
guide to help keep customers from building extremely large html
web-pages that could not be used. It would seem that CCPro is a product
that is way ahead of its time because it is capable of creating "huge"
catalogs that are beyond the limits and maximum capacities
of the Web Browsers available at this time. None of them would be
capable of displaying that extremely large collections of image
data without freezing or failing. If you were to contact the makers of
Chrome, Firefox and IE and ask them why their browsers cannot
successfully display a single web-page containing 100k images, I'm sure
they would all state that no browser is capable of that at this time. |
Catalog Overview
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When viewing your catalogs, here is an example of what you will see: |
1 - HYPERLINK: Click to view the original image in full size. |
2 - THUMBNAIL: Small representation of the original image. |
3 - HYPERLINK: Click to Open Folder where original image is located. |
4 - FILENAME: Name of original image file in more readable form. |
Organizing Your Media
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To
make the best use
of CCpro, you do not necessarily need to reorganize all your media files
(for most of us this would be an overwhelming and time-intensive task
in itself). However, there are times when you may choose to do that for your own reasons. With CCpro, you can have sorted entries in your
catalogs using one of several methods with the most popular being by
Name and by Folder. If needed, you can also sort your entries by
their creation Date.
Below are some recommendations that will make using your new catalogs more enjoyable and make finding your media extremely easy and fast. Some of these procedures are more technical than others but none of them are required to catalog your media collections. |
Location of Catalogs |
Keep your catalogs in easy to remember places so they are always easy to find.
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You do not have to recreate a catalog unless you have added items to or
deleted items from a set in your collection or have changed the
location of your collection. Even though you should not store
your collections/sets in the root of your storage device (ie C:\ D:\),
you may save your catalogs there because most catalogs usually "link" to
images in the sets for your collections.
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Naming Catalogs |
You should use whatever makes sense to you.
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For
the most part (and to simplify the creation process), you should use a
filename for your catalog that is similar to, if not exactly the same,
as the Title you use which will display your catalog when viewed.
All catalogs are automatically saved as HTML files with the ".html"
suffix to open in your web browser.
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You
can see in the example below how we used the terms "new" and "models" for our
catalog name and title because it was the most relative phrase to our
search directory. |
Underscore Replacement |
Supports Legacy File Naming Conventions.
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When
creating the header portion of an entry for your own catalogs, CCpro
automatically replaces any underscore "_" characters with the space " "
character. This is an important feature to add readability to
your catalogs while maintaining support for file naming restrictions that do not allow
use of space character.
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Customized Output |
You
can customize what to include/exclude from your new catalogs in the Arrangement panel.
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Custom Sorting |
Most people will sort by folder.
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You
can have sorted entries in your catalogs using one of several methods
with the most popular being by Folder and by Name. If needed, you
can also sort your entries by their creation Date.
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Hyperlinks & Filenames |
Hyperlinks and Filenames are included by default.
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Once
a catalog is created, it can be used to instantly view or locate an
entry image simply by clicking the appropriate hyperlink.
If the catalog you create is the basis for a printed copy or electronic
version (ie PDF or eBook), then you can choose not to include
hyperlinks to further compress the size of the catalog. If a
strictly "visual" catalog is your goal, then you can choose not to
include filenames.
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Many
collectors of downloadable media and electronic content have duplicate
entries of the same image file spread across their collection.
This is usually the result of bundles and sets of content where you
maintain a "group" image such as a coverpage or collage in a fashion
that ensures each folder/directory containing important files from that
bundle/set also contain the group image. You can choose to
eliminate duplicate filenames, but this will have a significant impact
on the processing time of your content collection as each and every
file found will need to be analyzed. The only entry included for
each set of duplicates will be the first found during entry searches.
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User Specific Filtering |
Use a naming convention for the most important image
in a set of media that you would like to represent that set. |
This
tip applies more to 3D Content and similar collections where the user
may have more than one image in the set but there is one "main" image
that represents the set. For Photo, Music and Movie collections
you will most likely "Disable" filtering as most of these sets only
contain one main image (ie album cover or DVD jacket) or no main image
at all (show me all my digital photos).
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By
specifying one image to represent a set in your collection, you can use
the "Prefix" or "Contains" filters to create a catalog of those images
only. This will make your catalogs easier to view and find
specific items you are searching for. |
The
author's personal preference is to prefix the main images in his
collections with "Catalog---" (see CCpro In Action section). |
Supported Image Filetypes |
When creating a new catalog, CCpro will search for and find images of the following types:
BMP, JPG, PNG, GIF, TIF
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Image Pointers vs. Thumbnails |
Because
the catalogs you create are essentially "pointing" to the images in your
collection of media, the browser you use to open the catalogs has to
read each and every entries image to create it's thumbnail. We recommend that if the images in your collection are
rather large in pixels, that you do one of the following:
1. Permanently create smaller images in your collection to use with Filtered searches. 2. Use the Auto-Create Thumbs feature to automatically create thumbs for your catalog. |
Progress Status Bar |
The
progress bar gives a visual representation of the progress of CCpro in
creating your new catalogs. Just above the progress bar you will
see the current count of the number of images that have matched your
search and filter criteria to be included. It will display Done
and the total number found upon completion.
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CCpro
can handle quite large media collections, however the speed with which
a catalog is completed and the ability to successfully process a
collection are dependent on your system resources (ie CPU, Memory,
Storage). |
If you get a "Not Responding" message from Windows, it is most likely because you search criteria you specified is processing a very large number of files. In most cases, simply ignore this message until CCpro has completed its processing. |
Thumbnail Sizes and Styles |
You have 7 choices of thumbnail styles for your catalogs:
Tiny/Small/Big Square, Mini-Portrait / Portrait, and Mini-Landscape / Landscape.
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TINY SQUARE |
Tiny Square is great for making very large collections into a compact catalog without filenames. |
SMALL SQUARE |
Small Square is a general purpose and useful for almost anything. |
BIG SQUARE |
Big square is great for music album covers or other squared images. |
MINI-PORTRAIT
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Mini-Port has same uses as Portrait but with smaller thumbnails. |
PORTRAIT
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Portrait is great for downloaded software, 3D content and even digital photos. |
MINI-LANDSCAPE |
Mini-Land has same uses as Landscape but with smaller thumbnails. |
LANDSCAPE |
Landscape is great for digital photos. |
The Content Cataloger applications are strongly coded
executables and will attempt to read all folders/directories in the
selected path. Because of this, all users should not use the root
of any drive (ie C:\ or D:\) as their Search Directory as it may cause
a system error like the one shown below. |
To
avoid this error, which should not present a problem for most users, is
to simply keep all your media in designated folders and/or directories
of your choosing on your storage devices. |
As
you can see in this set of files for poseable book in our New Models
collection, there are 25 images. If you look closely, you will
notice that 7 of the images begin with the words “Catalog---“. |
You
could simply use Windows Explorer to view the contents of the folder as
thumbnails, however as in this example it is only good if you know
where you have placed the folder containing poseable book. |
And
this is just one of 68 new model sets that need sorted and organized
when time permits. So how are we going to remember all the stuff
that I have downloaded? Just take a look at all the folders and
you can just imagine the images contained therein. |
We
ran CCpro to search our New Models directory and save the catalog to
New_Models.html giving our catalog an appropriate title and using the
prefix “Catalog---“ because those are the only images we wish to
include in our new catalog. |
Check out how great our new catalog looks. |
Each entry in your
catalogs will have a View Image and Open Folder link which allow you to
view the image at full-size and go directly to the folder that is
holding your media set. |
Licensing | |
The purchase of Content-Cataloger Pro software entitles the original
purchaser to a
non-transferrable single-user single-instance license
for the software package to
be installed on any computer system but to be executing
on only a single computer system at any point in time. Content-Cataloger Pro software is not
authorized to be used for projects that violate
copyright and trademark
laws. Purchasers will receive their
personalized serial number from
the reseller where purchased or directly from
Winterbrose. |
IMPORTANT NOTICE | |
Please read this section carefully before purchasing any downloadable product. All sales are final! No refunds on purchased software! Every computer system has a unique hardware and software configuration. Under certain conditions, the application may impact or be impacted by your system's particular configuration. Therefore, all users are highly encouraged to download the Demo Version to ensure compatibility with your computer system BEFORE purchasing a copy of the software. |
System Requirements | |
Microsoft Windows • Windows XP, Vista, Win7, Win8 or higher • Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 or higher • 1 GHz Pentium class or compatible (2 GHz or faster recommended) • 1 GB system RAM (4 GB or more recommended) • 24-bit color display, 1024 x 768 resolution Macintosh • Sorry, Content-Cataloger is available only for PC. |
Best
viewed
at 1024 x 768 or higher. |
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