Snapper

User guide introduction


Introduction

Snapper is a versatile screen capture program. It allows you to save an area of the screen as a sprite, or in PNG or JPEG format. Paint already has such a 'snap shot' facility, at least for sprites. The reason for having another program to do this job is that some of the most common tasks, like saving the contents of a window or menu, are messy using Paint, which requires the use of an imaginary rectangle and a time delay.

Snapper was originally written by David Pilling, and supplied with his scanning and image processing software suite. With the full agreement and encouragement of David, Chris Johnson has taken on the maintenance and development of Snapper, and the new version is now freely available.

A consequence of this is that all correspondence about Snapper should now be directed to Chris Johnson (Email: chris@chris-johnson.org.uk), and not to David.


Installation

For a new installation, simply drag and drop the Snapper application into the directory of your choice.

If you have a previous copy of Snapper then move the old version of Snapper somewhere safe and replace it with the new version.


Usage

Snapper is run in the usual way by double clicking on its icon. It will install on the icon bar.

The icon bar menu

Info - shows application information, including the version number, and also contains a Web button to check the download site for later releases.

Help... - opens the html help file (this one).

Control... - will open the Snapper control window. The control window can more easily be opened by left clicking on the icon bar icon.

Choices... - will open the More settings window. The More settings window can also be opened by right clicking on the iconbar icon.

Save all choices - will save the current Snapper configuration. The option to save the configuration is placed on this menu, because it will also save the position and size of the snapper control window and the snap area.

Save choices will save the following details.

These settings are described in the following pages.

Quit - will remove the application from the iconbar.


These pages are best viewed in a CSS compliant browser. For RISC OS, Netsurf would be the browser of choice.

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Snapper is © Chris Johnson and David Pilling, 2013
Email:chris@chris-johnson.org.uk