HyperSnap (formerly SnapShot/32) brings professional quality, convenient Windows 95 and NT screen captures to your finger-tips.

It was designed for ease of use, with powerful and useful features to aid the professional as well as support the needs of the occasional user. Use it just a few times - you'll find it to be indispensable. HyperSnap (SnapShot/32) was selected by Siemens Nixdorf as a standard software component distributed with their powerful CELSIUS personal workstations! Read more about this in our help file. Some of the more impressive features are listed here; this is but a partial list. Current users will want to see the list of new features in the Changes area at the end of this file. The best way to get to know HyperSnap is to simply use it! Save your image as a BMP, GIF, or JPEG file. GIFs can optionally be interlaced and include transparent backgrounds, and HyperSnap can create progressive JPEGs, perfect for World Wide Web page use. Choose your color depth for BMP captures, too. Web and Help File Authors, don't miss what HyperSnap can do for you! -GIF images can be saved as interlaced files, with transparent backgrounds, and three levels of color reduction. -JPEGs have save options for a user-defined percentage of output quality, and the "fade-in" format. -The Quick Save feature is a lifesaver -- just keep on making those captures, without interruption. HyperSnap saves them each to an individual, sequentially named GIF or JPEG file, in the custom format you choose, for your later use. -Include the cursor image in your Web Page or Help File image to better display your product shot or call attention to a specific item. -The Window capture feature makes my day. The feature captures whole windows and sections of windows that are automatically highlighted, even little buttons, without squinting at the screen to make sure you get every pixel of the edge of a capture target. A definite eye-saver. -The built-in Crop feature is great for making final edits to your capture without transferring it to another program. And thankfully, there's an Undo Crop feature to mitigate the "oops!" factor. -New feature allows SCROLLING AND SIMULTANEOUS CAPTURE OF ENTIRE WINDOW AREA not shown on screen! Perfect for capturing entire WEB pages and printing them including background images! Choose your own HotKeys that quickly capture the entire Desktop, any Rectangle you outline, or the highlighted Window or Client, and automatically repeat the capture every x seconds

or by using another HotKey. Automatically save each of your captures to a file by default -- you can even trigger new captures every x seconds and have the filename incremented. Print your capture direct from HyperSnap -- it will expand the image to the size of the paper and margins that you set, and even add a frame, reverse, or reduce the output to black and white! Drag and Drop BMP, GIF, and JPEG files on HyperSnap to open them! For complete information on all that HyperSnap brings to you, open the help file (SNAP32.HLP) for a screen image that provides an instant overview of its many features and functions. Yes, HyperSnap's help file graphics were captured using HyperSnap! They said... -----------"I just tried out your screen capture program. Easy to configure, easy to use. Very well done!!! Congratulations. It's the best I've seen to date." "Just downloaded and took a quick look, If Snapshot works as well as I think it will, this will save me tons of time documenting an Access app I'm working on. Definitely cool, especially the ability to grab the client window with a single keystroke! If it works OK on my NT machine (3.51 retail build), you can expect a registration check!!" (it did, of course, and we got our check.) "I've had no problems with capturing the PowerPoint cursors. This is great, most of the other utilities that I've tried haven't been able to do this." "Like the product, great for anyone who needs to hammer home their point with a screen print!" "Finally a program I can use to capture screens on the Net!" "I'm a telcommunications engineer for the Canadian government. Your product was just what I was looking for when creating manual for my users." "Thanks Greg, Really cool, simple to use, come in handy kinda program. I appreciate the quick response with registration number." "In all my years of Help File authoring I never did use a dedicated screen capture program. SnapShot/32 (HyperSnap) changed that --I use it all the time and it save me tons of time." We're ready and waiting for your comments!

INSTALLATION -----------Install this program by running the self-extracting archive, HySnap.exe (e.g. double click on its icon). You will be prompted for the target folder, where HyperSnap files will be installed. A HyperSnap group (menu) will be created in your Windows 95 Start menu, together with an "Uninstall" icon that will completely remove HyperSnap if necessary. If the uninstall script file (UnHySnap.bat in your Windows directory) was accidently deleted, you may still completely uninstall HyperSnap by running: snap32 -uninstall and then deleting its files and directory manually. To recreate HyperSnap menu under Windows 95 "Start" button you may run again HySnap.exe, if you saved it, or just run: snap32 -install and enter the same directory where HyperSnap is already installed. Register your copy of HyperSnap by selecting "Register" under the program's Help menu, or from within the help menu. This program is a 'try before you buy' shareware program that relies on your support for continued development, and single user registration is only $20.00. When you register HyperSnap you will receive a code that enables additional features and become eligible for priority support. You will also be able to obtain free updates of the program through our Web page (address below) with which you can use your registration code, until the next major release. To register copies of HyperSnap please use the "Register" program usually provided with HyperSnap to make payments. We use KAGI SHAREWARE registration service, which accepts different payment methods, including credit card and invoices. If you live in US or Canada you may also mail me your check or money order directly, payable to "Greg Kochaniak". Greg Kochaniak Hyperionics 3146 Chestnut Street Murrysville, PA 15668, USA e-mail: gregko@kagi.com http://www.kagi.com/authors/gregko/gregko.htm License cost: Single licenses: $20 each Site license: $500 (Site licenses cover a single organization for an area of up to one hundred miles (160 km) in radius.) World-wide license: $1500 HyperSnap may be also registered using CompuServe SWREG forum (GO SWREG). The Registration Id. is 9878. The price for single

user license over CompuServe is $22 due to the 15% charge they impose. Distribution is permitted provided you follow these instructions: You are free to make copies of the distribution archive (SNAPxxx.ZIP) and pass it along to others for their evaluation provided that no modifications or additions are made to the software, its documentation, or any associated files, and it is not bundled in a distribution of any other software . Support is available through the addresses listed above, whether you are a registered user or not. Registered users receive priority treatment, of course. E-mail will always receive the quickest response. ============================================================ Changes log: As you can see, HyperSnap receives continual attention as we listen to users' comments and suggestions to make it the best screen capture utility for Windows 95 and NT possible. Your input is always welcome. Greg Kochaniak, Hyperionics 3146 Chestnut Street, Murrysville, PA 15668, USA e-mail: gregko@kagi.com http://www.kagi.com/authors/gregko/gregko.htm ver. 2.70, released 1996.07.19 Added Auto-Scroll option that allows scrolling and simultaneous capture of entire window area not shown on screen. Updated printing to span long bitmaps on several pages. Modified keyboard cursor control in region capture and crop mode: Ctrl-Arrow now moves the cursor to the appropriate edge of the screen or cropped image. Changed default hot keys binding to Ctrl+Shift+F for Full Screen, Ctrl+Shift+W for Window and Ctrl+Shift+R for Region capture. ver. 2.66, released 1996.05.27 Fixed: installed and uninstaller did not work quite right when HyperSnap path contained spaces. Fixed: When viewing images with lots of colors (e.g. JPEG files) on 256 color display would result in loss of color if crop/undo crop were used. Modified cut-off value for black and white only printing which produces better results in that particular mode. ver. 2.65, released 1996.05.09 Now distributing HyperSnap in a self-extracting ZIP file (HySnap.exe), together with setup and uninstall utilites. Unregistered version does not expire now, but rather puts a small sign "Unregistered HyperSnap" into lower right corner of each picture that is saved, printed or copied to the clipboard. Fixed the Quick Save code, so that more than 1 frame per second may be saved on fast machines. ver. 2.64, released 1996.05.01 Some fixes in "copy to clipboard" function, if color reduction

from 24 to 8 bits if necessary. Modified the way "Region" capture works - previously the bottom and right edge, highlighted with rubberbanded region, were not captured. This makes the capture area one pixel bigger now, and you don't have to go outside of right and bottom edge of some object (by 1 pixel) to capture it whole. Also, previusly it was not possible to capture right and bottom 1 pixel edge of the screen in region mode, now it works. ver. 2.63, released 1996.04.26 Fixed bug in JPEG and GIF save, that produced a thin line on the right edge of saved images. Also selecting better colors when reducing from true color to 256 color palette, and the total number of colors used in the image is no more than 256. ver. 2.62, released 1996.04.16 Fixed: selecting multiple copies in print dialog would not work - only one copy was printed. ver. 2.61, released 1996.04.13 Fixed a bug in reading black and white JPEG files on Hi Color or True Color displays (16 or 24 bit color mode) - they appeared compressed to 1/4 of original width. NEW to HyperSnap ver. 2.60, released 1996.03.28 (formerly SnapShot/32) 1. The Snapshot menu was changed to "Capture". "Client" capture was eliminated and only "Window" item exists. As you move the cursor around the screen in this mode, you may observe different regions to be captured, as they are high-lighted by a blinking frame. Window's client area is captured by default, unless you go with the cursor to the window border or title. 2. Added "Quick Print" with the check-mark to the "Capture" menu. In addition I added there "Quick Save" and "Quick Copy" as well as "Include Cursor Image" and "Restore after Capture" options, also with check-marks. As you click on Capture menu, you have at a glance all the options, so you know what will happen. 3. Region capture was enhanced - it now draws a big cross-hair for the first point selection, which allows more precise selection of the region's start point. Also keyboard is now active in Region mode: - Arrow keys - move the cross hair or the corner of the region by one pixel, for very precise selection. In addition, Ctrl-Arrow moves the cursor by 20 pixels, and Shift-Arrow by 5 pixels, if you need to move faster without going back to the mouse. - Escape key will about the Region capture (same as right mouse button click) and Enter key will finish it (accept the point), same as left mouse button click. - Insert or plus (+) key will toggle the mouse cursor on and off. Sometimes the cursor obscures the corner of your capture,

where you may want to be very precise. - If you are in the "Rectangle" mode (second step of the Region command, when a rectangle is drawn on the screen, not the cross-hair), you may press Tab or Insert keys to switch the rectangle corner that you're dragging, e.g. from bottom right to top left. - A help window is displayed on the screen in this mode, explaining the keys. This window is moved around as you move the cursor, trying to leave the region of interes unobscured. 4. The "Quick Save" (or Auto Save) option was enhanced to save files in any supported format, not only in BMP. The way it works is also modified. You may turn off the file incrementing, so that each capture will overwrite the file with the same name (requested by several users). Also if you don't turn the timed auto captures on, the HyperSnap window will actually stay visible (will not disappear like in ver. 2.55). You may still use menu choices, in addition to hot keys, which previously was not possible. If you do not enter any file name in Quick Save dialog, you'll be prompted for a new file name each time you do a capture. 5. Edit menu has "Copy Format" selection - to change the kind of bitmap that is copied to the clipboard. E.g. your screen may work in 65000+ color mode, but you want to paste into some document 16 color bitmaps (often used by Windows Help authors). You may set the format to be 16 color. Previously they had to save the bitmap to a file to reduce colors. Requested by several users. 6. Crop item added to Edit menu (to cut down the size of your bitmap). Also requested by several users. Crop works in the same way as Capture/Region, except that it's limited to HyperSnap window. The same hot keys are active. The position of the cursor, and size of the cropped area are displayed in the title bar as you move your mouse or move the pointer with arrow keys. 7. Added Undo Crop to Edit menu. 8. HyperSnap title bar now displays the size of the pixmap in it's window. You may also press the left mouse button and move the mouse over the picture to read coordinates or your mouse pointer position. This feature may be useful when creating simple image maps for the WEB. 9. Modified Page Setup dialog, adding different picture scaling options. ver. 2.55, released 1995.12.07 Margin settings for printing (and other printing parameters) were read from the registry only after calling File/Print, File/Print Setup... or File/Page Setup..., so if you used auto-print without going through the File menu, margins were always 0 and other page setup parameters had the default values. Fixed.

ver. 2.54, released 1995.11.24 Fixed a crash when pictures are dragged and dropped on us while picking up transparent background for GIF file. Fixed crash in some JPEG read and GIF save operations. ver. 2.53, released 1995.11.11 Fixed a bug (program crash) if auto-print mode was set and a capture was canceled by right mouse button click. ver. 2.52, released 1995.11.08 Removed restrictions from unregistered software - it will now read GIF and JPEG files, and allow to set transparent background in GIF. The only remaining restriction is "snap with cursor image", which requires at least a temporary license from me to test. I also made auto-print and bitmap save options saved and restored from the registry between runs. Also auto-save now uses bitmap options setting from Save As... dialog for the format of bitmap it creates. ver. 2.51, released 1995.10.31 Cosmetic changes: fixed focus for file dialogs - was not set until you clicked on any control. Fixed tab order for some dialogs and made 'A' a menu shortcut for Save As... item on File menu. ver. 2.50 Final release, 1995.10.25 Added JPEG read/write. Fixed GIF output to do dithering when reducing colors to 256 from hi-color modes (this is an option on File/Save As dialog). Changed Save dialogs from having separate menu functions for BMP and GIF to just one Save As... dialog. In capture window/client mode added a blinking frame that shows what will be captured as you move the mouse cursor around. Other new features - drag and drop BMP, GIF or JPG file from file manager or Win95 folder to SnapShot/32 window to open and view it, or start Snap32 with a command line argument to open that particular file. Added "Snapshot Options..." item under "Options..." menu. You can set there "Auto Print" and "Auto Copy" actions that are taken right after a snapshot is done. The image will be printed on the default printer and/or copied to the Windows clipboard. You may also turn off the "Auto Restore" feature and keep SnapShot/32 window minimized (in Windows 95 taskbar) after each snapshot. Added keyboard shortcut keys for Edit/Copy (Ctrl-C), Paste (Ctrl-V) and Clear (Ctrl-X) functions. Also added "Options" to Save in BMP format, that allows to select bitmap type (1, 4, 8 or 24 bits per pixel). Fixed many bugs. Ver. 2.44, released 1995.09.20 Fixed two small bugs: in Save GIF, if you did not type the extension, it used to be BMP, not GIF. Also on the same dialog the word "Transparent" was misspelled. Ver. 2.43, released 1995.09.14 Added this really nice help file (if you are a developer, ask me who wrote it!) and made links to it from SnapShot/32 program.

Ver. 2.42, released 1995.09.09 Fixed some small problems in color palette when capturing images from palette intensive applications. Also upgraded Register to ver. 1.18. Ver. 2.41, released 1995.08.25 Fixed a license number problem for long names (over 30 characters). Also moved registry entries for window position, print setup and hot keys to HKEY_CURRENT_USER tree, so that each user on a machine could have her/his own settings saved. Ver. 2.40, released 1995.08.23 Fixed the printing bug under Windows 95 (it would not print at all), introduced since ver. 2.34. Changed the way license numbers are generated. Until now the numbers were based on the name of the machine, where the program was running. Now they are based on the name of the owner, so that people could use SnapShot/32 on several machines. Still the "single user license" number must be entered separately on each machine, but since it is tied to the owner name, one can install it e.g. on her/his desktop and laptop computer independently. The name of the owner appears in the "Help/About" box. People who registered earlier and have licenses based on machine names can upgrade to a "single user license" at no cost by sending me an email message or a letter containing their machine name and old license number. The old licenses will still work. Ver. 2.34, released 1995.07.30 Bug fix: SnapShot/32 saves its position and window size on exit, and when restarted, its window is positioned as before. This created problem when the saved position was completely off-screen so the window was not visible. Fixed by checking for any corner of SnapShot/32 window being offscreen, and if so - repositioning the window to the center of the screen. Also modified the message that appears if SnapShot/32 can not register its hot keys, e.g. due to another program (sometimes another copy of SnapShot/32) using them. This message is less cryptic now, explains the reason and suggests changing the keys with "Configure Hot Keys" dialog under "Options" menu. Also fixed: "Enable hot keys" check box in hot keys setup dialog was not doing anything. Ver. 2.33, released 1995.07.23 Added ability to read GIF files, but only in registered version. You may read-in GIF file to view it, print it, translate to BMP file or change the GIF file attributes like interlaced mode and transparent background. Ver. 2.32, released 1995.07.14 Working on a MAP file for a GIF image for one of my WEB pages I needed to read coordinates of points on the bitmap. Added the display of last mouse click coordinates to the title of SnapShot/32 window. Ver. 2.31, released 1995.07.12 There seems to be a bug in Win95 betas - when asking how

many colors the display supports ( GetDeviceCaps( dhdc, BITSPIXEL ) call ) it says "2" even if it is in 16 color mode. For this reason the bitmaps or GIFs saved in 16 color mode were black and white only. Worked around this bug by forcing 16 colors always if less colors are reported. Ver. 2.30 Added hot key configuration dialog.Added "Repeat last capture" function and hot-key. Added the "Auto capture and save" feature - save pre-defined screen area to a file every time the "Repeat last capture" hot key is pressed, or a specified time elapses. Added "save with cursor image included" option. Fixed a problem with hot-keys, which did not operate under NT 3.5 if SnapShot/32 window was not in foreground. Ver. 2.29 Made separate functions "Save BMP" and "Save GIF" under "File" menu for easier access. Save GIF has now options to set interlaced mode for GIF file (fade-in effect on WEB) and to set transparent background attribute. The transparent background is available only in registered version.Added "Setup" button to "Print" dialog for easier access. Ver. 2.28 (there was no 2.27 release) Fixed GIF save for graphics cards with more than 256 colors. Fixed BMP save - used to save always 256 color bitmaps, now it is the same as the display color resolution. Ver. 2.26: Fixed problems with color printing. Removed printing and clipboard copy restriction for non-registered version. Ver. 2.25: Changed registration info, added REGISTER application. Ver. 2.24: Changed hot keys to F12, since PrintScreen did not work on Windows 95. Fixed printing on Windows 95. Ver. 2.23: Added hot-keys (PrintScreen with different Shift and Ctrl combinations). Among other things they allow capture with menus pulled down. Ver. 2.22: Fixed the capture problem on Windows 95, that caused parts of SnapShot/32 windows be visible after selecting one of the functions from Snapshot menu. Ver. 2.21: Fixed the problem that sometimes caused SnapShot/32 to hang on startup. Ver. 2.20: Added ability to save captures in GIF format, importang e.g. for people working on HTML (Web) documents. Worked around a problem in NT 3.51 beta and Win95 where Print Setup dialog crashed the program.