May 8th, 2012· Support for Windows 8 Consumer Preview
· Added "Copy images with transparency" option
· Added application and folder icons in Tools menu
· Right-click on empty area opens Advanced File menu
· Changed default window size for different resolutions
· Fixed control and window sizes in high DPI mode
· Removed "LICENSED TO" from the titlebar in the registered version
· Several other minor improvements and bug fixes
February 13th, 2012· Keyboard shortcuts to move/resize objects (arrow keys, ctrl, shift)
· Line color/thickness, drawing tool are now restored after restart
· Adjusted line thickness for region selection on low screen resolutions
· Auto-Copy puts screenshot to clipboard when effects are changed
· Fixed issues when pressing PrintScrn in region selection mode
· Fixed dwmapi.dll error on Windows XP 64-Bit Edition
January 27th, 2012· Fixed showing/restoring the main window after capture
· Fixed sharpness of printed images and print resolution
· Fixed restoring of auto-save and auto-copy options at startup
· Fixed issue with watermark position on the bottom-left
· Fixed issue with 1px outline when shadow is disabled
· Fixed closing of tray menu on losing focus and ESC
· Fixed background color of copied to clipboard images
· Fixed non-default format selection in Save dialog
· Many minor improvements and bug fixes
January 25th, 2012· New major version of WinSnap with reworked UI
· Built-in image editor: arrows, rectangles, text annotations
· Capture native Aero shadows in Window and Application modes
· In-place color effects: grayscale, darken, lighten, sepia, invert
· Copy/paste images with transparency to Office 2010 and other apps
· Advanced file commands: open location, copy path, delete, rename
· Close to tray, minimize to tray, always on top commands
· Improved region selection: larger magnifier, crossing lines
· No support for Windows 2000, minimum - XP, recommended - Win7
· Tons of other improvements and fixes
January 23rd, 2012· new trial reminder dialogs
· support of old license files (purchased before Aug 2007)
· bug fixes and performance optimization
January 18th, 2012· arrow caps, improved hit testing, etc
· custom image and text watermark
· snapshot size, auto-save/auto-copy buttons
· region capture: fixed size and store pos
January 9th, 2012· settings, custom tools, hotkey error and other dialogs
· advanced file commands (menu File -> Advanced: Open Location, Copy Path, Rename, Delete)
· print, print setup, print preview
· support for Windows 7 Taksbar (jumplists)
· close to tray, minimize to tray, always on top, etc
· default window size on different resolutions
· auto-save, auto-copy
· many bug fixes and code optimization
October 2nd, 2011· Updated languages: German, Slovenian
· Added test support of Windows 8 Developer Preview
· Fixed issue with clearing Tools menu preferences after restart
· Fixed issue with "dwmapi.dll not found" error on Windows 2000/XP
September 7th, 2011· New languages: Georgian (35+ languages now!)
· Updated languages: Danish, Dutch, Hungarian, Italian, Russian, Persian
· Improved language selection in WinSnap installer
March 1st, 2011· Updated languages: Chinese, Danish, Turkish, Ukrainian
· Unified installer for 32-bit and 64-bit editions of WinSnap
· "Check for Updates" was greatly improved (2 mouse clicks now)
· Shorter screen capture delay on Windows 7 and Vista
· Fixed close button bug in Image Options dialog
· Several other minor improvements and bug fixes
November 24th, 2010· New languages: Polish, Slovenian, Hebrew (34+ languages now!)
· Updated languages: German, Czech, Chinese, Armenian, Serbian
· Fixed an issue with tooltips on toolbar buttons when changing language
October 20th, 2010· Added option "Disable global hotkeys for taking screenshots"
· Revised English language template file (see Translation.txt)
· Updated Russian translation for version 3.5
· Some minor improvements and bug fixes
October 6th, 2010· Delayed capture feature was greatly improved
· Added ability to adjust timeout for delayed capture (Settings, Capture tab)
· Added a countdown timer feature for delayed capture (Settings, Capture tab)
· Added 256x256 icon for Windows Vista/7 to the EXE resources
· Some options in the Settings dialog were renamed/rearranged
· Various stability and performance improvements
May 10th, 2010· New options toolbar for quick access to capture preferences
· New feature: delayed capture (5 seconds before taking snapshot)
· Updated trial reminder and enter license key dialogs
· Added ability to capture popup menus of QT applications (Object mode)
· Several fixes and improvements on the region selection mode
· Region selection is now 2 pixels wide
· Some other minor improvements and bug fixes
January 4th, 2010· New translations: Armenian, Estonian, Persian, Vietnamese (32+ languages)
· Improved performance of the Region selection mode for multi-monitor systems
· Added a check of illegal characters in filenames when using %TITLE%, %CLASS%
· WinSnap now remembers the page orientation correctly when printing images
· Fixed capturing of maximized windows on XP (Window & Application mode)
· Fixed height of the menu bar in High-DPI mode on Vista and Windows 7
· Revised sizes of the Settings dialogs, buttons and controls
· Various other stability and performance improvements
· Download WinSnap v3.1.5 (32-bit, 64-bit, portable)
November 19th, 2009· Improved the behavior of "Window" captures when the Taskbar is active
· Improved the "Clear Aero background under Vista and Windows 7" feature
· Fixed an issue with capturing desktop using the "Application" mode
October 20th, 2009· Pressing the number key twice starts a new capture
· Fixed an issue with the digital signature in the previous version
· Portable Edition: the trial counter works correctly now
· Portable Edition: several performance improvements for I/O
September 23rd, 2009· Fixed and improved "Clear Aero background under Vista/7" feature
· Fixed and improved rendering of custom controls on slow computers
· Fixed an issue with multiple presses of the PrintScreen key in the Region mode
· Fixed an issue with applying Advanced Capture Settings on the first run
· Several improvements to the WinSnap setup process
· Fixed a PCA warning on Windows 7 (caused from time to time)
· Added compatibility section to the EXE manifest for Windows 7
August 18th, 2009· Added Drag-n-Drop support (drag image and drop onto WinSnap to open it)
· Added ability to run WinSnap after installation on Vista and Windows 7
July 21st, 2009· WinSnap now officially supports the upcoming Windows 7 (32-bit and 64-bit)
· Windows 7: Added task list (jump list) to the WinSnap icon on the taskbar
· Added ability to capture complex menus of Office 2007 applications (Object mode)
· Several improvements to the WinSnap installer (graphics, icons, etc)
· Fixed an issue with keyboard shortcuts (Esc and other) in the Object mode
· Some other minor improvements and bug fixes
June 17th, 2009· New translations: Czech, Indonesian (27+ languages now)
· "Auto-Save" and "Auto-Copy" work when changing effects now
· New command line switches: /FIXED-SIZE, /FIXED-POS (see forum)
· Some other minor improvements and bug fixes
May 12th, 2009· New translations: Dutch, Korean, Basque (Euskera)
· Greatly improved "Clear window background under Vista" feature
· Capture Explorer windows and dialogs using the Application mode
· Active monitor is determined by mouse position now (Full Screen)
· Fixed some minor issues with capturing elevated (UAC) applications
· Improved compatibility with Windows 7 RC and Beta
· Portable Edition: increased performance when running from slow USB drives
April 20th, 2009· New translations: Danish, Italian, Hungarian, Slovak, Slovenian, Chinese (Simplified)
· Added %TITLE% and %CLASS% variables for image file names
· Move the selection rectangle in Region mode using ALT + Arrow Keys
· Fixed a few issues with region capture mode when monitor #2 is on the left
· Fixed a minor issue with keyboard shortcuts when a modal dialog is open
· Some other minor improvements and bug fixes
March 19th, 2009· New translations: Portuguese, Turkish, Swedish, Finnish, Greek, Bulgarian, Serbian (Latin), Serbian (Cyrillic), Chinese (Traditional)
· Improved compatibility with high DPI resolutions on XP and Vista
· Fixed a minor issue in WinSnap U3 Edition
March 2nd, 2009· New translations: German, French, Spanish, Japanese, Arabic, Russian
· Added ability to resize the right pane (New Snapshot button)
· Hold down CTRL in the Full Screen mode to capture multiple monitors
· English is the first language in the list now (General page)
· Fixed an issue with updating the capture mode when using hotkeys
· Fixed a minor issue with menu accelerator keys
· Some other minor improvements
February 24th, 2009· WinSnap 3.0 Portable and U3 Editions released
· Added support of third-party language files and translations
· Added option "Show prompt dialog before exit if image is not saved"
· Added a reminder dialog in the unregistered version
· Fixed F1 and "Help Topics" link in the main menu
· Some minor enhancements in the user interface
· Some default settings were changed
February 10th, 2009· Added a dialog to configure advanced image format options
· Support of 256-color images (8bpp, indexed format)
· New better algorithm to generate 256-color palette
· JPEG quality option can now be set for each custom tool
· Added an option to run a command after saving image on disk
· Added a button to open the image menu with left-click
· Several other enhancements in the user interface
December 16th, 2008· New clean and simple user interface
· Reflection image effect (supports transparency)
· Ability to clear window transparency under Vista
· "New Snapshot" hotkey (Print Screen, by default)
· Right-click menu: "Open File Location", "Copy Full Path"
· Some default options were changed
· Many other minor improvements
October 29th, 2008· Significant performance improvements on shadow generation algorithm
· Fixed a minor issue with capturing non-rectangular windows
· Various other stability and performance improvements
August 5th, 2008· Fixed an issue with capturing WindowBlinds themes on Windows XP
· Some minor improvements on custom dialog controls under different OS
June 24th, 2008· New: Installer for 64-bit versions of Windows XP/Vista
· Installers are now multilingual with full Unicode support (www.scratchpaper.com)
· A better algorithm to determine the window size of non-rectangular windows
· Object mode: Fixed a minor issue with selection of child windows
· Object mode: Ability to select window client area without scrollbars and borders
· WinSnap for U3: Fixed an issue with the latest U3 Launchpad on Vista
· Included new translations: Hungarian - more than 27 languages now
May 12th, 2008· Updated the default shadow settings for Windows Vista
· Added ability to capture skinned popup menus of some applications
· Fixed tray icon size at high DPI (such as 120 DPI on Vista)
· Some language files were updated
April 22nd, 2008· Now WinSnap is available for purchase on CD-ROM.
· Added more profiles for WindowBlinds styles (AdvConfig.exe).
· Several improvements on the portable version of WinSnap.
· Fixed some minor issues in the installer of the previous version.
· Some other minor improvements and bugfixes.
March 19th, 2008· Added quick profiles for popular WindowBlinds styles (AdvConfig.exe).
· Added "Rounded corners on top" advanced style (AdvConfig.exe).
· Better support of WindowBlinds styles with per-pixel transparency on XP and Vista.
· Menu capture mode was removed (use the Object mode instead).
· Several new UI and usability improvements.
February 12th, 2008· Full support of WindowBlinds visual styles (see forum for more details).
· Multi-Region capture mode (hold CTRL to select multiple screen regions).
· Several other improvements on the Region capture mode.
· Fixed an issue with auto-save filename in external tools.
· Some other minor improvements and bugfixes.
September 11th, 2007· WinSnap U3 Edition released (U3 smart drive required).
· Several speed improvements on the portable version.
· Some language files were updated.
· Small cosmetic changes in UI.
August 7th, 2007· WinSnap 64-bit Edition released (for AMD64/EM64T).
· The software update process takes only 2 mouse clicks now.
· Several improvements on the registration mechanism.
· Message boxes are properly placed depending on the main window position.
· Fixed a minor issue with capturing maximized windows in the Application mode.
· Some other minor bug fixes and improvements.
May 14th, 2007· Usual compatibility improvements with Windows Vista.
· Added ability to capture Firefox popup menus in the Object/Menu mode.
· Fixed a minor issue with capturing transparent cursor.
· Added -EXIT command line option
May 1st, 2007· Included new translations: Latvian, Norwegian (25 now).
· Region capture: Improved compatibility with MS Outlook 2007.
· Fixed some issues with modal dialogs on different versions of Windows Vista.
April 3rd, 2007· Included new translations: Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, Portuguese, Spanish.
· Improved Windows Vista compatibility.
· Some other minor improvements.
March 19th, 2007· Included new translations: Arabic, Armenian, Finnish (17 now).
· New file auto-naming options (%NUM2%, %NUM3%, etc).
· Popup menus are now supported in Multi-Object selection mode.
· Updated the help file (included in full version).
· Some other minor improvements.
March 5th, 2007· Included many new tranlations.
· All executables are digitally signed now.
· Improvements on the registration mechanism.
· Fixed bug with underlined letters in the main menu.
· Several cosmetic changes in GUI.
February 13th, 2007· New major update was especially designed for Windows Vista.
· Aero Glass capturing with shadows and transparencies.
· Alpha-channel and PNG/TIFF transparency support.
· New unique Multi-Object capture mode.
· "Client Area" capture mode was superseded by Object mode.
· Configurable external tools menu.
· Region "fixed size" capture mode.
· Region "store position" option.
· New file auto-naming options.
· Quick-Print shortcut key.
· Many other bugfixes and small improvements.
November 13th, 2006· First portable version (to run from a USB stick).
· New interface languages were added (20 now).
· Bug with invalid auto-save directory was fixed.
· Some issues with region capture were fixed.
· Many small improvements and core optimization.
September 12th, 2006· Multilingual installer and uninstaller.
· More that 16 translations were added.
· Added ability to capture mouse cursor in region mode.
· Some issues with check for online updates were fixed.
· Some small bugfixes and improvements.
August 24th, 2006· New option to include mouse cursor.
· New option to keep WinSnap minimized in auto-save mode.
· New option to clear image on minimize (to safe memory).
· Added ability to capture XP Start Menu in 'Menu' mode.
· Escape minimizes the main window.
· New command line parameters were added.
· Minimize/restore animation now depend on system settings.
· Some default program settings were changed.
· Some issues with wide-screens were fixed.
· Many other small bugfixes and improvements.
· Status 'beta' was removed - it is first mature release!
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