Ashampoo Snap 5.1.3 - Changelog

What's new in Ashampoo Snap 5.1.0:

December 8th, 2011

New Features:
· New Color Skin.
· Office 2010 Menu Capture.

Changes:
· Default name pattern ashampoo_snap.

Bugs Fixed:
· Rename capture may crashed.
· Traymenu not disappear if outside click.
· Crash with filenames without extension.
· Capture-Border alignment on special Multi-Monitor configurations.

What's new in Ashampoo Snap 5.0.2:

October 18th, 2011

New Features:
· More languages.

Bugs Fixed:
· Fixes to ButtonBar not disappearing.
· OptionsDlgs scaled incorrectly on high DPI systems.
· Menu Detection for Chrome Browser.
· PrintDlg extended printer settings not usable.

What's new in Ashampoo Snap 5.0.1:

October 6th, 2011

New Features:
· More languages.
· Additional button graphics.
· Performance increase in edit mode.

What's new in Ashampoo Snap 5.0:

September 29th, 2011

New Features:

· Edit Mode / Image Editing
· Restructured ButtonsBars to ease usage and improve work flow.
· General overhaul for most tools, including easier accessible configuration options for all tools at the bottom of the screen.

· Improved objects/tools supporting rotation and transparency and optimized display.

· New Tools
· Floodfill: Supports gradient fill and different fill styles.
· Note: Easily add notes with a single click in order to describe captures.
· Text: Supports gradients, outlines, mirror effects to give the user options for more complex text objects.

· Number: Automatically numbers portions of the capture with a single mouse click by creating small numbered bullets.
· BlurPen: Used like a normal pen, it can be used to easily blur or pixelate portions of the capture. For example, it can be used to make text like names or URLs unreadable.
· Improved handling of multiple captures by displaying miniatures for easy access.
· New option to stay at the current tool, for example to add arrows in a batch.

· Image Capture
· Watermarking: Automatically watermark with user defined text or by applying an image from disk.
· Textual watermarking supports different placeholders like date, time and so forth.
· Menus: A new mode detects menus and can be used to capture whole menu trees.
· Timer: Both delayed and timed captures are supported, whereas the user can either specify a delay for a capture to take place or a delay to repeatedly capture the screen until the user stops.
· Fixed Size Capture has been improved by offering different pre-defined screen sizes the user can easily choose from.

· Video Capture
· Easily capture webcam and microphone into a video file. For example, this can be used to send holiday greetings by video.
· Additional support to resize the captured video in real-time. For example, while capturing the whole desktop, the captured video resolution can be shrinked to 75% of its original size.
· Watermarking: Automatically watermark with user defined text or by applying an image from disk.
· Textual watermarking supports different placeholders like date, time and so forth.

· Common Stuff
· File Name Generation: New option %n automatically adds the title of the captured window/website to the file name.
· Redesigned/Restructured Configuration Dialogs.
· Improved touch screen support on Windows 7.

Changes:
· Changed internal usage of transparency color RGB(255,0,255) to RGB(254,0,255) for capture.

Bugs Fixed:
· Fixes website capture for FireFox 4 and later.
· Settings: Changing language may crashed app.

What's new in Ashampoo Snap 4.3:

April 1st, 2011

New Features:
· New translations.

Changes:
· EditMode: Save As preselects configured output file format.

Bugs Fixed:
· Capture works on high DPI systems (eg: Win7 with 150% DPI).

What's new in Ashampoo Snap 4.2:

December 14th, 2010

New Features:
· Option to show/hide touch-screen-gripper in CaptureBar.

Changes:
· Changes to transparency style in ellipse tool.
· Updates to SelectTool text/icon.
· Supports APC9 apcdoc format.

Bugs Fixed:
· Video: On XP mouse cursor was not positioned correctly.
· MultiMonitor: In certain configurations CaptureBar was not visible if configured to be displayed to the right/left side of the screen.
· EditMode: Was not able to place object in the top-left corner of an image.

What's new in Ashampoo Snap 4.1:

August 24th, 2010

Changes:
· RoundRect ShapeEffect: Smaller default corner and editable in registry.
· CaptureBar: On MultiMonitor-Systems uses the left/right border of the whole virtual desktop instead of using the borders of the primary monitor for positioning (if user choses to display the bar at the left/right screen border).

Bugs Fixed:
· BrowseForObjects-Window was hidden if EditMode-Option "always on top" activated.
· Save As: Appends correct extension if none entered.
· MultiMonitor: Could capture wrong parts of a window in certain circumstances.
· Memleak with certain apcdoc.
· Audio/Microphone: Fall back to default record format if chosen record format not possible instead of showing error message.
· Website Capture: Did not work with certain websites.
· Updates to AVI codec list to not show incompatible ones.
· Undo/Redo did not work correctly in certain circumstances.

What's new in Ashampoo Snap 4.0:

June 30th, 2010

New Features:
New Screen Capture Method:
Free Style Auto-Scrolling Capture to capture virtually any scrollable area:
· Captures parts of a website (good for websites that show a border at the bottom of the browser window even though the website is scrolled down).
· Content of (most) JAVA applications.
· New command to easily capture the whole Windows Desktop.

All New Video Capture Technique:
Supports different Codecs/Containers for on-the-fly encoding:
· WMV: Windows Media Video 7, 8, 9, Screen and Advanced (VC1).
· AVI: Supports any on the system installed codec (eg XviD, DivX, etc).
Offers predefined profiles for capturing:
· One profile for common desktop applications with low FPS and small file size.
· One profile for recording typical video content with high FPS and better quality.
· Also supports custom configuration so the user can choose the codec, FPS and the bitrate.
Supports Multi-Monitor Systems:
· Capturing can be done on any monitor (not limited to the primary anymore).
· Also capturing areas that share parts of two monitors is supported.

Video Capture Effects/Options:
· Show/Hide the cursor.
· Choose among predefined highlight effects for the cursor. For example, the mouse cursor can be sourrounded by a yellow, translucent circle.
· Add eye-catching cursor effects on every left/right-click (red circles growing and fading away).
· Zoom into Area: By using a predefind global hotkey, the user can record a zoomed area while recording the video. While zooming is active, the zoomed area will be centered around the mouse cursor, showing this part at 200%. If the user stops zooming, the recorded part will fade back to the original size and zoom ratio of 100% again.
· Hotkey to pause/resume capture in progress.
· Apply different image effects during video capture (sepia, grayscale).

Greatly Improved Editing Tools:
Editable Objects:
· Now all objects like text, rectangles, arrows, hints, bitmaps and so on can be moved, sized, copied, rotated and more as long as the user wants to.
· Every object displays its own options at the bottom of the screen enabling the user to easily change color, size, style, and so forth in real time.
· Objects can be copied/pasted/deleted, by right-clicking and choosing the command.
· Even unlimited undo/redo is possible for every single change.
· By supporting the common Photo Commander Document Format (*.apcdoc) the user can save those objects in a file to be able to edit those later on, or to exchange those with Ashampoo Photo Commander.

High Quality:
· Now all tools support anti-aliasing, transparency and high quality shadow effect.(for example line, rectange, pencil, etc...)

Improved Tools:
· The highlight tool is not limited anymore to a single area. The user can add multiple areas at the same layer stage.
· Improved handling of the eraser.
· Selection tool supports different aspect ratios and adds additional drop-down menu commands.
· The arrow tool supports additional arrow head style "modern".
· Shape tool (line, rectangle, ellipse) uses new default styles.

New Tools:
· Zoomed Button: Automatically zooms a marked area and adds an eye catching drop-shadow-border-effect around it in order to visually highlight it.
· Stamps/Graphics: Easily insert different stamps of all manners that ship with Snap and have been chosen by the designers of ashampoo. Supports all different kinds of symbols suitable for screen captures. Of course those stamps can be used like any other object, once added.

Options/Configuration:
· Many existing options have been reworked/restructured to ease usability.

General Edit Mode Improvements:
· Load/Save in Ashampoo Photo Commander Document (*.apcdoc). Useful for importing or exporting objects.
· Smoother zoom steps for big screen captures.
· Resize image command supports high-quality Lanczos3 and BSpline resize filters.

Better Filename Configuration:
· Supports more date formats (long date, short date).
· Supports a global capture counter as well as a local counter.

New Send By Email Option:
· Send all screen captures in a single PDF file.

New Import/Export Configuration:
· Easily import or export the whole application configuration from/into a single *.ini file.
· Supports configuring additional hotkeys for Video-Capture (in case the Pause-Key is not available).

Bugs Fixed:
· Starting Zune App starts single window capture.
· Pressing "special keys" on a keyboard may start a capture.
· Video Capture: Double-clicking works while recording.

What's new in Ashampoo Snap 3.40:

March 22nd, 2010

· NEW: Supports Google Chrome
· Improved support for Firefox 3.6
· Fixes potential problem with the reception of text documents.

What's new in Ashampoo Snap 3.30:

October 20th, 2009

New features:
· Video capture with high quality codecs
· Two video modes for movies and program demos
· On-the-fly video encoding - no waiting
· Cool new interface, even easier to use
· Accurate multi-page printing for scrolling captures
· New automated file name functions for captures
· Flood fill editing tool for filling areas with color
· Editor function, now opens and edits other files

Changes:
· Now with full Microsoft Windows® 7 compatibility
· Improved Performance

What's new in Ashampoo Snap 3.10:

August 12th, 2009

New Features:
· Website-Capture: Support for FireFox 3.5.
· Video-Capture: Advanced Codec Configuration for both Audio and Video.
Changes:
· None.
Bugs Fixed:
· Fixes to Configuration Dialog when changing language.
· Select Tool: First Copy, then re-select, then Paste failed.

What's new in Ashampoo Snap 3.02:

April 29th, 2009

New features:
· Video capture with high quality codecs
· Two video modes for movies and program demos
· On-the-fly video encoding - no waiting
· Cool new interface, even easier to use
· Accurate multi-page printing for scrolling captures
· New automated file name functions for captures
· Flood fill editing tool for filling areas with color
· Editor function, now opens and edits other files

Changes:
· new languages

What's new in Ashampoo Snap 2.30:

October 5th, 2007

· New language

What's new in Ashampoo Snap 2.10:

May 31st, 2007

· Support for PDF file export
· New free style capture method