Shutter – Featureful Screenshot Tool

Shutter 0.85.1 is a bugfix release that doesn’t add any new features.

If you’ve subscribed to the Ubuntu repository, you’ll be prompted about an update being available automatically – otherwise, check the downloads page for individual packages. Maintainers of other distributions have been notified, so updates for that will be available soon.

Here is the list of issued fixed:

  * Fixed bugs
    -- LP: #471895
       [Unable to set Shutter as default screenshot tool when using compiz]
    -- LP: #488845
       [check gtk version before calling gtk-image-menu-...]
    -- LP: #488895
       [capture menu / tooltip doesn't work with gtk2-perl 1.161]
    -- LP: #488897
       [duplicate file after capturing a webpage and using $name in th...]
    -- LP: #486322
       [copy filename / copy screenshot to clipboard should be xor]
    -- LP: #486659
       [Pressing Enter in the image editor doesn't save image]
    -- LP: #486691
       [copy and copy filename do not work in session tab]
    -- LP: #488702
       [can't shot localhost web]
  * updated translations

As always, if you’ve found some issue, let us know!

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The time of waiting is over – after 15 weeks of development we are happy to announce the release of Shutter 0.85. A long list of new features and improvements is waiting to get explored by you…

Undo / Redo anywhere

Shutter now supports undo / redo functionality within the main program.

If you don’t like the effect that was applied by one of Shutter’s plugins you can now easily revert to the last version. You file was modified by an external app while opened with Shutter? No problem – Shutter will recognize the changes and you can simply use Shutter’s undo method to go back in time.

Drag and drop pics into Shutter

Tired of using the old-school file dialogs to open your files with Shutter? You can now simply drag any supported file to Shutter’s main window and Shutter will open it. The same goes for the internal Drawing Tool.

If you already have an image in the clipboard you can import it by pressing Shift+Ctrl+v (or use the related menu item unter File → New → Import from clipboard).

Capture menus and tooltips

Shutter now has options for specifically capturing a menu or a tooltip, making it much easier. A video says more than a thousand words here…

Video (menu)

Video (tooltip)

Many UI improvements

To make Shutter even more usable and intuitive we have reworked the UI on many places. When you wan to change the delay quickly, you can now do that by activating it in the statusbar of Shutter’s main window without entering the preferences dialog as in the old days. The same does apply for the cursor setting and switching between profiles.

We’ve also reorganized the preferences dialog to achieve a more consistent look and logical structure. Additionally there are many new options to give you the opportunity to use Shutter the way you want.

Improved Advanced Selection Tool

Shutter does provide two different tools to capture a region of your screen. The Simple Selection Tool and the Advanced Selection Tool. Both have unique features and a different way of usage. One of the features provided exclusively by the Simple Selection Tool was the zoom window. It was not implemented in the other tool because it has its own zooming mechanism.

In this version you’ll be able to use the zoom window in the Advanced Selection Tool as well. Additionally the zoom window should react much faster to the mouse movements now. It hides automatically if it is in the way but you can even activate / deactivate it by hitting the <Space> key on your keyboard.

Video (zoom window)

There is also a new dialog that allows you to enter the width, height, X and Y position of the selection manually.

Video (dialog)

Improved Window Selection

Most parts of the window selection functionality were rewritten in order to make it more comfortable. You’ll see a nice animated effect when hovering with your mouse over the windows on your desktop displaying the window title and geometry of the currently selected window. Convince yourself…You simply have to try it!

Video

Note: You need to activate visual effects to get the animation – the window information (name and geometry) is available for all settings.

Notifications

Shutter is now able to use the system’s notification architecture to display some information, e.g. delay, pre-delay and save messages. The current implementation supports all architectures that implement the

org.freedesktop.Notifications specification (e.g. Ubuntu’s Notify-OSD).

Send screenshots via email or instant messenger

You can now send any of your screenshots by email using your local email client (thx to José Borges Ferreira for sending a patch)…

…or use the ‘nautilus-sendto’ dialog if it is available on your system to send it to various targets (e.g. instant messenger).

Shutter registers itself as an app to open images with

Last but not least -  Shutter registers itself as an application to open images with so you can open images with Shutter directly from the file manager of your choice.

@translators: We have changed a lot of the translatable strings within Shutter which means a lot of work for you guys. Please don’t blame us

As with everything else, bugs were fixed and we’re already planning for the next version, 0.86. We hope you enjoy this release!

Detailed changelog is available here.

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Shutter 0.80.1 is a bugfix release concentrating on 8 annoyances reported by our users, but there are some interesting improvements as well.

If you’ve added the Shutter Ubuntu repository, you’ll be notified about an update automatically – otherwise, see our downloads page.

Read more…

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Great things come to those who wait. Shutter 0.80 brings a host of new and important features, existing plugins, bugfixes and translation updates.

Undo / Redo support in the editor

Shutters screenshot editor now features undo capability – making it much more forgiving against accidents, and allowing for easier experimentation. This also makes it a rather complete screenshot-oriented image editor, and as far as we know, the first of its kind on Linux

New tools in the editor

The editor also received several useful tools – arrow shape, highlighter, numbered tags, crop tool, and a resizable canvas.

The arrow is a tool of it’s own now – previously it was an image, which wasn’t convenient to access frequently and had some complications when using. Now it’s available on the left toolbar, and functions similarly to the line too.

The highlighter tool, as it’s name implies, is useful for highlighting. While a pencil tool with a large line width, some transparency and a yellow color does the same job, it was inconvenient to switch the color setup from the standard to the ‘highlighting’ mode and back. Now the highlighter is a tool of it’s own, with a nice cursor, making it easier and faster to highlight. Big thanks to Richard Querin of the Inkscape Screencasters fame for providing us with the nice highlighter icon.

Numbered tags – ah, what Shutter was made originally for – aiding in documentation process. Numbered tags stamp a number (that’s auto-incremented each time you use it) on the screenshot, allowing you to clearly detail the steps needed to take in a graphical interface.

Crop tool allows you to crop your screenshot ala advanced selection tool for screen capture. You draw a box of the area you’d like to leave, crop, and everything outside of the box is removed with the canvas auto-sized to the new dimensions.

The canvas is now resizable – allowing you to extend it’s dimensions beyond the original screenshot resolution for more stuff, or sizing it down for less stuff. Do as you please! You are the king/queen.

Besides that, the editor also received various improvements like a built-in fullscreen mode and an option to clear all the objects you’ve added. The ability open your recently used files has been added to the main window as well.

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Shutter 0.70.2 is out, fixing seven discovered issues as reported by our users.

This is the second and last release in the 0.70.x release series; the next 0.80 release will be focusing on improving the drawing tool – including an “Undo” feature, double-clicking to update items, a crop tool and instant-apply for property changes (for example, line width, color, and etc. will be updated as soon as you set a new option – this allows real-time “preview”).

If you’ve added the Shutter Ubuntu repository, you’ll be notified about an update automatically – otherwise, see our downloads page for ArchLinux, Fedora, Mandriva, Mepis packages and the source code.

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