FAQ

•What are the system requirements and installation procedures using webstore?

kSpectra can be run on Mac OS X 10.4 and higher. It is distributed electronically from our WebStore by compressed disk image (18 Mb) which is mounted in the Finder automatically. Installation is then completed simply by dragging kSpectra app (~26 Mb) to the hard drive! Example Projects are available for download!

kSpectra comes as a Universal Binary, and it will run in 64-bit mode on any Mac with 64-bit Intel processor and Mac OS X 10.5 and higher; on PowerPC and 32-bit Intel processors it will run in 32-bit mode. Running in 64-bit mode allows to process data larger then 4Gb in size and take advantage of more than 4Gb RAM memory (see below)!

•Mac App Store availability
- kSpectra Toolkit (requires Mac OS 10.6.6+) with full features.
- kSpectra Lite (requires Mac OS 10.6.6+) with limited features. Enhanced Functionality with full features for custom data is available after paid Upgrade on Mac OS Lion. Enhanced Functionality can be tested on Example Projects.

Click once to download and install on all Macs you own!

•What data formats are supported by kSpectra?
kSpectra supports data I/O in multi-column ASCII, CSV (comma-separated-values) and Matlab formats. Input files should contain only numeric data and missing values should be masked with "NaN" (case insensitive). The time series can be imported/exported by using the Load/Save buttons in Vectors (Matrices) tables of Data I/O, or simply by Drag-and-Drop of the files to the relevant table.
User can also open/save all data and plots in a single project file with “.tkt” extension. See more on Data I/O in the User’s Guide.

• What is License Activation for purchase from webstore?

kSpectra uses eSellerate's (http://www.esellerate.net) product activation feature to prevent using software with the same serial number on number of machines that exceed permitted number. For every purchased copy two activations are allowed. For example, in addition to a primary computer, user can install and activate the serial number on a home computer or portable (laptop). It is up to a user to decide how to utilize available activations.

• How do I activate my license purchased from webstore?

The customer can obtain a serial number for a regular license by using Purchase menu item of a demo copy:

In this case activation is done automatically. Customers can also use our webstore to buy a regular license, and then use obtained serial number to activate it with Registration Info panel:

In the event that multiple licenses are purchased on a single order, only one unique serial number will be issued with two activations per one license purchased. By using Deactivate button on Registration Info panel users have the ability to deactivate kSpectra on one machine and reactivate it on another.

•How can I get a demo version?
-It is distributed electronically from our WebStore.
-It is fully functional for data in Example Projects
-For custom data SSA Reconstruction and Prediction ,MTM Reconstruction and PCA Reconstruction are disabled.
- All Plots display "Demo" logo.
- Saving projects and data are disabled.

• How can I use Automator Actions and AppleScript in kSpectra?

Automator Actions allow to create Workflows consisting of repetitive tasks. With one click of a mouse users can load data, analyze it, plot the results, save and print them. AppleScript power users may find that using kSpectra Scripting directly can be more useful for intricate automative tasks.

To build a WorkFlow just start Automator, and look for Actions in the Library under kSpectra heading. Simply drag-and-drop these Actions to the right column, which is a field for constructing Workflows, and combine them with Actions from other applications, if necessary. Actions have input and output type that usually should match each other in the workflow. kSpectra actions use two specific types Data and Spectra, as well as system common File/Folders and Text.

Please see WorkFlow examples included in a demo version and User’s Guide for more information.