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Portable Greenshot Changelog

What's new in Portable Greenshot 1.3.220 Unstable

Dec 16, 2021
  • New features:
  • The editor now has a zoom, completely build by our awesome community member @KillyMXI PR #201
  • Windows 10 has out of the box OCR support, this can now be used from Greenshot. We added functionality which is on par with that we provided via an old Microsoft component called "MODI". To reduce our maintenance, we removed the old functionality. This is the first step with Windows 10 OCR, we have some great plans with this.
  • Greenshot can now use the Windows 10 app sharing, share screenshots with app which support bitmaps.
  • Greenshot now can use the Windows 10 notifications system, which looks better. We will add more user friendly functionality for this later.
  • FEATURE-1110: Making it possible to use a hotkey to open the clipboard, for details look at the issue.
  • General improvements:
  • Improved the about and error details with better version information, and OS name.
  • Upgraded the .NET Framework dependency to 4.7.2, any lower version would cause a lot of additional work and make the installer even bigger.
  • Used more recent versions of software components, which brings better/more functionality and make it easier to find bugs.
  • DPI improvements, so people can use Greenshot with high DPI screens.
  • Made the selection boxes (grippers) bigger and reize with the DPI settings
  • Update check should have less impact with us and for the user
  • Added Italian to the installer, a lof of PR's from @bovirus e.g. PR #224, #230
  • Added support to generate random characters in the filename PR #216
  • Changed the cloud services Box, DropBox and Imgur to use the default browser in combination with getgreenshot.org instead of the embedded, solving incompatibility issues.
  • #314 Added additional tray-icon click actions which support additional functionality with one click. (no setting UI yet)
  • FEATURE-1196: Selects a color with double click to close color dialog (thanks to @EricCogen)
  • Known issues:
  • Bug #283 Drawing Unicode icons (emoticons) in the editor, this is an generic Windows issue that there are not APIs.
  • Rounded corners on Windows 11 are not yet transparent, we are looking at this.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Functionality fixes:
  • BUG-2693, BUG-2693, BUG-2743: Greenshot doesn't recognize a MAPI client
  • BUG-2535: Greenshot selects invisible windows fix was suggested by Raymond Chen here
  • BUG-2544: Enabled TLS1.1 & 1.2 to fix jira connectivity and do not use the JIRA session support as this was deprecated.
  • BUG-2529: This should most likely fix the excessive update checks.
  • BUG-1919: Screenshot works once on Internet Explorer
  • BUG-1943: Picassa no longer supported by Google - Picassa plugin update to Google Photos
  • BUG-2127: Incorrect link image to picasa
  • BUG-2170: Editor buttons are too small on high-resolution PC
  • BUG-2300: User need to do a lot of CTRL + Z to undo the ellipse/rectangle modification
  • BUG-2736: Cropping a capture where a speech bubble is shown doesn't move the bubble tail
  • PR #157 -- Fixing textbox issue with polish letter "ą"
  • Bug #124, some minor issues with the EmailDestination
  • Bug #149: If using a full screen capture of the current monitor, not the default, the mouse cursor is not visible.
  • Bug #279 External commands where duplicated in the editor and dynamic destination picker
  • BUG-2565 Fixed the tooltips on the recent colors not representing the color.
  • Stability fixes:
  • SUPPORT-407: Reduced an attack vector by placing quotes around the startup path to Greenshot
  • BUG-2792: Fixed the issue that PowerToys is interacting with our region selection window.
  • BUG-2644: Fixed a NPRE when exporting to Powerpoint when it's not running yet.
  • BUG-2542: Fix for shutdown issue (ImgurPlugin)
  • BUG-2249: Error after switching between colors
  • BUG-2303: Greenshot 1.2.10 Build 6 (64 bit) - Dotnet 4.0 framework crash.
  • BUG-2307: Using the pencil tool, changing colors, undo, pencil tool again, produces error dump.
  • BUG-2309: Exception while editing screen shot
  • BUG-2403: error message came up immediately after a restart of Windows.
  • BUG-2435: Crash
  • BUG-2463: Crash on moving freehand drawing
  • BUG-2484: Unexpected error pop-up after DRIVER VERIFIER IOMANAGER VIOLATION Blue Screen of Death
  • BUG-2486: program window goes white with red x through it
  • BUG-2552: Crashed when drawing new colored line after a ctrl+z undo.
  • BUG-2557: sudden shut down due to error , Error
  • BUG-2567: Automatic error, tells me to report a bug
  • BUG-2577: Erreur inattendue
  • BUG-2592: Crash when copying to clipboard
  • BUG-2615: Greenshot crashed while changing line color
  • BUG-2642: Greenshot Image Editor crashed when I clicked "undo"
  • BUG-2654: GS crashing when logging off from a Windows account right after logging-on
  • BUG-2669: Exception on startup of Greenshot
  • BUG-2684: Freehand tool causes crash after color change & undo
  • BUG-2698: Imgur: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
  • BUG-2699: Crash on deleting a line path
  • BUG-2700: Imgur: Continued Error
  • BUG-2703: Crash dump: "Message: The notification platform is unavailable."
  • BUG-2707: Moving or editing object (usually cursor object) occasionally crashes Greenshot
  • #246,BUG-2448, BUG-2593, BUG-2427, BUG-2444, BUG-2272: Inconsistent scale behavior when scaling objects with shift modifier
  • #321: Fixed an issue with reloading the configuration
  • #335: Fixed a crash when Ctrl + Delete was used in the editor. This key combinations replaces the background (capture) with transparency.

New in Portable Greenshot 1.3.205 Pre-release (Jun 4, 2021)

  • Supported platforms:
  • As always Greenshot comes "as-is" with no guarantee whatsoever, we are not paid enough to make this possible.
  • Due to the amount of work involved in testing Greenshot on different platforms, and needing hardware to do so, we cannot support all of them. What does this mean?
  • Windows 10 "current" - We develop & test Greenshot on the latest available version of Windows 10, which means you can pretty much assume it works on there and if not we can work on it.
  • Windows 10 "previous" - We don't have the hardware to have all supported Windows versions side-by-side, we try to keep the compatibility high. If there are very Windows specific bugs, we can look at it. In general we add new Windows features with a check for the version, preventing issues with older versions.
  • Windows 10 insiders - If someone is on an insider, and wants to use Greenshot, there is no guarantee. But please do report issues, and make sure you mention the build you are on. As insiders are the next "current", we will try to look at this.
  • Windows 7 - this is no longer supported by Microsoft, and we will not buy extended support licenses for older Windows, we rather motivate people to upgrade to a normal supported version. It should still work on Windows 7, but we can't guarantee this and functionality will be degraded compared to that on Windows 10.
  • Windows 8 - Greenshot 1.2 mostly worked on it, thus we assume 1.3 will do so too, but we cannot support this.
  • Windows Server version XYZ- We do not have the hardware nor licenses to test on this, do so at your own risk. You can report issues, but we cannot support specific Windows Server issues, unless someone wants to pay for the time, hardware & licenses.
  • Linux via Wine or CrossOver - Although we made some small changes to Greenshot to get basics working, it's not supported and to be honest it's a lot of work to get it running, and the result is very disappointed.
  • MacOS - We have a version of Greenshot for MacOS in the appstore here.
  • New features:
  • The editor now has a zoom, completely build by our awesome community member @KillyMXI PR #201
  • Windows 10 has out of the box OCR support, this can now be used from Greenshot. We added functionality which is on par with that we provided via an old Microsoft component called "MODI". To reduce our maintenance, we removed the old functionality. This is the first step with Windows 10 OCR, we have some great plans with this.
  • Greenshot can now use the Windows 10 app sharing, share screenshots with app which support bitmaps.
  • Greenshot now can use the Windows 10 notifications system, which looks better. We will add more user friendly functionality for this later.
  • FEATURE-1110: Making it possible to use a hotkey to open the clipboard, for details look at the issue.
  • General improvements:
  • Improved the about and error details with better version information, and OS name.
  • Upgraded the .NET Framework dependency to 4.7.2, any lower version would cause a lot of additional work and make the installer even bigger.
  • Used more recent versions of software components, which brings better/more functionality and make it easier to find bugs.
  • DPI improvements, so people can use Greenshot with high DPI screens.
  • Made the selection boxes (grippers) bigger and reize with the DPI settings
  • Update check should have less impact with us and for the user
  • Added Italian to the installer, a lof of PR's from @bovirus e.g. PR #224, #230
  • Added support to generate random characters in the filename PR #216
  • Changed the cloud services Box, DropBox and Imgur to use the default browser in combination with getgreenshot.org instead of the embedded, solving incompatibility issues.
  • #314 Added additional tray-icon click actions which support additional functionality with one click. (no setting UI yet)
  • Known issues:
  • Bug #283 Drawing Unicode icons (emoticons) in the editor, this is an generic Windows issue that there are not APIs .
  • BUG FIXES:
  • Functionality fixes:
  • BUG-2693, BUG-2693, BUG-2743: Greenshot doesn't recoginize a MAPI client
  • BUG-2535: Greenshot selects invisible windows fix was suggested by Raymond Chen here
  • BUG-2544: Enabled TLS1.1 & 1.2 to fix jira connectivity and do not use the JIRA session support as this was deprecated.
  • BUG-2529: This should most likely fix the excessive update checks.
  • BUG-1919: Screenshot works once on Internet Explorer
  • BUG-1943: Picassa no longer supported by Google - Picassa plugin update to Google Photos
  • BUG-2127: Incorrect link image to picasa
  • BUG-2170: Editor buttons are too small on high-resolution PC
  • BUG-2300: User need to do a lot of CTRL + Z to undo the ellipse/rectangle modification
  • BUG-2736: Cropping a capture where a speech bubble is shown doesn't move the bubble tail
  • PR #157 -- Fixing textbox issue with polish letter "ą"
  • Bug #124, some minor issues with the EmailDestination
  • Bug #149: If using a full screen capture of the current monitor, not the default, the mouse cursor is not visible.
  • Bug #279 External commands where duplicated in the editor and dynamic destination picker
  • Stability fixes:
  • BUG-2792: Fixed the issue that PowerToys is interacting with our region selection window.
  • BUG-2644: Fixed a NPRE when exporting to Powerpoint when it's not running yet.
  • BUG-2542: Fix for shutdown issue (ImgurPlugin)
  • BUG-2249: Error after switching between colors
  • BUG-2303: Greenshot 1.2.10 Build 6 (64 bit) - Dotnet 4.0 framework crash.
  • BUG-2307: Using the pencil tool, changing colors, undo, pencil tool again, produces error dump.
  • BUG-2309: Exception while editing screen shot
  • BUG-2403: error message came up immediately after a restart of Windows.
  • BUG-2435: Crash
  • BUG-2463: Crash on moving freehand drawing
  • BUG-2484: Unexpected error pop-up after DRIVER VERIFIER IOMANAGER VIOLATION Blue Screen of Death
  • BUG-2486: program window goes white with red x through it
  • BUG-2552: Crashed when drawing new colored line after a ctrl+z undo.
  • BUG-2557: sudden shut down due to error , Error
  • BUG-2567: Automatic error, tells me to report a bug
  • BUG-2577: Erreur inattendue
  • BUG-2592: Crash when copying to clipboard
  • BUG-2615: Greenshot crashed while changing line color
  • BUG-2642: Greenshot Image Editor crashed when I clicked "undo"
  • BUG-2654: GS crashing when logging off from a Windows account right after logging-on
  • BUG-2669: Exception on startup of Greenshot
  • BUG-2684: Freehand tool causes crash after color change & undo
  • BUG-2698: Imgur: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
  • BUG-2699: Crash on deleting a line path
  • BUG-2700: Imgur: Continued Error
  • BUG-2703: Crash dump: "Message: The notification platform is unavailable."
  • BUG-2707: Moving or editing object (usually cursor object) occasionally crashes Greenshot
  • #246,BUG-2448, BUG-2593, BUG-2427, BUG-2444, BUG-2272: Inconsistent scale behavior when scaling objects with shift modifier

New in Portable Greenshot 1.2.10.6 (Sep 14, 2017)

  • BUG-2235 Imgur authentication issues due to imgur api change
  • BUG-2227 NullReferenceException when accessing the Imgur History
  • BUG-2225 NullReferenceException when changing the color of text
  • BUG-2219 Korean is spelled incorrectly in the installer
  • BUG-2213 NullReferenceException in the Freehand tool
  • BUG-2203 ArgumentNullException in the Freehand tool
  • BUG-2141 Imgur authentication issues due to old embedded IE
  • BUG-2172 NullReferenceException when using the speech bubble
  • BUG-2246 Login issues with the Atlassian Jira Cloud
  • FEATURE-1064 Added CTRL+Backspace & CTRL+A to the text tool

New in Portable Greenshot 1.2.10.5 RC2 (Sep 1, 2017)

  • BUG-2235 Imgur authentication issues due to imgur api change
  • BUG-2227 NullReferenceException when accessing the Imgur History
  • BUG-2225 NullReferenceException when changing the color of text
  • BUG-2219 Korean is spelled incorrectly in the installer
  • BUG-2213 NullReferenceException in the Freehand tool
  • BUG-2203 ArgumentNullException in the Freehand tool
  • BUG-2141 Imgur authentication issues due to old embedded IE
  • BUG-2172 NullReferenceException when using the speech bubble
  • BUG-2246 Login issues with the Atlassian Jira Cloud
  • FEATURE-1064 Added CTRL+Backspace & CTRL+A to the text tool

New in Portable Greenshot 1.2.9.112 (Jan 1, 2017)

  • BUG-2065 OverflowException in the editor
  • BUG-2077 It's not possible to disable the update check
  • BUG-2080 Exception when opening the context menu
  • BUG-2089 Greenshot crashes when hotkey registration fails and OneDrive is not installed
  • BUG-2091 Greenshot .zip version has wrong log configuration
  • FEATURE-992 When reusing the editor, it is not brought to the front
  • FEATURE-995 Paste images inside Greenshot editor to the current cursor location
  • FEATURE-998 Opening last capture in explorer should select/jump to the file
  • FEATURE-1000 Set default focus on the OK-button in the Greenshot quality dialog
  • Translations modified: Nederlands

New in Portable Greenshot 1.2.9.104 (Dec 19, 2016)

  • BUG-1762 Dropshadow & tornedge prompts for settings every time
  • BUG-1812 Editor opens outside the screen
  • BUG-1872 Added hint to OneDrive if this prevents Greenshot hotkeys from working
  • BUG-1876 Already running message, multi user environment
  • BUG-1884 OCR text has trailing blank spaces
  • BUG-1887 Editor hangs on exit - hang time proportional to number of objects
  • BUG-1890 Slight cropping around window on Windows 10
  • BUG-1892 Greenshot saves blank JPG file with reduce colors
  • BUG-1894 Reducing Imgur 429 errors (rate limiting)
  • BUG-1896 JIRA Plugin doesn't work with JIRA Server v7.0
  • BUG-1898 Specify GPLv3 in the license text
  • BUG-1908 External Command, add commands at startup
  • BUG-1918 Editor Speechbubble Artifacts when shadow and transparent
  • BUG-1933 Greenshot Installer sets bad registry key permission
  • BUG-1935 Delay when pasting and ShapeShifter from FlameFusion is running
  • BUG-1941 Error when creating a speech bubble in the editor
  • BUG-1945 Failure starting Greenshot at system startup
  • BUG-1949 Can't delete Imgur upload
  • BUG-1965 Activation border around window is visible in the capture
  • BUG-1991 Greenshot portable (PAF) uses wrong log configuration
  • BUG-1992 OutputFilePath setting is wrong config used on a different system
  • BUG-2011 Editor issues when the font is gone or broken
  • BUG-2016 Unexpected error in Jira upload
  • BUG-2043 Fixed an issue which occured after wakeup from sleep
  • BUG-2059 The default frequency of update checks is now changed from every day to every 14 days
  • BUG-2070 Installing Greenshot deletes everything in the target directory
  • BUG-2071 Authentication not completing with Box.com
  • FEATURE-863 Changing the start value for the counter
  • FEATURE-916 Added icon save format (capture will be resized to 16x16, 32x32, 48x48 or 256x256)
  • FEATURE-919 Added a way to increase the editor canvas size (use Ctrl + / Ctrl -)
  • FEATURE-945 Added environment variables resolving to the external command plugin
  • FEATURE-946 Updated to Inno-Setup 5.5.9 for improved installer security
  • FEATURE-958 Greenshot is now using code signing certificates
  • Added or changed translation:
  • Català
  • Nederlands

New in Portable Greenshot 1.2.8.14 (Nov 3, 2016)

  • This version is only a small improvement over Greenshot 1.2.8.12, we backported (copied) some fixes for Imgur from Greenshot 1.2.9 (which should be available as a release in a few weeks).
  • As some might have noticed, we have a new website which we moved to a new hosting platform. While doing this we noticed that the Greenshot update checks are way to often causing a very heavy load, so this needed to be reduced.

New in Portable Greenshot 1.2.9.84 Unstable (Sep 14, 2016)

  • Dropshadow & tornedge prompts for settings every time
  • Editor opens outside the screen
  • Already running message, multi user environment
  • OCR text has trailing blank spaces
  • Editor hangs on exit - hang time proportional to number of objects
  • Slight cropping around window on Windows 10
  • Greenshot saves blank JPG file with reduce colors
  • JIRA Plugin doesn't work with JIRA Server v7.0
  • Specify GPLv3 in the license text
  • Editor Speechbubble Artifacts when shadow and transparent
  • Greenshot Installer sets bad registry key permission
  • Delay when pasting and ShapeShifter from FlameFusion is running
  • Error when creating a speech bubble in the editor
  • Failure starting Greenshot at system startup
  • Can't delete Imgur upload
  • Activation border around window is visible in the capture
  • Greenshot portable (PAF) uses wrong log configuration
  • OutputFilePath setting is wrong config used on a different system
  • Editor issues when the font is gone or broken
  • "In review" Unexpected error in Jira upload
  • Added icon save format (capture will be resized to 16x16, 32x32, 48x48 or 256x256)
  • Added a way to increase the editor canvas size (use Ctrl + / Ctrl -)
  • Added environment variables resolving to the external command plugin
  • Updated to Inno-Setup 5.5.9 for improved installer security
  • Greenshot is now using code signing certificates

New in Portable Greenshot 1.2.9.74 Unstable (Sep 3, 2016)

  • BUG-2016 "In review" Unexpected error in Jira upload

New in Portable Greenshot 1.2.9.73 Unstable (Sep 1, 2016)

  • Dropshadow & tornedge prompts for settings every time
  • Editor opens outside the screen
  • Already running message, multi user environment
  • OCR text has trailing blank spaces
  • Editor hangs on exit - hang time proportional to number of objects
  • Slight cropping around window on Windows 10
  • Greenshot saves blank JPG file with reduce colors
  • JIRA Plugin doesn't work with JIRA Server v7.0
  • Specify GPLv3 in the license text
  • Editor Speechbubble Artifacts when shadow and transparent
  • Greenshot Installer sets bad registry key permission
  • Delay when pasting and ShapeShifter from FlameFusion is running
  • Error when creating a speech bubble in the editor
  • Failure starting Greenshot at system startup
  • Can't delete Imgur upload
  • Activation border around window is visible in the capture
  • Greenshot portable (PAF) uses wrong log configuration
  • OutputFilePath setting is wrong config used on a different system
  • Editor issues when the font is gone or broken
  • Added icon save format (capture will be resized to 16x16, 32x32, 48x48 or 256x256)
  • Added a way to increase the editor canvas size (use Ctrl + / Ctrl -)
  • Added environment variables resolving to the external command plugin
  • Updated to Inno-Setup 5.5.9 for improved installer security
  • Greenshot is now using code signing certificates

New in Portable Greenshot 1.2.9.71 Unstable (Aug 27, 2016)

  • BUG-1910: Error occurs after adding 10+ text boxes with arrows

New in Portable Greenshot 1.2.9.70 Unstable (Aug 18, 2016)

  • BUG-1762 Dropshadow & tornedge prompts for settings every time
  • BUG-1896 JIRA Plugin doesn't work with JIRA Server v7.0
  • BUG-2011 Editor issues when the font is gone or broken
  • FEATURE-958 Greenshot is now using code signing certificates

New in Portable Greenshot 1.2.9.40 Unstable (Jul 18, 2016)

  • BUG-1812 Editor opens outside the screen
  • BUG-1876 Already running message, multi user environment
  • BUG-1884 OCR text has trailing blank spaces
  • BUG-1887 Editor hangs on exit - hang time proportional to number of objects
  • BUG-1890 Slight cropping around window on Windows 10
  • BUG-1892 Greenshot saves blank JPG file with reduce colors
  • BUG-1898 Specify GPLv3 in the license text
  • BUG-1918 Editor Speechbubble Artifacts when shadow and transparent
  • BUG-1933 Greenshot Installer sets bad registry key permission
  • BUG-1935 Delay when pasting and ShapeShifter from FlameFusion is running
  • BUG-1941 Error when creating a speech bubble in the editor
  • BUG-1945 Failure starting Greenshot at system startup
  • BUG-1949 Can't delete Imgur upload
  • BUG-1965 Activation border around window is visible in the capture
  • BUG-1991 Greenshot portable (PAF) uses wrong log configuration
  • BUG-1992 OutputFilePath setting is wrong config used on a different system
  • FEATURE-916 Added icon save format (capture will be resized to 16x16, 32x32, 48x48 or 256x256)
  • FEATURE-919 Added a way to increase the editor canvas size (use Ctrl + / Ctrl -)
  • FEATURE-945 Added environment variables resolving to the external command plugin
  • FEATURE-946 Updated to Inno-Setup 5.5.9 for improved installer security

New in Portable Greenshot 1.2.8.12 (Nov 10, 2015)

  • Bugs Resolved:
  • Greenshot stops responding, hangs or crashes
  • Authenticated uploads to Imgur don't work
  • Imgur link wasn't copied to the clipboard
  • Features:
  • Use Imgur with HTTPS (with changing the Imgur API from V2 to V3 this was already required for the upload anyway.)

New in Portable Greenshot 1.2.8.1 Unstable (Nov 2, 2015)

  • Bugs Resolved:
  • BUG-1850: Greenshot stops responding
  • Workaround:
  • BUG-1852: When using Imgur & clipboard destinations, the imgur export Uri overwrites the clipboard image -> Change the CopyLinkToClipboard flag to false in the greenshot.ini

New in Portable Greenshot 1.2.7.2 (Nov 2, 2015)

  • Bugs Resolved:
  • OverflowException when changing the windows input language
  • Imgur: API-Key issues when using anonymous uploads
  • Imgur: uploads were cancelled due to a timeout which was set too small
  • Fixed error calling external command.

New in Portable Greenshot 1.2.6.12 (Oct 5, 2015)

  • Bugs Resolved:
  • OverflowException when changing the windows input language
  • Imgur uploads were cancelled due to a timeout which was set too small

New in Portable Greenshot 1.3.0.2 Unstable (Jun 29, 2015)

  • Bugs Resolved:
  • BUG-1769: Switched to OAuth 2 for Picasa Authentication, OAuth 1.x will be terminated as of 20th of April 2015.
  • BUG-1770: Fix problems when a font doesn't want to draw itself.
  • Bug 1774: Problems logging in to Box.com Features add:
  • FEATURE-838: Added support for dragging an image from google image search results directly into the editor.

New in Portable Greenshot 1.2.6.7 (Apr 20, 2015)

  • Bugs Resolved:
  • BUG-1769: Switched to OAuth 2 for Picasa Authentication, OAuth 1.x will be terminated as of 20th of April 2015.
  • BUG-1770: Fix problems when a font doesn't want to draw itself.
  • Bug 1774: Problems logging in to Box.com
  • Features add:
  • FEATURE-838: Added support for dragging an image from google image search results directly into the editor.

New in Portable Greenshot 1.2.6.2 Unstable (Apr 15, 2015)

  • Bugs Resolved:
  • BUG-1578, BUG-1657: by default, Imgur plugin no longer passes title and filename to Imgur (for new installations, existing configuration files won't be affected)

New in Portable Greenshot 1.2.5.16 Unstable (Mar 23, 2015)

  • Bugs Resolved:
  • BUG-1655: Greenshot uses the default proxy, even if the "use default proxy" check-box is not checked.
  • BUG-1730: File type in the Save-As dialog doesn't default to configured output format.
  • BUG-1735: Editor crashed when trying to scale down a screenshot with text element
  • BUG-1741: Fixed a bug in the confluence plug-in, error when searching for nothing, by improving the upload GUI.
  • BUG-1750: Filename pattern is now checked for invalid characters to avoid exception when saving directly.
  • BUG-1752: Fixed horizontal alignment for text boxes
  • BUG-1753: Fixed problem with saving/loading of the drop shadow & torn edge effects
  • Languages:
  • Portuguese (Portugal): application translation updates + new translation for plugin and help
  • Indonesian: translation updates
  • Korean: translation updates
  • French: translation updates

New in Portable Greenshot 1.2.5.11 Unstable (Feb 19, 2015)

  • Bugs Resolved:
  • Filename pattern is now checked for invalid characters to avoid exception when saving directly.
  • Fixed horizontal alignment for textboxes
  • Languages:
  • Indonesian: translation updates

New in Portable Greenshot 1.2.5.9 Unstable (Feb 5, 2015)

  • Bugs Resolved:
  • BUG-1655: Greenshot uses the default proxy, even if the "use default proxy" check-box is not checked.
  • BUG-1730: File type in the Save-As dialog doesn't default to configured output format.
  • BUG-1735: Editor crashed when trying to scale down a screenshot with text element
  • BUG-1741: Fixed a bug in the confluence plug-in, error when searching for nothing, by improving the upload GUI.
  • Languages:
  • Portuguese (Portugal): application translation updates + new translation for plugin and help, thanks to Luis Neves

New in Portable Greenshot 1.2.5.8 Unstable (Feb 2, 2015)

  • BUG-1655: Greenshot uses the default proxy, even if the "use default proxy" check-box is not checked
  • BUG-1730: File type in the Save-As dialog doesn't default to configured output format
  • BUG-1735: Editor crashed when trying to scale down a screenshot with text element
  • BUG-1741: Fixed a bug in the confluence plug-in, error when searching for nothing, by improving the upload GUI

New in Portable Greenshot 1.2.5.7 Unstable (Jan 27, 2015)

  • Bugs Resolved:
  • BUG-1655: Greenshot uses the default proxy, even if the "use default proxy" check-box is not checked.
  • BUG-1730: File type in the Save-As dialog doesn't default to configured output format.
  • BUG-1735: Editor crashed when trying to scale down a screenshot with text element

New in Portable Greenshot 1.2.5.5 Unstable (Jan 21, 2015)

  • Bugs Resolved:
  • BUG-1655: Greenshot uses the default proxy, even if the "use default proxy" check-box is not checked.
  • BUG-1730: File type in the Save-As dialog doesn't default to configured output format.

New in Portable Greenshot 1.2.5.2 Unstable (Jan 20, 2015)

  • BUG-1724: Error when using "Alt + PrintScreen" after clicking system tray

New in Portable Greenshot 1.2.4.6 Unstable (Dec 22, 2014)

  • Features:
  • Added the possibility to select the region to capture by using the keyboard, use the cursor keys to move the cursor (ctrl-key speeds up the movement) and the enter key to mark the start and ending.
  • Added support for another clipboard format "Format17" (aka CF_DIBV5) which could improve the result of the "open image from clipboard" and drag&drop actions.
  • Editor: a resize effect with settings window has been added.
  • Editor: a settings window for the torn-edge effect has been added, the settings will be stored.
  • Editor: a settings window for the drop shadow effect has been added, the settings will be stored.
  • OneNote: Enabled and enhanced the OneNote destination, so we can test this and see if it's worth releasing.
  • External command: If a command outputs an URI this will be captured and placed on the clipboard, the behaviour currently can only be modified in the greenshot.ini
  • FEATURE-184, FEATURE-282, FEATURE-486: Image editor now has a speech bubble
  • FEATURE-281, FEATURE-669, FEATURE-707, FEATURE-734: Image editor now has auto incrementing labels
  • FEATURE-757: Greenshot will now store the last used region in the greenshot.ini, which makes it also available after a restart.
  • FEATURE-758: Due to the fact that more and more high DPI displays are used, we added a setting to change the icon size.
  • FEATURE-776: Improvement of the torn edge settings dialog
  • FEATURE-777: Improvement of the font family settings, also changed the used font for every family making it easier to find your font.
  • Changes:
  • Optimized Greenshots update check to use even less traffic by checking the time-stamp of the update feed before downloading it.
  • JIRA: With JIRA 6.x using the SOAP (Webservice) API the access has gotten really slow, we improved the performance slightly by loading some information parallel. (In Greenshot 2.x we will move to another API.)
  • Dynamic destination context-menu: If a destination has child items the parent is still selectable and executes the default export, we now no longer repeat the parent in the children.
  • Dynamic destination context-menu: We are now leaving the sorting to the destination code, this allows us to e.g. show the default printer on top of the list.
  • Bugs Resolved:
  • BUG-1559, BUG-1643: Repeating hotkeys are now prevented.
  • BUG-1610: Image editor: 'Obfuscate' and 'Highlight' and more, now should rotate / resize correctly.
  • BUG-1619: Image editor: Autocrop now also considers the elements.
  • BUG-1620: Greenshot crashing Chrome running in 'Windows 8 Mode'
  • BUG-1653: Accessibility issues: Editor "File" menu entry can't be activated and missing translations
  • BUG-1667: removed horizontal alignment of textbox in input mode, as it caused problems with textbox focus and could not be implemented consistently anyway (no vertical alignment possible)
  • BUG-1671: Fixed error that occurred when double-clicking systray icon before the first time a screenshot was saved to file
  • BUG-1686: Shadow (drop shadow or torn edge) grows if a filter (highlight etc) is used and an element is moved around
  • BUG-1688: While drawing a textbox there are black vertical lines inside
  • BUG-1695: Fixed an issue with processing the response from Imgur, which caused the error "Value cannot be null. Parameter name: key"
  • BUG-1699: UI jumps when Textbox or SpeechBubble tools are selected, and changing to another tool. (also the other way around)
  • BUG-1700: IE capture only works once
  • BUG-1709: Alignment of the text and speech-bubble wasn't always correctly saved in the .greenshot file
  • BUG-1710: After resizing the canvas the edges had a slightly different color (1px)
  • BUG-1719: color dialog didn't accept HTML color names
  • and a lot more small bug fixes to make Greenshot more stable.
  • Languages:
  • New language: Latvian
  • Updates for Ukrainian, Japanese and Italian translation

New in Portable Greenshot 1.2.4.4 Unstable (Dec 16, 2014)

  • Bugs Resolved:
  • BUG-1716: Selecting the textbox or speechbubble tool, and changing settings before drawing, causes an error when drawing
  • BUG-1719: color dialog didn't accept HTML color names

New in Portable Greenshot 1.2.4.2 Unstable (Dec 9, 2014)

  • Bugs Resolved:
  • BUG-1716: Selecting the textbox or speechbubble tool, and changing settings before drawing, causes an error when drawing
  • BUG-1719: color dialog didn't accept HTML color names

New in Portable Greenshot 1.2.3.6 Unstable (Nov 19, 2014)

  • Bugs Resolved:
  • BUG-1620: Greenshot crashing Chrome running in 'Windows 8 Mode'
  • BUG-1686: Shadow (drop shadow or torn edge) grows if a filter (highlight etc) is used and an element is moved around
  • BUG-1698: Cannot enter textbox/Speechbubble lowercase text after changing font family
  • BUG-1700: IE capture only works once

New in Portable Greenshot 1.2.3.2 Unstable (Nov 18, 2014)

  • Features:
  • Greenshot now stores the settings of the torn edge & drop shadow effects
  • Changes:
  • Optimized Greenshots update check to use even less traffic by checking the time-stamp of the update feed before downloading it.
  • Bugs Resolved:
  • BUG-1686: Issues with the background if a filter (highlight etc) is used.

New in Portable Greenshot 1.2.1 Build 31 Unstable (Nov 8, 2014)

  • Features:
  • Added support for another clipboard format "Format17" (aka CF_DIBV5) which should improve the result of the "open image from clipboard" and drag&drop actions.
  • Bugs Resolved:
  • BUG-1695: Fixed an issue with processing the response from Imgur, which caused the error "Value cannot be null. Parameter name: key"

New in Portable Greenshot 1.2.1 Build 29 Unstable (Nov 6, 2014)

  • Features:
  • FEATURE-758: Due to the fact that more and more high DPI displays are used, we added a setting to change the icon size.
  • Bugs Resolved:
  • BUG-1681: Improvements for the new speech bubble, text color is now the same as the border and the rounded corners are correctly calculated when using thick lines and a small bubble.

New in Portable Greenshot 1.2.1 Build 22 Unstable (Nov 4, 2014)

  • Features:
  • FEATURE-757: Greenshot will now store the last used region in the greenshot.ini, which makes it also available after a restart.
  • Changes:
  • Editor: Due to the amount of high DPI screens, we are testing the possibility to change the icon size. Look for the ButtonIconSize in the editor section of the greenshot.ini. Disadvantage: As the icons are bitmaps, enlarging them does look ugly.

New in Portable Greenshot 1.2.1 Build 14 Unstable (Nov 1, 2014)

  • Changes:
  • JIRA: With JIRA 6.x using the SOAP (Webservice) API the access has gotten really slow, we improved the performance slightly by loading some information parallel. (In Greenshot 2.x we will move to another API.)
  • Bugs Resolved:
  • BUG-1681: Improvements for the new speech bubble, text color is now the same as the border and the rounded corners are correctly calculated when using thick lines and a small bubble.

New in Portable Greenshot 1.2.1 Build 6 Unstable (Oct 23, 2014)

  • Features:
  • Due to BUG-1667 we had to remove the horizontal text alignment, this afflicts the textbox and the speech bubble.
  • Added the possibility to select the region to capture by using the keyboard, use the cursor keys to move the cursor (ctrl-key speeds up the movement) and the enter key to mark the start and ending.
  • Bugs Resolved:
  • BUG-1667 removed horizontal alignment of textbox in input mode, as it caused problems with textbox focus and could not be implemented consistently anyway (no vertical alignment possible)

New in Portable Greenshot 1.2.0.72 Unstable (Aug 14, 2014)

  • Features:
  • FEATURE-184, FEATURE-282, FEATURE-486: Image editor now has a Speech bubble
  • FEATURE-281, FEATURE-669, FEATURE-707, FEATURE-734: Image editor now has auto incrementing labels
  • Editor: a resize effect with settings window has been added.
  • Editor: a settings window for the torn-edge effect has been added.
  • Editor: a settings window for the drop shadow effect has been added.
  • OneNote: Enabled and enhanced the OneNote destination, so we can test this and see if it's worth releasing.
  • Bugs resolved:
  • BUG-1559, BUG-1643: Repeating hotkeys are now prevented.
  • BUG-1610: Image editor: 'Obfuscate' and 'Highlight' and more, now should rotate / resize correctly.
  • BUG-1619: Image editor: Autocrop now also considers the elements.
  • BUG-1653: Accessibility issues: Editor "File" menu entry can't be activated and missing translations
  • Changes:
  • Dynamic destination context-menu: If a destination has child items the parent is still selectable and executes the default export, we now no longer repeat the parent in the children.
  • Dynamic destination context-menu: We are now leaving the sorting to the destination code, this allows us to e.g. show the default printer on top of the list.

New in Portable Greenshot 1.2.0.71 Unstable (Jul 29, 2014)

  • Features:
  • OneNote: Enabled and enhanced the OneNote destination, so we can test this and see if it's worth releasing.
  • Changes:
  • Dynamic destination context-menu: We are now leaving the sorting to the destination code, this allows us to e.g. show the default printer on top of the list.

New in Portable Greenshot 1.2.0.69 Unstable (Jul 29, 2014)

  • Features:
  • FEATURE-184, FEATURE-282, FEATURE-486: Image editor now has a Speech bubble
  • FEATURE-281, FEATURE-669, FEATURE-707, FEATURE-734: Image editor now has auto incrementing labels
  • Editor: a resize effect with settings window has been added.
  • Editor: a settings window for the torn-edge effect has been added.
  • Editor: a settings window for the drop shadow effect has been added.
  • Bugs resolved:
  • BUG-1559, BUG-1643: Repeating hotkeys are now prevented.
  • BUG-1610: Image editor: 'Obfuscate' and 'Highlight' and more, now should rotate / resize correctly.
  • BUG-1619: Image editor: Autocrop now also considers the elements.
  • BUG-1653: Accessibility issues: Editor "File" menu entry can't be activated and missing translations
  • Changes:
  • We cleaned up the dynamic destination context-menu: if an entry (e.g export to the editor) has child items (export to open editors) the parent is still selectable, we also no longer repeat the parent in the children.

New in Portable Greenshot 1.2.0.68 Unstable (Jul 19, 2014)

  • BUG-1653: Accessibility issues: Editor "File" menu entry can't be activated and missing translations

New in Portable Greenshot 1.2.0.64 Unstable (Jul 7, 2014)

  • Bugs resolved:
  • Bug #1559,#1643: Repeating hotkeys are now prevented.
  • Bug #1610: Image editor: 'Obfuscate' and 'Highlight' and more, now should rotate / resize correctly.
  • Bug #1619: Image editor: Autocrop now also considers the elements.
  • Changes:
  • We cleaned up the dynamic destination context-menu: if an entry (e.g export to the editor) has child items (export to open editors) the parent is still selectable, we also no longer repeat the parent in the children.

New in Portable Greenshot 1.2.0.63 Unstable (Jun 26, 2014)

  • Features:
  • Feature #184,#282,#486: Image editor now has a Speech bubble
  • Feature #281,#669,#707,#734: Image editor now has auto incrementing labels
  • Editor: a resize effect with settings window has been added.
  • Editor: a settings window for the torn-edge effect has been added.
  • Editor: a settings window for the drop shadow effect has been added.

New in Portable Greenshot 1.2.0.62 Unstable (Jun 24, 2014)

  • Bugs resolved:
  • Bug #1559,#1643: Repeating hotkeys are now prevented.
  • Bug #1610: Image editor: 'Obfuscate' and 'Highlight' and more, now should rotate / resize correctly.
  • Bug #1619: Image editor: Autocrop now also considers the elements.
  • Changes:
  • We cleaned up the dynamic destination context-menu: if an entry (e.g export to the editor) has child items (export to open editors) the parent is still selectable, we also no longer repeat the parent in the children.

New in Portable Greenshot 1.2.0.60 Unstable (Jun 24, 2014)

  • Feature #184,#282,#486: Image editor now has a Speech bubble
  • Feature #281,#669,#707,#734: Image editor now has auto incrementing labels
  • Editor: a resize effect with settings window has been added.
  • Editor: a settings window for the torn-edge effect has been added.
  • Editor: a settings window for the drop shadow effect has been added.

New in Portable Greenshot 1.2.0.59 Unstable (Jun 23, 2014)

  • Features:
  • Feature #184,#282,#486: Image editor now has a Speech bubble
  • Feature #281,#669,#707,#734: Image editor now has auto incrementing labels
  • Editor: a resize effect with settings window has been added.
  • Editor: a settings window for the torn-edge effect has been added.
  • Editor: a settings window for the drop shadow effect has been added.
  • Bugs resolved:
  • Bug #1559,#1643: Repeating hotkeys are now prevented.
  • Bug #1610: Image editor: 'Obfuscate' and 'Highlight' and more, now should rotate / resize correctly.
  • Bug #1619: Image editor: Autocrop now also considers the elements.
  • Changes:
  • We cleaned up the dynamic destination context-menu: if an entry (e.g export to the editor) has child items (export to open editors) the parent is still selectable, we also no longer repeat the parent in the children.

New in Portable Greenshot 1.1.9.13 (May 14, 2014)

  • Bugs resolved:
  • Bug #1604,#1631,#1634: Capture problems since update to Windows 8.1 with multiple displays
  • Bug #1627: Box upload failed since 1.1.8
  • Unreported: The greenshot.ini values "NoGDICaptureForProduct" and "NoDWMCaptureForProduct" had incorrect defaults, which might cause issues with some applications when using the auto capture mode.
  • Features:
  • Feature #697: Added the possibility to replace characters/strings when a pattern is used, to have more control over the resulting filename. E.G. ${title:r ,_} will cause all the spaces to be replaced by underscores.
  • Feature #712: The amount of colour which images are reduce to, if the setting is active, has been made configurable in the greenshot.ini property OutputFileReduceColorsTo. Default stays at 256,
  • Feature #723: Adding a newline when exporting to Word or an open Outlook email, this makes it possible to repeat exports.
  • Changes:
  • Flickr plug-in: from June 27th, 2014 Flickr will only accept uploads via HTTPS! As the switch is already possible Greenshot has been changed accordingly.
  • Languages:
  • Updated the French translation for the Microsoft Office plug-in

New in Portable Greenshot 1.1.8.35 (Apr 2, 2014)

  • Bugs resolved:
  • Bug #1578: Changed the behavior of creating filenames for Imgur to be configurable, default will be the date/time.
  • Bug #1580: removed device names for capture fullscreen submenu in multi-monitor setups, which sometimes delivered inconsistent results or even garbage characters. Sticking to descriptive text like "bottom left", which is more useful anyway.
  • Bug #1581: Ini-file reading is now done without locking the file, this should help a bit in cases where other applications have this file open.
  • Bug #1600: Found that Greenshot uses a wrong URL format on the clipboard, this fix might solve some issues
  • Bug: When capturing client windows on a DWM enabled system (Vista & Windows 7) with "auto" set, sometimes the capture had a blurred/transparent effect.
  • Features:
  • Feature #663: dark background for textbox input when editing bright-colored text
  • Feature #667: destinations with subdestinations can now be clicked to invoke the "main" subdestination
  • Languages:
  • Updates for Swedish translation and help, new Swedish translations for plugins and installer
  • Improvements for German translation and help
  • Bug #1608: Fixed typo in French translation

New in Portable Greenshot 1.1.7.17 (Dec 16, 2013)

  • Changes:
  • We moved our repository to BitBucket (GIT), this forced us to change the build script and the version
  • Bugs resolved:
  • Bug #1517: (now it is really fixed) export to Microsoft Word always goes to the last active Word instance.
  • Bug #1589/#1584 System.NullReferenceException
  • Bug #1574: AccessException when loading plugins
  • Features:
  • Changed the Box plug-in to use the new V2 API, which is mandatory from 13.12.2013. The Box plug-in now needs the .NET 3.5 Full Framework.

New in Portable Greenshot 1.1.6.2779 Unstable (Oct 30, 2013)

  • Bugs resolved:
  • Bug #1515: Changed the settings GUI to clearly show that the interactive Window capture mode doesn't use the windows capture mode settings.
  • Bug #1517: export to Microsoft Word always goes to the last active Word instance.
  • Bug #1525/#1486: Greenshot looses configuration settings. (At least we hope this is resolved)
  • Bug #1528: export to Microsoft Excel isn't stored in file, which results in a "red cross" when opening on a different or MUCH later on the same computer.
  • Bug #1544: EntryPointNotFoundException when using higlight area or blur
  • Bug #1546: Exception in the editor when using multiple destination, among which the editor, and a picker (e.g. Word) is shown.
  • Not reported: Canceling Imgur authorization or upload caused an NullPointerReference
  • Features:
  • Added EXIF orientation support when copying images from the clipboard
  • Feature #596: Added commandline option "/inidirectory " to specify the location of the greenshot.ini, this can e.g. be used for multi-profiles...
  • Removed reading the greenshot.ini if it was changed manually outside of Greenshot while it is running, this should increase stability. People should now exit Greenshot before modifying this file manually.
  • Improvements:
  • Printouts are now rotated counter-clockwise instead of clockwise, for most people this should be preferable (#1552)

New in Portable Greenshot 1.1.5.2643 Unstable (May 22, 2013)

  • Bugs resolved:
  • Bug #1510: Under Windows Vista when trying to apply a drop-shadow or a torn-edge effect a GDIPlus error occurs.
  • Bug #1512/#1514: Will not print color
  • Not reported: Annotations where not visible when exporting to Office destinations after writing in the Greenshot format.
  • Not reported: Removed the update check in Greenshot for PortableApps
  • Languages:
  • New translation: Estonian
  • Updated translations: Russian, Polish and Italian
  • New installer translation: Ukrainian
  • New plugin translations: Polish

New in Portable Greenshot 1.1.3.2596 Unstable (Apr 30, 2013)

  • Features added since 1.1.2:
  • Created a PortableApps version of Greenshot, this now will be released just like the other files (installer & .zip)
  • Bugs resolved:
  • InvalidCastException when using the brightness-filter
  • Languages: Added Indonesian

New in Portable Greenshot 1.1.2.2572 Unstable (Apr 29, 2013)

  • Features added:
  • Editor: Added a new image format "Greenshot" which allows the user to save the current state and continue editing later. (was already in the 1.1.1.2550)
  • Capture: Added an option to the settings for disabling the zoom. (this can also be done via the "z" key while capturing.)
  • Bugs resolved:
  • Bug #1484, #1494: External Command plug-in issues. e.g. when clicking edit in the External Command plug-in settings, than cancel, and than edit again an error occured.
  • Bug #1499: Stability improvements for when Greenshot tries to open the explorer.exe
  • Bug #1500: Error while dragging an obfuscation
  • Fixed some additional unreported issues

New in Portable Greenshot 1.1.0.2550 Unstable (Apr 4, 2013)

  • Features:
  • General: Added zoom when capturing
  • General: Better Windows 8 integration: Capture window from list now has the apps and the interactive window capture is not confused by apps or the app launcher.
  • General: Added Special-Folder support for the OutputPath/Filenames, now one can use the following values: MyPictures, MyMusic, MyDocuments, Personal, Desktop, ApplicationData, LocalApplicationData. Meaning one can now set the output path to e.g. ${MyPictures}
  • Editor: The capture is now displayed in the center of the editor, the code for this was supplied by Viktar Karpach.
  • Editor: Added horizontal and vertical alignment for text boxes.
  • Printing: Added option to force monochrome (black/white) print
  • Plug-in: Added Photobucket plugin
  • Languages:
  • Installer: Added Spanish
  • Installer: Added Serbian
  • Installer: Added Finnish
  • General: Fixes for many languages
  • Bugs resolved:
  • Bug #1327, #1401 & #1410 : On Windows XP Firefox/java captures are mainly black. This fix should also work with other OS versions and applications.
  • Bug #1340: Fixed issue with opening a screenshow from the clipboard which was created in a remote desktop
  • Bug #1375, #1396 & #1397: Exporting captures to Microsoft Office applications give problems when the Office application shows a dialog, this is fixed by displaying a retry dialog with info.
  • Bug #1375: Exported captures to Powerpoint were displayed cropped, which needed extra actions to correct.
  • Bug #1378: Picasa-Web uploads didn't have a filename and the filename was shown as "UNSET" in Picasa-Web.
  • Bug #1380: The window corners on Windows Vista & Windows 7 weren't cut correctly. While fixing this issue, we found some other small bugs which could cause small capture issues on Vista & 7 it also used more resources than needed.
  • Bug #1386: Resize issues with some the plugin configuration dialogs.
  • Bug #1390: Elements in 1.0 are drawn differently as in pre 1.0
  • Bug #1391: Fixed missing filename in the Editor title
  • Bug #1414: Pasting captures as HTML-inline in Thunderbird doesn't work when using 256-colors.
  • Bug #1418: Fixed a problem with the editor initialization, in some small cases this gave an error as something happend at the same time.
  • Bug #1426: Added some checks for some configuration values, if they were not set this caused an error
  • Bug #1442: If copying an image from Outlook via the clipboard the image was cropped
  • Bug #1443: Image exports to Microsoft Word didn't have the "Lock aspect ratio" set
  • Bug #1444: Colors were disappearing when "Create an 8-bit image if colors are less than 256 while having a > 8 bits image" was turned on
  • Bug #1462: Auto-filename generation cropping title text after period
  • Bug #1481: when pasting elements from one editor into another the element could end up outside the visible area
  • Reported in forum: Fixed a problem with the OCR, it sometimes didn't work. Not reported: Flickr configuration for the Family, Friend & Public wasn't stored.
  • Not reported: If Greenshot is linked in a Windows startup folder, the "Start with startup" checkbox wasn't checked.
  • Not reported: Some shortcut keys in the editor didn't respond.
  • Not reported: Fixed some issues with capturing windows that were larger than the visible screen, logic should now be more reliable.
  • Not reported: Fixed some cases where Dragging & Dropping an image from a browser on the editor lost transparency.
  • Not reported: Undo while in an Auto-Crop made the editor unusable.
  • Not reported: When first selecting a printer, the main printer destination has been replaced by the selected one, making the Windows printer dialog unavailable for further prints
  • Not reported: Open last capture in explorer doesn't open the right location
  • Not reported: Fixed some issues where the sub-menus of the context menu moved to the next screen.
  • Not reported: When having Outlook installed but not the Office plugin there was no EMail destination.

New in Portable Greenshot 1.1.0.2535 Unstable (Mar 26, 2013)

  • General: Added zoom when capturing
  • General: Better Windows 8 integration: Capture window from list now has the apps and the interactive window capture is not confused by apps or the app launcher.
  • General: Added Special-Folder support for the OutputPath/Filenames, now one can use the following values: MyPictures, MyMusic, MyDocuments, Personal, Desktop, ApplicationData, LocalApplicationData. Meaning one can now set the output path to e.g. ${MyPictures}
  • Editor: The capture is now displayed in the center of the editor
  • Editor: Added horizontal and vertical alignment for text boxes.
  • Printing: Added option to force monochrome (black/white) print
  • Plug-in: Added Photobucket plugin
  • Plug-in: Removed unneeded code from the Confluence Plug-in, this makes the Greenshot installer / .zip a bit smaller.

New in Portable Greenshot 1.1.0.2529 Unstable (Mar 9, 2013)

  • Bug #1327, #1401 & #1410 : On Windows XP Firefox/java captures are mainly black. This fix should also work with other OS versions and applications.
  • Bug #1340: Fixed issue with opening a screenshow from the clipboard which was created in a remote desktop
  • Bug #1375, #1396 & #1397: Exporting captures to Microsoft Office applications give problems when the Office application shows a dialog, this is fixed by displaying a retry dialog with info.
  • Bug #1375: Exported captures to Powerpoint were displayed cropped, which needed extra actions to correct.
  • Bug #1378: Picasa-Web uploads didn't have a filename and the filename was shown as "UNSET" in Picasa-Web.
  • Bug #1380: The window corners on Windows Vista & Windows 7 weren't cut correctly.
  • While fixing #1380 we found some other small bugs which could cause small capture issues on Vista & 7 it also used more resources than needed.
  • Bug #1386: resize issues with some the plugin configuration dialogs.
  • Bug #1390: Elements in 1.0 are drawn differently as in pre 1.0
  • Bug #1391: Fixed missing filename in the Editor title
  • Bug #1414: Pasting captures as HTML-inline in Thunderbird doesn't work when using 256-colors.
  • Bug #1418: Fixed a problem with the editor initialization, in some small cases this gave an error as something happend at the same time.
  • Bug #1426: Added some checks for some configuration values, if they were not set this caused an error
  • Bug #1444: Colors were disappearing when "Create an 8-bit image if colors are less than 256 while having a > 8 bits image" was turned on

New in Portable Greenshot 1.1.0.2515 Unstable (Mar 6, 2013)

  • Not reported: When having Outlook installed but not the Office plugin there was no EMail destination.

New in Portable Greenshot 1.1.0.2437 Unstable (Jan 22, 2013)

  • Bugs resolved:
  • Not reported: Open last capture in explorer doesn't open the right location
  • Not reported: Fixed some issues where the sub-menus of the context menu moved to the next screen.

New in Portable Greenshot 1.1.0.2400 Unstable (Dec 21, 2012)

  • Bugs resolved:
  • Bug #3572995, #3593761 & #3592129: On Windows XP Firefox/java captures are mainly black. This fix should also work with other OS versions and applications.
  • Bug #3576125: Fixed issue with opening a screenshow from the clipboard which was created in a remote desktop
  • Bug #3582282, #3590372 & #3590385: Exporting captures to Microsoft Office applications give problems when the Office application shows a dialog, this is fixed by displaying a retry dialog with info.
  • Bug #3582282: Exported captures to Powerpoint were displayed cropped, which needed extra actions to correct.
  • Bug #3582692: Picasa-Web uploads didn't have a filename and the filename was shown as "UNSET" in Picasa-Web.
  • Bug #3582807: The window corners on Windows Vista & Windows 7 weren't cut correctly.
  • While fixing #3582807 we found some other small bugs which could cause small capture issues on Vista & 7 it also used more resources than needed.
  • Bug #3585393: resize issues with some the plugin configuration dialogs.
  • Bug #3588716: Elements in 1.0 are drawn differently as in pre 1.0
  • Bug #3589370: Fixed missing filename in the Editor title
  • Bug #3594681: Pasting captures as HTML-inline in Thunderbird doesn't work when using 256-colors.
  • Not reported: Flickr configuration for the Family, Friend & Public wasn't stored.
  • Not reported: If Greenshot is linked in a Windows startup folder, the "Start with startup" checkbox wasn't checked.
  • Not reported: Some shortcut keys in the editor didn't respond.
  • Not reported: Fixed some issues with capturing windows that were larger than the visible screen, logic should now be more reliable.
  • Not reported: Fixed some cases where Dragging & Dropping an image from a browser on the editor lost transparency.
  • Not reported: Undo while in an Auto-Crop made the editor unusable.
  • Not reported: When first selecting a printer, the main printer destination has been replaced by the selected one, making the Windows printer dialog unavailable for further prints
  • Features:
  • General: Added zoom when capturing
  • General: Better Windows 8 integration: Capture window from list now has the apps and the interactive window capture is not confused by apps or the app launcher.
  • General: Added Special-Folder support for the OutputPath/Filenames, now one can use the following values: MyPictures, MyMusic, MyDocuments, Personal, Desktop, ApplicationData, LocalApplicationData. Meaning one can now set the output path to e.g. ${MyPictures}
  • Editor: The capture is now displayed in the center of the editor, the code for this was supplied by Viktar Karpach.
  • Plug-in: Added Photobucket plugin
  • Plug-in: Removed unneeded code from the Confluence Plug-in, this makes the Greenshot installer / .zip a bit smaller.
  • Languages:
  • Installer: Added Spanish
  • Installer: Added Serbian
  • General: Fixes for Italian, Serbian, Slovak, Urkainian

New in Portable Greenshot 1.0.6.2228 (Oct 31, 2012)

  • General: Greenshot will now run in 64 bit mode, if the OS supports it.
  • General: Added a dynamic destination picker
  • General: Added a preview when using the window capture from the context menu (Windows Vista and later)
  • General: Added color reduction as an option and auto detection for image with less than 256 color. When using reduction this results in smaller files.
  • General: Added direct printing to a selected printer
  • General: Added some additional logic to the IE capture, which makes it possible to capture embedded IE web-sites from other applications.
  • General: Changed multi-screen capture behavior, assuming that capturing all screens is not a normal use-case. Now default behavior is to capture the one with the mouse-cursor. Also the user can select which screen to capture from the context-menu.
  • General: Changed the configuration to use a .ini with some advanced features. Fixed settings can't be changed in the settings. Settings, quicksettings and the Greenshot icon can be disabled. (See greenshot.ini and our website)
  • General: Added and update many languages, see our website for the whole listing!
  • General: Now one can use the shift key to fix the mouse coordinates while capturing. If you press and hold shift only the first direction in which you move can be change, the other stays fixed.
  • General: Added an expert tab in the settings, here some Greenshot behavior can be changed
  • General: Added more complex options for the filename generation
  • Editor: Added Ctrl/shift logic to the editor, hard to explain (see help) but hold one of the keys down and draw..
  • Editor: Added a color picker in the color dialog.
  • Editor: Added undo/redo
  • Editor: Added effects: shadow, torn edges, invert, border and grayscale
  • Editor: Added rotate clockwise & counter clockwise
  • Editor: Added freehand tool, this makes it possible to draw some things freehand. Every "stroke" (mouse-down to mouse-up) is one "object" which can be manipulated: move, delete, change Z-order and change the properties like color and thickness.
  • Editor: Added auto crop
  • Plug-in: Added Confluence plug-in to attach captures to Confluence pages.
  • Plug-in: Added JIRA plug-in to attach captures to JIRA tickets.
  • Plug-in: Added OCR plug-in, if MODI is available you can capture text from the screen and place it on the clipboard. See our website on pre-requisites for the OCR functionality.
  • Plug-in: Added External command plug-in can be used to export captures to some another application or script.
  • Plug-in: Added Box.com plug-in uploads your captures to your account
  • Plug-in: Added Dropbox plug-in uploads your captures to your account
  • Plug-in: Added Flickr plug-in uploads your captures to your account
  • Plug-in: Added Imgur plug-in uploads your captures annonymously or to your account
  • Plug-in: Added Picasa-Web plug-in uploads your captures to your account
  • Plug-in: Added Office plug-in with destinations for Excel, Outlook, Word and Powerpoint

New in Portable Greenshot 1.0.5 Build 2197 RC 5 (Oct 29, 2012)

  • Bugs resolved:
  • Fixed translation issue in expert settings, clipboard format options not being updated right away after switching UI language
  • Fixed bug #3578392: one of the clipboard formats we generate doesn't support transparency, but we forgot to remove it.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented the clipboard formats to represent the general output settings. (decrease colors if possible etc)
  • Fixed a bug that the context menu was shown 2x, it's not really visible but does not improve the performance.
  • Fixed a bug when capturing a minimized IE window, now we first restore it (un-minimize) before capturing.

New in Portable Greenshot 1.0.4 Build 2177 RC 4 (Oct 22, 2012)

  • Fixed error during OAuth process due to authorization dialog not opening
  • Fixed error in external command plugin
  • Fixed editor window not being resized to image size

New in Portable Greenshot 1.0.3 Build 2159 RC 3 (Oct 19, 2012)

  • Features added:
  • The Imgur plugin now has login support, uncheck the "Annonymous" checkbox in the settings.
  • Added new languages, see our blog
  • Moved Office destinations to their own plugin, making it possible for people to install Greenshot without
  • Bugs resolved:
  • Fixed OCR not working on Windows in 64 bit modus. People who want to use OCR without having office, read our FAQ!
  • Fixed a performance issue with the windows capture.
  • Fixed issues with Dropbox authentication, using our own OAuth implementation
  • Fixed problems with generating transparency for shadow & torn edges.
  • Fixed 2 bugs with the capture last region
  • Fixed weird window titles showing up in the "Capture Internet Explorer from list"
  • Fixed some more bugs with the dynamic destination picker and also fixed a small general issue with Office destinations.
  • Removed unneeded files in the installer, making it smaller
  • Fixed a lot of small translation texts and some icons in menus
  • Fixed missing translations and enlarged some labels of settings for several plugins: external command, Jira, Imgur, Flickr and Picasa
  • Fixed some upload issues, most uploads should have better performance and use less memory. Also removed some dependencies, which make the plugins and Greenshot smaller and work with .NET 2.0
  • Features removed:
  • Remove any history management of all non annonymous upload plug-ins, Greenshot is for uploading not managing uploads.

New in Portable Greenshot 1.0.2 Build 2011 RC 2 (Sep 10, 2012)

  • Bugs resolved:
  • Fixed a problem with the "please wait". It's now possible to cancel the operation, this was needed due to problems with Imgur and other plugin uploads
  • Fixed a memory leak
  • Fixed some problems with the IE capture
  • Fixed some jira & confluence plugin bugs
  • Fixed an Outlook export bug
  • Fixed an issue with writing the greenshot.ini file
  • Changed the installer to install only a default set of components, so Greenshot is not overloaded

New in Portable Greenshot 1.0.0 Build 1980 RC 1 (Aug 10, 2012)

  • Features added:
  • Greenshot will now run in 64 bit mode, if the OS supports it.
  • Added a "destinations" concept, making it possible to select all destinations from the main settings or using them inside the editor.
  • Added a "processor" concept, making it possible to modify the capture before it's send to a destination. Currently there is only an internal implementation which replaces the TitleFix plugin.
  • Added Office destinations (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, OneNote & Outlook) with dynamic resolving of open "instances".
  • Added Ctrl/shift logic to the editor, hard to explain (see help) but hold one of the keys down and draw..
  • Added a color picker in the color dialog.
  • Added effects: shadow, torn edges, invert, border and grayscale
  • Added rotate clockwise & counter clockwise
  • Added a preview when using the window capture from the context menu (Windows Vista and later)
  • Added color reduction as an option and auto detection for image with less than 256 color. When using reduction this results in smaller files.
  • Added direct printing to a selected printer
  • Added some additional logic to the IE capture, which makes it possible to capture embedded IE web-sites from other applications.
  • Changed multi-screen capture behaviour, assuming that capturing all screens is not a normal use-case. Now default behavior is to capture the one with the mouse-cursor. Also the user can select which screen to capture from the context-menu.
  • Many languages added and updated, see our website for the whole listing!
  • Added some features for deploying Greenshot in companies:
  • Fixed settings can't be changed in the settings. Settings, quicksettings and the Greenshot icon can be disabled. (See greenshot.ini)
  • Bugs resolved:
  • Fixed a problem with temp-files being removed before they were used, now using a delay of ~10 hours
  • Removed clipboard monitoring, which hopefully solves some problems with Virtual Machines
  • Fixed click on editor button not working if the window didn't have focus
  • Fixed problem with the print dialog not having focus if opened from the editor "print" button
  • Fixed bug #3482709 print with timestamp cropped the image
  • Removed the always active CaptureForm, which resulted in greenshot not "recovering" when a capture caused an exception.
  • Improved the auto-capture mode to honor some settings better
  • Synchronized the selected language to the plugins
  • Fixed installer issues on Windows 8, Greenshot can be used on Windows 8. Although there are still has some small issues with the Windows 8 Release Preview but these most likely are Microsoft bugs.

New in Portable Greenshot 1.0.0 Build 1888 Unstable (May 19, 2012)

  • Features added:
  • Greenshot will now run in 64 bit mode, if the OS supports it.
  • Added a "destinations" concept, making it possible to select all destinations from the main settings or using them inside the editor.
  • Added a "processor" concept, making it possible to modify the capture before it's send to a destination. Currently there is only an internal implementation which replaces the TitleFix plugin.
  • Added Office destinations (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, OneNote & Outlook) with dynamic resolving of open "instances".
  • Added Ctrl/shift logic to the editor, hard to explain (see help) but hold one of the keys down and draw..
  • Added a color picker in the color dialog.
  • Added effects: shadow, torn edges, invert, border and grayscale
  • Added rotate clockwise & counter clockwise
  • Added a preview when using the window capture from the context menu (Windows Vista and later)
  • Added color reduction as an option and auto detection for image with less than 256 color. When using reduction this results in smaller files.
  • Added direct printing to a selected printer
  • Changed multi-screen capture behavior, assuming that capturing all screens is not a normal use-case. Now default behavior is to capture the one with the mouse-cursor. Also the user can select which screen to capture from the context-menu.
  • Bugs resolved:
  • Fixed a problem with temp-files being removed before they were used, now using a delay of ~10 hours
  • Removed clipboard monitoring, which hopefully solves some problems with Virtual Machines
  • Fixed click on editor button not working if the window didn't have focus * Fixed problem with the print dialog not having focus if opened from the editor "print" button
  • Fixed bug #3482709 print with timestamp cropped the image
  • Removed the always active CaptureForm, which resulted in Greenshot not "recovering" when a capture caused an exception.
  • Improved the auto-capture mode to honor some settings better Synchronized the selected language to the plugins

New in Portable Greenshot 0.8.1 Build 1372 Unstable (Oct 31, 2011)

  • Bugs resolved:
  • Fixed bug #3430555: Greenshot got wrong state when using "Capture Last region" with no region selected
  • Fixed bug #3430560: Capturing the active window didn't set the region
  • Fixed installer problems with the .NET 2.0 Language Pack, we removed this requirement as Greenshot doesn't need this.
  • Fixed some translations

New in Portable Greenshot 0.8.1 Build 1339 Unstable (Oct 13, 2011)

  • Bugs resolved:
  • Fixed multiple stability issues when capturing
  • Fixed problems with cleanup of the "Please wait" popup.
  • Fixed a problem when saving the configuration and something wasn't set
  • Fixed a bug loading the greenshot ini files when using the default or fixed files.
  • Features added:
  • Arabic language
  • Live preview for Windows Vista / Windows 7 when using the capture window from the context menu or the insert window in the editor

New in Portable Greenshot 0.8.1 Build 1326 Unstable (Sep 20, 2011)

  • Bugs resolved:
  • Variables in the output path caused problems are all "illegal path characters" were replaced with "_", making it unusable.
  • Multiple Imgur plug-in fixes (wrong sorting, resizing the history causes GUI problems)
  • Now detecting "RC" releases as new!
  • Multiple windows didn't show the Greenshot icon
  • Language selection is shown again if no language is selected (at first run or if the configuration is deleted)
  • Fixed OCR plug-in still showing, even if it's not loaded correctly (as MODI is not installed).
  • Features added:
  • Image editor now shows the dimensions in the status bar
  • Image editor title now starts with the capture title, ending with " - Greenshot editor", which is usual behaviour for editors.
  • Imgur history clear button

New in Portable Greenshot 0.8.1 Build 1138 Beta (Jun 1, 2011)

  • Bugs resolved:
  • Image editor problems when exiting Greenshot.
  • Systray icon wasn't removed when stopping Greenshot
  • Installer fixes for silent installation and the selected installer language will be passed to Greenshot
  • Hotkeys on Windows 7 x64 weren't working, should be okay now.
  • Changed variable naming from %VAR% to ${VAR} to prevent early resolving on the command-line
  • Fixed problems with calculating the window size for Windows Vista & Windows 7.
  • Fixed annoying bug in editor which made the screen jump if the editor had scrollbars, got even more annoying with the new IE capture feature.
  • Fixed mousewheel scrolling in editor
  • Editor performance improved (changes have minor issues)
  • Many other minor stability fixes
  • Features added:
  • Added the Dutch language as a third default language for all Greenshot parts (application, plugins and installer)
  • Added configurable hotkeys
  • Added Aero (DWM) window capture on Windows Vista and later: this makes it possible to replace the transparent window border with a background color, making the capture look cleaner.
  • Added Internet Explorer capture. Select your IE - Tab from the Greenshot context menu or use the default hotkey "Ctrl + Shift + PrintScreen" to capture the active IE page.
  • Added OCR Plugin, this will only work when Microsoft Office 2003 or 2007 is installed. Unfortunately there is no way to check what languages Office supports, this needs to be set manually! To set the language, go into the Greenshot configuration screen, a new "plugin" tab is available. Click on the tab, on the OCR plugin and on the configure button. This should allow you to change the language which is used to OCR your selection!
  • Added a simple plugin that will cut the "garbage" from the Internet Explorer and Firefox title when capturing currently the behaviour can only be controlled by changing the configuration manually (titlefix.properties in the configuration directory)
  • Added environment variable support for the filename and path. Now one can use e.g. "${TMP}"…
  • Changed the configuration from a proprietary binary format to a readable & modifiable "greenshot.ini".
  • Added "experimental" Windows "Enhanced" MetaFile (=Vector graphics) support. The bitmap can be resized "without" quality loss. To use this, e.g. drag/drop a "WMF" file from the Microsoft Office "Clipart" directory on the open Greenshot editor.

New in Portable Greenshot 0.8.0 Build 0627 (May 3, 2011)

  • Bugs resolved:
  • save-as dialog honors default storage location again
  • fixed loop when holding down prnt key
  • fixed displayed grippers after duplicating a line element
  • fixed a lot of GDI+ exceptions when capturing by optimizing memory usage
  • typo
  • fixed clipboard functionality, should be more stable (not throwing exception with "Requested Clipboard operation did not succeed.")
  • fixed clipboard to work with OpenOffice
  • fixed initial startup problems when creating the startup shortcut
  • fixed exceptions when save path not available, incorrect or no permission when writing (will use SaveAs)
  • fixed camera sound is sometimes distorted
  • fixed region selection doesn't take the right size
  • fixed bug when capturing a maximized window: wrong size was taken and therefore additional pixels were captured
  • fixed capture bug which prevents a lot of people to use Greenshot (in 0.7.9 this was a "GDI+" exception). Problem was due to allocating the bitmap in the memory of the graphic card which is not always big enough.
  • fixed restoring geometry for editor (the editor will now be open on the last location)
  • fixed problem when loading language files during windows startup
  • fixed opening of bitmaps from the command-line
  • highlight and obfuscate elements no longer share last used line thickness and color with other elements
  • Features added:
  • * Optimized memory usage
  • * Added crop tool
  • * Added clipboard capture
  • * Added plugin support
  • * Added Bitmaps as object
  • * Added filters for wiping sensitive information as was suggested in e.g. [ 2931946 ]
  • * Added open from file
  • * Added the captured window title (even when capturing a region) as option for the filename pattern
  • * Added shadows which where supplied as patch in 2638542 and 2983930
  • * Added Email as Output (a MAPI supporting Email client should be available)
  • * Added double-click on icon to open last save location in Windows Explorer (or replacements)
  • * Changed configuration loading to better support portable Greenshot usage.
  • * Changed language from compiled resources to flexible xml files, user can add their own languages
  • * Added "Select all" option for image editor
  • * Added "Drag to", you can now drag images or image files to the Greenshot image editor.

New in Portable Greenshot 0.7.0 Build 009 (May 3, 2011)

  • Bugs resolved:
  • fixed "cancel button bug" in text editor
  • fixed tooltip text for texteditor buttons
  • fixed typo in "hotkeys not registered" dialog
  • create directories if default storage location does not exist anymore
  • fixed behavior of quick settings menu to update when settings are changed via the normal settings dialog
  • fixed multi screen problem that occurred when one of the screens had negative coordinates
  • arrowheads no longer get lost when copy&pasting an arrow
  • areas which are out of the screen bounds are now ignored when capturing windows
  • Features added:
  • releases now include an installer
  • improved clickable area of lines
  • optimized drawing tools behaviour
  • hitting Ctrl+Return while editing text now closes the text editor and applies the changes
  • changed textfield button icon to a more intuitive one
  • implemented quick settings: most important settings are accessible from the context menu now
  • holding down the shift key enables selection of multiple elements
  • elements can now be shifted in hierarchy using the Object>Arrange menu or PgUp, PgDn, Home, End keys
  • store last used file extension
  • display size of selection in region and window mode
  • added screenshot destination: save with dialog
  • added possibility to configure multiple screenshot destinations at once (file / file (with dialog)/editor/clipboard/printer)
  • added context menu to editor's status bar (after saving), allowing to copy the file path to the clipboard or to open the directory in windows explorer
  • added option in settings dialog always to copy the file path to the clipboard right away when an image is saved
  • added a pattern definition to settings dialog, allowing the configuration of dynamically generated file and directory names
  • added "requires restart" note to language option in settings dialog

New in Portable Greenshot 0.6 (May 3, 2011)

  • Bugs resolved:
  • fixed refresh of displayed image after changing text
  • Features added:
  • added options for scale, rotation and centering of image printouts to page size
  • adapted textbox drawing behaviour to rectangle and ellipse drawing behaviour
  • image editor elements have 8 grippers for resizing now
  • added line drawing capability
  • added arrow drawing capability
  • show language dialog on first start
  • starting multiple instances is prevented now
  • added options for launching Greenshot on startup and for creating a desktop shortcut to settings dialog
  • moved configuration file location to Applicationdata folder
  • display filename in image editor title bar after saving

New in Portable Greenshot 0.5 (May 3, 2011)

  • Bugs resolved:
  • multiple screens are supported now
  • Features added:
  • give error message when not all of the hotkeys can be registered
  • hide context menu before last-region capture
  • added help, preferences and and about items to image editor
  • removed save-as button
  • removed direct print functionality
  • added menuitem for closing the image editor
  • added buttons and colorpicker for border and background color
  • save bitmap image to clipboard instead of jpeg
  • show JPEG quality dialog when saving JPEG
  • default JPEG quality is configurable now
  • configurable default screenshot destination
  • drawing behaviors improved
  • added shortcut for last-region capture

New in Portable Greenshot 0.4 (May 3, 2011)

  • Bugs resolved:
  • fixed behaviour when interrupting region selection by pressing ESC
  • save-as dialog: dot in filename yielded error messages
  • pasting by menu or shortcut did not work
  • duplicating an element yielded two new elements
  • fixed bug in build script which produced a wrong build number in about dialog
  • freeing memory after closing editor window
  • cvs tags during nant build
  • Features added:
  • added icon and title to help window
  • shapes can be moved using the arrow keys
  • made hotkeys de-activatable in settings dialog
  • added print button and print menu items
  • added tooltips for region and window mode
  • appended datetime string to default filename in save-as dialog
  • implemented option to skip image editor both in context menu and settings dialog
  • shift duplicated elements 10px left- and downwards
  • when clicking two overlapping elements, the one created later gets selected
  • created textboxes can now be edited with a doubleclick
  • selected font is now stored in the application config file