CONTENTS

  Introduction

  File Menu Item:  Save as  >>  BMP

   File Menu Item:  Save as  >>  GIF

   File Menu Item:  Save as  >>  PCX

   File Menu Item:  Save as  >>  TIF

   File Menu Item:  Save as  >>  TXT

   File Menu Item:  Open BMP

   Main Menu Item:  Display

   Main Menu Item:  Options

   Main Menu Item:  Print

   Cropping the Clipboard Image

    Glossary


Introduction

SuperClip  is a clipboard viewer that can save a displayed

graphic image to a BMP, GIF, PCX, or TIF file, or text to an ASCII file.

In Windows, the entire screen can be captured to the clipboard at

any time by pressing the PrtSc key, or just the currently active window

by pressing Alt+PrtSc.  Pressing PrtSc will also capture text to the

clipboard from DOS applications running full-screen in character mode.

The entire clipboard image can be saved or it can be cropped by

using the mouse to frame a rectangle before saving to disk.  Text can

also be converted to a bitmap and cropped.

While running minimized as an icon, SuperClip will pop up and display

the clipboard whenever a capture occurs.


Save as BMP
File Menu Item:  Save as  >>  BMP

Select this item from the File menu to save the contents of the clipboard

to an uncompressed Windows Bitmap File having the filename extension

BMP.   Monochrome, 16-color, 256-color, and  24-bit TrueColor modes

are supported.

If text is the currently-displayed clipboard format, it will be converted to

a graphic image and saved as a monochrome BMP file.


Save as GIF
File Menu Item:  Save as  >>  GIF

Select this item from the File menu to save the contents of the clipboard

to a CompuServe Graphics Interchange Format file having the filename

extension GIF.  This format utilizes LZW compression, and supports

Monochrome, 16-color and 256-color modes.   GIF does not support

24-bit TrueColor  modes.

If text is the currently-displayed clipboard format, it will be converted to

a graphic image and saved as a monochrome GIF file.


Save as PCX
File Menu Item:  Save as  >>  PCX

Select this item from the File menu to save the contents of the clipboard

to a PC Paintbrush file having the filename extension PCX.  Monochrome,

16-color, 256-color, and 24-bit TrueColor modes are supported.

If text is the currently-displayed clipboard format, it will be converted to

a graphic image and saved as a monochrome PCX file.


Save as TIF
File Menu Item:  Save as  >>  TIF

Select this item from the file menu to save the contents of the clipboard

to a Tagged Image Format File having the filename extension TIF.

Three different compression schemes are available: LZW, PackBits,

and no compression, any of which may be selected from the Options

menu.  The defaults are LZW for 24-bit TrueColor images, and PackBits

for monochrome and palette color images.


Save as TXT
File Menu Item:  Save as  >>  TXT

Select this item from the File menu to save clipboard text to an ASCII

TXT file.  Select OEM for the DOS-compatible, IBM extended-ASCII

character set, or ANSI for the Windows-compatible character set.

If you select a file that already exists, clipboard text will be appended

to that file.


Cropping the Clipboard Image

To mark a rectangular area for cropping, move the cursor to the

top-left corner of the desired rectangle, depress the left mouse button,

move the cursor to the lower-right corner and release.  Repeat this

procedure to erase the rectangle and draw a new one.

To save the cropped image, select the desired format from the File

menu.  To erase the rectangle, press Esc or click and release the

left mouse button.

Only bitmapped images can be cropped.  To crop text, it must first be

converted to a monochrome bitmap by selecting "Save as BMP" from

the File menu, then "Open BMP" to place the newly-created bitmap on

the clipboard.  In most cases, it would be more practical to save text to

an ASCII file, then open that file in a word processor and edit the text

before pasting it into an application.


Options
Options  >>  Eleven options are available.

Option:  Capture rectangle.

  Select this menu item to capture the current rectangle to the

  clipboard.  You must first draw a rectangle with the mouse or

  by entering coordinates from the keyboard.

Option:  Clear clipboard

  Select this menu item to empty the clipboard.  Both text and

  graphics will be discarded.

Option:  Enter coordinates

  Select this menu item to modify or draw a rectangle by entering

  its coordinates from the keyboard.  The values that appear in

  the dialog box are those of the current rectangle, if one has been

  previously entered or drawn with the mouse.  If there is no current

  rectangle, the values default to a rectangle that contains the

  entire client area of the SuperClip window.  Coordinates may be

  entered that exceed the boundaries of this client area, and may

  include the entire image on the clipboard, up to a full screen.

  The origin of the rectangle coordinates is the upper-left corner

  of the clipboard image.  To erase the rectangle, press Esc or

  click the left mouse button.

Option:  Invert colors

  Select this menu item to invert the colors of the image on the

  clipboard, creating a negative image.  The original colors can

  be restored by selecting this menu item again.

Option:  Popup mode

  This is the default mode of SuperClip.  When hidden by another

  window or minimized to an icon, SuperClip will pop up onto the

  screen whenever text or graphics is captured to the clipboard.

  Select this menu item to turn popup mode off or back on again.

  To return to the application that was interrupted when SuperClip

  popped up, click on that application's window or minimize

  SuperClip back to an icon.

Option:  Reverse x-axis.

  Select this menu item to reverse the horizontal axis of the

  clipboard image.  This will result in a mirror image.

Option:  Reverse y-axis.

  Select this menu item to reverse the verticle axis of the clipboard

  image.  The effect is the same as flipping a transparency over,

  top-to-bottom, and viewing it from the back.  To simulate the effect

  of turning an image upside-down, it is necessary to reverse both

  the x and y axes.

Option:  Stretch bitmap.

  Select this menu item to stretch or compress the clipboard

  image along the horizontal and/or verticle axes.

Option: Text colors

  This menu item allows you to choose the displayed colors of

  clipboard text.  The choices are black-on-white (the default)

  and white-on-black.

Options: Text to bitmap.

  Select this menu item to convert clipboard text to a bitmap

  image, so that it can be subjected to any of the transformation

  options and/or saved to disk in one of the graphical formats.

Option: TIF compression

  This menu item allows you to select the compression scheme for

  TIF files.  The choices are LZW, PackBits, and no compression.

  The defaults are LZW for 24-bit TrueColor images, and PackBits

   for monochrome and palette color images.


Open BMP
File Menu Item:  Open BMP

Select this item from the File menu to open a BMP file and place

the image it contains on the clipboard.  If a graphic image already

exists on the clipboard, the entire contents of the clipboard will first

be discarded.


Print
Main Menu Item:  Print

Select this menu item to send clipboard text or graphics to the printer.

Before printing begins, Windows will first present a dialog box that will

allow you to select various options, such as resolution and intensity,

then SuperClip will present a dialog box that will enable you to position

the image on the page and stretch or compress it vertically and/or

horizontally.


Main Menu Item:  Display

Select this menu item to choose which clipboard format to display.

There are three possible formats.

Bitmap

This is the format to display a graphic image,

OEM

This is the format to display text in the DOS-compatible, IBM

extended-ASCII character set.

ANSI

This is the format to display text in the Windows-compatible

 character set.


GLOSSARY

  ANSI text

    The set of text characters used by Windows.  Most of the alpha-

      numeric characters and standard punctuation symbols in this set

      (ASCII codes 32 through 127) are equivalent to those in the OEM

      character set used by DOS.  However, the extended portion of the

      ANSI character set (ASCII codes 0 through 31 and 128 through 255)

      are mapped to different characters and symbols than those of the

      OEM character set.  ANSI stands for American National Standards

      Institute.

  ASCII text

    A text file format in which each character or symbol is represented

      by a one-byte numeric code in the range 0 through 255.  ASCII

      stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange.

  bitmap

    An array of bytes that encodes a graphic image.  Each pixel is

      represented by 1 bit for monochrome, 4 bits for 16 color, 8 bits for

      256 color, and 3 bytes (24 bits) for TrueColor graphics.

  character mode

    The non-graphical screen mode used by many DOS applications

      to display text.  Each character is represented by two bytes in

      memory, one for the ASCII code and one for the color attribute,

      and the displayed font is the same hardware font seen in DOS

      directory listings.

  clipboard

    An area of memory allocated by Windows for the temporary

     storage of data.  Applications can cut to or paste from the clipboard.

     The entire screen can be copied to the clipboard at any time by

     pressing the PrtSc key (Shift-PrtSc on 84-key keyboards), or just

     the currently active window by pressing Alt-PrtSc.

  LZW compression

     A file-compression algorithm that encodes repetitious byte

     sequences as tokens stored in lookup tables to substantially

     reduce file size.  LZW stands for Lempel, Ziv, & Welch.

  monochrome bitmap

    A bitmap that has only two colors, usually black and white.  Each

     pixel is represented in the bitmap by one bit, so that one byte can

     encode eight pixels.

     SuperClip will display and save monochrome bitmaps if the

     Windows "VGA with Monochrome display" screen driver is running.

     This driver can also display Windows in monochrome on a color

     monitor.

  OEM text

    The IBM extended-ASCII character set used by DOS.  Most of the

      alphanumeric characters and standard punctuation symbols in

      this set (ASCII codes 32 through 127) are equivalent to those in the

      ANSI character set used by Windows.  However, the extended

      portion of the OEM character set (ASCII codes 0 through 31 and

      128 through 255) are mapped to different characters and symbols

      than those of the ANSI character set.  OEM stands for Original

      Equipment Manufacturer.

  PackBits compression

    A run-length encoding scheme used to compress TIF files.

     This is the default compression scheme for monochrome and

      palette color images.  PackBits does not compress a file as

      densely as LZW, but is faster to write to and read from disk.

  palette

    Each pixel in a palette color image is represented in a graphics

      file as an index into a 16 or 256 color palette.  A palette color image

      cannot use a color that does not exist as an entry in the palette.

  TrueColor

      A bitmap format that maps each pixel on the screen to three bytes

      in memory, one for each of the primary colors red, green, and blue.

      The number of possible colors that can be represented for each

      pixel is therefore 256 to the 3rd power, or 16,777,200 different colors.

      A Super-VGA monitor can display TrueColor graphics only if the

      proper Windows screen driver is running and the video adapter

      card supports that display mode.