SuperClip is a clipboard viewer that can print or save all or part of an image on the Windows clipboard to a graphical file in BMP, GIF, JPG, PCX, PNG, or TIF format. Capturing the screen is done by pressing the PrtSc key while SuperClip is minimized. Normally, SuperClip will pop up and display the capture when you press PrtSc, but it can be configured to stay minimized and send the captured image to the printer instead.
In Windows, the entire screen can be captured to the clipboard at any time by pressing the PrtSc key (Shift+PrtSc on 84-key keyboards), or just the currently active window can be captured by pressing Alt+PrtSc. Text can also be captured to the Windows clipboard by pressing PrtSc while a DOS program is running full-screen in text mode, or text can be copied to the clipboard from another Windows application by selecting "Copy" from that application's Edit menu. SuperClip can save clipboard text to a TXT file or convert it to graphic image on the clipboard and save it to disk in any of the available graphical formats.
The included utility DOSclip works in conjunction with SuperClip to capture to the Windows clipboard the entire screen from a DOS graphical application that is running in a full-screen DOS session.
SuperClip has many features in addition to those already mentioned, and all of them are fully explained in this manual.
To install SuperClip into Windows 3.1 from a floppy disk, select "Run" from the File menu of Program Manager and enter "a:setup" or "b:setup," depending on which floppy disk drive you are using. To install SuperClip from a ZIP file, un-ZIP SCLIP*.ZIP onto a floppy disk and install from the floppy as already described. Or you may un-ZIP SCLIP*.ZIP into an empty directory on your hard disk for temporary storage, then select "Run" from the File menu of Program Manager and enter the full path to setup.exe. The name of the default directory into which setup will install the SuperClip files is SCLIP, which should not be the name of the directory you're installing from. Setup will now create the program group SuperClip in Program Manager, after which you may delete the files that were temporarily stored in the installation directory.
To remove SuperClip from your computer, run setup and select the
"Remove" option.
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To install SuperClip into Windows 95/98 or Windows NT from a floppy disk, select "Run" from the Start menu and enter "a:setup" or "b:setup," depending on which floppy disk drive you are using. To install SuperClip from a ZIP file, un-ZIP SCLIP*.ZIP onto a floppy disk and install from the floppy as already described. Or you may un-ZIP SCLIP*.ZIP into an empty directory on your hard disk for temporary storage, then select "Run" from the Start menu and enter the full path to setup.exe. The name of the default directory into which setup will install the SuperClip files is SCLIP, which should not be the name of the directory you're installing from. Setup will now insert the SuperClip icon into the Programs folder of the Start menu, after which you may delete the files that were temporarily stored in the installation directory.
To remove SuperClip from your computer, run setup and select the
"Remove" option.
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SuperClip was designed to run minimized in "popup" mode, meaning it will pop up when you press the PrtSc key to capture the entire screen, or Alt+PrtSc to capture the currently active window. You can then save the entire image or any rectangular portion. To return to the application that was interrupted, simply click on that application's window or minimize SuperClip again. You can turn popup mode off by pressing Ctrl+M, or by clicking on "Popup" in the Options menu, which will remove the checkmark next to this menu item.
SuperClip does not need to be running in order to make a screen capture. Once you have pressed the PrtSc key, you can run SuperClip to display the clipboard. You can then save the entire image or crop a rectangular area with the mouse or keyboard before saving to disk.
To save a captured image to disk, choose the desired format from the File menu. A dialog box will list the files of the selected format in the current directory. You may select one of the files listed or type a new file name in the edit box. You may also switch to another directory or disk drive.
SuperClip also displays text captured to the Windows clipboard by pressing the PrtSc key while a DOS character-mode application is running in a full-screen DOS session. Two character sets are available for displaying text, OEM and ANSI, either one of which may be selected from the Display menu. The default display fonts can be replaced by a font selected from the Display menu, and the default printer font can be replaced by a font selected from the Print menu.
The bitmap formats that SuperClip will display are DDB (Device-Dependent Bitmap) and DIB (Device-Independent Bitmap). If you attempt to save a clipboard bitmap whose format is not one of these two, SuperClip will respond with a dialog box that says "No bitmap exists on the clipboard."
Because of the internal complexities of the popup feature,
SuperClip will not allow more than one instance of itself to
run. Clicking on the SuperClip icon will therefore activate a
currently-running instance if one exists, instead of launching
a new instance. This property can be put to good use if the
SuperClip window should become hidden by another window; click
its icon in the Start menu to make the SuperClip window visible.
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When the "Auto print" option is enabled from the Options menu, SuperClip runs minimized and sends the screen to the printer, without popping up, whenever you press the PrtSc key. If you draw a rectangle on the image in the SuperClip window before selecting "Auto print," only the area within the rectangle will be sent to the printer each time you press PrtSc. It is recommended that before enabling this option, you select "Page setup" from the Print menu and set the desired margins and image size, then select "Print" and print a test page to be sure the setup is satisfactory.
When this option is enabled, a text screen will also be sent to the printer whenever the PrtSc key is pressed while a DOS text-mode program is running in a full-screen DOS session (not in a window). If the DOS program is running in a window, it can be toggled to full-screen mode by pressing Alt+Enter.
"Auto print" does not work for graphical DOS applications, unless Windows is able to capture the DOS screen to the clipboard when you press PrtSc, which it is seldom able to do in the current versions of Windows. To print such screens, you may first use DOSclip to capture the graphical DOS screen to the clipboard, then select "Print" in SuperClip. The following section, "Capturing the DOS Screen," explains DOSclip in detail.
All of the other features of SuperClip remain available while "Auto print" is enabled. That is, you can click on the SuperClip icon on the taskbar to make SuperClip pop up and display the clipboard, and you may perform any of the image transformations available in the Options menu and save the image to disk. You may then minimize SuperClip again, leaving "Auto print" enabled.
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SuperClip can capture the screen to the Windows clipboard from either a text or a graphical mode DOS application that is running full-screen in a Windows DOS session. Normally, such captures are made by pressing the PrtSc key. However, Windows is not always able to capture the screen to the clipboard from a DOS application that is displaying a full-screen graphical image. In that case, Windows displays the message "Unable to copy screen contents into clipboard." When this occurs, you may be able to make the capture by activating DOSclip, a utility that is included with SuperClip.
Before you can use DOSclip, you must make it memory-resident in the DOS session before running the DOS graphical application. To do this, first start a DOS session by clicking on the MS-DOS icon in Windows. At the DOS prompt, type dosclip and press Enter. The directory in which dosclip.exe resides should be included in the PATH statement of your autoexec.bat file, otherwise you will have to type the full path to dosclip.exe before pressing Enter. Dosclip will now display the message "DOSclip is now memory-resident" on the screen. The message will also indicate whether or not the VESA BIOS extension is present, as DOSclip needs this extension to capture SVGA screens. If the VESA BIOS extension is not present, you will need to insert a line in autoexec.bat that runs a utility that installs the VESA BIOS extension in RAM. See the documentation for your video card for information about this utility. For a list of the VESA modes supported by DOSclip, see the Appendix at the end of this document.
After you make DOSclip memory-resident in the DOS session, you can run your graphical DOS application. Now, if pressing PrtSc fails to capture a graphical screen to the Windows clipboard, you can activate DOSclip by pressing Ctrl+PrtSc. DOSclip will signal you with one or more beeps, depending on the screen mode, that it is making the capture. After the final beep, you may proceed working in the DOS application and make additional captures (they are saved to a series of temporary files). You can make up to 256 captures in a DOS session before returning to Windows and activating SuperClip to retrieve the captured images to the clipboard.
You can switch back to Windows at any time by pressing Alt+Esc. Your DOS session will now be running minimized so that you can return to it. SuperClip will now open the first temporary file, place the image it contains onto the clipboard, then delete the file. It may be necessary to activate SuperClip by clicking on its title bar, if it is not the currently active window. You can now save the clipboard image, print it, or perform any of the transformations available in the Options menu.
To display the next captured image in the series, press Ctrl+N or select "Next DOS capture" from the "Display" menu. After the last capture is displayed, selecting this menu item will cause the message "No more DOS captures" to be displayed. You may now return to the DOS session to make additional captures by clicking on the DOS session icon on the taskbar.
The temporary BMP files are stored in the default WINDOWS\TEMP directory, unless you specify another directory by setting the TMP environment variable in autoexec.bat. The temporary BMP files created by DOSclip are not really useful to any other application besides SuperClip, as the images are inverted. SuperClip automatically re-inverts the images before displaying them. There is a practical reason for this image inversion; contact the programmer if you need to know the technical details.
Although DOSclip was designed to run in a Windows DOS session, it is possible to use DOSclip on a computer that is running standard DOS. In that case, you should include the following line in the DOS autoexec.bat file:
set TMP=C:\WINDOWS\TEMP
This will enable SuperClip to find and display the DOSclip temporary BMP
files when you start Windows and run SuperClip.
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The SuperClip display window can scroll the clipboard image horizontally and vertically by means of the scroll bars. 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 the button. Repeat this procedure to erase the rectangle and draw a new one. The width and height of the rectangle in pixel units will be displayed in the title bar, as will the x (horizontal) and y (vertical) coordinates of the upper-left (UL) and lower-right (LR) corners of the rectangle. The origin of these coordinates is the upper-left corner of the clipboard image.
You can use the keyboard to modify or enter rectangle coordinates. To do this, select "Enter coordinates" from the Options menu. The dialog box will allow you to specify the position of the upper-left corner of the rectangle. You can specify the position of the lower-right corner by entering its x and y coordinates or by entering the width and height of the desired rectangle.
You may save the cropped image directly to disk by means of the
File menu, or you may capture the rectangle to the clipboard by
pressing Ctrl+R or by selecting "Capture rectangle" from the
Options menu. To erase the rectangle, press Esc or position the
cursor anywhere on the image and click the left mouse button.
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Select this menu item to save the contents of the clipboard to an
uncompressed Windows Bitmap File with the filename extension BMP.
Monochrome, 16-color, 256-color, and 24-bit TrueColor modes are
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Select this item from the File menu to save the contents of the clipboard to a CompuServe Graphics Interchange Format file with the filename extension GIF. This format utilizes LZW compression, and supports Monochrome, 16-color and 256-color modes. The GIF format is palette-based and does not support more than 256 colors, so if the number of colors in the image on a 24-bit TrueColor display exceeds that number, the Windows 3.1 version of SuperClip will abort the save, but the Windows 95/98/NT version of SuperClip will create a palette of 256 colors, map the image to those colors, and save it to a GIF file. In that case, you will be prompted to choose one of two palette types: Optimal or Safe.
The Optimal palette will give the best possible color rendition when the GIF file is viewed on a graphical viewer or printed on a color printer.
The Safe palette will allow the GIF file to be embedded into an HTML page and viewed on a Web browser without dithering of colors. Web browsers running on 256-color displays will dither all colors that are not in the Safe palette. Either type of palette can be used for GIF images in HTML pages, and which one is better depends on the image. Dithering tends to work better for a photographic image, so the Optimal palette may be preferable in that instance. The Safe palette works better for line art, where dithering of solid colors would be objectionable.
Any one of the colors in an image can be selected to be a transparent color in a GIF file.
If text is the currently-displayed clipboard format, it will be
converted to a graphic image and saved to a monochrome GIF file.
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Select this item from the File menu to save the contents of the
clipboard to a JPEG file with the filename extension JPG. This
is a 24-bit TrueColor format that utilizes variable-quality lossy
compression. SuperClip promotes monochrome and palette-based 16 and
256-color images to 24-bit TrueColor before saving to JPG. The
compressed file size is inversely proportional to the quality setting,
which may be set to any value from 1 to 100 in the Options menu.
The default Q setting is 75.
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Select this menu item to save the contents of the clipboard to
a PC Paintbrush file with the filename extension PCX. Monochrome,
16-color, 256-color, and 24-bit TrueColor modes are supported.
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Select this menu item to save the contents of the clipboard to
a Portable Network Graphics file with the filename extension PNG.
Monochrome, 16-color, 256-color, and 24-bit TrueColor modes are
supported.
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Select this menu item to save the contents of the clipboard to
a Tagged Image Format file with the extension TIF. Three compression
modes are available: LZW, PackBits, and no compression, any one of
which may be selected from the Options menu. The defaults are LZW
for 24-bit TrueColor images, and PackBits for monochrome and palette
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Select this menu item to save clipboard text to an ASCII text file. Two character sets are available. The OEM character set is the DOS-compatible IBM extended ASCII character set. The ANSI character set is the one used by Windows. If you save text to a file that already exists, the text will be appended to the file.
The text that will be saved extends from the top of the Window,
as set by the current vertical scroll position, to the end of the
clipboard text.
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Select this item from the File menu to open a BMP file and place
it onto the clipboard. The image can now be saved in any of the
four available formats, or cropped and then saved.
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Select this item from the File menu to open a TXT file and place it onto
the clipboard, from where it can be printed or converted to a graphic image
on the clipboard (See Options - Text to image.) The text can be placed onto the clipboard using either of two character sets: ANSI
or OEM. (See File Menu - Save as TXT for an explanation of these two character sets.) The
font for displaying text can be selected from the Display menu.
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The QuikText feature enables you to put frequently-used text items, such as your e-mail address, phone or fax numbers, mailing address, URL, or even an entire form letter, onto the clipboard with one keypress. Once on the clipboard, the text item can be pasted quickly into your word processor, e-mail software, Web browser, or any Windows program that has a "Paste" item in the Edit menu.
You may create as many as ten text files, each one containing one text item, and name them
0.TXT, 1.TXT, etc., through 9.TXT, then put these text files into the same directory or folder where
SuperClip resides. Then to put any one of them onto the clipboard, press Ctrl + #, where "#" is
the number of the TXT file. So to put 1.TXT onto the clipboard, press Ctrl + 1. It's a good idea
to make 0.TXT a list of the other nine items, so that you can easily refer to it.
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This pull-down menu allows you to select which of the available clipboard formats to display. Normally, Windows will clear the clipboard when the PrtSc key is pressed. However, applications can place a bitmapped image or text onto the clipboard without first clearing it, so that text and graphics can coexist. This is the case when you select "Open BMP" or "Open TXT" from the File menu. By default, SuperClip will display the format most recently added to the clipboard.
From the Display menu you may select the font for displaying clipboard text.
For an explanation of the "Next DOS capture" item, refer to
Capturing the DOS Screen in this manual.
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Select this menu item to enable the true print screen mode. For an explanation of this feature, refer to the Auto Print section of this manual.
"Auto print" and "Auto save" may both be enabled at the same time.
In that case, when you press the PrtSc key, the capture is first saved
to disk and then it is printed. With one or both of these two features
enabled, you can still utilize any of the other features by clicking
on the taskbar icon to make SuperClip pop up.
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Select "Setup" to select any one in a series of sequentially-numbered
BMP files that were previously captured by means of the "Auto save"
option. The BMP file you select will then be put onto the clipboard and
displayed. You can page forward through the series of files, one at a time,
by pressing Ctrl+PgDn. You can page backward by pressing Ctrl+PgUp.
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Select this menu item to turn the auto-save mode on or off. When this mode is enabled, SuperClip runs minimized and automatically saves the screen, or any predefined rectangular area, to a sequentially-numbered disk file each time you press the PrtSc key. SuperClip does this without popping up, and a beep signals you when the file is written. You should wait for this beep before pressing PrtSc again.
The "Auto save setup" dialog box allows you to set the path, filename, file type, and the starting number of the file sequence. Within this dialog box, you may set various options, such as "Append TXT files." When that option is enabled, successive screens of text captured from a full-screen DOS session running a text-mode application are appended to the same text file, which "grows" in length as more screens are captured. To start a new TXT file, open the Auto-save setup dialog box and change the file number.
"Auto save" and "Auto print" may both be enabled at the same time. In that case, when you press the PrtSc key, the capture is first saved to disk and then it is printed. With one or both of these two features enabled, you can still utilize any of the other features by clicking on the taskbar icon to make SuperClip pop up.
A series of auto-saved BMP files can be retrieved to the clipboard, one at a time, by means of the "Auto retrieve" option. If "Auto save" is also enabled, you can press F2 to auto-save any retrieved image, using the file format and numerical sequence selected from the auto-save setup dialog box.
Here's an example of how this can work for you. Using "Auto save," suppose you
save a series of 50 BMP files, named Chart001.bmp through Chart050.BMP. Now
you can select "Auto retrieve" from the Options menu, select Chart001.BMP as the
first file to retrieve, and it will be opened and displayed on the clipboard. You can
now select "Auto save" from the Options menu, open the "Setup" dialog box, and
enter any name, starting number, and file type, such as Chart01.TIF. After you click
OK, you can press the F2 key to save the current clipboard image to a TIF file with
that name. You can page forward through the BMP files, one at a time, by pressing
Ctrl+PgDn, or you can page backward by pressing Ctrl+PgUp. You can stop on any
one of the retrieved BMP files, and when you press F2, it will be saved to Chart02.TIF.
The next time you press F2, the current image will be saved to Chart03.TIF, etc.
You can even draw a rectangle on the retrieved image, and when you press F2, the
auto-saved image will be cropped.
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Select this menu item to include the mouse cursor as part of the
screen image when you press PrtSc. The cursor is not captured when
you press Alt+PrtSc to capture the currently-active window.
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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.
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Select this menu item to empty the clipboard.
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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.
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Select this menu item to convert color clipboard images to grayscale.
Depending on the number of colors in the image, up to 256 shades of gray are possible.
Select "This image" to convert only the current clipboard image, or select
"All images" to convert every image captured to the clipboard to grayscale,
including those captured with "Auto print" or "Auto save" enabled.
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This menu item opens the "Hot-key setup" dialog box, in which you can enable or disable hot-key combinations for various functions, as well as modify the combinations. To enable a hot key, click on the corresponding "On/Off" box to put a check mark in the box. To disable a hot key, remove the check mark. You can modify a hot-key combination by tabbing to its edit box and pressing the desired keys for the new combination.
There are six hot-key functions, which are always available, regardless of your settings in the Options menu. For example, the hot key for "Auto print" sends the screen to the printer, whether or not Auto print is enabled in the Options menu (that option governs what happens when you press the PrtSc key). The six hot-key functions are defined as follows:
Auto-print screen
Send the entire screen, or the area within a rectangle, to the printer, using default settings or settings previously entered in the "Page Setup" dialog box, accessible from the Print menu. This hot key will work, even if Auto print is turned off in the Options menu.Auto-print window
As with the preceding function, send currently-active window to the printer. This hot key will work, even if Auto print is turned off in the Options menu.Auto-save screen
Save the entire screen to a sequentially-numbered disk file, whose root name and path can be initialized by means of the "Auto-save setup" dialog box, accessible from the Options menu. This hot key will work, even if Auto save is turned off in the Options menu.Auto-save window
As with the preceding function, save the currently-active window to a sequentially-numbered disk file. This hot key will work, even if Auto save is turned off in the Options menu.Simulate PrtSc keypress
Equivalent to pressing the PrtSc key.Simulate Alt+PrtSc keypress
Equivalent to pressing Alt + PrtSc. This allows you to capture the currently-active window with a pull-down menu visible. Ordinarily, pressing the Alt key causes pull-down menus to disappear.
The above six hot-key functions do not work in a full-screen DOS
session, although the PrtSc and Alt+PrtSc hot-key combinations do.
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Use this menu item to select the location for the SuperClip minimized
icon. The default location is the Taskbar, but you can select the Tray,
in which case a small icon appears in the system tray, next to the
clock at the end of the taskbar. The tray icon behaves the same as
the taskbar icon; clicking on it causes the SuperClip window to appear.
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Use this menu item to select whether or not GIF files will be
interlaced.
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Use this menu item to select whether or not JPG files will be
interlaced.
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Use this menu item to select whether or not PNG files will be
interlaced.
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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.
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When this option is selected, SuperClip will automatically minimize
itself after saving an image or text to disk. This feature is
independent of popup mode.
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This is the default mode of SuperClip. When minimized or hidden
by another window, SuperClip will pop up onto the screen whenever
a bitmapped image or text is put onto the clipboard. Select this menu
item to turn popup mode off or back on again.
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The default mode of SuperClip is to pop up only when you press
the PrtSc key. You may turn popup mode off or select the option
to pop up on all clipboard events, as the Windows 3.1 version does.
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Select this menu item to restore all settings to the default values
that are present the first time you run SuperClip.
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Select this menu item to flip the clipboard image horizontally.
This will result in a mirror image.
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Select this menu item to flip the clipboard image vertically.
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 x and y axes.
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Select this menu item to adjust the quality setting for JPG files.
The size of the JPG file will be inversely proportional to this
setting, which may be set anywhere from 1 to 100. The default Q
setting is 75.
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Select this menu item to stretch or compress the clipboard
image along the horizontal and/or vertical axes. Dimension limits
may exceed 3200 pixels horizontally by 2400 pixels vertically,
depending upon the amount of available screen memory (VRAM).
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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.
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Select this menu item to convert clipboard text to a monochrome bitmapped image, so that it can be cropped or subjected to any of the other transformation options, and/or saved to disk in any of the graphical formats.
The text that will be converted to a graphical image extends
from the top of the window, as set by the current vertical
scroll position, to the bottom of a full-screen image.
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This menu item allows you to select the compression scheme
for TIF files. The choices are no compression, PackBits, and
LZW (Lempel, Ziv, & Welch). In the Windows 95/98/NT version of
SuperClip, two modes of LZW compression are available: LZW 8k
and LZW 16k. The k refers to the number of kilobytes of raw
pixel data compressed into each strip. The conventional strip
size in TIF files is 8k, but 16k yields better compression.
The defaults are LZW 8k for 24-bit TrueColor images, and PackBits
for monochrome and palette color images.
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Select this menu item to turn GIF transparency on. This will make the selected color of subsequent GIF files transparent. To select a color to be transparent, point the mouse cursor on the image to the color you want to be transparent, then click the right mouse button. It is not necessary to select this menu item to turn GIF transparency on; simply select a color to be transparent, and this feature will be enabled. The selected color will be the transparent color for all subsequent GIF files, until you select a different color or select this menu item to turn GIF transparency off, which will remove the checkmark next to this menu item.
If you select this menu item to turn GIF transparency back on, the
previously-selected color will be transparent, unless you select a
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Press this key combination to print using the default page settings or page settings that were previously selected from either the "Print" or the "Page setup" menu items. When you press Ctrl+P while SuperClip is the active window, the clipboard image or text is immediately printed, bypassing all dialog boxes.
Select this menu item to open the dialog boxes normally displayed before printing starts. To set page margins, select "Page setup" before selecting this menu item.
Select this menu item to set margins and other page attributes, without printing. These will become the default settings when you select "Print."
Select this menu item to choose the font used for the printing of clipboard text.
Select this menu item to abort a print job in progress.
Select this menu item to turn "Fast mode" off or back on again. The default is on.
"Fast mode" is designed to work with the drivers of most printers. If the page comes out blank or garbled, turn "Fast mode" off. This will delay the start of printing, because each image will be sent to the printer in a series of pre-stretched horizontal bands. If the page still comes out blank or garbled, make sure the default resolution is set to low (300 dots per inch). As a last resort, reduce the size of the printed image by reducing the scale factor.
Select this menu item to force clipboard text to be printed always in ANSI format. This will cause OEM text captured from DOS applications to be printed as Windows-compatible ANSI text.
Select this menu item to send a CLEAR command to the printer, which resets the printer
and erases all document data from the printer's memory.
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Clipboard images captured from the screen are low-resolution images, typically less than 100 dots per inch. Therefore, it is usually necessary to stretch the image during printing, so it won't appear too small on the page. For example, a screen image 800 pixels wide, printed at 600 dots per inch without stretching, would appear only 1.33 inches wide on the page. Printed at 300 dots per inch, it would appear twice as wide. Therefore, to reduce the required amount of stretching, resulting in faster and more reliable printing, the recommended printer resolution is around 300 dpi.
To set your printer's default resolution, go into your Printers folder, right-click the icon for your printer, and select "Properties." The dialog box for your printer's driver should now appear, in which you should be able to set the resolution, usually after selecting "Setup." You can also set the resolution from the dialog box that appears after you select "Print" or "Page setup" in SuperClip, but that setting is only in effect for the current print job. To set the resolution for "Auto print," it is necessary to go into the Printers folder and set the default resolution.
Resolution settings higher than 300 dpi are intended for high-resolution images, such as photographs, which have many more pixels (image detail) than images captured from a computer screen. For example, a photographic image might be 2400 pixels wide. In that case, a printer resolution setting of 600 dpi would be appropriate to print the image 4 inches wide on the page.
Mathematically, the minimum resolution necessary to print an image, while preserving all the original detail:
r = p/w
Where r is printer resolution in dots per inch, p is the width of the original image in pixels, and w is the desired width of the printed image in inches. As you can see, 300 dpi is three times the minimum resolution necessary to print an image 800 pixels wide to 8 inches wide on the page. A resolution higher than 300 dpi would be required only if the desired width were less than 2.67 inches.
Online Help is available to explain the features of SuperClip, and includes a glossary of terms used in this document.
Select "System info" from the Help menu to display the resolution
and color capability of the Windows screen driver currently running
on your system.
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SuperClip(tm) for Windows, Version 5.20
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VISA, MasterCard, and American Express accepted.
New Jersey residents will be charged 6% state sales tax.
Steven A. Brown, Programmer
E-mail
73140.3340@compuserve.com
Tel. 856-765-1983
Fax 856-765-1986
You may e-mail or fax your order with your name, address, VISA, MasterCard, or American Express account number, and expiration date. Please include your signature on fax orders, and specify one of the following methods of delivery:
1. First-class air mail on 3.5" disk.
2. E-mail - ZIP file containing conversion key
The registration fee is $39 for one personal computer or network server, plus a $10 license fee for each additional pc or LAN workstation on which SuperClip will be used. You may order additional copies on diskette, up to the number of licensed workstations, for $1 each.
Residents of New Jersey are required to pay 6% state sales tax.
Orders may also be placed by telephone to (856) 765-1983.
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You may obtain a site license for the very reasonable fee of $10 for each additional
pc or workstation on which SuperClip will be used. To obtain a site license, fill out
and submit the Order Form with payment.
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The Shareware Edition of SuperClip may be freely distributed. You may use it over a 15-day period to determine its suitability for your needs. To continue using SuperClip beyond this evaluation period, you will be required to purchase the licensed Professional Edition.
The Professional Edition of SuperClip may be used by licensed users only. Distribution to non-licensed users is prohibited by U.S. and International copyright laws. Please notify AndroSoft if you discover any violations.
Registration fees are the only compensation the programmer receives
for the work and expense of writing this program. Please
support the shareware concept of quality, "try-before-you-buy"
software. Registered users are entitled to unlimited technical
support and low-cost upgrades.
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The JPEG file capability of SuperClip is based on the work of the Independent JPEG Group.
THIS SOFTWARE IS SOLD "AS IS," WITHOUT WARRANTY AS TO PERFORMANCE
OF MERCHANTABILITY OR ANY OTHER WARRANTIES WHETHER EXPRESSED OR
IMPLIED. BECAUSE OF THE VARIOUS HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE ENVIRONMENTS
INTO WHICH THIS PROGRAM MAY BE PUT, NO WARRANTY OF FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE IS OFFERED. GOOD DATA PROCESSING PROCEDURE
DICTATES THAT ANY PROGRAM BE THOROUGHLY TESTED WITH NON-CRITICAL
DATA BEFORE RELYING ON IT. THE USER MUST ASSUME THE ENTIRE RISK
OF USING THE PROGRAM. ANY LIABILITY OF THE SELLER WILL BE LIMITED
EXCLUSIVELY TO PRODUCT REPLACEMENT OR REFUND OF PURCHASE PRICE.
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Use of this software is permitted only to the extent reasonably required to determine whether to purchase the software.
After payment is made, use of this software is limited to use on only a single personal computer or workstation which is not used as a server. An additional payment of $10 is required for each use on another personal computer or workstation.
Only a single copy may be made of this software solely for backup or archival purposes. The software may also be transferred to a single hard disk.
Any use of this software in violation of the above is not licensed.
For information concerning licensing the LZW compression and/or decompression capability, please contact:
Unisys Corporation
Welch Licensing Department - C1SW19
Township Line & Union Meeting Roads
P.O. Box 500
Blue Bell, Pennsylvania 19424
Graphics Interchange Format and GIF are service marks of
CompuServe Incorporated.
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MODE PIXEL RESOLUTION NUMBER OF COLORS
100h 640 x 400 256
101h 640 x 480 256
102h 800 x 600 16
103h 800 x 600 256
104h 1024 x 768 16
105h 1024 x 768 256
106h 1280 x 1024 16
107h 1280 x 1024 256
10Fh 320 x 200 16,777,200
112h 640 x 480 16,777,200
115h 800 x 600 16,777,200
118h 1024 x 768 16,777,200
11Bh 1280 x 1024 16,777,200
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