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Product information - V1.6
Website contents: copyright © 1993-2008, Harry Doldersum.
TGrab is targeted at the Microsoft Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000 and XP operating systems
TGrab is targeted at the Microsoft Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000 and XP operating systems
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- TGrab product description
- TGrab V1.x screen previews
- Access Download facility: TGrab
Access the Online Registration services page- Product Features Summary
- TGrab - how to use it.
- Product Knowledge Base.
- Preferred data backup solutions
- User Response Form - Judge us and our products & suggest improvements
TGrab revision history.- TGrab V1.6 Press Release.
TGrab product description
TGrab V1.6: your Timer automated image Grabber.TGrab is a new type of "image grabber", a utility to take snapshots of either your full windows desktop screen or the active window. It can not only take screenshots in a manual mode (like most others), but also in a timer automated mode.
You can actually configure TGrab to take a picture at a preferred timer interval, either during a time limited session or until a quantity of images is reached (or both). If preferred, it can even run totally invisible and/or close itself when the task is completed.
TGrab runs in the background, while you are using the program from which you want to obtain pictures. At every snapshot command (whether invoked by the timer mode or manual) the active window (or full screen) is captured and saved to a disk file (in either a .jpg, .bmp, .wmf or .emf format), using a sequentially numbered filename (as in "MyFileName(##).bmp"). You don't need to do ANYTHING about this process, it's fully automated.
If you feel the need to do so, than you can process these image files afterwards in your preferred image editor.
TGrab supports four major image standards:
- Bitmap ".bmp" format - Windows Device Independent Bitmap.
Recommended image format for business use - maximum image quality, but a larger image filesize. Recommended format, if max. quality is required.
- JPEG ".jpg / .jpeg" format - Joint Photographic Experts Group.
Very good image format, optimized for photography, with an adjustable "image quality / file size" ratio (see the "Preferences" dialog). This is actually TGrab's default format, with a preferred "compression / image quality" ratio of "80" (where a ratio of "100" is the max. image quality, resulting in min. compression). Recommended format for overall images. Filesize is very efficient, when compared with the other supported formats.
- Windows ".wmf" format - Windows Metafile.
A Metafile is a collection of structures that store a picture in a device-independent format and was designed for the Windows V3.x operating system. The Metafile format is useful to transfer images between applications that do not have other options available, but is not the best choice for image storage.
- Windows ".emf" format - Windows Enhanced Metafile.
An Enhanced Metafile is used in applications meant for the Windows95 (and later) operating systems and is an improved version of the ".wmf" Metafile (see above).
- business: where you'd be wanting to get copies of application dialogs or other screen output, for use in presentations or on website pages.
- recreative: you might think of a situation where you'd be wanting to get a series of snapshots from your favorite action game (for these, see an important note below) or you may want to store the images from a favorite webcam.
Printing of the captured and stored images can be done by using (for instance) the standard Windows Imaging program, that you can find on under the "accessories" menu. Otherwise, our PictureBook application or most wordprocessors and image editors will be able to do this for you.
(Please note - recreative use: Some games operate in "non-windows video memory", as for example some games that use additional video accellerator cards, such as the powerful 3Dfx cards. The graphic representations, created by these cards, are sometimes created outside of the "normal" windows video memory and these might - as such - NOT be within reach of the TGrab (and Windows) image snapshot routines).
(For your information - As a TGrab user, you may be interested using a searchable image database system? If so, please have a look at our application "PictureBook - your Personal Graphics Database". Read all about it on the PictureBook Product Information page. When purchasing these applications simultaniously, you are offered a discount on the second application.