Shutter 0.88.3 adds minor features, fixes a few bugs and updates translations.

New CLI-Parameters

It is now possible to configure the delay and to control whether you want to include the cursor when using Shutter in scripts.

-d, --delay=SECONDS

-c, --include_cursor

-C, --remove_cursor

Bugfixes

The other changes are mainly bug fixes that make the experience even better.

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. Updates for other distributions will be available soon.

Changelog:

  * Fixed bugs / minor improvements
    -- LP: #965589
       [Dropbox upload should urlencode the resuting link]
    -- LP: #966159
       [Wrong image format in save dialogue]
    -- LP: #975247
       [Editor: icon tool fails to add image]
    -- LP: #976316
       [Add include/exclude cursor option for command-line]
    -- LP: #976322
       [Add --delay command line option]
  * updated translations

Enjoy this release!

Shutter 0.88.2 adds minor features, fixes some annoying bugs and updates translations.

New CLI-Parameter

It is now possible to prevent Shutter from adding new screenshots to the internal session which is useful when using Shutter in scripts. You have to use the new parameter -n (–no_session). Here is an example:

shutter --window=.*firefox.* -e -n -o %Y-%m-%d-%T.png

Improved Usability

You can now access Copy, Cut, Paste and Delete via right-click when using Shutter’s internal image editor.

Bugfixes

The other changes are mainly bug fixes that make the experience even better. As an example, uploading via FTP is now working again.

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. Updates for other distributions will be available soon.

Changelog:

  * Fixed bugs / minor improvements
    -- LP: #625291
       [Edit menu items should be shown in right-click popup for object]
    -- LP: #812182
       [save image to jpg extension]
    -- LP: #903305
       [Add no_session parameter]
    -- LP: #909195
       ['Updating plugins' dialogue appears on every startup]
    -- LP: #917158
       [FTP upload plugin recently stopped working]
  * updated translations

Enjoy this release!

Shutter 0.88.1 does not add any new features but fixes some annoying bugs.

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. Updates for other distributions will be available soon.

Changelog:

  * Fixed bugs / minor improvements
    -- LP: #894416
       [Some upload plugins fail with unicode characters in filename]
    -- LP: #894577
       [Minus service doesn't work]
  * updated translations

Enjoy this release!

This release improves Shutter’s upload mechanism, adds new features and fixes bugs.

Improved Uploading

Due to the rewrite of major parts of the code it was never easier to write an upload plugin for Shutter. Hence we added a bunch of new image hosting services.

New upload plugins

Shutter does also remember the latest uploads now. See how all this works:

Improved CLI-Interface

Is is now possible to specify the filename when using Shutter via command line. Here is an excerpt from Shutter’s manual page:

-o, --output=FILENAME
   Specify a filename to save the screenshot to (overwrites any profile-related
   setting).

   Supported image formats: You can save to any popular image format (e.g. jpeg, png,
   gif, bmp). Additionally it is possible to save to pdf, ps or svg.

   Please note: There are several wildcards available, like

	%Y = year
	%m = month
	%d = day
	%T = time
	$w = width
	$h = height
	$name = multi-purpose (e.g. window title)
	$nb_name = like $name but without blanks in resulting strings
	$profile = name of current profile
	$R = random char (e.g. $RRRR = ag4r)
	%NN = counter

   The string is interpretted by strftime. See "man strftime" for more examples.

   As an example: shutter -f -e -o './%y-%m-%d_$w_$h.png' would create a file named
   '11-10-28_1280_800.png' in the current directory.

Particularly interesting is the possibility to export directly to PDF without any further processing.

Want to develop an upload plugin?

All you need is a) some knowledge of Perl b) this template!

You are a package maintainer?

Shutter used to ship some Perl modules within the release tarball. We removed those custom modules because of security reasons. Please have a look at our list of dependencies to check if your current package does fulfill the needs of the new version. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us.

How to install?

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. Updates for other distributions will be available soon. Changelog:

  * New Features
    -- Refactored the uploading code (added support for plugins)
    -- Added new upload plugins
    -- Public links are now saved when a screenshot was uploaded
    -- New command line option: specify filename
  * New Upload Plugins
    -- Dropbox
    -- ImageBanana
    -- ImageShack
    -- Imgur
    -- ImmIO
    -- ITmages
    -- Minus
    -- Omploader
    -- ToileLibre
    -- TwitPic
    -- UbuntuPics
  * Fixed bugs / minor improvements
    -- LP: #342622
       [Remember upload links]
    -- LP: #841328
       [black corners if window is selected from the window list]
    -- LP: #888441
       [dialog not clickable when renaming a file]
    -- LP: #889031
       [Package should'nt provide own perl libraries]
    -- LP: #892703
       [After unlinking from Dropbox there is no way to relink it again]
    -- LP: #650701
       [retrieve Public URL if screenshot is already uploaded]
    -- LP: #675911
       [Url not selected when i do single click]
    -- LP: #793462
       [Short URL in imageshack.us]
    -- LP: #870556
       [specify file name on command line]
    -- LP: #374024
       [http://omploader.org/ as new image hoster]
    -- LP: #486490
       [Feature Request: Upload to imgur]
    -- LP: #489598
       [Wish: Add Twitpic support]
    -- LP: #598818
       [feature request: extensible imagehost/upload tools]
    -- LP: #602209
       [Add integration with Dropbox]
    -- LP: #619748
       [Add ubuntuusers.de thumbnail code to any of the hosting plugins]
    -- LP: #651029
       [Feature Request: Upload to ITmages]
    -- LP: #703299
       [Add upload to http://pix.toile-libre.org/]
    -- LP: #785032
       [min.us uploading support]
    -- LP: #793463
       [More image services to upload]
  * improved support for Gnome-Shell
  * several smaller bugfixes
  * updated translations

Enjoy this release!

Shutter 0.87.3 is mostly a bugfix release, but also adds two useful new features. With this version one of the oldest bugs will be fixed.

Good things come to those who wait

With this version one of the oldest bugs will be fixed. In earlier versions it was not possible to capture the “real” cursor image (the standard cursor was used instead).  In many situations this was an acceptable solution, but it was very annoying when details matter, e.g. when creating manuals.

The new feature in action

Show in folder

Another small – but useful – feature is the Show in folder function. It allows you to open your file browser at the screenshot’s location.

Show in folder

Bugfixes

The other changes are mainly bug fixes that make the experience even better. As an example, Shutter now supports gnome-web-photo >= 0.10 (shipped with Ubuntu 11.04).

Future plans

The next releases (0.88.x) will focus on re-implementing the upload functionality and adding more and more services (e.g. image hosters like imgur.com) to Shutter.

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. Updates for other distributions will be available soon.

Changelog:

  * New Features
    -- Show "real" cursor (instead of standard cursor)
    -- Locate on disk
  * Fixed bugs / minor improvements
    -- LP: #695629
       [locate on disk feature]
    -- LP: #781235
       [shutter.1.gz isn't gzipped]
    -- LP: #769902
       [shutter --man displays source code]
    -- LP: #752846
       [Application doesn't work on windows with certain titles]
    -- LP: #749442
       [UI improvements to the timeout menu]
    -- LP: #779252
       [Support gnome-web-photo >= 0.10]
    -- LP: #744397
       [It doesn't save the selected profile between sessions]
    -- LP: #388475
       [Showing standard cursor (left-ptr) instead of current cursor]
  * updated translations

Enjoy this release!

We are happy to announce the release of Shutter 0.87.2. If you are using Ubuntu you will like the fact that Shutter now supports Quicklists, i.e. Shutter is already ready for Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal).

Read on to see why this is a useful feature and and what else is included in this version.

The Bad News

The traditional notification area will be removed in Ubuntu 11.04 and application authors have to migrate to libappindicator. Currently there are only bindings for C, Python, and Mono. Due to the fact that Shutter is written in Perl there is currently no easy way to implement support for libappindicator. This means that you will not see Shutter’s panel icon in Ubuntu 11.04.

Before

The Good News

OMG! UBUNTU! posted a short guide on how to re-enable notification area applets in Ubuntu 11.04. In summary, you only have to follow three simple steps:

1. Open a terminal and launch the following command:

gsettings get com.canonical.Unity.Panel systray-whitelist

2. You will get something like ['JavaEmbeddedFrame', 'Wine', 'Skype'] as a result. Add ‘Shutter’ to this list and save the new setting with the following command

gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Panel systray-whitelist “['JavaEmbeddedFrame', 'Wine', 'Skype', 'Shutter']“

3. Re-Login and start Shutter

After

If anyone is able to provide Perl bindings for libappindicator, please let me know. Help is highly appreciated.

Even Better News

With support for Quicklists you can put Shutter on Unity’s Launcher and easily access the most common functions. This is how it looks like:

Quicklist

Additional Changes

This version also includes an important bugfix (see changelog below) and updated translations. This means it is also worth to update Shutter’s package for other distributions than Ubuntu.

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. Updates for other distributions will be available soon.

Changelog:

  * Fixed bugs / minor improvements
    -- LP: #737428
       ['Open with' does not work when filename contains german umlauts]
    -- LP: #738710
       [Needs quicklists for Natty]
  * updated translations

Enjoy this release!

We are happy to announce the release of Shutter 0.87. Most of the changes are not visible to users, but there are still a lot of awesome new features that are worth mentioning.

Shutter is unique! Yeah…what does unique mean?

In the past many users have mentioned the fact that it was possible to open more than one instance of Shutter. In order to avoid this behaviour, Shutter now uses LibUnique – a library for writing single instance applications. This brings many advantages to the user for example, an already running instance of Shutter will be opened when opening a file with Shutter in your file browser:

Additionally it is now possible to send messages to an already running instance of Shutter. Hence, it is now very easy to use Shutter in a bash script or to make extended use of keybindings. You can capture a specific window by searching for a title (regular expressions supported):

shutter –window=.*firefox.*

Another example is to capture a specific region of the screen:

shutter -s=100,100,300,300

Please keep in mind that this is only a small subset of all available options. Some more examples are demonstrated in this video:

You might also want to have a look at the new man page where all available parameters are explained.

Capture the last active window

A feature that was missing for a long time was the ability to capture the last active window. This is handy when using it as a hotkey. See how it works:

Rounded window corners for everyone!

Users that are running Compiz (Desktop Effects) know the problem: You are using a nice theme with shaped window corners, but no screenshot taking application is taking this into account. There is no real solution to the problem because Compiz works different than traditional window managers like Metacity, but Shutter offers a nice and flexible workaround now:

When this option is activated Shutter uses fixed parameters to round the window corners. You can overwrite the default parameters by creating a file named ~/.shutter/shape.conf and put custom values in it. The related tooltip explains the needed steps when you want to overwrite the default values, but Shutter also comes with good working default values (at least for standard themes).

Automatically resize windows before capture

A “new-to-the-world” feature is Shutter’s capability of resizing window to a specific size before capturing – and restoring the initial size afterwards. This is very useful when you want to fit all images to a specific width or height (or both!), e.g. when you are writing for a blog or magazine and you have to respect the existing layout.

By using this feature you don’t have to scale you images afterwards (and thus losing quality). Now you can resize the windows you want to capture automatically. Please see the video above to see how things work.

Smaller features

1) It is now possible to adjust the startup behaviour (e.g. automatically launch Shutter at login) via Shutter’s preferences:

2) Shutter also respects the EXIF orientation flag and rotates the image accordingly when displaying it. Shutter does also write the EXIF data back to the images when saving.

3) Additionally it is now possible to export the files to PostScript. This is handy when working with LaTeX.

4) Shutter is now 100% compatible with Unity (and its global menu).

5) Shutter is cluttering your home directory? Activate the option “Do not save file automatically”. Remember: You can still upload and edit your screenshots.

6) There are some new callouts available within the DrawingTool that fit perfectly to the latest Ubuntu / Canonical designs. Thanks to Gregor Fröhlich.

Still not tired? Check out our complete changelog below!

How to get it

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. Usually maintainers of other distributions are adopting our releases very fast, so updates for that will be available soon.

Changelog:

  * New Features
    -- Capture active window
    -- Uniqueness via libunique (single instance)
    -- Support for rounded window corners when using Compiz
    -- Automatically resize windows before capture
    -- New option: don't save screenshot to disk
    -- Advanced startup-options
    -- EXIF orientation flag is now supported
    -- Compatible with global menu (unity)
    -- Export to PostScript
    -- Faster application startup (load session in background task)
  * Fixed Bugs / Improvements
    -- LP: #336132
       [Load last session in a background task]
    -- LP: #348161
       [Option not to save screenshots to disk by default]
    -- LP: #371555
       [Add advanced startup-options to the settings dialog]
    -- LP: #388478
       [multiple instances running]
    -- LP: #419137
       [keyboard shortcuts and hidden main window]
    -- LP: #429677
       [Add option to capture last active window]
    -- LP: #481096
       [hotkeys and Compiz' flat-file backend]
    -- LP: #486659
       [Pressing Enter in the image editor doesn't save image]
    -- LP: #517267
       [shortcut keys with abbreviations can reset compiz shortcut keys]
    -- LP: #577040
       [Add a --version command line argument]
    -- LP: #632042
       [Disable re-save file warnings]
    -- LP: #638588
       [Image name overlapping error with $nb_name format]
    -- LP: #643675
       [Editor window opens too large]
    -- LP: #643683
       [Can't capture cursor anymore]
    -- LP: #644084
       [Moving files to trash doesn't work with KDE]
    -- LP: #644168
       [Rotation in Shotwell is incomp. with some other applications]
    -- LP: #644847
       [Shutter does not respect the EXIF orientation flag]
    -- LP: #654185
       [Crop tool - Offset when zooming]
    -- LP: #658740
       ['Open with' does not work with global menu (unity)]
    -- LP: #658745
       [Unreadable (built-in) notifications: Text is highlighted]
    -- LP: #661424
       [Plugins fails if ' in filename]
    -- LP: #657585
       [Shutter ignores typed-in save location]
    -- LP: #666854
       [Auto-resize windows]
    -- LP: #666858
       [Opaque window corners when using compiz]
    -- LP: #671749
       [Feature Request: Redo hotkey]
    -- LP: #671914
       [Zoom window does not update when modifying selection]
    -- LP: #671917
       [Use filename for notebook pages (instead of [no] - [date])]
    -- LP: #671918
       [autoincrement does not work (in rare cases)]
    -- LP: #677745
       [non-HIG complient menu tooltip]
    -- LP: #681008
       [Add feature 'Export to PostScript']
    -- LP: #685235
       [Double click doesn't work when selecting a selection]
  * updated translations

Enjoy this release (and don’t hesitate to contact us if you want to submit some feedback)!

We are happy to announce the release of Shutter 0.86.4. This is our last release in the 0.86.x release cycle. The next release will be 0.87. Read on to get more information about the changes and new features.

Capture all workspaces as one image

If you ever wanted to capture your whole desktop – including all workspaces – this feature is for you.

Capture all workspaces

After clicking on the menu entry above Shutter will automatically cycle through all of your workspaces, capture every single one and composes them into one large image (preserving the original layout).

Automatically add a border

Sometimes it is useful to add a border to screenshots, e.g. to separate the white portion of the screenshot and the white background of a document.

This functionality is now built-in. Got to Shutter’s preferences to activate it:

Choose border width and color

This is how a screenshot with auto-border looks like:

Example

New plugins

The hard shadow-plugin is now configurable and allows you to change the direction and the color of the shadow:

Choose direction and color

Autocrop is a completely new plugin. It uses ImageMagick’s convert -trim option to remove empty borders from a screenshot. Grabbing a picture out of a PDF is a good use-case. Here is an example:

Original image

Using the autocrop-plugin

Advanced Selection Tool: New shortcuts

On a large display it is sometimes tricky to get start points and end points perfect. Due to that it is now possible to use the keyboard (cursor keys) for grain movement. To start the selection you can now simply hold down Ctrl-Key. Otherwise it could be possible to move the mouse cursor when attempting to left click once the starting point has been positioned exactly with the keyboard.

Launch DrawingTool directly after capture

You can now configure Shutter to use launch the DrawingTool (Edit-Button) directly after taking a screenshot. You simply need to go to Shutter’s preferences and activate this option.

Open with

How to get it

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 will be notified, so updates for that will be available soon.

Changelog:

  * New Features
    -- Automatically add a border
    -- Capture all workspaces as one image
  * New Plugins
    -- Hard Shadow
    -- Autocrop
  * Fixed Bugs / Minor Improvements
    -- LP: #342628
       [Make selection capture 'rounded grey box' less intrusive]
    -- LP: #497050
       [Direction/Color on Shadow Plugin]
    -- LP: #535481
       [Need an autocrop tool]
    -- LP: #583988
       [JPEG export: file size too big]
    -- LP: #588188
       [Add DrawingTool to Preferences>Actions>Open with]
    -- LP: #590348
       [Need "border" feature]
    -- LP: #608683
       [capture ALL desktops as one image]
    -- LP: #611832
       [Advanced selection tool - Enable numpad enter]
    -- LP: #618008
       [Non-latin filenames]
    -- LP: #620136
       [Keyboard should be able to be used for fine grain movements]
    -- LP: #620397
       [Adv. Selection Tool: no update when using the keyboard]
    -- LP: #622638
       [shutter launches ubuntuone also, at startup]
  * updated translations

Enjoy this release!

Shutter 0.86.2 fixes some critical bugs and improves Drag and Drop, e.g. you can now simply drag your screenshots into your file browser or email software.

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 will be notified, so updates for that will be available soon.

Changelog:

  * Fixed bugs / minor improvements
    -- LP: #470403
       [Drag & drop the image after taking screenshot]
    -- LP: #543446
       [Transparent parts... show as <whatever>]
    -- LP: #561097
       [Profiles are broken]
    -- LP: #566597
       [imageshack.us direct link is messed up]
    -- LP: #568961
       [Desktop may crash when canceling web-capture]
  * updated translations

@Packagers: Please note that this release depends on Proc::Killfam. The package is named libproc-processtable-perl in Debian based distributions.

@All: Please note that Shutter is open-source software and you can contribute in many ways:

• Ask a question
  The result is a nice knowledge base by collecting all questions and answers
• Creating bug reports
  We can’t fix anything we don’t know about – don’t hesitate to send us bug reports, it only costs you 5 minutes of your time
• Translate Shutter
  Shutter does provide many translations but most of them aren’t complete yet – help us and your people to get the best translations into Shutter
• Contribute financially
  If you don’t have the time to do one of the things mentioned above but you still want to help? Please consider contributing financially

Enjoy this release!

Shutter 0.86.1 is a bugfix release that doesn’t add any new features.

Here is the list of issues fixed:

  * Fixed bugs
    -- LP: #541751
       [Add support for Thunderbird when sending via email]
    -- LP: #543058
       [No error reporting on 'Send by mail']
    -- LP: #549732
       [print gives blank page]
* updated translations

Have fun!

This is the next step of evolution. Shutter 0.86 is out and adds reasonable new features and includes a lot of bugfixes to make your screenshot taking experience better.

Read on about the most important changes…

Redo Last Screenshot

Are you tired of selecting the same region of your screen several times until you have the perfect screenshot? Do you want to capture the same window multiple times to create a step-by-step guide?

In this case you will love Shutter’s new ‘Redo last screenshot’ feature. It allows you to redo the last screenshot without doing a selection again.

You can even redo every single screenshot in your session – easy isn’t it?

Pixelize

You want to hide private content from your screenshots? Check out the new Pixelize tool…

New Callout Shapes

We have added some nice callout shapes to the DrawingTool. Due to the fact that these files are in SVG format they can nicely be resized – here are some examples:

PDF + SVG Export

Shutter now uses cairo to render PDF and SVG documents. What does this mean to you? It allows you to export your current drawing to SVG format that can be edited with any vector graphics program, e.g. Inkscape. Additionally  PDF Export is integrated in the main program now and can be launched directly from the File menu.

Copy URL To Clipboard (FTP Upload)

When uploading into a FTP server’s directory that is accessible via HTTP you can now configure the website’s URL. This URL will be copied to clipboard when uploading. You can now use the URL to view your screenshot in your favorite browser or paste it into a web-forum etc..

Built-In Notifications

This version introduces a built-in notification system. Systemwide notification systems like Ubuntu’s Notify-OSD are not primarily designed to be used by in the way we want to use it and do have some limitations, e.g. you can not close the notifications immediately, that are critical in the context of taking screenshots.

The built-in system allows us to use the messages in a more flexible way. There are already some more features planned for future version, e.g. a button to cancel a running countdown. Users with lean desktop configurations where no notification daemon is installed, e.g. pure fluxbox, can now use the built-in system as well.

Please note that you can still use the system’s notification system if you wish. There is a setting in the preferences.

Detailed changelog is available here.

Enjoy the update!

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!

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.

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.

New icons and cursors in the editor

In order to improve the usability and to help you creating more precise drawings we added a set of new cursors (inpired / borrowed from the inkscape project). Additionally we changed some of the old tool-icons to achieve a much more professional look.

Insert cursors, hundreds of tango graphics and explore your current icon theme

If you are using icons and images to highlight parts of your screenshots as much as I do you’ll like the following changes.

It is now possible to import all possible tango icons (separated by categories), cursors and even icons of your current icon theme.

We hope you enjoy this release!

Detailed changelog is available here.

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.

New plugins

That’s right! Now you’ve got more neat effects to apply to your screenshots.

Watermark – quite a common function. Add your copyrights, location, project website on your screenshot – now without complex pixel manipulation and within Shutter.

Reflection – applies a fading reflection at the bottom of the image, giving it a stylish look.

Distortion adds the “fish eye” effect by bulging out the middle of the image.

3d rotate – allows you to rotate the image on all three (x, y, z) axis in 3d. Add a new depth to your screenshots!

As with everything else, bugs were fixed and we’re already planning for the next version, 0.85. We hope you enjoy this release!

Detailed changelog is available here.

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.

Full changelog:

  * fixed bugs    -- LP: #339139       [Shutter selects incorrect target window]    -- LP: #340855 + LP: #340864       [fixed save-as function]    -- LP: #340856       [main window is partly visible on screenshots]    -- LP: #340990       [Shutter crashes when xserver grab fails]    -- LP: #341459       [Ctrl+ + doesn't zoom in drawing area]    -- LP: #347821       [decode filesize properly]  * updated translations

Shutter 0.70.1 is a purely bugfix release that doesn’t add any new features, so it wasn’t even worthy of being called 0.71.

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:

    -- LP: #260771
       [Detect 'window-manager-changed' event]
    -- LP: #328654
       [Weird paths after uploading]
    -- LP: #338829
       [Uploading to imageshack is broken]
    -- LP: #338990
       [Open with dialog freezes shutter and desktop]
    -- LP: #340253
       [Capture Website creates two files]
    -- LP: #340459
       [Use fallback icons if icon does not exist]

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

Version 0.70 of Shutter is now available! Get it before the server overloads

This is the first release of Shutter as it is – we’ve just renamed it from GScrot. So you’ll now find it called Shutter inder Applications ▸ Accessories, along with a nicer new logo (thanks to Pascal Grochol for the design).

The software has been improved and streamlined, as well as the name – we think “shutter” more accurately relates to what you’ll be doing alongside the software itself. The new software can be downloaded pretty quickly, so if you’re on an o2 broadband line you’ll be fine. Feel free to give us any feedback – there’s a lot of new things happening in this version, which we’ll explain more about now.

Major updates in this release are printing support, support for a whole lot of formats to save pictures in, support for watching changes to files (open the screenshot externally in gimp, save it – and shutter updates its copy), integration with GVFS (you can upload sites that you’ve connected to via Places ▸ Connect), better recognition for programs that can open a picture, faster thumbnail creation, and improved dialogs!

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Shutter 0.70!

As if that weren’t enough, here is the full changelog detailing every item updated:

  * General changes
    -- Rebranding from GScrot to Shutter
    -- Exports to and opens all file formats supported by gdk-pixbuf
    -- Added native printing support (instead of gtklp)
    -- Watch opened files via GnomeVFS File Monitor to monitor changes
    -- Integration of GNOME Virtual File System and
       GNOME authentication manager (LP: #310780)
    -- Respect non-rectangular windows (XSHAPE)
       when using metacity (LP: #260771)
    -- Use themeable icons wherever its is possible
    -- Use systemwide MIME Information instead of config file
    -- Move screenshots to trash instead of deleting them (LP: #313003)
    -- Faster thumbail creation and caching
       (improves gui startup when a lot of files are in last session)
    -- Improved Dialogs (e.g. Settings Dialog)
    -- Show context menu for each file in session tab (right click)
  * Gui improvements
    Show current profile in statusbar (LP: #279271)
    Second toolbar removed (LP: #311626)
    Progress bars (LP: #310299)
    -- LP: #311627
    -- LP: #312966
    -- LP: #313346
    -- LP: #326758
  * Drawing Tool
    Scale uniformly (LP: #310708)
    Added standard actions (copy, cut, paste, delete) (LP: #313343)
    Added censor tool to hide private data (LP: #317659)
    -- LP: #310717
    -- LP: #310721
    -- LP: #311574
    -- LP: #311576
    -- LP: #311577
    -- LP: #311580
  * Miscellaneous
    Shutter shows up in GNOME add/remove (LP: #322388)
    Repository is not signed (thanks to the LP Team) (LP: #312681)
  * Plugins
    New hard shadow plugin (thanks to Tualatrix) (LP: #331914)
  * Fixed bugs
    -- LP: #303090
    -- LP: #313761
    -- LP: #316917
    -- LP: #336120
    -- LP: #336126
    -- LP: #336121
    -- LP: #336118
    -- LP: #336133
    -- LP: #336124
  * updated translations

About Shutter:

Shutter is a feature-rich screenshot program. You can take a screenshot
of a specific area, window, your whole screen, or even of a website -
apply different effects to it, draw on it to highlight points, and then
upload to an image hosting site, all within one window.

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