Chapter 1. Introduction

Table of Contents

1.1 Information
1.1.1 Description
1.1.2 System Requirements
1.1.3 Install
1.1.4 Uninstall
1.1.5 Startup
1.1.6 Shutdown
1.1.7 License and Register
1.1.8 Contact

The Arensus Crossword Puzzle Editor generates crossword puzzles fully automatically using clue-databases. It can create crossword puzzles and swedish-style crossword puzzles. It runs in Linux too because of Java. Crosswords can be saved as gif, jpg, pdf, html and other file formats. The databases can be used to keep clues and words and they can be queried as electronic dictionaries as well. Wildcards ? * and regular expressions can be used to find a particular word.

1.1 Information

Your system has to meet some requirements so that Arensus can be used. Please read here and verify before loosing to much time.

1.1.1 Description

The Arensus Crossword Puzzle Editor is a tool for crossword puzzle makers. Create and edit crossword puzzles with it easily. It has built in algorithms for filling fully automatically using clue-databases. Organize clues in databases for later reuse. It also can create swedish style crossword puzzles where, the clues are in squares crossword puzzles. These crossword cuzzles are very popular in European countries. An algorithmen for generating free-form crossword puzzles is present as well. It runs in Linux too because of Java. Crosswords can be saved as images in the format gif, jpg, png. It cancreate html files for homepages. The databases can be used as dictionaries as well. Wildcards ? * can be used when letters and/or length are not know. Regular expressions are supported for advanced searches.

1.1.2 System Requirements

Supported operating systems: Linux (x86), Mac OS X, Windows ME, Windows 9x, Windows 2000 and Windows XP.

  • Processor: Pentium II or faster

  • Requires 15 MB of disk space and 128 MB RAM.

  • This is Java program runs with Sun's JDK/JRE 1.4 or greater. Visit http://www.java.com/ to get the latest version for free.

1.1.3 Install

  1. Download Arensus zip-archive from http://tea.ch/

  2. Extract the zip-archive into a destination directory.

  3. If you don't have Java 1.4 or newer get it from http://www.java.com/

Done.

1.1.4 Uninstall

It's easy to uninstall Arensus from your system. To uninstall just remove all files in the directory where you have extracted the zip-archive.

1.1.5 Startup

If Java 1.4 or newer is installed you can start Arensus with a double-click on the file Arensus.jar

If you have Linux start Arensus from a shell with the command

 java -jar Arensus.jar 

1.1.6 Shutdown

Don't turn your computer off. If you have made changes to your database or crossword puzzles, you have to save your changes in order not to loose data.

1.1.7 License and Register

This is try-before-buy software. You can try it out for 30 days before you have to buy a license or stop using it. Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute copies of the unregistered version of this software.

1.1.8 Contact

We are very interested in receiving your comments, suggestions and bug reports. Please send us an email to: .