0.86.4 is out! Get it now!

Posted by on Sep 12, 2010 in Blog, release | 22 comments

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!




22 Comments

  1. Edmund
    January 1, 2011

    There would be such highlighting reverse tool (background greyed out but selected area not and there would be choose the rate of greyed out transparency) like here are some examples:
    http://blogs.adobe.com/silke.fleischer/HL-Reverse.jpg
    http://homebasesoftware.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/wpid353-media_1278287099385.png?w=392&h=334
    One good example is also when I start to crop with Gimp – then during the area selection is background greyed out and only selected area is bright.

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  2. xarlos
    December 22, 2010

    Yeah, but does it scroll?

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    • Romario
      December 22, 2010

      No, it does not. Please let me know if you know any reliable way to implement that.

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  3. nomko
    December 16, 2010

    Does anybody got Shutter installed and running under Debian 6.0?? Any installation instructions available??

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    • Romario
      December 18, 2010

      There are official packages for Debian: /downloads/third-party-packages/

      They are pretty much out-of-date, but you can also download the latest source package. Shutter is written in Perl so you don’t have to compile anything. I would recommend installing the official packages first in order to install the majority of Shutter’s dependencies automatically.
      Please let me know if you need any further assistance.

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  4. Lars
    November 1, 2010

    It would be great if there was a way to prevent shutter from launching more than one instance when using “open with shutter” from Nautilus (or similar). Alternatively, to allow the use of the built-in drawing program directly. I love the commenting tools and us them all the time. Not only for images captured with Shutter.

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    • Romario
      November 2, 2010

      I am glad you like Shutter.

      The first thing is already fixed in trunk and will be part of the upcoming release (0.87):
      https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/388478
      Using the built-in drawing tool directly is not possible yet and I am not working on it. There is too much work that is more important currently. If someone else wants to do it, I am willing to help.

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  5. Bachi
    October 11, 2010

    Great app! One small but powerful feature I miss though is the ability to display a web url for one’s own ftp upload.

    It would just require one more config setting per ftp account – the base url.

    The tool should then after the upload show/copy to clipboard the full www url (base url+image name) in the same fashion as with e.g. imagehack upload services.

    And – of course – 1-click-export to the prefered service/location would be nice :-)

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  6. Justin
    September 18, 2010

    Hey, I like the new Shutter a lot! But, an update-plugin dialog pops up on startup, which can get annoying – is their anyway to hide this?

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    • Romario
      September 18, 2010

      This should appear only once. Please try to start Shutter, quit it (via File > Quit) and start it again. The dialog appears only once after updating Shutter. Does this solve your problem? Btw, what distro do you use?

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  7. pepe
    September 15, 2010

    great update, thanks a lot :) congrats for the new design of the website, very nice.

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  8. GN
    September 13, 2010

    Good software. Thank you!

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  9. Zac
    September 13, 2010

    Another good update, thankyou. Working perfectly on Ubuntu 8.04.
    Done a good job with the website too.

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  10. Zach
    September 12, 2010

    Thanks for the update and for the awesome tool. I’m still waiting on that imgur plugin 😉 I know of a lot of people who hate the provided upload sources.

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