PictPocket captures pictures to the Clipboard as your applications draw or redraw the contents of their windows. The pictures are in editable 'PICT' format, not bitmaps, so they are small and can be manipulated using any application which can edit a picture, such as Microsoft Word or PowerPoint. The Macintosh window manager helps applications manage their windows by telling them when all or part of a window needs to be drawn. What PictPocket will capture depends on what the application does in response to that message. Some applications may draw every element, while others may only draw the ones that need to be drawn (for example, because only part of the window was exposed). You can use FinderΓÇÖs Clipboard window to monitor the result, and if itΓÇÖs more than you need, you can edit out the rest. Ordinarily, PictPocket will capture only the contents of a window, that is, the elements drawn inside the window frame. There is an option to capture the window frame as well as the contents, which generally makes a more presentable picture.
