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GEMCAP (TM)
4.0
USER MANUAL
(C) Copyright 1985 - 1990
All Rights Reserved
Natural Software
19 South Fifth Street
St. Charles, IL 60174
(708) 377-7320
LICENSE
THE GEMCAP SOFTWARE AND MANUAL ARE COPYRIGHTED, ALL RIGHTS ARE RESE-
RVED. YOU HAVE PURCHASED A LICENSE TO USE THIS SOFTWARE ON ONE MACHINE
AT A TIME. YOU ARE AUTHORIZED TO MAKE COPIES OF GEMCAP FOR THE SOLE
PURPOSE OF BACKING UP YOUR SOFTWARE AND PROTECTING YOUR INVESTMENT
FROM LOSS.
Note: this copy of GEMCAP is being distributed as ShareWare. This
means that you may copy the disk just as you received it and you may
give it to others for their trial use. You are also permitted and
encouraged to upload this version to electronic bulletin board servic-
es. You may not, however resell or collect any fee for the distribu-
tion of GEMCAP without the permission of Natural Software. (This does
not include the normal fees for using bulletin boards.) If you contin-
ue to use GEMCAP after your trial use, you must pay the purchase price
as detailed below.
WARRANTY
THIS SOFTWARE WILL PERFORM AS DESCRIBED HEREIN ONLY IF PROPERLY AP-
PLIED. OUR LIABILITY TO YOU IS LIMITED TO REPLACING THE SOFTWARE (FOR
REGISTERED USERS ONLY). WE HAVE NO LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ANY DAMAGE OR
LOSS, INCLUDING SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL, CAUSED BY THIS
SOFTWARE, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY.
YOU AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THIS LICENSE BY YOUR DECISION TO USE THIS
SOFTWARE.
_______ This program is produced by
____|__ | (tm) a member of the Association
--| | |------------------- of Shareware Professionals
| ____|__ | Association of (AS). ASP wants to make sure
| | |_| Shareware that the shareware principle
|__| o | Professionals works for you. If you are
-----| | |--------------------- unable to resolve a shareware
|___|___| MEMBER related problem with an ASP
member by contacting the member
directly, ASP may be able to
help. The ASP Ombudsman can help you resolve a dispute or problem with
an ASP member, but does not provide technical support for members'
products. Please write to the ASP Ombudsman at P.O. Box 5786, Belle-
vue, WA 98006 or send a Compuserve message via easyplex to ASP Ombuds-
man 70007,3536"
Table of contents
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
ShareWare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Using GEMCAP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Starting GEMCAP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
The Hot Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Customizing the Hot Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Removing GEMCAP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Text Mode Screens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Text mode fonts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Image Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Graphic Mode Screens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
ii
Introduction
GEMCAP.COM is a Terminate and Stay Resident (TSR) program that cap-
tures screen images from other programs. It saves these images in
separate GEM .IMG files. In the case of text based screens, the text
is converted to a bitmap. The GEM .IMG graphic file format is one of
the several "standard" formats that many other programs can read. The
primary use of GEMCAP is to incorporate screen images into desktop
publishing documents. Both Ventura Publisher and WordPerfect version
5.0 (and 5.1) can read GEM .IMG format.
GEMCAP supports a variety of display adapters and different display
modes:
Monochrome Standard IBM monochrome display adapters support text
modes only. GEMCAP will capture text mode displays and
convert them to bitmap files. To use the resulting .IMG
files, however you must have some type of display adapter
that can display graphics.
CGA On IBM Color Graphics Adapters (CGA), the high resolution
640 by 200 pixel (mode 6) is supported in addition to the
various text modes.
EGA GEMCAP can capture EGA 640 by 350 pixel 16 color (mode
10h) graphics screens.
VGA GEMCAP can capture VGA 640 by 480 pixel 16 color (mode
12h) graphics screens.
Hercules GEMCAP will not work on Hercules displays in graphics
mode. It will capture text mode screens from Hercules.
You can use your desktop publishing program to use the
resulting GEM .IMG files with Hercules displays.
On EGA and VGA displays in text mode, GEMCAP uses the RAM resident
font to convert the screen to a bitmap. This means that the resulting
bitmap represents the captured text screen exactly as it appears on
the screen, even if the program loads a specialized font.
Introduction 1
ShareWare
The GEMCAP package is being distributed as shareware. This means that
it is not free. This means that you must pay to use it. However, you
do not have to pay to try it, test it, and to determine if it is going
to be useful to you. You are probably familiar with the concept by
now. Shareware programs give you the advantage of "test driving" them.
The advantage to the developer is a relatively inexpensive distribu-
tion method. For this concept to work and keep working for our mutual
advantage, you really must register and pay for the software you
actually find useful.
Please feel free to pass along a copy of this disk to others for their
trial use. But please distribute it in its original unaltered state.
The compressed arc file: GEMCAP.ZIP is intended for uploading to your
local bulletin boards.
To register your use of GEMCAP, send $35.00 to Natural Software at the
address above. This entitles you to one upgrade to the next new
release for free (please specify the version you currently have when
registering). We will also send you a description of our other soft-
ware offerings (including PC-Draft II which lets you to edit and
enhance your captured images) and provide free telephone support as
needed.
You may use the order form provided in the file: ORDER.FRM.
Please read the file: PRODUCTS.LST for descriptions of other products
from Natural Software.
2 GEMCAP
Using GEMCAP
GEMCAP is a Terminate and Stay Resident (TSR) program. When you run it
from the DOS command line, it will announce its presence and quietly
sink into the background and wait to be called into action (when its
"hot key" is pressed).