	Retriever 1.0 Image Viewer, Thumbnailer & Database

DESCRIPTION:

Retriever is an image viewer for Windows95 / NT4.0.
It is designed to have the ease-of-use of Windows(tm) NOTEPAD for viewing images, with an 
industry standard no fuss user interface; "under the hood" it has the following 
advanced features:

-	fast thumbnail creation.
-	design dazzling contact sheets from thumbnails.
-	unusual :) image database
-	basic, but powerful image processing, like

	*	realtime color correction
	*	high quality filtered resample
	*	superior color quantization
	*	one click image enhancement
	*	a superficious adjective with every function :)

-	"dupe detective" for finding similar images 
-	is fully operative in full screen mode
- 	drag & drop support, shell integration

The Retriever database and thumbnail functions support any kind of file, 
not only image files.

Retriever has standard Windows(tm) online help and context sensitive help.

AVAILABILITY:

Retriever 1.0 is available as fully functional, uncrippled shareware. 

It is free for an evaluation period of up to 30 days after installation.
The program will continue to work after the trial period.
Continued use after the trial period is illegal without registration.

Registration costs $15. See license.txt or online help.

It is distributed over the internet as a self-extracting installation, eg. at 
http://retriever.home.ml.org

REQUIREMENTS:

	Windows 95+ or Windows NT 4.0+
	HiColor or TrueColor graphics recommended.

INSTALLATION:
	
	Run Rtrvr10.exe
	It will extract the setup files to a temporary directory and start the setup.
	
	Retriever 1.0 incl. online help will use 848k on your harddisk.
	
	Retriever consists of a single exe "Retriever.exe"
	It doesn't require additional DLLs and will not write things to your System 
	directory.
	However, it _must_ be installed with the setup program to work correctly. 

	If you ever uninstall Retriever and you have used the database, Retriever's
	directory will not be removed, so you can save retriever.db if you want.
	Apart from this Retriever should uninstall tracelessly.

CONTACT:

	WWW: http://retriever.home.ml.org
	e-mail: retriever@solaris.stuttgart.netsurf.de

AUTHOR:

	Dirk Djuga
	Johannesstrasse 9a
	70176 Stuttgart
	Germany
	