PROP quickly retrieves and visualizes
information about prepress files.

PROP is a Windows 95/98/NT/2000 utility that
quickly reads the most important Document
Structuring Convention (DSC) comments from
the PostScript file or tags from TIFF file
and creates report about it's content. For
PostScript files report include:

1. Size of PostScript pages (bounding box of
all pages included in the file).

2. Name of page media (only if such feature
was used when creating PostScript).

3. Colors used in PostScript document.

4. Separated or composite color indicator.

5. Emulsion up or down (mirror) indicator.

6. A lot of details about PostScript file:
name, size, layout title, date, etc.

7. The list of PostScript required external
(not included in the file) resources.

For now PROP has only limited support for
the PDF files (1, 2 positions above only).

PROP is supposed to be very useful for pre-
press, because with PROP You will be able to
decide about PostScript file content before
the time consuming interpretation and avoid
reinterpretation or even bad output.

INSTALLATION

Ensure that You have 1MB free space on Your
hard disk for PROP program files (PROP was not
made for work from removable media).

If You want to use PROP help You will need
any web browser.

1. Read the license agreement in License.txt.
2. If You agree with terms and conditions set
in license agreement then run the self
extracting archive Prop_v_1.exe and choose
the location where PROP program files
directory will be placed.
3. Once PROP program files have been
extracted, create shortcut on Your desktop
for PROP executable PropW32.exe.

USING PROP

You can work with PROP in variety of ways:

1. Drag and drop
You can take the file from any file manager
which supports drag and drop or even form any
'open file' dialog and drop it on:
a) desktop PROP shortcut.
b) opened main PROP window.

2. Association
You can associate the file extension to PROP.
Choose association:
a) for all Windows system environment
   (available from Windows Explorer).
b) for Your favorite file manager only.

3. You can create the user menu item in Your
favorite file manager. Some of them could
let You create the custom speed button or
assign the hot key for operation with
selected file.

4. You can use the command line. Type the
parameter made of the path and name of Your
file after the PROP executive file.

5. You can open the file directly from PROP
main window. Double click on the output media
rectangle to call the 'open file' dialog.

REGISTRATION

PROP is shareware. You can download fully
functional free trial PROP version and give
it to friends, but it is time limited to 30
days. You could register PROP online by means
of PROP agent RegSoft.com

http://www.RegSoft.com

CONTACT

For more info contact
Liutauras Juzikenas
Author
propsoft@usa.net
