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The Active Paper 2.0 is an application developed to turn your desktop more dynamic, permitting that it has a visual always different. Using pictures in BMP, JPG or JPEG format files, that cam to be in your computer or downloaded directly from Internet to your desktop without be saved into hard disk, and permitting to use a large quantity of wallpapers without use space into hard disc.

Navigate thought Internet and find wallpapers web sites, choice the best pictures and insert the URL* in your image collection and then use it as wallpaper in your desktop.

Compatible with Windows 98, 2000, Me and XP.

Internet Explorer 5.5 is required.

Windows 98 require an actualization of Internet Explorer to 5.5 venison or righter. Updates are available into Microsoft web site.

Active Paper step to step

1) Configurations

E-Mail

Allow to send a image or a URL to a friend or be shared into Active Paper web site.

Update

Set when a wallpaper actualization will 'be executed.

Order

Set how wallpaper actualization will 'be executed, in order that appear in image file list or in random sequence.

Connection

Identify the type of connection that system use to access Internet.

Auto Setup

Use Proxy setting from Internet Explorer.

Download Priority

Set priority of download in concurrence with others applications that use internet access.

Silently download

Hide progress bar while downloading a picture.

Use web default image when download fail

Alow Active Paper site choice a picture to recover a download failure.

Activate Screen Agent

Set Screen Agent active at next startup system.

Language

Allow you to choice a different language than Portuguese, language files are in XML format and must be in the same directory than application, with mane as “lang-en”, where “en” mean abbreviation of “English”. To translate in others languages, just modify values of xml tags and save with same name changing only particle that define the idiom, E.g. “lang-fr.xml”, where “fr” mean the abbreviation of “French” and so on.

2) Creating a image collection

An Image collection is a file, with “.acp” extension, created to join the files names or the URLs of images that will 'be downloaded from Internet, and will 'be used as wallpaper in your desktop.

You can use URLs of anyone web site, just navigate through web using Active Paper browser to locate sites with images, open links and insert it to your image list file, note that link must appoint directly to files with support extension (jpg,jpeg,bmp), not to web page. After create your image list, save the file and close application without close file, when Screen Agent will execute in next time, it file is the active image list.

You can create many files you want, with various different themes, but just only one will 'be used in each time.

3) Dynamic downloads

Is the download of wallpapers that follow a defined theme, even than system is on-line, Screen Agent will download randomly wallpapers in this theme. Dynamic Download doesn’t mean that image list is not required, it still required to updates when system is off-line.

Dynamic Download is available only through 30 days after installation, after this period the service is only available to registered software.

Registry your copy, chose your best pictures or your favorite theme and joy with an even different visual in your Desktop.

4) Changing the language

In order to change to another language than not portuguese, is fundamental that a file started with word “lang” has in application folder. The install file is distributed with lang-en.xml, than represent a english translation, to apply it language definition into your application follow next steps:
1- Rum console application (acpaper.exe), if you’re connected a registration window will ‘be displayed, just close it pressing “Registrar depois” button;
2- Click in the“Configurações” menu to display the configuration window;
3- Click in the“Idioma” dropdown list and select “lang-en.xml”;
4- Click in the OK button to close window, a confirmation will’ be requested;
5- Restart application to make changes effective;

By default, the application will access the web site in portuguese; it is defined in the configuration file distribuited with installation, you can download a english configuration file accessing http://www.activepaper.net/en/download/acpaper.xml and save it into application folder.

*URL: adress of a file into Internet

E.g.:

To make comments, critiques or subjections send us an e-mail to suporte@activepaper.net

Note: In Windows 98/2000 the option “Show as web page” must be off, to do it, right click into desktop area and uncheck “Active desktop”.