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README.TXT FOR ICTAM04 CD-ROM PROCEEDINGS

21st INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF THEORETICAL 
AND APPLIED MECHANICS, WARSAW, POLAND.
15 - 21 AUGUST 2004.

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Table of Contents
1. Release Note
2. System Requirements
3. To Begin Using the CD-ROM
4. Different Ways to Find a Paper
5. File/Directory Structure on CD-ROM
6. Questions and Answers

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1. Release Note

This file contains information that may appear useful
for browsing the CD-ROM Proceedings. 

2. System Requirements

The CD-ROM of ICTAM04 Proceedings is designed for use on 
personal computers and UNIX workstations. 

Minimum requirements: 
Any system running updated graphical Internet brow-
sers, Adobe Acrobat Reader 6.0, with CD-ROM drive 
installed  should be satisfactory.

3. To Begin Using the CD-ROM

On IBM PC or compatible computers:
a. Insert the Proceedings CD-ROM in the CD-ROM
   drive; 
b. On MS Windows computers with "Auto insert 
   notification" setting "on", the main page
   "index.htm" will be loaded using the default
   Internet browser on the computer. If the setting 
   is not "on", or the system does not have this 
   function, you will need to double click on the 
   "index.htm" icon in the CD-ROM root directory 
   to load it.
c. Next follow the hyper-links to browse the
   proceedings.

On Apple Mac and UNIX workstations: 
a. Insert the Proceedings CD-ROM in the CD-ROM
   drive; 
b. Double click on the "index.htm" in the CD-ROM 
   root directory to load it.
c. Following the hyper-links to browse the 
   proceedings.

4. Different Ways to Find a Paper

The ways offered to access papers using hyper-links
are as follows:
  a. Congress Programme (Sessions).
  b. Author Index.
  c. Paper List (all papers listed by their ICTAM04 ID). 


a. Congress Programme:

Clicking on the link of "Sessions"
on the main page will lead you to the Congress
program. All presentations are organized into 
sessions. Find the session you want to review, then 
follow the hyper-link to access individual abstract 
and full paper.

b. Author Index

Clicking on the "Author Index" will lead you to the
index of authors. The index entries are alphabetical-
ly arranged using all authors' surname. Click the 
hyper-link to access individual abstract and full paper.

 
5. File/Directory Structure of the CD-ROM.

The CD-ROM contains all abstracts as HTML and PDF files, and
Extended Summaries as PDF files. They can be opened
individually or using external browser.


6. Questions and Answers

Q: On my computer, when I access some certain papers, 
I got an error message like "unable to find/create 
font ..." or "The encoding specified by a font is 
missing or corrupted." What is the problem and how 
I can solve it?
A: There are few papers, about 30 of all 1416 
papers using some fonts which are not in default 
English system and not embedded successfully inside 
the PDF file. Asian Font Pack from Adobe is 
recommended to be installed for getting rid of 
this problem. Asian Font Pack can be downloaded from 
Adobe web site. Readers in Asia may not meet this problem at all 
because the fonts needed are installed by default 
in their system.

Q: I have Acrobat Reader already installed on the
computer. But I receive errors or some files are not
accessible. What should I do?
A: For full functionality of the CD-ROM you need 
Acrobat Reader version 6.0 or higher installed. 
Generally lower versions may work but several warning messages
will disturb browsing the CD-ROM.

Q: For some papers I'm viewing, on screen the text
resolution seems to be very low so I can't read it
clearly.
A: This may be the case when authors submitted scanned (graphic) PDF 
files. Usually PDF files obtained from text documents are optimized  
for printing  at 300 DPI or  600 DPI, so the text and figures 
are well resolved.  But scanned files have fixed low resolution appearance.


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Tomasz. A. Kowalewski, July 20, 2004,
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