===================================================================== Mr. Captor v1.20 for Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP © 2002, Fox Magic Software. Powerful screen capture utility. ===================================================================== Congratulations! You have obtained the most easy and powerful capture utility on the Web! Mr. Captor can capture all you see on the computer's screen -- entire screen, various regions, windows, menu, cursors, simple video, frames and colors. It can also save captured images as BMP, PCX, GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, TGA, CUR, ICO, AVI files and perform a post-capture editing. Mr. Captor is useful utility for designers, webmasters, developers, writers and for all people working with images. Unlike the other similar programs, Mr. Captor has a number of unique features, making it the powerful and useful capture solution! We make all the efforts to do the capture process as easy as possible for you and hope you appreciate the easiness and power of Mr. Captor! Features ======== Region capture -------------- Mr. Captor can capture rectangular, elliptical and freehand regions. User can edit selected region -- change its size and position. User can also magnify the regions by a special lens. This lens provides an accurate capture. Auto-cropping feature helps to remove a one-color background. Window capture -------------- This feature provides an opportunity of capture both a single window and a group of windows. Windows may be the programs, dialogs, buttons, toolbars, popup menus, splash-screens etc. The special framing feature is used for marking the windows to capture. Menu capture ------------ Mr. Captor is capable to capture both a single menu and a full menu tree. User can adjust the menu properties and view. Cursor capture -------------- This unique feature allows you to grab a cursor and save it as a .CUR file (Mono, 16 colors, 256 colors). This feature is useful for software developers. Color capture ------------- Color capture is useful for developers, designers, webmasters and provides you an opportunity to grab a color at any point of the screen and put in on Clipboard as RGB hexadecimal string. Frames and Video capture ------------------------ Mr. Captor has a timer. User can start/stop it. Frames are the files, saved at a timer frequency. You can configure Mr. Captor to capture a video as .AVI file, instead of frames. Hotkey capture -------------- The special hotkeys enable a capture while the user is working with another program. Hotkeys also provides a way to capture those things, that can't be captured by another way: menus, cursors, splash-screens etc. Saving a captured image as a file --------------------------------- Program can save a captured image as a file. It also can load and view the graphical files. Supported formats (read/write): BMP, PCX, GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, TGA, CUR, ICO, PPM, PGM; (read only): PICT, WMF, EMF. Some formats have the additional control options. For GIF and ICO files user can choose a transparent color with help of special wizard. Image Editor ------------ Program has the built-in image editor. This editor provides: brightness, contrast and colors adjustment, gamma correction, rotation, 11 effects, the user's filter, color depth changing, image resizing and more. User can also select a region and apply the editings only to it. External Editor --------------- User can easy connect an external image editor to Mr. Captor. For example, you can use Photoshop for editing the captured images. You need only one click to run an external editor and load an image to it. Image printing -------------- This feature allows you to print and preview the images. Sending as E-mail ----------------- You can send the images by E-mail. Sending works in the background mode and you can send the several messages simultaneously in the separate system threads. E-mail has two options: send via SMTP server and send via MAPI (Microsoft Messaging API). Drag-and-drop support --------------------- The program supports the OLE drag-and-drop and allows you to drag the images from Mr. Captor window to the destination program. View an image as HTML background -------------------------------- User can easy (one mouse click) try the captured image as HTML background, using the default browser. Image exchange via Clipboard ---------------------------- Copy/Paste feature allows you to exchange the images between Mr. Captor and the other programs. The program has the additional Clipboard options such as auto-copy feature and the Clipboard formats control. Registering Mr. Captor ====================== Mr. Captor is a shareware program. You are limited to 30 days of use for an unregistered version. If you find it useful and continue to use it you are obligated to buy and register it. After 15 days of using, unregistered copy of Mr. Captor adds the 'Mr. Captor evaluation copy' label to each captured image. Upgrade Policy ============== All registered users of Mr. Captor are guaranteed all future product revisions, will be provided free of charge for a minimum of one year after the date of purchase. If for some reason your authorization code does not work with the latest release and you registered within 1 year you will be issued a new authorization code free of charge. Technical support ================= Most questions about Mr. Captor can be answered in the online Help files, or at the Mr. Captor website at: http://www.fox-magic.com/mrcaptor.html If you haven't been able to find the answers online, please contact the Fox Magic Support Team at: support@fox-magic.com. =====================================================================