An important note from the port maintainer (Andreas Klemm ) Please note: mapedit is NOT public domain software ================================================== Credits and license terms ========================= Copyright 1994 by Thomas Boutell. THIS IS NOT PUBLIC DOMAIN SOFTWARE. Commercial users must pay for it to continue using it after 30 days. You need not register again when new versions are released. Please remit $25 to: Thomas Boutell 426 Bellevue Ave. E Apt. 1 Seattle, WA 98102 USA Nonprofit and educational users are required to send me a postcard! What is mapedit? ================ mapedit is a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor for imagemap files. Imagemap files are a feature of both NCSA and CERN httpd servers; they allow you to turn a GIF into a clickable map by designating polygons, circles and rectangles within the GIF and specifying a URL for each to link to. Unfortunately, creating good image maps by hand is a lot of work, because the points must be located using an editor not explicitly designed for the purpose. mapedit allows you to load your GIF image into a scrollable, resizable window and then draw polygons, circles and rectangles on top of it, specifying a URL for each. It also allows you to go back and delete these "hot spots", set a default URL for clicks outside of the "hot" areas, and so on. In addition, it allows you to associate comments of arbitrary length with each object if you have a server that accepts the NCSA imagemap format. Please take a look at the file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/mapedit/mapedit.html for full usage documentation.