User Guide

ACDSee Pro 2.5 - User Guide
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System requirements
To browse and view your images and videos, and listen to your audio files with ACDSee, your
system must include the following components:
Minimum Recommended
Hardware Pentium III® / AMD Athlon processor
or equivalent
Pentium® 4 / AMD Athlon XP
processor or equivalent
512 MB RAM 1GB RAM
100 MB free hard drive space 1 GB free hard drive space
High Color display adapter at
1024x768
High Color display adapter at 1280 x
1024
CD/DVD burner
Software Windows® XP Windows® XP, Vista ™
Microsoft® Internet Explorer 5.0.0 Microsoft® Internet Explorer 6.0.0
Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0* - for
Microsoft DirectX file format support,
and for creating slide shows, screen
savers, and VCDs
Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0* - for
Microsoft DirectX file format support,
and for creating slide shows, screen
savers, and VCDs
QuickTime™ 6.0* - for QuickTime file
format support.
TiVo® Desktop Software* - to publish
photos to TiVo
Ghostscript® 8.0* - for PDF support
Windows Media™ Player 9.0 or later*
*To download these components, please visit our Web site.
Getting help
Using the Quick Start Guide
When you first start ACDSee, the Quick Start Guide opens to provides you easy access to
tutorials, user guides, video demos the knowledge base, support and the ACDSee community.
The Quick Start Guide also contains a set of links on the left side that you can click to get a
tour of the main features in ACDSee or set some important preferences like which folder to
open each time you start the application, the color scheme and some database options.