This content is managed by the PageSnip Assistant.
The screen for the PageSnip Assistant looks like this:
The PageSnip Assistant screen is made of three areas:
The Toolbar
The toolbar has these buttons:
The Print button calls the standard Internet Explorer option to print an HTML page.
The PDF button uses PageSnip's built-in webserver to "serve" the snip to the PDF creation window in PageSnip.
From this window you can view the content to make sure that it is loaded correctly and add information to the PDF (in addition to the URL and date/time stamps from PageSnip.
You can also use PageSnip to E-Mail the PDF with your standard E-Mail client and optionally open it in your default PDF viewer after it is created.
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Registered PageSnip owners can purchase the retail version of this PDF print driver at a savings of 30% off the standard retail price! Then they can use the driver to create the same high quality, lightweight PDF files from other programs on their computer.
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The Save button calls the standard Internet Explorer option to save a HTML page. You can use this option to export a snip taken with PageSnip in any of the formats that Internet Explorer offers.
The Delete button permanently deletes the currently selected snip and all of the images or other files associated with it.
The Edit button sends the currently selected snip into the internal PageSnip HTML editor. You can use this feature to change the appearance of your snip (such as the fonts and colors). It is also useful to remove advertising or other unwanted parts of the snip.
The Info button opens a window where you can see information about when and where you snipped your content.
That window also has buttons that will launch the external web browser of your choice (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera and Safari PC) back to the URL where the snip was taken.
There is also an option to open Windows Explorer into the folder where the files for the snip are stored. This gives you easy access to images and other resources that were saved with the snip.
The File button opens a window that allows you to transfer a snip (and all the associated files for it) from the temporary storage area managed by the Snip Assistant into the long term storage area controlled by the PageSnip Manager.
Snips can be associated with one or more "SnipLists" (groups of associated snips). This allows you to browse through filed snips in a way that makes sense to you.
When you file a snip, you also get to enter your own meaningful page title for the snip, write a brief description of it and associate one or more keywords (tags) to it.
The standard data collected by PageSnip when you acquire the snip (Date, Time, URL, etc) are also filed with the snip.
Filed snips can be searched by both a "Fuzzy Search" (covering the extra data that you added when you filed the snip) as well as using a "Web Style" search.
You can also Print, PDF, Save, Edit, get Info or add/edit/read SnipNotes for filed snips (just like you do in the Snip Assistant).
The Notes button opens the built-in HTML editor of PageSnip to a feature known as SnipNotes.
SnipNotes are a HTML scratchpad where you can jot down anything you want about the snip.
The SnipNotes are transferred to the PageSnip Manager (along with the other files) when you file a snip.
The Hide button sends PageSnip back to the Windows System Tray.
PageSnip remembers the current window and when you click the PageSnip icon the window is restored.
The Close button closes the current window
The next section of the Snip Assistant window is the list of saved snips.
The list of saved snips shows the snip name (this is the name used to store the snipped content), the Type of snip, the URL that it came from and the date and time it was snipped.
You can use your mousewheel to scroll the list up and down (the scrollbar on the right will do this too).
There is also a VCR control on the bottom left of the list:
From left to right - the VCR buttons do the following:
1) Display the most recent snip
2) Move the list Up one "page" (the number of snips visible at one time)
3) Move the selection Up one row
4) Not used
5) Move the selection Down one row
6) Move the list Down one "page" (the number of snips visible at one time)
7) Display the oldest snip
When you click on a row in the listbox (or use the VCR buttons to move) the highlighted bar will change to a different entry and that snip will be displayed in the viewer (integrated browser) below the listbox.
A note about the "active" snip:
After you select a snip by any method - it is the"active" snip (or "current selection"). When you click any of the toolbar buttons except Hide or Close, then they will use the active snip.
The last section of the Snip Assistant window is an integrated web browser.
This browser is used to give you a "live preview" of the currently selected snip.
