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  Engauge Digitizer - Adding To Windows Explorer Context Menu</H2>
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<H2>Introduction</H2>
<P>In Windows Explorer a simple right-click on an image file will bring up 
  a context menu that lists some software applications. Clicking on one 
  of those applications starts that application, and loads the image 
  file.</P>
<P>Engauge Digitizer can be inserted into that context menu, where it
  is easily available for processing image file formats such as BMP, 
  GIF, JPEG, PNG and XPM.</P>
<P>Frequent users of Engauge Digitizer will appreciate the speed of
  context menus.</P>
<H2>Steps</H2>
<P>Follow these ten steps to add Engauge Digitizer to the Windows 
  Explorer context menu:</P>
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<LI>Open up Windows Explorer</LI>
<LI>Select <i>Tools</i> / 
           <i>Folder Options</i> /
           <i>File Types</i>
<LI>Select an image file type from the list of registered file types</LI>
<LI>Click on the <i>Advanced</i> 
  button</LI>
<LI>Select the <i>open</i> action</LI>
<LI>Click on the <i>Edit</i> button</LI>
<LI>In the "Application used to perform action" field, enter the following
  line, being careful to include the quotation marks: 
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  <P ALIGN="CENTER">c:\engauge\digitizer.exe -import "%1"</P>
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<LI>Click on the <i>OK</i> button
  to finish editing the open action</LI>
<LI>Click on the <i>OK</i> button
  to finish modifying the file type actions</LI>
<LI>Click on the <i>OK</i> button
  to finish modifying folder options, or select another image file 
  type and repeat starting at step 4</LI>
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