FastStone Capture 7.1 - Changelog

What's new in FastStone Capture 7.1:

April 20th, 2012

· Enhanced the Print dialog. Now it is possible to print both header and footer
· Improved "Capture Scrolling Window" tool
· Improved compatibility with Customer Preview version of Windows 8
· Other improvements and bug fixes
Enhanced the built-in screen recorder:
· Added Pause / Resume support
· Added an option (for Vista, Windows 7 and 8 only) to record computer speakers (what you hear) directly

What's new in FastStone Capture 7.0:

November 18th, 2011

Improved the "Draw" tool:
· Now it is possible to draw same kind of objects continuously without having to select the drawing tool again and again
· Ctrl+S shortcut to the OK button
· Ctrl+MouseWheel to zoom in/out
· Zoom up to 400% instead of 200%
· Improved "Acquire Images from Scanner"
· Combined color adjustment tools into one comprehensive tool: "Adjust Colors"
· Added more effects: Reflection, Oil Painting and Sketch
· Added "Recent Files" list for quick access to recently used files

Added some shortcuts to the editor:
· Press Z key to zoom selection
· Press W key to open containing folder if the file exists
· Press I key to view file properties if the file exists
· Added more options to the "Editor" section of the Settings
· Added more options to the "Screen Magnifier" section of the Settings
· Added "Rotate by Any Degree"
· Supports custom colors in all color picking dialogs
· Other minor improvements and bug fixes

What's new in FastStone Capture 6.9:

May 26th, 2011

· Added "Acquire Images from Scanner". It supports batch scanning to PDF, TIFF, JPEG and PNG. It allows users to rotate, crop, deskew, annotate and save scanned images directly within this tool

· Added "Capture Fixed-Size Region"

· Added "Repeat Last Capture"

· Now it is possible to use drag-and-drop to open an image in the internal editor

· Added "Fit to Width" (press K) option to the internal editor

· Other minor improvements and bug fixes

What's new in FastStone Capture 6.8:

April 26th, 2011

· Improved the "Capture Scrolling Window" tool. Now it is compatible with the latest version of popular web browsers: Internet Explorer 9, FireFox 4, Chrome 10, Opera 11 and Safari 5.
· Minor improvements and bug fixes

What's new in FastStone Capture 6.7:

September 6th, 2010

· Improved PDF output. Now it is possible to specify Page Size, Quality, Margins and Orientation when saving in PDF format. Lengthy document is divided into multi-pages automatically
· Added a tool called "Convert Images to a PDF file" to allow users to convert images to a multi-page PDF file
· Added "Expand Canvas" to the Draw tool
· Added "Blur" to the right-click menu of the Draw tool when part of the image is selected
· Assigned keyboard shortcuts to drawing tools. For example: press F1 for Text, press F2 for Straight Line, press F3 for Pencil etc.
· Added an option to the Settings to allow users to specify which screen (active or all) to capture when making Full Screen Capture in multi-monitor system
· Fixed minor bugs

What's new in FastStone Capture 6.6:

June 26th, 2010

Improved the Draw tool. Now it is possible to:
· Add outward-pointing tails to text objects
· Copy/cut/past annotation objects and areas of the canvas
· Fill with color
· Undo / Redo
· Zoom In / Zoom Out
· Added "Custom Scroll Mode" to the "Capture Scrolling Window" tool. Custom Scroll Mode allows users to capture any part of the screen that scrolls vertically
· Added "Screen Color Picker" to the Editor's Colors menu
· Added option "Show capture buttons in editor" to the software Settings
· Now it is possible to make annotation directly in the Email tool
· Supported variables %COMPUTERNAME% and %USERNAME% in File Name Template
· Supported variables %MYDOCUMENTS% and %MYDESKTOP% in the path of "Auto Save" output folder
· Some other improvements and bug fixes

What's new in FastStone Capture 6.5:

June 26th, 2010

· Improved Capture Window / Object
· Improved Print dialog
· Fixed a bug in Capture Scrolling Window

What's new in FastStone Capture 6.4:

June 30th, 2009

· Added "Insert Title Clip at the beginning of the video" option to the Screen Recorder
· Now it is possible to capture multiple rectangular regions by holding down the Ctrl key
· Improved the Print dialog box
· Add page number, date and time to footers
· Specify the number of copies to print
· When printing a multi-page document, it will try to avoid breaking the bottom text line between two pages (i.e. text line is partially printed on the current page and the next page)
· Added "Apply Edge Effects" option to the "Expand Canvas" tool
· Added "Auto-reset to 1 upon a new day" option to file name template "$Y-$M-$D_#####"
· Added "Color Subsampling" option for saving JPEG files
· Improved compatibility with Windows 7
· Improved compatibility with IE 8, FireFox 3 and Google Chrome
· Some other improvements and bug fixes

What's new in FastStone Capture 6.3:

October 16th, 2008

· Records screen activities including onscreen changes, speech from microphone, mouse movements and clicks into highly compressed video files (Windows Media Video format).
· Captures web pages of the latest web browsers: Internet Explorer 8 (Beta 2), Firefox 3, Google Chrome (Beta)
· Allows you to save a local copy when sending captured images to a Web (FTP) server

What's new in FastStone Capture 6.2:

May 7th, 2008

· Some UI improvements and minor bug fixes

What's new in FastStone Capture 6.1:

April 21st, 2008

· Now it runs on both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows
· Annotation objects (texts, lines, boxes etc.) can be re-edited by re-opening the Draw tool
· Added auto-expand feature to text objects as you type in them
· Maintain aspect ratio when resizing watermark images in Draw tool
· Added "Preview in Editor" as an output option, which allows you to edit the captured image before sending it to the specified destination such as clipboard, printer, email etc.
· Improved "Capture Scrolling Window". Now it supports Internet Explorer 8 Beta
· Improved Print dialog
· Added option "Ask me to save changes before closing" to the Editor tab of the Settings
· Some UI improvements and bug fixes

What's new in FastStone Capture 5.5:

May 23rd, 2007

· Added option "Negative" to the Screen Magnifier, which allows users with low vision to see a magnified color-reversed screen
· In the Screen Magnifier, now it is possible to pan around the magnified screen with arrow keys
· Added "Reset Capture Panel Position" to the right-click menu of the system tray icon

What's new in FastStone Capture 4.7:

October 27th, 2006

· Completely new icon design

What's new in FastStone Capture 4.4:

September 26th, 2006

· Enhanced Capture Scrolling Window, now it is possible to capture full scrolling window (with horizontal and vertical scrollbars)
· Fixed minor bugs