Copyright: © Siegfried Weckmann


Program functions:

PrintScreen

Prints out the screen.

ALT + PrintScreen

Prints out the current window.

Mouse click (onto the Hardcopy Icon in the SystemTray)

Prints out the screen.

A click with the right mouse button onto this Icon opens the Hardcopy window.

System requirements:

Windows 3.1 or Windows for Workgroups or Windows 95 or Windows NT.

Possible applications:

- Documentation of bugs

- Documentation of programs

- Documentation for the revision / financial requirements

- Printouts in programs which contain no print function

Menus:

Menu File

Menu Edit

Menu Settings

Questions / Responses, Tips and Tricks

Registration

Installation

Last modifications

Homepage: http://www.sw4you.com

E-Mail: sweckman@vistec.net

Yours faithfully

Terms:

Taskbar:

Since Windows Version 4.0 the started programs are displayed here.

SystemTray:

Is displayed at the end of the Taskbar.

Toolbar:

Symbols which a program makes available for selected functions.


Menu File

New

Deletes the work area.

Open

Opens a file saved before.

The following file formats are available:

.hcp	Hardcopy (bitmap)

.bmp	Bitmap

.dib	Device-Independend bitmap

.gif	GIF format

.jpg	Jpeg

.pcx	Paintbrush

.tga	Targa

.tif	Tagged image

Save As

Save the current Hardcopy.

File formats see: 'Open'

Print

The current Hardcopy is printed.

Print Preview

During use of this function, you receive an impression on the screen, how the printout will look.

Printer Setup

With this function, you can select the desired printer.

If you want to direct all future printouts to this printer, you can select this via the Menu 'Settings'.

Mail

The current Hardcopy can be sent by E-Mail to another user.

If you are sure that the recipient can use the GIF or JPG - format, save the current Hardcopy in this format, for example: C:\temp\send.gif.

(This saves the recipient considerable time / call charges.)

Last files

The files previously opened / stored are displayed here.

Select an entry in order to open the desired file.

(If you want to read in the same file again, please use first the menu File, New)

Minimize

Minimize Hardcopy.

Exit

Terminate Hardcopy.


Menu Edit

Copy

Copies the current Hardcopy to the clipboard.

Paste

Inserts a bitmap or text available in the clipboard.

Insert and print

Inserts a bitmap or text available in the clipboard and prints it out.

Mirror vertically

It mirrors the current Hardcopy vertical.

Mirror horizontally

It mirrorss the current Hardcopy horicontal.

Rotate right

Rotates the current Hardcopy in the clockwise direction.

Rotate left

Rotates the current Hardcopy anti-clockwise.

Cut

You can cut a rectangle with this function.

In this way, it is possible for you to print out and/or store desired screen sections.

Insert mouse pointer

Select the mouse pointer which you would like to insert.

Move the mouse in the desired place and activate the mouse button.

If you use this Icon, the mouse pointer last used is made available to you.

 (You can also repeat this operation several times.)

Increase

Select this funktion to increase the picture.

Using the Toolbar, you can also select the Zoom factor directly.

Zoom factor 1:1 (normal display)

The display is in 'normal' view.

Decrease

Select to this function to reduce the picture.

Show Grid

It displays a grid when enlagement is 8-fold or more.

Call graphics program

Calls a graphics program to edit the current Hardcopy.

(The desired graphics program can be adjusted via settings.)


Menu Settings

Print

Printout 1:1

Select this setting if the printout should correspond to the screen size.

If this setting was not selected, the printout is extended to the corresponding page width.

Print Page counter

If you select this setting, the page number is printed out.

Print date

If you select this setting, date and time is printed out.

Print PC name

If you select this setting, the PC name is printed out.

Print User name

If you select this setting, the user name is printed out.

Print File name

If you select this setting, the file name is printed out.

Margins / alignment

Printout centered horizontal

Select this setting if you would like to center the printout horizontal.

Printout centered vertical

Select this setting if you would like to center the printout vertical.

Printout landscape format (landscape)

The printout of the Hardcopy occurs in the landscape format.

Determine margins

Select this setting if you want to adjust the margins differently.

Monochrome

Contrast

With this function you can produce printouts in black / white create.

R = red

G = green

B = blue

M = mono chrome / yellow

This function is used:

•	if you want to print black / white on a colour printer,

•	if you want to reduce the load in the case of slow networks,

•	if you want to accelerate the printed output.

Invert

Select this setting if you want to exchange the colours black and white.

Grayscale

Select this setting if all colour information should be removed.

Reset

Select "Reset" in order to roll back to standard.

Save

Saving in the GIF format

If you store a file, the GIF format is used.

A normal hardcopy file occupies in the bitmap format approx. 2.300 KB in the GIF only 30-60 KB are required.

Save As

When activating the PrintScreen key or the ALT + PrintScreen key it is not printed but the function "Save as..." is called.

•	In this way, you have the possibility, to store one or several Hardcopies without printing them.

•	You can insert the created files for example into WinWord later on in order to generate a program documentation.

Key for 'Save As'

Select whether you want to use this function and if yes, which key should be used.

Automatic file name assignment

If you activate the PrintScreenAlt or Alt + PrintScreen key, if you selected this function, the file is stored automatically.

Key for 'Automatic Saving'

Select whether you want to use this function and if yes, which key should be used.

File name prefix

You can pre-set a prefix or a pathname followed by a prefix.

The following additional characters can be used:

H = host name,

U = user name,

D = Date,

T = Time

(Please, use lower case letters for the "normal" file prefix.)

Printer

Use no printer

If you select this setting, no printed output occurs.

Printer name

If you select this setting, all printouts occur on this printer.

To use another printer as the one displayed here, please use "Printer Setup" in the Menu "File".

Keyboard

If you want to use another key combination for the Hardcopy, this is also possible.

(This has the advantage that the clipboard is not deleted.)

Print screen

Please, select the key for printing the screen here.

Print window

Please, select the key for printing a window here.

Graphics tool

You may edit the current Hardcopy with a graphics tool.

If you have carried out no settings, PaintBrush is used automatically.

At this point put in the program name which should be used for editing the Hardcopy.

Language

Adjust the desired language here if this should differ from Windows standard.

Extra

Logging

If you select this setting, the function calls are recorded.

( Is used for eventually necessary debugging. )

Displays log file

The log file is displayed with the program NOTEPAD.

Clear Clipboard

If you select this setting, the clipboard is deleted after the printout.

SystemTray use

If you select this setting, Hardcopy is available in the SystemTray. (from Windows release 4.0)

- The left mouse button prints out the screen.

- The right mouse button opens the Hardcopy window.

Exchange mouse button

If you select this setting, the functions are available as follows:

- The left mouse button opens the Hardcopy window.

- The right mouse button prints out the screen.

Display text

You can determine the text, which is displayed when resting over the Hardcopy Icon in the SystemTray.


Questions / Responses, Tips and Tricks

The window is printed out too largely.

Use Menu Settings: Printout 1:1

How can I print out a screen / window using the whole format?

Use "printer setup" "landscape format", as well as the settings centered horizontal, centered vertical and no date, user name etc..

How can I change a file generated with Hardcopy?

Hardcopy files are normal bitmap files which can be edited with every normal graphics program.

for example: Paintbrush Paintbrush, Paint Shop ProPaint Shop Pro.

How can I achieve a printout without date / time?

Use the menu settings --> print date.

The printed out colour does not correspond to the colour on the screen.

Not every colour can be reproduced correctly on the printer.

It perhaps helps to change printer setup.

The colour displayed in Hardcopy does not match the colour displayed on the screen.

If you have selected in the menu settings GIF format, this can occur. The used GIF format is limited to 256 colours, consequently it may occur that some colours are lost.

After the function 'Increase', an empty window is displayed.

Increasing is dependent on the installed graphics board, perhaps you can reduce the screen section. (Function 'cutting')


Registration

The program Hardcopy is freeware.

However, a tip is expected!

The full functional scope of Hardcopy is available.

Some settings are stored nonetheless only in the registered version.

If you want to register Hardcopy, please send me a cheque or make a transfer to the following account.

Please, specify Hardcopy and your E-Mail address as a purpose.

On transfer replace the character '@' by 'AT' replace,

Example:   sweckman AT vistec.net

You immediately obtain the necessary information, to get the full functional scope of the registered version.

(DM 20,-- / $15.-- per installation are a normal tip.)

(If you have no Internet access and need a floppy disk, you can considerably facilitate my work if you add an envelope for reply.)

Bank details:

DepPfa-Bank, Wiesbaden

Account no.: 391 99 66

Bank code: 510 108 00

Address:

Siegfried Weckmann

Spabrücker Weg 3

D-55595 Braunweiler

Germany

Fax:    	+49 (0) 67 06 / 96 00 92

E-Mail:	sweckman@vistec.net

Homepage:	http://www.sw4you.com


Installation

Installation:

The start of installation occurs - depending on delivery - by activating

hardcopx.exe

or

setup.exe

The following directory is pre-set as the installation directory:

C:\hardcopy

You can use this directory or select another directory.

The corresponding applies to the program group.

The installation occurs in the language of the Windows installation, the following languages are at present supported:

- German

- English

- French

- Dutch

- Polish

- Swedish

If it is found that Hardcopy is already installed, the available files are saved below the file extension.".old"

Hardcopy functions as requested, you can delete these files.

Deinstallation:

To remove the program Hardcopy, please select:

Start --> settings --> control panel --> software -->Uninstall HardcopyUninstall Hardcopy


Last modifications

Version 9.1

•	If setting "use SystemTray" is selected, restart is no longer necessary, the modifications become effective immediately.

•	When "minimizing" Hardcopy, if the SystemTray is used, Hardcopy is no longer displayed in the Taskbar but only in the SystemTray.

•	You can now recognize in the SystemTray through a "green screen" whether a picture is available in Hardcopy. (If no picture is available = blue screen)

•	Under Windows NT, the PrintScreen key can now be used in the DOS fullscreen mode in the case of console applications.

(Console applications = every Windows NT command, like DIR, ECHO etc.

If a 16bit-Programm is called under NT, as the 'old' EDIT, this doesnt work, because such applications write directly to the screen buffer.

•	Installation procedure improved.

•	In the Print Preview, the texts are displayed now in the selected language.

•	If a page counter should be printed out, it is increased only with printout.

(In previous releases, this was also increased in the case of the Print

•	If this Icon is clicked, the printout occurs without automatic request. If the function 'print...' is used in the menu 'file' or 'Print...' in the Preview, additional options can now be selected, as printing in file etc.

•	Help file expanded.

Version 9.0

New functions in the menu editing:

•	Increase

Caution:

This only works - depending on graphics board - up to a certain Zoom factor. (Dependent on the size of the Hardcopy.)

•	Decrease

•	Adjust Zoom factor direct (using the Toolbar)

•	Zoomfactor 1:1

•	Show grid

New functions while activating the print key and/or Alt + print key:

You can now force by holding the shift key or the Cntrl key the function 'Sichern unter' or 'automatic saving'.

Example:

You use the PrintScreen key for a 'normal' printout.

You use the Shift + PrintScreen key for the call 'Save As'.

If you want to store the Hardcopy directly use Strg + PrintScreen key.

You can determine whether you want to use this function and which key should be used via 'settings'.

Caution:

This function is only available in Windows NT.

In Windows 95 Microsoft only supports the key combination

Shifts + Alt + PrintScreen.

Below Windows 95 you can the key combination

[Alt Gr] + printing use Cntrl + Alt + printing around the function to use.

In this way, you can use 'Save window as ...' use and/or 'save window automatically'.

It corrects bug with the setting of 256 colours at specific graphics boards:

A Preview was not possible in the case of the function monochrome.

(The Hardcopy was displayed completely black.)

It corrects bug while the setting of 16 colours:

The program Hardcopy showed only an empty window.

New:	First Hardcopy - documentation.

Release 8.8

With the menu 'editing' a mouse pointer may be inserted into the current Hardcopy.

More than 10 different mouse pointers are at your disposal.

(If the Icon in the Toolbar is used, the mouse pointer last used is inserted.)

Release 8.7

Under "Settings Monochrome", the following modifications have been made:

New menu items:

- Grayscale

(The printout is in gray levels, all colour information is removed.)

Release 8.6

Under settings margins / alignment, the following modifications have made:

New menu items:

- Printout landscape format

Release 8.5

Under settings printout the following modifications have been made:

New menu item:

- Print file name.

Release 8.4

Under settings printout the following modifications have been made:

New menu item:

- Print Page counter

Release 8.3

Under "Settings printout" the following modifications have been made:

'use no network' was deleted.

New menu items:

- Print date,

- Print PC name,

- Print User name

Release 8.2

Modifications:

Bug corrected under Windows NT.

Specific colours were represented wrong.

For example in the case of the application SAP.

New:

Request at end of program.

If the SystemTray is used, when Hardcopy is terminated, it is asked whether this is intended.

Pasting text.

A text from the clipboard can now be inserted into Hardcopy.

This enables you to activate the PrintScreen under Windows 95, in a DOS session. This text can then be inserted in and printed out from Hardcopy.

(Unfortunately, this function is not supported by Microsoft under Windows NT.)

Release 8.1

Modifications:

Bug corrected under Windows 95.

If a screen resolution of 256 colours was used, depending on graphics board, wrong representation could result.

Release 8.0

Modifications:

- The 16-BitVersion is not further developed from this release, only possible bugs are corrected.

- Some supplementary graphics forms are now supported:

      - .tif

      - .pcx

      - .jpg

      - .tga

- The Monochrome-settings can now be adjusted per colour.

New:

- New function: Mirror vertically

- New function: Mirror horizontally

- New function: Rotate right

- New function: Rotate left

- New function: Settings Toolbar

- Selection and/or Toolbar settings

- Configuration Toolbar

- The Toolbar can be represented now in standard measure or largely.

- The Toolbar can now be displayed in normal format or in the new format. (Winword/Excel)

Tip: Hold the Alt key pressed and displace the Icon with the left mouse button to the desired position.

Release 7.3

Modifications:

- The installation now also occurs in German-speaking Switzerland in German language.

- In English release, the character string [Print] was replaced by [Print Screen].

- In the case of the function 'Save as', the selected file name extension is now considered.

- Bug corrected under Windows NT.

New:

- Now via the function

             Cut

the desired location of screen content can be selected.

Release 7.2

Modifications: The INI file for key allocation was integrated into the file hardcopy.ini.

When the program was started from a network drive, this resulted in very long response times since the INI file was also expected on the network drive.

Release 7.1

New function: Settings language

If you request another language than the language selected in Windows, you can adjust the desired language with this setting.

Release 7.0

New function: Mail

With this function you have the possibility to send a Hardcopy to another user

An example: You may have a bug in an application program, for example in the program WinWord.

If you press the key combination Alt + printing, you change into the program Hardcopy and select the function "sending" in the menu "file".

You put in the desired recipient, for example HELP-DESK.

In this example, the recipient receives the error message as you received them on your display!

Release 6.8

New function: Delete

The work area is deleted.

New function: No printer.

No printed output occurs.

Release 6.7

Bug with:  'use SystemTray' eliminated.

New function: Edit current Hardcopy with a graphics program.

Hardcopy is now also available in Polish language.

Bug with open file eliminated.

Bug corrected, if the key combination was changed and the key printing was pressed.

Release 6.6

Bug in the function Monochrome eliminated.

If another key combination was selected, monochrome was not recognized.

Release 6.5

Bug corrected at Delete clipboard.

Release 6.4

If he key combination is changed, this is now displayed in the intro screen and in "About Hardcopy" displayed.

If another key combination is used, the primary window now becomes active after the printout again.

If another key combination is used and pressed repeatedly in sequence, this is ignored. (It led to false printouts.)

Release 6.3

Hardcopy is now also available in Dutch language.

Release 6.2

Bug corrected during the printout. (Before the date was > printout of the: < Not printed.

Release 6.1

Bug corrected under Windows NT 4.0. The screen was displayed / printed out wrong with specific resolutions or graphic cards. (The right part of the screen was displayed / printed out left.)

Bug below Windows 3.1 (16 bit release) eliminated, the settings did not become stored.

Release 5.8

Shifts / Alt / F11 or F12 can be selected via settings.

Release 5.7

Margins can be adjusted.

Release 5.6

New form of the settings.

Release 5.5

SystemTray - text can be changed.

Mouse button for the Icon in the SystemTray can be exchanged.

Release 5.4

Reset function with mono chrome

Release 5.3

New function: automatic file name assignment.

Release 5.2

At 'File --> Save As' now GIF or BITMAP format may be selected.