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GrabIt Professional
Version 3.1
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A Screen Capture Program
for Microsoft Windows(tm)
(c)Copyright 1990, 1991, 1992
Software Excellence By Design Inc.*
All Rights Reserved
Software Excellence By Design Inc.*
107 East Paradise Lane
Phoenix, AZ 85022
(602)375-9928 Voice
(602)375-9928 Fax
Our BBS #'s Are:
(602)375-0531 12-2400
(602)375-9945 9600 V32 V42
(*formerly Moon Valley Software)
Table Of Contents Page
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Introduction............................................................. 1
GrabIt Pro Procedures
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Capturing A Window....................................................... 2
Capturing The Window Client Area Only.................................... 2
Capturing A Selected Area Of The Screen.................................. 2
Capturing The Entire Desktop............................................. 2
Capturing A Selected Area Of A Child Window.............................. 3
**Special Note On Child Window Capture................................... 3
Capturing Menus With GrabIt Pro.......................................... 4
Loading A Bitmap From Disk............................................... 4
Saving A Captured Screen To Disk......................................... 4
**Converting From One File Format To Another............................. 5
Copying An Image To The Clipboard........................................ 5
Pasting An Image From The Clipboard...................................... 5
Printing A Screen Or Bitmap.............................................. 5
**Image Scaling When Printing............................................ 5
**Problems Printing A Bitmap Or Screen Capture........................... 6
How To Obtain Technical Support.......................................... 6
Software License Agreement..............................................7-9
Registration Information.................................................10
** Denotes Items Of Special Information. Please Take The Time To Read This
Information
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GrabIt Pro User's Guide Page i
Introduction
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Thank you for taking the time to evaluate GrabIt Pro. 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 Pro 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 bitmap's
that load faster and are much easier to view and store.
Please keep in mind that GrabIt Pro is being distributed as Shareware.
This gives you the opportunity 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!
New Features In Version 3.1
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-> GrabIt has a new name: GrabIt Professional
We felt that the many improvements made to this version warranted a new
name.
-> The program now uses the Multiple Document Interface so that you may
work with a large number of screen captures at the same time, each in
its own child window.
-> You can now save a bitmap in both BMP and RLE format.
-> Convert color images to monochrome
-> View the attributes of a graphic before you open it.
-> Capture a single window, client area only, or the entire desk top with
a single command from the GrabIt Pro Menu. This is in addition to the
standard selected area capture in version 2.01.
-> Mark selected areas of child windows and create a new image from the
capture without changing the original screen capture.
-> A more complete Windows help file that should answer any question that
may arise.
-> The number of screen captures is limited only by your available system
resources.
The following files should be contained in your GrabIt Pro Archive:
GRABPRO.EXE ----------> The Windows Executable Program.
EBDCNTRL.DLL ----------> Our Custom Control DLL
GRABPRO.DOC ----------> The program documentation (This Document)
GRABPRO.HLP ----------> The Windows Help File
REGISTER.FRM ----------> The shareware registration form.
README.TXT ----------> Important information.
REGISTER.TXT ----------> Registration Information
VENDOR.TXT ----------> Shareware Vendor Information
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GrabIt Pro Procedures
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Capturing A Window Only
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To capture an entire Window follow the steps outlined below:
1. Select Entire Window from the Grab menu or press Ctrl + W
2. The GrabIt window will disappear and the cursor will change into a
net with a crosshair.
3. Move the cursor to the Title Bar of the Window you wish to capture.
4. Click on the title bar.
5. The window capture will be displayed in a child window.
Capturing The Window Client Area Only
-------------------------------------
To capture the window client area only (no caption bar) follow the steps
outlined below:
1. Select Client Area from the Grab menu or press Ctrl + C
2. The GrabIt window will disappear and the cursor will change into a
net with a crosshair.
3. Move the cursor to the client area of the window you wish to capture.
4. Click on the client area.
5. Your client area capture will be displayed in a child window.
Capturing A Selected Area Of The Screen
---------------------------------------
To capture a portion of the screen follow the steps outlined below:
1. Click on Selected Area from the Grab menu selection or press Ctrl + 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 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 left mouse
button.
7. The Image will now be displayed in a child window.
Capturing The Entire Desktop
----------------------------
To capture the entire Windows desktop follow the steps outlined below:
1. Select Desktop from the Grab menu or press Ctrl + D
2. The GrabIt window will disappear
3. The GrabIt window will re-appear
4. Your desktop grab will be displayed in a child window.
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Capturing Selected Areas Of A Child Window
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You may need to capture only a portion of a screen grab or file opened
from disk. Follow these steps to capture a portion of a child window.
1. Move the mouse cursor to the UPPER LEFT HAND corner of the image that
you want to capture. Press and HOLD THE LEFT MOUSE BUTTON DOWN.
2. Drag the crosshair cursor to invert the area.
3. When you release the left mouse button the area you marked will remain
inverted.
4. Press Ctrl + Ins to copy that area to the clipboard.
5. Now press Shift + Ins to copy the new image into a child window.
6. That's all there is to it! You now have a window that contains only the
area you selected.
7. Save your new image to disk
-> Special Note On Child Window Selected Area Captures <-
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When you mark an area of a child window the inverted rectangle will
remain visible until you either click on the window again or select another
window. You must clear the inverted rectangle in any child window before
performing another screen capture operation. The program has set the focus
to that rectangle so that you may copy and paste it. If you don't clear it
before attempting another screen capture, it will be transferred to the
windows desktop and become an inverted area in that window.
So just remember to clear the inverted rectangle from the current child
window before you do any further screen captures. Remember to clear it all
you have to do is click anywhere on the child window where the rectangle is
located, or click on any other child window.
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Capturing Menus With GrabIt
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You may need to capture the pull down menus of another application for
inclusion in program documentation or training manuals.
Follow these steps to capture a menu.
1. Display the menu you wish to grab.
2. Press the Print Screen Key on your Keyboard ( Print Scrn)
3. Now switch back to GrabIt.
4. Press Shift + Ins to copy the entire contents of your print screen
into a GrabIt child Window.
5. Now move the mouse cursor to the UPPER LEFT HAND corner of the image
that contains the menu you want to save. Press and HOLD THE LEFT MOUSE
BUTTON DOWN.
6. Drag the crosshair cursor to invert the area containing the menu.
7. When you release the left mouse button the area you marked will remain
inverted.
8. Press Ctrl + Ins to copy that area to the clipboard.
9. Now press Shift + Ins to paste the new image into a child window.
10. That's all there is to it! You now have an image that contains only
the menu you wanted to capture.
11. Save your new image to disk
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.
Saving A Captured Image To Disk
-------------------------------
Choose File Save from the main menu. Enter the file name of the bitmap in
the edit field. You can convert between various formats by choosing the
Options Button on the save dialog. The options are as follows:
Bitmap Options Color Options
Windows 3.X Bitmap Monochrome
OS/2 2.0 Bitmap 16 Color
16 color RLE 256 Color
256 Color RLE 24 Bit Color
For users making screen shots for documentation and other presentations,
You can convert your screen shoots to monochrome on the fly by
choosing the monochrome option when saving your screen grabs.
The radio buttons are only functional for legitimate combinations of
image and color options.
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-> Please Note The Information Below
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*** File Conversions ***
Converting from one format to another. Don't convert 24 Bit or 256 color
**bitmaps to monochrome when you are using a 256 color driver. This may
result in a loss of portions of the image and could turn the image to solid
black.
You can safely convert 16 color bitmaps to monochrome when running a
16 color driver.
You may have other conversion gremlins depending on the graphics card you
have. Actually its a function of the drivers that came with your card that
may cause you a problem. I use the standard 800X600 windows driver anytime
I want to convert graphics from one format to another.
This will eliminate many of headaches in the long run.
Copying To And From The Clipboard
---------------------------------
To copy text or graphics
1. Select the area or the child window you want to copy.
2. Choose Edit Copy or press Ctrl+Ins.
3. Choose Edit Paste or press Shift+Ins.
To paste text or graphics
1. Choose Edit Paste or press Shift+Ins. If the clipboard is empty you
will receive an error message.
2. The pasted image will be displayed in its own child window. The title
bar will say pasted, and will list the size of your pasted image.
Printing A Screen Or Bitmap
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Laser Printers
With GrabIt Pro 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 Pro 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
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GrabIt Pro 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.
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Printer Problems
If you have a problem printing a bitmap, and you are using a HP LaserJet
printer be sure that you obtain the new windows 3.1 HP Laserjet driver that
is on the windows supplemental drivers disk.
Technical Support
-----------------
If you are having trouble with GrabIt you have the following help options
available to you.
Shareware Evaluation Users
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There is no voice tech support available for shareware evaluation users.
1. You can get help by calling our BBS at 602-375-0531 (2400 Baud) or
602-375-9945 (9600 Baud). Leave a message to the sysop stating your
problem. You will have an answer in a few days.
2. You can Fax us with your problem at 602-375-9928. We will return your
answer by Fax only so be sure to include your fax number with your
tech support question.
3. You can leave a message in our compuserve mailbox.
Our CIS ID number is 72200,576
Registered Users
----------------
You can use the options outlined above, and you can get direct phone
help. Before you call for help YOU MUST HAVE YOUR REGISTRATION NUMBER READY.
It will be the first thing we will ask you for when you call.
The tech support phone number is 602-375-9928 and is available from
9:00 am until 3:00 pm Monday - Friday.
Please Note: Arizona is on Mountain Standard Time All Year Long.
When daylight savings is in effect we are the same time as the West Coast.
The rest of the year we are on the same time as Denver, 1 hour later than
the west coast.
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GrabIt Pro License Agreement
Effective 09-22-92
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License Agreement
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No part of this document or the program documentation 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 Software Excellence By Design Inc.
The use of GrabIt Pro is subject to the following terms and
conditions.
Title To The Licensed Software
------------------------------
Title to the licensed software is NOT transferred or sold to the end user.
The end user is granted a non-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 Pro is copyrighted material. It is protected by the copyright laws
of the United States, the State of Arizona, and other proprietary rights
of Software Excellence By Design Inc. You may not make any changes or
modifications to GrabIt Pro or this manual. You may not decompile,
disassemble, or otherwise reverse-engineer the software in any way.
You may make copies of GrabIt Pro only under the terms of the section
entitled "Limited License To Copy The Licensed Software".
You may use GrabIt Pro on a fourteen (14) day trial basis only, 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 Pro past the 14 day evaluation period you are
required to purchase it.
Limited Warranty
----------------
Software Excellence By Design 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. In other words there is no
warranty either implied or expressed.
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.
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Other Warranties
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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
-----------------------
Software Excellence By Design Inc. is not responsible nor liable in anyway
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 Software Excellence By
Design Inc. harmless for any problems arising from the use of the software.
Software Excellence By Design Inc. 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 Software Excellence By
Design Inc. OR ITS AGENTS OR DISTRIBUTORS HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE
POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. Some states do not allow the exclusion or l
imitation of incidental or consequential damages, so the above limitation
or exclusion may not apply to you.
In no case shall Software Excellence By Design Inc.'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 Pro ONLY FOR THE TRIAL
USE OF OTHERS subject to the terms of this software license agreement
described herein, and that the conditions described below are met:
GrabIt Pro MUST be copied in an unmodified form and GRBPRO.ZIP MUST contain
the following files:
GRABPRO.EXE ----------> The Windows Executable Program.
EBDCNTRL.DLL ----------> Our Custom Control DLL
GRABIT PRO.DOC ----------> The program documentation (This Document)
GRABIT PRO.HLP ----------> The Windows Help File
REGISTER.FRM ----------> The shareware registration form.
README.TXT ----------> Important information.
REGISTER.TXT ----------> Registration Information
VENDOR.TXT ----------> Shareware Vendor Information
-> No fee, charge or other compensation may be accepted or requested by
anyone without the express written permission of Software Excellence By
Design Inc.
-> Public Domain Disk Vendors May NOT CHARGE a fee for GrabIt Pro
itself. However you may include GrabIt Pro 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 Pro if said purchaser uses GrabIt Pro.
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The statement of shareware registration requirements MUST be printed
on a label, or other form, that is directly attached to the distribution
media.
-> Operators of electronic bulletin board systems (Sysops) may post
GrabIt Pro 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 Pro files without first obtaining the express
written permission from Software Excellence By Design Inc. to charge
such a fee.
The above constitutes the license agreement for GrabIt Pro. It superceeds
any and all previous license agreements.
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Registration Information
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Thank you for taking the time to find out how to register your copy of
Grabit Professional. Please use the registration form enclosed. It is the
register.frm file.
When you register you will receive the following:
1. The most current version of the program.
2. Printed documentation.
3. You will be notified of any future upgrades by mail, and will be
eligible for discounts on our other programs.
4. No more of those "pesky nagware screens".
5. You will be able to tell your computing associates that you like the
program and that you registered it. In order for new and higher
quality shareware to become available end user support is vital!
6. Get a one year free membership on our BBS at registration time if you
remember to ask for it at the time you register.
That's $120.00 worth of online time FREE!!!
The registration fee for GrabIt Pro is $34.95 + $3.00 shipping in US Funds.
We welcome Visa, MasterCard, checks, money orders, and
foreign checks drawn on a US BANK. Total registration price is $37.95
Questions or correspondence should be directed to:
Software Excellence By Design Inc.
107 East Paradise Lane
Phoenix, AZ 85022
Voice (602) 375-9928
Fax (602) 375-9928
BBS (602) 375-0531 2400 Baud
BBS (602) 375-9945 9600 Baud V32, V42
CIS 72200,576
To register your copy of GrabIt Pro, 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 $34.95 + $3.00 Shipping -> $37.95 Total
Any correspondence should be addressed to:
Software Excellence By Design Inc.
107 East Paradise Lane
Phoenix, AZ 85022 USA
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