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WOODWARD PORTRAIT EXPLORER ON CD-ROM

Technical Support

If you experience running the Woodward Portrait Explorer on CD-ROM, you may find helpful information in the ReadMe file on the top level of the Woodward Portrait Explorer on CD-ROM.

The CD-ROM is a 'dual format' publication - the same disk will work for either Microsoft® or Apple® Macintosh® operating systems

Technical requirements

Microsoft Windows 95, 98, 2000, NT®, XP

  • SVGA colour display or better (at least 640 x 480 pixels with at least 256 colours, thousands or millions of colours recommended)
  • QuickTime® software, version 3 or later (version 4 is included on the CD-ROM
  • 16MB of available RAM (32MB on Windows NT or Windows 2000)
  • 20MB of hard disk space for installation

Macintosh System 7.0 or later

  • Macintosh-compatible colour display (at least 640 x 480 pixels with at least 256 colours, thousands or millions of colours recommended)
  • QuickTime® software, version 3 or later (version 4 is included on the CD-ROM
  • 16MB of available RAM (32MB on Windows NT or Windows 2000)
  • 10MB of hard disk space for installation

Known issues

The portrait of King Edward VI by William Scrots (NPG 1299) will not currently display on some computers. A free download update will be made shortly available through this support page.

Printing

The printing out of images has not been provided as a facility. High quality digital images can be ordered directly from the disk via the web link tab on each portrait page.

Searching by date

The CD-ROM does not offer any search facilities by date of work or historical period.

 

For all other questions, please contact by email to portraitexplorer@npg.org.uk




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