Welcome To GrabIt Pro 4.0 From * Software Excellence By Design Inc. ----------------------------------- Version 4.0 August 20th 1993 ************************************************************************** The GrabIt Pro ZIP (GBPRO4.ZIP) file is in PKZIP 1.10 format. Please leave it in 1.10 ZIP format so users who don't have version 2.04 will be able to extract it. Thank You! ************************************************************************** Version 4.0 Upgrade Information *Free* for GrabIt Pro version 3.1 Registered Users -------------------------------------------------- If you are a registered user of GrabIt Pro version 3.1, version 4.0 is a free upgrade. You will HAVE to CALL US at 602-375-9928 to get a new registration number. Make sure that you have your current registration number ready when you call. You CAN'T get your new registration number without it! The upgrade price for registered users of the old GrabIt versions 2.X is $15.00. *************************** New Features and Important Notes For Version 4.0 *************************** Hot Key Menu Capture -------------------- Now you can capture pull down and popup menus quickly and easily! Refer to the GrabIt Pro users manual(MANUAL.WRI) for complete information on how to capture menus. NOTE: The users guide is in Windows Write Format New Startup Mode ----------------- At your request the program now starts as a normal size window instead of being minimized. You can now specify through the properties selection from the program manager menu how you would like GrabIt Pro to start. ** Remember The System Menu ** ----------------------------- Remember that when GrabIt Pro is minimized ALL of the capture commands are available from the system menu. Just click once on the GrabIt Pro icon at the bottom of your desktop to display the system menu. This allows you to capture images without having the GrabIt Pro window in your way. When you are done with a capture session restore GrabIt Pro to its normal size window by double cilcking on it. All of your captures will be ready to view with each capture in its own child window. New Detailed Documentation and Help ----------------------------------- The documentation is now typeset in windows write format and gives a complete discription of each command available from the GrabIt Pro Menus. The help file has been expanded and makes it extremely easy to find and command you may have a question about Invert Image Option ------------------- When saving a screen capture you can now select to save the image in an inverted bitmap or RLE. This is PERFECT for those of you who are doing DOS screen captures and want to include the screen captures in your documentation. By saving the capture as an inverse image you will have a screen shot that is black text on a white background. You can also create some spectacular special effects by experimenting with the inverse option. Smaller Program Size -------------------- In these days of disk hungry apps, we are bucking the trend by giving you an improved application that takes up 117K LESS disk space than the previous version! We will continue to reduce the space requirements of all our programs whenever possible. The GrabIt Pro Program Files --------------------------------- The GrabIt Pro program files are in compressed format. You must run the GPSETUP program to expand them before the program can be used. The setup program will create a Program Manager group and add the program files and other important files to the group. PLEASE NOTE: ------------ You must run GPSETUP.EXE from the Windows Program Manager. Other shells like the Norton Desktop or PC Tools for Windows are not 100% compatible with our setup program and may cause it to fail when attempting to create the GrabIt Pro Group. Step 1 Running The GPSETUP Program ---------------------------- After extracting the GRABPRO.ZIP file to either a directory on your hard drive or to a floppy drive. Start Windows and make sure that the Windows Program Manager is running. 1. From the Program Manager File Menu choose Run... 2. Enter the location of the GPSETUP Program. If the files were on your A: drive then you would enter: A:\GPSETUP and press Enter or Click on the OK button. 3. The GrabIt Pro setup dialog will be displayed. 4. The edit field will display a suggested directory. 5. Press OK to accept the default directory or enter new destination directory and press Enter or Click on the OK button. 6. The setup program will create the directory for you and display the file installation progress. 7. When it has finished expanding and copying the files it will create a new Program Manager Group and add the program files to the group. Currently the manual is up to date and there have been no revisions or bugs reported. Be sure to read the MANUAL.WRI file, this is the program manual. It is in Windows Write format. Any questions or bug reports should be directed to: Software Excellence By Design Inc. 14801 North 12th Street Phoenix, AZ 85022 USA (602) 375-9928 Voice (602) 375-9928 Fax We hope you enjoy using this program. End Of Readme.txt ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Company Background Software Excellence By Design Inc. was formed in 1992 by the same people that founded Moon Valley Software. When we founded our new company we retained the rights to several of our Windows Shareware programs including GrabIt. The same programmers that brought you some of the first and best Shareware for Windows are back! GrabIt Pro represents our commitment to deliver commercial quality software to Shareware users. We are using the experience gained from launching several very successful commercial programs and applying that same quality control and attention to detail to our shareware products. You can look forward to more top notch software from us and the support to back it up in the near future. Sincerely, Eric D. Anderson President