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GrabIt Professional
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A Screen Capture Program
for Microsoft Windows(tm)
Version 3.1
(c)Copyright 1990, 1991, 1992
All Rights Reserved
Another Quality Shareware Program From:
Software Excellence By Design Inc.*
15414 North 7th Street
#8 Suite 292
Phoenix, AZ 85022
(602)375-9928 Voice
(602)375-9928 Fax
The Software Excellence By Design BBS At
(602)375-0531 12-2400 Baud
(602)375-9945 9600 Baud Dual Std V32 V42
(*formerly Moon Valley Software)
Table Of Contents Page
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Introduction............................................................. 1
GrabIt Pro 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
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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 bitmaps
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 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!
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
-> You can see the size and attributes of a graphic before you open it.
-> Capture a single window, client area only, or the entire desktop 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.
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GrabIt Pro User's Guide Page 1
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
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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
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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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GrabIt Pro User's Guide Page 2
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