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GrabIt ------ A Screen Capture and Graphics Enhancement Program for Microsoft Windows(tm) Version 2.01 (c)Copyright 1990, 1991 All Rights Reserved Worldwide Another Quality Shareware Program From: Moon Valley Software Inc. 107 East Paradise Lane Phoenix, AZ 85022 (602)375-9502 Voice The Windows BBS At (602)375-0531 12-2400 (602)375-0469 24-9600 Table Of Contents Page ----------------- ---- Introduction............................................................. 1 Using GrabIt To Enhance A Graphics Program............................... 2 GrabIt Procedures........................................................ 3 Capturing A Selected Screen Area........................................ 3 Capturing An Entire Windows Screen....................................... 3 Cleaning Up A Screen Capture............................................. 3 Copying An Image To The Clipboard........................................ 4 Loading A Bitmap From Disk............................................... 5 Pasting An Image From The Clipboard...................................... 4 Printing A Screen Or Bitmap............................................. 4 Registration Information................................................. 6 Saving A Captured Screen To Disk......................................... 4 Special Effects.......................................................... 5 Technical Support........................................................ 6 License Agreement........................................................ 7 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- GrabIt User's Guide Page i Introduction ------------ Thank you for taking the time to evaluate GrabIt. You will find a great many uses for this program. It is both a screen capture program and a marvelous utility for working with your favorite graphics program. By using Grabit to capture and save the images you have created, you will save many megabytes of hard disk space since only the crucial information about your bitmap is saved to disk. This results in very small bitmaps that load faster and are much easier to view and store. If you are a windows programmer and use owner draw or custom controls GrabIt will become addictive. It will enable to use high quality bitmaps in your program that use no more space in your programs resources than an icon! Please keep in mind that GrabIt is being distributed as Shareware. This gives you the oppurtunity to "try before you buy", just as a test drive in that new car you always wanted. But just as the car dealer needs to be paid for his efforts so do we! All we ask is that you honestly use and find this program of value, please fill out the registration form enclosed with this program, enclose a check and mail it. Doing so will enable us to keep refining this and our other Windows shareware programs, besides "its the right thing to do". ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- GrabIt User's Guide Page 1 Using GrabIt To Enhance A Graphics Program ------------------------------------------ Using GrabIt in conjunction with the Windows graphics program of your choice will allow you to save large amounts of disk space. In addition programmers will find it invaluable when creating bitmaps for inclusion in their programs. When you have create and save a bitmap with your favorite graphics program, Paintbrush for example, you will notice that the resulting file may be more than 300KB in size! It doesn't take very many of these bitmaps to eat up a large quantity of hard disk space. By using GrabIt to capture only that portion of the screen that contains your bitmap you will get a file that is 30 to 40KB in size. By cutting and pasting images to and from the clipboard you can easily create a drawing, capture it, create a mirror image , and then paste the mirror image back into your graphics program to create some very unusual special effects. The variations on this theme are limited only by your imagination. These examples show how much more than just s screen capture tool GrabIt really is. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- GrabIt User's Guide Page 2 GrabIt Procedures ----------------- Capturing An Entire Windows Screen ---------------------------------- To capture an entire Windows screen follow these steps: 1.) Minimize Grabit by pressing the minimize button on the title bar. 2.) Press the Print Screen Button on your keyboard. This key is located at the top of your keyboard, next to the scroll lock key. 3.) Restore Grabit and Press the SHIFT + P Keys to paste the image from the clipboard into GrabIt's client area. You can now Save The Image To Disk, save Print The Image,or Edit and Clean Up The Captured Image. Capturing A Screen Area ----------------------- To capture a portion of the screen follow the steps outlined below: 1.) Click on the Mark menu selection or press Alt M. 2.) The GrabIt window will disappear and the cursor will change into a crosshair. 3). Move the cursor to the UPPER LEFT HAND CORNER of the screen you wish to capture. 4.) Press and hold down the LEFT mouse button. 5.) As you move the mouse you will see that the area you are marking will be changed to inverse video. 6.) When you have marked the area you wish to capture release the mouse button. 7.) The Image will now be displayed in the GrabIt Client Window. The image attributes in pixel size will be displayed in the title bar . In addition it will show you whether it is an 8 plane 256 color, 4 plane 16 color, or a 2 plane Monochrome bitmap. You have successfully captured your screen. See Saving An Image Disk, Cleaning Up A Captured Image, or Special Effects for additional information on capturing an area of the screen. Cleaning Up A Screen Capture ---------------------------- GrabIt allows you to re-cut an image that is in its client area. This is very useful if for example your original capture included an area you didn't intend to capture. To clean up and or edit a capture follow the steps below. 1.) Move the arrow cursor to the Upper Right Hand point where you wish to begin your edit. 2.) Press and hold down the left mouse button. 3.) The area you are marking will appear in inverse video. 4.) When finished with your edit, release the mouse button and your new image will be displayed in Grabit's client area. In addition a copy of the image will also be copied to the clipboard. You can also perform any of the Special Effects noted in that section on your edits as well. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- GrabIt User's Guide Page 3 Saving A Captured Image To Disk ------------------------------- Once you are satisfied with the image that has been captured you can save it to disk by selecting Save from the File menu, or press CTRL + S. A dialog box will be displayed prompting you for the file name you want to use. Optionally you can enter a drive and path name in addition to the file name if you so desire. You can use the directory list box to change to the directory into which you wish to save the file instead of entering it manually. Copying An Image To The Clipboard --------------------------------- When you capture a screen, a copy of the image is automatically copied to the clipboard. If you want to use this image in another graphics program, or insert it into a document such as a Pagemaker publication you can do so by simply switching to, or starting your application, and then pressing the SHIFT + INSERT keys. To copy the image that is currently in GrabIt's client area to the clipboard, you can choose clipboard from the menu, and select Copy. Or press the SHIFT + C keys to copy the image. You can also load a bitmap from disk and then press SHIFT + C to copy it to the clipboard. Pasting An Image From The Clipboard ----------------------------------- To Paste an image from the clipboard into GrabIt's client area you can choose clipboard from the menu, and select Paste. Or press the SHIFT + P keys to paste the image. You can then Save The Bitmap to disk, or Print The Screen Or Bitmap. Printing A Screen Or Bitmap --------------------------- Laser Printers With Grabit you can print a screen or portion of a screen immediately after you have captured it. In addition you can load from disk and print any Windows bitmap. GrabIt will render to shades of gray all of the colors it can to give you an accurate representation of your captured screen. This grey scale dithering applies to Postscript and PCL printers. Image Scaling ------------- GrabIt will size the image currently in its client area to the size of the current page defined in your printer setup. This means that very small bitmaps will be enlarged to 8 1/2 x 11" if that is the current page definition. This is done so that on full screen captures and images loaded from disk you will get a 1:1 aspect ratio printout. If you wish to print images in a smaller format, simply change your printer setup to reflect a smaller page size. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- GrabIt User's Guide Page 4 Dot Matrix Printers ------------------- GrabIt does not support Dot Matrix printers,due to ditherings poor performance on Dot Matrix Printers. If you wish to print a screen on your Dot Matrix printer follow the directions below: 1.) After you have captured a screen with GrabIt, a copy of the image has also been copied to the clipboard. 2.) Start your favorite graphics program or Paint Brush, and then press SHIFT + INSERT to copy your image into the program. You can now print the image you just captured on your Dot Matrix printer provided that your graphics program supports the printer you have installed. Loading A Bitmap From Disk -------------------------- To load a bitmap from disk select File from the main menu and choose Open, or press CTRL + O. You can select a bitmap from the listbox, enter the drive and path to the bitmap you wish to load, or use the directory listbox to change to the directory where your bitmap is located and then select it from the listbox. To open the bitmap either select it from the listbox and click on Ok or press Enter. Alternately you can just double click on it to load the image. Special Effects --------------- GrabIt enables you to create special effects screen cuts that may be used in conjunction with your graphics program or saved as is. Creating A Mirror Image ----------------------- 1.) Click on the Mark menu selection or press Alt M. 2.) The GrabIt window will disappear and the cursor will change into a crosshair. 3). Move the cursor to the UPPER RIGHT HAND CORNER of the screen area you wish to capture. 4.) Press and hold down the LEFT mouse button. 5.) As you move the mouse you will see that the area you are marking will be changed to inverse video. 6.) When you have marked the area you wish to capture release the mouse button. 7.) A mirror image of your capture will now be displayed in the GrabIt Client Window. Creating An Inverted Image -------------------------- 1.) Follow the steps outlined above, except begin your mark in the LOWER LEFT HAND CORNER. Creating An Inverted Mirror Image --------------------------------- 1.) Follow the steps outlined above, except begin your mark in the LOWER RIGHT HAND CORNER. You may want to refer to Capturing A Screen Area for additional details. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- GrabIt User's Guide Page 5 Registration Information ------------------------ To register you copy of Grabit, please use the file called REGISTER.FRM that is supplied with the program. If you wish, you can phone in your order using your Visa or Master Card Monday - Friday 8:00 am - 4:00 pm MST. The order phone number is 602-375-9502 The registration fee is $29.95 Any correspondence should be addressed to: Moon Valley Software Inc. 107 East Paradise Lane Phoenix, AZ 85022 USA Technical Support ----------------- We will provide technical support to un-registered users on their first phone call only if you are calling with the intention of registering your copy of the program once your questions have been answered. Please call us at 602-375-9502 Monday - Friday from 8:00 am - 4:00 pm Mountain Standard Time. Arizona does not go on daylight savings time. (Who wants it to stay light later when its 110 degrees outside!) You can also call our BBS at 602-375-0531 12, 2400, and 9600 baud, N81 and leave us a message in the Moon Valley Shareware Forum. There is lots of other good Windows shareware on the BBS so feel free to browse around while your on-line. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- GrabIt User's Guide Page 6 GrabIt License Agreement --------------------------- License Agreement ----------------- No part of this manual may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any language (natural or binary), in any form or by any means, except as described in the following license agreement or without the express prior written consent of Moon Valley Software Inc. The use of GrabIt is subject to the following terms and conditions. Title To The Licensed Software ------------------------------ Title to the licensed software is NOT transferred to the end user. The end user is granted an exclusive license to use the software on a SINGLE computer or computer work station. EACH computer or computer work station must have its own licensed copy of the software. Copyright Protection -------------------- GrabIt is copyrighted material. It is protected by the copyright laws of the United States, the State of Arizona, and other proprietary rights of Moon Valley Software Inc. You may not make any changes or modifications to GrabIt or this manual. You may not decompile, disassemble, or otherwise reverse-engineer the software in any way. You may make copies of GrabIt only under the terms of the section entitled "Limited License To Copy The Licensed Software". You may use GrabIt on a trial basis provided you do not violate the protection afforded the licensed software by the copyright laws, and you agree to the terms of the license agreement. If you use GrabIt on a regular basis you are obligated to purchase it. Limited Warranty ---------------- Moon Valley Software does not warrant that the licensed software will meet your requirements or that the operation of the software will be uninterrupted or error free. The warranty does not cover any media or documentation which has been subjected to damage or abuse by you or others. The software warranty does not cover any copy of the licensed software which has been altered or changed in any way. ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES INCLUDING ANY WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE LIMITED TO THE TERM OF THE EXPRESS WARRANTIES. Some States do not allow limitations on how long an implied warranty lasts, so the above limitation may not apply to you. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- GrabIt User's Guide Page 7 Other Warranties ---------------- The warranties set forth above are in lieu of any and all other express or implied warranties, whether oral, written, or implied, and the remedies set forth above are the sole and exclusive remedies. Limitation Of Liability ----------------------- Moon Valley Software is not responsible for any problems or damage caused by the licensed software that may result from using the licensed software. This includes, but is not limited to, computer hardware, computer software, operating systems, and any computer or computing accessories. End user agrees to hold Moon Valley Software Inc. harmless for any problems arising from the use of the software. Moon Valley Software SHALL NOT IN ANY CASE BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, INDIRECT OR OTHER SIMILAR DAMAGES ARISING FROM ANY BREACH OF THESE WARRANTIES EVEN IF Moon Valley Software OR ITS AGENTS OR DISTRIBUTORS HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. Some states do not allow the exclusion or limitation of incidental or consequential damages, so the above limitation or exclusion may not apply to you. In no case shall Moon Valley Software's liability exceed the license fees paid for the right to use the licensed software, or a sum no greater than one Dollar ($1.00), whichever is less. Limited License To Copy The Software ------------------------------------ You are granted a limited license to copy GrabIt ONLY FOR THE TRIAL USE OF OTHERS subject to the terms of this software license agreement described herein, and the conditions described below are met: GrabIt MUST be copied in an unmodified form and ZM301.ZIP MUST contain the following files: GRABIT.EXE ----------> The Windows Executable Program. GRABIT.DOC ----------> The program documentation GRABIT.HLP ----------> The Windows Help File REGISTER.FRM ----------> The shareware registration form.(Please!) README.1ST ----------> Important information not in the documentation. -> No fee, charge or other compensation may be accepted or requested by anyone without the express written permission of Moon Valley Software. Public Domain Disk Vendors May NOT CHARGE a fee for GrabIt itself. However you may include GrabIt on a diskette for which you charge a nominal distribution fee. The purchaser of said diskette must be informed in advance that the fee paid to acquire the diskette does NOT relieve said purchaser from paying the Registration Fee for GrabIt if said purchaser uses GrabIt. -> Operators of electronic bulletin board systems (Sysops) may post GrabIt for downloading by their users without written permission ONLY AS LONG AS THE ABOVE CONDITIONS ARE MET. A fee may be charged for access to the BBS AS LONG AS NO SPECIFIC FEE IS CHARGED FOR DOWNLOADING GrabIt files without first obtaining express written permission from Moon Valley Software to charge such a fee. The above constitutes the license agreement for GrabIt. It superceeds any and all previous license agreements. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- GrabIt User's Guide Page 8