HyperSnap-DX brings professional quality, conveniently executed Windows 95 and NT screen captures to your fingertips. 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. 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-DX 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-DX can create progressive JPEGs, perfect for World Wide Web page use. Choose your color depth for BMP captures, too. NEW! Now you can capture images from within DirectX Applications! Grab those special game and other captures you could never do before, with completely accurate coloring, courtesy of HyperSnap-DX. Web, Help File, and Documentation Authors, don't miss what HyperSnap-DX 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-DX saves them each to an individual, sequentially named GIF or JPEG file, in the custom format you choose, for your later use. You can even set a timer to automatically execute a capture every 'x' seconds! -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 cap- ture target. A definite eye-saver. NEW! HyperSnap-DX includes two new capture definitions to save time! You can now capture the active window, with or without its frame, at the click of a hot key. HyperSnap-DX continues to offer the custom window capture feature described above. 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. A recently introduced feature allows SCROLLING AND SIMULTANEOUS CAPTURE OF ENTIRE WINDOW AREAS, including portions not shown on your screen! Perfect for capturing entire WEB pages and printing them, including background images, something that your web browser probably can't do! Choose your own HotKeys to 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-DX -- 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-DX to open them! NEW! Browse through directories of supported images -- HyperSnap-DX will display them in alphabetical order at the touch of your PageUp or PageDown key. NEW! View a capture in full screen mode using a hot key. For complete information on all that HyperSnap-DX brings to you, open the help file (HSDX.HLP) for a screen image that provides an instant overview of its many features and functions. Yes, HyperSnap-DX's help file graphics were captured using HyperSnap-DX! 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 (now HyperSnap-DX) 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-DX) 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 or SETUP.EXE (e.g. double click on its icon). You will be prompted for the target folder, where HyperSnap-DX files will be installed. A HyperSnap-DX group (menu) will be created in your Windows 95 or NT Start menu, together with an "Uninstall" icon that will completely remove HyperSnap-DX if necessary. If the uninstall script file (UnHSDX.bat in your Windows directory) was accidently deleted, you may still completely uninstall HyperSnap-DX by running: hsdx -uninstall and then deleting its files and directory manually. To recreate HyperSnap-DX menu under Windows 95 "Start" button you may run again HySnap.exe, if you saved it, or just run: hsdx -install and enter the same directory where HyperSnap-DX is already installed. Register your copy of HyperSnap-DX 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 $25.00. When you register HyperSnap-DX you will receive a code that fully enables the software 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. You may also purchase HyperSnap-DX licenses in our WEB Store on the Internet. It uses secure connection to insure privacy. Hyperionics Web Store accepts Visa, Master Card, American Express and Discover/Novus credit card payments. To register copies of HyperSnap-DX please use the "Register" program usually provided with HyperSnap-DX to make payments. We accepts different payment methods, including credit card and checks/money orders. You may also mail us your check or money order directly, provided that it is drawn on a US bank, payable to "Greg Kochaniak". Greg Kochaniak Hyperionics 3146 Chestnut Street Murrysville, PA 15668, USA e-mail: gregko@hyperionics.com http://www.hyperionics.com License cost for HyperSnap-DX 3: Single licenses: $25 each, or $7.50 upgrade from HyperSnap 2 Site license: $750, or $300 upgrade from HyperSnap 2 (Site licenses cover a single organization for an area of up to one hundred miles (160 km) in radius.) World-wide license: $2000 or $700 upgrade from HyperSnap 2 HyperSnap-DX may be also registered using CompuServe SWREG forum (GO SWREG) and search for HyperSnap-DX. The price for single user license over CompuServe is $27 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 (HYSNPxxx.ZIP or HySnap.exe) 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. _______ ____|__ | (R) --| | |------------------- | ____|__ | Association of | | |_| Shareware |__| o | Professionals -----| | |--------------------- |___|___| MEMBER ============================================================ Changes log: As you can see, HyperSnap-DX 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@hyperionics.com http://www.hyperionics.com 1997.07.18 HyperSnap-DX 3.05 (there was no public rel. of 3.04) Added "Send by Email" item to the file menu. With MAPI enabled mailer this will let you send the current picture to any email recipient as GIF, BMP or JPEG file attachment. Prepared HyperSnap-DX for localization (translation into other languages) Fixed a problem in saving BMP files: if the file was loaded from disk or saved with some options, changing BMP options (color depth) had no effect. Added information about Hyperionics Web Store to "About" and "Register" boxes. 1997.05.21 HyperSnap-DX 3.03 Added "Continue on error" check box to Quick Save dialog, so that Quick Save is not aborted on a file error like "file busy" if you want to save to the same file and e.g. continue pushing it to a WEB server. Added "Center Image on Page" to "Page Setup" dialog. 1997.05.05 HyperSnap-DX 3.02 Worked around a bug in Word 97 - it would not paste correctly some of our 256 color DIB pictures (displayed big red X instead). 1997.04.25 HyperSnap-DX 3.01 On capture menu, if Quick Save item is checked on, and you click on it while holding the Shift key on the keyboard, this will pop up Quick Save setup dialog again, instead of checking the item off. Fixed: Page Up/Down keys would not work correctly if you started HyperSnap-DX with file name argument (to view the file) in a current directory. Fixed: Page Up/Down keys would not display files in alphabetical order on Windows 95 (or FAT partitions under NT). 1997.04.16 HyperSnap-DX 3.00 Final Release of version 3.00. 1997.04.09 HyperSnap-DX 3.00 Beta 8 New help file is in. Small fixes in DirectX capture. If you are in regular windows mode (not in DX full screen apllication), the DirectX capture hot key will now snap the whole desktop instead of the active window. This is to fix a problem where for some games not the whole screen was captured. 1997.04.03 HyperSnap-DX 3.00 Beta 7 Fixed a small problem with the information about bitmap resolution, written to bmp and jpeg files. Made Quick Save append .bmp extension to file name if you forget to specify any extension. Extended the beta expiry date to April 30, 1997. 1997.03.28 HyperSnap-DX 3.00 Beta 6 Fixed the problem with Quick Save for DirectX captures. Added new license code. Added -initfrom:filename command line option. It may be used when starting HyperSnap-DX like: hsdx -initfrom:c:\HySnap\hsdx2.ini where hsdx2.ini is the initialization file (with hot keys etc.) for HyperSnap-DX. Normally it would read the options from the registry. This feature allows you to have multiple configurations with different settings. The initial copy of the ini file may be created with hsdx -dumpopts command line switch. 1997.03.26 HyperSnap-DX 3.00 Beta 5 This is the first public beta test version of HyperSnap-DX 3.00 (List of chages from SnapShot/32 and HyperSnap 2 releases deleted)