Features

ScrapX 1.3 Features

ScrapX is a "scrapbook" that allows content to be collected from Mac OS X and classic Mac OS applications, viewed (or listened to), and dispensed multiple times while producing the same result as when the content is moved directly from one application to another. It also is more than a scrapbook, because it has many feature for displaying and organizing items, and allows text selection and editing.

ScrapX Design Goal

Our goal is to make ScrapX the scrapbook for Mac OS X. For users who depended on the scrapbook in the classic Mac OS we want the transition to ScrapX to be simple and rewarding, and for the feeling to be: "the scrapbook is back—and it is better than ever." Compare ScrapX and classic scrapbooks.

Content can be Stored and Dispensed

Any content that can be copied to the clipboard or dragged from an application can be pasted or dropped into ScrapX. Even content in an unsupported type—Adobe Illustrator images or FileMaker objects, for example—can be pasted to dropped into ScrapX.
Files in supported formats, including a folder of such files, can be drag-and-dropped onto a scrapbook. Or, one or more files can be copied and pasted onto a ScrapX window (except for Dropbox and Slideshow views).
When content is drag-and-dropped to ScrapX from Safari, Internet Explorer, Camino, Firefox, Mozilla, Netscape, or Opera includes a "promised file" the contents of the file are inserted into the new ScrapX item.
Scrapbooks made with the classic scrapbook application or with classic versions of ScrapIt can be imported to ScrapX.
Items can be copied and pasted or drag-and-dropped from ScrapX Item, Thumbnail or Combined views to other applications.
Items can be exported to files in formats corresponding to any of the Item's supported types. In v1.3.5 this can be done by simply option-dragging an item to the desktop.
Items can be drag-and-dropped from ScrapX to the desktop to create clipping files.
Multiple ScrapX scrapbooks can be open, and content can be moved between scrapbooks.

Items can be Displayed and Organized

Content in a supported type is displayed. Supported types include: aGIF (animated GIF), BMP, EPS, GIF, HTML, JPEG, PDF, PICT, PNG, RTF, RTFD, TIFF, URL, plain text, movie, sound, and (classic) sound resource. Supported sound formats include .m4a (AAC) and .m4p (protected AAC). ScrapX supports all of the types supported in the classic scrapbook except 3DMF, which is not supported because Mac OS X does not support QuickDraw 3D.

Content can be displayed in five views: Item (like that in the classic scrapbook), Thumbnail, Combined, Dropbox and Slideshow.


Item	Thumbnail	Combined	Dropbox	Slideshow

Movies and sounds can be played. Animated GIFs can be played or viewed frame-by-frame.
Images can be zoomed between 25% to 400%, or to a level at which the image will fill the window, and also can be scrolled.
Multi-screen text and PDF items can be scrolled.
URLs that begins "http://" or "https://" can be opened from ScrapX.
In the Item and Combined views, an item with multiple supported types can be displayed using each type.
Items can be displayed in slideshows in which items are advanced under timed or manual control.
When at item is created by dragging a file onto ScrapX, the name of the file is recorded in the Source field.
Item name and key words can be entered in an item's Memo field.
Each item has a checkbox that can be used as a search and sort criterion and to select items for slideshows.
Items inserted into a scrapbook are ordered based on Preferences settings, retained sort orders, and/or file names.
Items can be re-ordered by drag-and-dropping thumbnails in the Thumbnail or Combined view.
Scrapbook content, under Panther or Tiger including text in PDFs, can be searched based on up to five criteria, and results can be viewed within the current scrapbook or in a new one. Both the found and omitted set can be viewed and search results can be saved.
A scrapbook can be sorted based on up to three criteria. Sort criteria can be retained and used to order new items added to the scrapbook.
The Randomize Order... command can be used to scramble item order.
The Undo command allows changes to be undone; the Redo command reverses an Undo.
Several "display settings"—scroll positions and volume selections, for example—are saved and can be reloaded when a scrapbook is opened.
An About This Scrapbook panel summarizes scrapbook information.

Text can be Selected, Edited, and Created

A portion of text content can be selected and copied and pasted or drag-and-dropped.
Text in the types HTML, RTF, URL, and plain text can be edited or formatted, and new items with text types can be created.
Items with a plain text type can be created, and the plain text type can be added to items with no text type. (Subsequently, the plain text can be edited and formatted, and other text types created.)
Type information can be "stripped" when an item has more than one supported type or has unsupported types.

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