Creating the Layout
The "Files on CD" panel shows how the image will look when the CD is placed in a CD-ROM drive. The tabs allow you to add files to all platforms or only to a particular platform. The "All Platforms" tab contains files that will exist for all platforms. Files added to the other tabs will only be visible when the CD is read from that platform. For example, you can place data files in the "All Platforms" tab and a Microsoft Windows executable in the "MS-Windows" tab. A Macintosh user will see all the data files, but not the Windows executable.
You can add files to the layout by drag and drop from the "Source" window to the "Files on CD" window (more details). The layout can be further customized by right-clicking (Command-click on the Macintosh) on a file or directory in the "Files on CD" window (more details).
Add Files using Drag and Drop
To add files or directories to the image, use your mouse to drag them from the "Source" panel and drop on the desired directory on the "Files on CD" panel. You may drag multiple files at one time by selecting them using shift-click or ctrl-click. Selecting a range is done by shift-click. Select the first file in the range using a normal click, then hold down the shift key and click the last file. All files between the first and last will be selected. You may hold down the control key and click to select and unselect inpidual files without unselecting other files. To drag multiple files to the image, drag one of the selected files to the image and the others will be added along with it.
Files and directories that have been added to the layout using drag and drop will display in blue font. Files inside these directories will display in black font. This distinction is important for two reasons. First, CDEveryWhere scans your hard drive inside the blue directories for files that have been added, removed or modified. You must either close and reopen the layout or restart CDEveryWhere for this scanning to take place after you have the layout opened. Secondly, you may remove the blue files and directories from your layout by using the menu option "Remove" described below. You may not remove black files this way; you must use the "exclude" option, also described below.
Although CDEveryWhere supports long filenames, each platform has restrictions. Filenames that are valid on your computer may be too long or have illegal characters for some other platform. If a filename is illegal, CDEveryWhere will rename it and display the new name in parenthesis "()" after the original name. Sometimes files are renamed such that a file already exists with the new name, CDEveryWhere will rename these when it creates the image file. In this case, a three digit number is appended to the name.
Modify the Layout
Several options are available by right-clicking a file or directory in the image (Command-click on the Macintosh). They include creating a new directory, excluding files or directories and setting how MacBinary and BinHex files are handled.
Creating a Directory
You may create directories on the image. This does not create a real directory anywhere on the hard drive, but will on the CD image. Files and directories can be dropped into the directory. This feature allows you to organize your CD in CDEveryWhere and not on your hard drive.
Add URL
You can add a file using a URL. Only files can be added this way; directories are not supported. This feature is most useful for HTTP locations, such as installer applications available over the world wide web. Select the "Add URL..." option and enter the URL in the dialog. The file will appear in your layout.
Remove
Files and directories with blue color can be removed by selecting the "Remove" option. The blue files are those which you have added by drag and drop. The black files have been found by CDEveryWhere scanning your hard drive. You cannot remove black files using this option, but you can exclude them as described below.
Excluding/Including
The exclude option allows you to exclude a file or directory from the image. It will appear in the "Files on CD" pane in gray text. If you want to include a file that has been excluded, use the include option. The "with Pattern..." options allow you to specify a wildcard for the directory. For example, you can enter "*.bak" as the pattern to exclude all files that end in ".bak" inside the directory you right clicked.
The Estimation Bar
This display at the bottom of the 
selection is called the estimation bar. It estimates the size of the image file.
The progress bar to the left shows the size of the image and the number to the right displays the number of files. This is only an estimate; the actual image will be larger or smaller than that displayed. After you change the files in the image, the estimation bar will start working. The green indicator at the right will flash red until it is done.
You do not need to wait for the estimation to be completed to do other tasks. You may change the files on the image, start writing the image, or use any other command.
General Information
The ISO standard allows you to enter various information about who created the CD and its use. The most important entry on this screen is the "Volume Name". This is the name or label given the CD when inserted on a Microsoft Windows or Macintosh machine. The other information is written to the CD, but most platforms don't display it.
Sort Order of Files
You can control where the files are placed on the CD. Placing smaller files near the beginning can improve performance; this is the default behavior. "Date" will use the modification date of the file.
File Dates on CD
You can control which date is given to the files on the CD. "From File Information" will use the files modification date. "From CD Creation Date" will give all files the same date, when the CD image file is created.
Saving and Opening Layouts
After you have the image configured, you may save it for later use. All information, including the selected platforms and general information, will be saved. When you open the layout later, any files that have changed on the hard drive or FTP site will be automatically updated in the layout. Use the "File | Save" or "File | Save As" command to save the layout and the "File | Open" command to open a layout.
Writing Files From a CDEW Server
As of CDEveryWhere version 2.0 you can use the CDEW Server to export the files and directories of a computer to the CDEveryWhere application running on another computer. It can be accessed with the Professional and Demo versions of CDEveryWhere. The client-server system replaces all file copying, such as using AUXZip, StuffIt and tar. All the information on a file is preserved when using the CDEW Server, including file type and creator for Macintosh files.
To use the CDEW Server you will need to start the server on the machine you wish to retrieve files from. If you don't have the CDEW Server, you can download it from our website at http://www.i2rd.com/CDEveryWhere/download.shtml. When you start the server you will be asked to select a password. Then, when using CDEveryWhere, you can select the "Get From | CDEW Server..." menu option. A dialog box similar to the one below will appear. All you need to do is select the computer you wish to retrieve files from, enter the password you selected when starting the server and click "OK". If the computer you wish to retrieve files from is not in the list you can enter the name of the computer in the lower left hand box (where you see the word NAME below). The port number is optional.
Once you select a machine and click "OK" another tab will be added to the "Source" panel and the contents of that machine will be displayed.
Writing Files From a ZIP Archive
Files can be written to the image directly from a ZIP archive. Select the "Get From | ZIP Archive..." menu option and you will be asked for the filename of the ZIP archive. After you select the file, a tab will be added to the "Source" pane and the contents of the ZIP archive will be displayed. Use the same drag and drop operation to add files from the ZIP archive as from your local hard drives.
Writing Files From a TAR Archive
Files can be written to the image directly from a TAR archive. Select the "Get From | TAR Archive..." menu option and you will be asked for the filename of the TAR archive. After you select the file, a tab will be added to the "Source" panel and the contents of the TAR archive will be displayed. Use the same drag and drop operation to add files from the TAR archive as from your local hard drives.
Writing Files From FTP
You can also write images from FTP sites. To connect to an FTP site, select "Get From | FTP site..." from the menu. You will see the following window:
If you want to connect anonymously, enter the host name and click OK. If you need to login, unselect the "anonymous" check box and enter your username and password. After clicking OK, CDEveryWhere will try to connect to the site. If successful, a new tab will be added to the "Source" pane with the FTP site name. You can add files from the FTP site as from your hard drive, described below. Use with caution: the administrators of a site may not intend for you to download large amounts of data.
CDEveryWhere will attempt to preserve all Unix attributes when connected to an FTP server. All mode bits, such as permissions, setuid, setgid, sticky, etc., are preserved. User and group IDs may be preserved depending on the configuration of the FTP server. IDs displayed as numbers will be preserved. IDs displayed as names will be preserved if the files "/etc/passwd" and "/etc/group" are available. If you login as anonymous, the server may provide a copy of these files in the public directory. If you login as a user, these files should be accessible. If you need to preserve these attributes and CDEveryWhere is assigning a 0 value to them, check the FTP server configuration.
Writing Files from a "Services for Macintosh" volume
CDEveryWhere can access a Macintosh volume stored on a NTFS (Windows NT FileSystem) drive. The volume must have been created using Microsoft's "Services for Macintosh". You must use the "Get From | NTFS Macintosh Volume..." command to access the volume. The command will prompt you for the root directory of the volume. After you select the directory, another source will be added for the volume. You can drag and drop files from the volume as usual and all Macintosh resource forks and attributes will be preserved.
Writing Files from an "Apple/Unix" volume
CDEveryWhere can access a Macintosh volume stored on an "Apple/Unix" volume. You must use the "Get From | Apple/Unix Volume..." command to access the volume. The command will prompt you for the root directory of the volume. After you select the directory, another source will be added for the volume. You can drag and drop files from the volume as usual and all Macintosh resource forks and attributes will be preserved.
Refreshing the Files
If you add, remove or otherwise modify files, you will want CDEveryWhere to recognize those changes. The Refresh command will update your layout, local files and FTP connections to reflect the latest changes. You can access this command from the "File | Refresh" menu option or the 
button on the toolbar.