README

MWSnap v.3.0.0.74

Copyright (c) 1999, 2002 Mirek Wójtowicz, Lublin, Poland Licence: GNU General Public License (GPL) MWSnap is OSI Certified Open Source Software.

MWSnap is a small yet feature-rich and powerful Windows program for snapping (capturing) images from selected parts of the screen. Only the main screen is supported.

Current version is capable of capturing the whole desktop, a highlighted window, an active menu, a control, or a fixed or free rectangular part of the screen. MWSnap handles 5 most popular graphics formats and contains several graphical tools: a zoom, a ruler, a color picker and a window spy. It can be also used as a fast picture viewer or converter.

MWSnap does not require installation and does not need any special dlls, drivers or system files which can mess up your system.

Selected features

• 5 snapping modes.
• Dynamic preview and keyboard handling for pixel-precise selection.
• Support for BMP, JPG, TIFF, PNG and GIF formats, with selected color depth and quality settings.
• System-wide hotkeys.
• Clipboard copy/paste.
• Printing.
• Auto-saving, auto-printing.
• Auto-start with Windows.
• Minimizing to system tray.
• An auto-extending list of fixed sizes, perfect for snapping images for icons and glyphs.
• A zoom tool for magnifying selected parts of the screen.
• A ruler tool for measuring screen objects lengths.
• A color picker showing screen colors with separated RGB parts.
• Fast picture viewer.
• Adding frames and mouse pointer images.
• Multilevel configurable undo and redo.
• Multilingual versions.
• Configurable user interface.
• And more...

Available language versions

• Brazilian Portuguese translation by Paulo Neto, http://www.layout.com.br
• Catalan (Valencian) translation by Francesc B. Salas, fbsalas@ya.com
• Chinese (traditional, BIG5) translation by Tsung-Che Wu, http://cproxomitron.cjb.net
• Czech translation by Zdeněk Jantač, http://web.quick.cz/jantac.zdenek and Vlamo, vla.mo@tiscali.cz
• Deutsche Übersetzung von Günter Lahner
• Dutch (Netherlands) translation by Johan Ditmar
• English translation by Mirek Wójtowicz, http://www.mirekw.com/
• French translation by By Nawshezaad Jaufeeraully, njaufeer@yahoo.com
• Galego translation by Xosé Antón Vicente Rodríguez, antonvicente@navegalia.com
• Hungarian (Magyar) translation by Herczeg József Tamás, hdodi@freemail.hu
• Italian translation by Luca Degani, luca.degani@poste.it and di Alberto Bruschi, http://ww.AlbioB.tk
• Macedonian translation by Aleksandar Savic, aleks@macedonia.eu.org
• Polski (Polish) tlumaczenie: Mirek Wójtowicz, http://www.mirekw.com/
• Portuguese (Portugal) translation by José Seabra
• Russian translation by Babenkov Eugeny
• Sloveski translation by Iztok Zajc, iztok.zajc@zd-lj.si
• Spanish translation by Alberto Borja, albertoborja@hotmail.com
• Swedish translation by Leif Larsson, Leif.Larsson@umea.se

Source code and Beta versions

MWSnap is a freeware released under GNU General Public License (GPL). MWSnap is programmed in Delphi 5. Full source code and Beta versions are available from https://github.com/MiDevel/MWSnap

All developers, beta testers and regular users who are willing to help are welcome!

This software is OSI Certified Open Source Software. OSI Certified is a certification mark of the Open Source Initiative.

Standard Disclaimer

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation;

This program is distributed "AS IS" in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA

Contacting the author

e-mail: info@mirekw.com

WWW: http://www.mirekw.com

I appreciate and welcome any comments, enhancement requests, improvement suggestions and bug reports that you may have. Please forgive me if I don't answer you, I receive really a lot of e-mails. I do my best to at least read them all.