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Snipaste Changelog

What's new in Snipaste 2.8.8 Beta

Sep 26, 2023
  • Fix unable to take screenshots properly for some multi-monitor setup

New in Snipaste 2.8.5 Beta (May 14, 2023)

  • [PRO] Support triggering "Copy Image as File" with Ctrl+Alt+C
  • [PRO] Optimize the display of long custom commands
  • [PRO] Support disabling/enabling hot corner by global hotkey
  • [PRO] New Command Line Options: barcode-decode FILE
  • Support preset screenshot area and naming #2541
  • Improve the response speed of command line calls #2584
  • To toggle the display of the auxiliary lines during snipping, the keyboard shortcut is now a single press of Alt instead of a long press
  • Fix wrong tray icon color on high contrast system theme
  • Other bug fixes or improvements

New in Snipaste 2.8.4 Beta (Jan 10, 2023)

  • Fix a crash issue

New in Snipaste 2.8.3 Beta (Dec 21, 2022)

  • [PRO] New command line option: barcode-scan
  • Improve the positioning of the painting toolbar in certain situations
  • Other bug fixes #2414 #2419

New in Snipaste 2.8.2 Beta (Dec 3, 2022)

  • [PRO] Add a shortcut for "Refresh screenshot": F5
  • Fix rendering the captured cursor icon #2399
  • Fix crash due to loading some fonts #2401
  • Fix an issue when reading images from the clipboard

New in Snipaste 2.8.1 Beta (Dec 3, 2022)

  • Pressing Ctrl+A multiple times during snipping will select the active screen or all screens #2392
  • Fix a few issues with "Refresh screenshot"
  • Fix a crash issue#2393

New in Snipaste 2.8 MS Store (Nov 15, 2022)

  • [PRO] Support barcode and QR code decoding #23
  • [PRO] Long press "Refresh screenshot" to keep refreshing the screenshot
  • [PRO] Improve robustness of super-snip #2242
  • [PRO] Able to toggle annotations from the context menu of image windows
  • [PRO] New option: Free select annotation
  • [PRO] New option: Customizable actions for Esc and Shift+Esc on image windows
  • [PRO] Image windows support virtual desktop on Windows 11 #2233
  • [PRO] "Copy as files" will get file names from user-specified file name pattern
  • [PRO] Added command line options:
  • Whiteboard support custom colors and only displaying on active screen: whiteboard --color black --active-screen
  • Screenshot output supports skipping auto save: snip -o no-auto-save
  • Clear the current image group: empty-group
  • Open the Image Group Manager window: show-group-manager
  • [Mac] Support multi-screen snipping #1026
  • [Mac] Compatibility with login item on macOS Ventura #2366
  • [Mac] Fixed image window showing file icon instead of image content #2147
  • Upgrade to Qt 6.2.4
  • Adapt context menu style for Windows 11
  • New option: Remember last used image extension #2238
  • New Advanced Configs: General/gpu_acceleration
  • Select the next image group by default for image group switch #2354
  • Improve interface for different DPIs on multi-screen #2256
  • Ask user to confirm when there are too many images to pin #2291
  • When you annotate on an image window and accidentally hide the toolbar, the context menu can help you quit annotation or show the toolbar
  • Show the failure reason when user is setting the global hotkey and it gets rejected
  • No more writing frequently changing item Misc/preload_dlls_last_interval into config.ini
  • Fix crash on screen disconnection (e.g. system going into sleeping states) #2208
  • Fix cannot type 'C' on remote desktop #2078
  • Fix element detection for Firefox in fullscreen mode
  • Fix element detection in Waterfox #2307
  • Fix lagging when playing sound effect after snipping
  • Fix antialiasing on some annotations
  • Fix text parsing for color values #2197
  • Other improvements and bug fixes #2175 #2225 #2243 #2281

New in Snipaste 2.7.3 Beta (Feb 9, 2022)

  • Fixed dll error on Windows 7 #2103

New in Snipaste 2.7.3.0 MS Store (Jan 28, 2022)

  • Minor bug fix

New in Snipaste 2.7.2.0 MS Store (Jan 25, 2022)

  • [PRO] New feature: refresh screenshot (while preserving existing annotations) #2077
  • [PRO] Screenshot started with --shadow or --no-shadow would no longer affect subsequent snipping
  • Fixed Quick Save failure due to illegal characters in foreground window title #2068
  • Fixed keypad numbers not functional as expected

New in Snipaste 2.7.1 Beta (Dec 22, 2021)

  • Fixed crash on AMD Graphics Cards #2056
  • Fixed blurry tray icon after display DPI change #512
  • Improved user interface adaptation after diplay DPI change
  • Prevent border resizing if the cursor is inside the image window #2047
  • [Mac] Fix icon color after dark mode switch #2046
  • [Mac] Fix snipping history replay on non-retina display #2034

New in Snipaste 2.7.0.0 MS Store (Nov 24, 2021)

  • [PRO] Fixed super-snip not included in snipping history #1998
  • [PRO] Fixed wrong ordering of image windows when revealed from temporary hiding
  • [PRO] Fixed the mnemonic key for "Show hidden images"
  • Fixed pinning images copied from chrome browser incorrectly shown as url #2013
  • Fixed wrong positioning of the painting toolbar for some situations
  • Prevent color picker showing up in screenshot #1963
  • Improved Russian translation. If you find any error in translation, please feel free to contact sharkeron.
  • Improved user experience for drawing a line strip
  • Improved image quality when saving images as JPEG
  • Other improvements and bug fixes #1961 #2008

New in Snipaste 2.6.6.0 MS Store (Aug 16, 2021)

  • [PRO] On the context menu of the image window, you can now choose "Hide other images for now" even when you already hide some
  • Fixed posible application hang when detecting window interface elements
  • Other minor fixes
  • Paste the small picture, the mouse wheel zooms in, and the ratio does not change at a certain level #1944
  • hift + F10 to bring up the context menu of the texture #1950

New in Snipaste 2.6.5.0 MS Store (Aug 5, 2021)

  • Use Tab to switch between Rectangle/Ellipse or Line/Arrow when annotating
  • [Mac] Fixed a few bugs

New in Snipaste 2.6.5 Beta (Aug 4, 2021)

  • Use Tab to switch between Rectangle/Ellipse or Line/Arrow when annotating

New in Snipaste 2.6.4.0 MS Store (Aug 2, 2021)

  • [Win] Fixed crash issue on some Intel Graphics cards
  • [Mac] Fixed color dialog not showing up #1932
  • [Mac] Improved window detection when transparent windows (e.g. LyricsX) are present #1932

New in Snipaste 2.6.0.0 MS Store (Jul 29, 2021)

  • [PRO] Added Magnify annotation #193
  • [PRO] Support ellipse shape for Highlight/Mosaic/Blur/Eraser
  • [PRO] Eraser is now rotatable
  • [PRO] Added more styles for Arrow annotation
  • [PRO] Added an option to show the native Windows 10 "Share" button #1875
  • [PRO] Added an entry "Add to presets" for custom snipping size
  • [PRO] Support resizing rectangle/ellipse annotations by center by holding Ctrl
  • [PRO] Added an option to follow system theme color #1771
  • Added option: "Paste/max_window_size"
  • Added option: "Interface/reedit_eraser"
  • Merged Arrow tool into Linestrip tool
  • New shorcuts for annotation: T for Text; B for Pencil
  • Refactored interface element detection to be much smoother, more robust and intelligent
  • Improved efficiency for Mosaic/Blur/Text annotations
  • Support French keyboard layout for WASD (cursor move)
  • Fixed Vietnamese IME support for image windows
  • [Win] Hold Shift to show advanced tray menu #1753
  • [Win] Fixed tray icon being hiden after upgrade
  • [Mac] Hold Alt to show advanced tray menu #1753
  • [Mac] Support cursor capture in snipping
  • Other bug fixes #1737 #1758 #1829 #1831 #1843 #1890 #1895 #1916

New in Snipaste 2.5.60.0 MS Store (Dec 10, 2020)

  • Improved the undo/redo operation of annotation
  • Other improvements and bug fixes

New in Snipaste 2.5.5 (Dec 1, 2020)

  • File name pattern supports %title% (the title of the active window) #1589
  • Other improvements and bug fixes #1685 #1722 #1727

New in Snipaste 2.5.4 (Nov 6, 2020)

  • Fixed a bug for dual monitors #1698

New in Snipaste 2.5.3 (Nov 3, 2020)

  • Minor bug fixes #1684 #1685

New in Snipaste 2.5.2 (Nov 3, 2020)

  • [PRO] Customizable number of colors for the palette on the toolbar
  • [PRO] More flexible number marking
  • The first number can be bigger than 1
  • Numbers can also be adjusted via +/- keys
  • Other improvements and bug fixes (#1644, etc.)
  • Added Italian translation (Thanks to mausan66)

New in Snipaste 2.5.1 (Oct 22, 2020)

  • Use px/dip for physical/logical pixel #1008
  • Use the upper folder if the last save folder does not exist #1632
  • Fixed size of captured cursor #1635
  • Fixed text size/arrow style not correctly remembered #1625
  • Other minor fixes

New in Snipaste 2.5.0 (Aug 12, 2020)

  • [PRO] Two-way/Reverse arrow annotation #843
  • [PRO] Dashed/Dotted line style for line strip/arrow/pencil annotations#92
  • [PRO] Output image with border (customizable color and width) #197
  • [PRO] Customizable color and width when output image with shadow
  • [PRO] Customizable background color for text annotation #1529
  • [PRO] Size unit (dp/px) available for snipping area #1008
  • [PRO] Export multiple selected image windows from the context menu #1507
  • Show key binding tips during snipping (can be turned off in Preferences Dialog) #902
  • New "Open config file's containing folder" button in Preferences Dialog
  • New option: Ignore "Copy" command simulated by other applications #1531
  • New Advanced Configs: Paste/include_active_window_for_multiselection #1461
  • Fixed crash due to moving image window across screens with different DPIs #1489
  • Fixed image window appearing in Alt-Tab on Win7 #1528
  • Fixed text annotation not working for horizontally/vertically flipped image window
  • Show local coordinate for the color picker of image window
  • New image window inherits the annotation settings of the current snipping window
  • When annotating during snipping, right click outside of the snipping area to mark the whole area
  • Use the interface font as the default font of text annotation #1522
  • Improved appearance of toolbar across different DPIs
  • Other minor improvements

New in Snipaste 2.4.0 (Aug 12, 2020)

  • [PRO] New annotation type: Number Marking #227
  • [PRO] Added rounded rectangle annotation #1185
  • [PRO] Able to choose stroke color and adjust stroke thickness for text Annotation #83
  • [PRO] Added background fill option for text annotation
  • [PRO] Hold Ctrl then click the Copy/Paste/Save button on the toolbar to get an image with shadow
  • [PRO] Press Ctrl+A on the map to select all the maps.
  • [PRO] Enabled by default "Use separate colors for different shapes"
  • Added size dropdown list for text annotation
  • Able to use mouse scrolling to change the size of text annotation
  • Able to choose colored tray icons in the Preferences Dialog
  • Besides mouse scroll and 1 2, now you can also use [ ] to adjust the pen width
  • Shortcut for the eraser tool changed to E
  • New prompt on first double-click to close the image window #1514
  • Fixed cursor image capture
  • Other minor fixes

New in Snipaste 2.3.5 Beta (Apr 13, 2020)

  • Fixed incapability to run as admin on system startup
  • Fixed outline text issue for Chinese characters #1475
  • [Mac] Fixed window style for Preferences windows under dark mode
  • [Mac] Fixed ineffective entries for tray menu #1467

New in Snipaste 1.16.2 (Jan 22, 2018)

  • Crash on changing configuration location
  • (Microsoft Store) App fails to launch after the user moves it to another drive

New in Snipaste 1.16.1 (Jan 16, 2018)

  • Fixed:
  • Mosaic/Guassian blur may not work during snipping #789
  • Wi-Fi scannimg issue #788 QTBUG-40332

New in Snipaste 1.16 (Jan 15, 2018)

  • New:
  • Option: Customizable hotkeys for image window zooming and opacity adjustment
  • Option: Disable cursor capture forever (to improve response time on entering snipping)
  • Option: Disable the notification for quick save #636
  • Advanced Configs: Misc/squeeze_memory
  • Enable it to reduce memory cost, but it could also harm the response time on entering snipping
  • Press V to copy the size of snipping area #633
  • 33.3% scale is now available in the context menu of the image window
  • Support Ctrl + C for non-Latin keyboard #689
  • Support Ctrl + Insert to copy screenshot/image
  • Rewritten Command line options
  • Serbian translation (thanks to ozzii.translate)
  • Fixed:
  • Sometimes the caret is not removed after text annotation
  • Previewing sound effect for snipping mistakenly opens the sound file with associated program #647
  • Logging fails to update instantly under trace/debug mode
  • Improved:
  • Use the corresponding color for thumbnailed color card #630
  • Add dropdown shadow for text annotation

New in Snipaste 1.15.3 (Nov 12, 2017)

  • New:
  • (Microsoft Store) Add logging option
  • Fixed:
  • (Microsoft Store) App crashes on exit and then restarts automatically
  • (Microsoft Store) Cannot open the config file from the Preferences Dialog
  • Some annotations cannot be moved correctly if the image window is scaled or rotated
  • Improved:
  • Now you can use the $ and % symbols in folder path or file name #626
  • Other minor improvements, e.g. #621

New in Snipaste 1.15.2 (Nov 6, 2017)

  • New:
  • (Windows Store) Enable the switch for Run on system startup. After Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (1709), the system will try to run Snipaste on startup if Snipaste is running when the OS shuts down, regardless of the status of this option. If it causes Snipaste to have two tray icons, you may turn this option off to work around it.
  • Hold Shift and drag the snipping area or the annotation to move it horizontally or vertically. Not for the text annotation yet
  • Option: Disable mouse scrolling for pen width adjustment when snipping
  • Fixed:
  • Snipaste is closed after the laptop is unplugged, for some users #522
  • Outdated documentation
  • Improved:
  • Better highlighting for marker pen #580 #596 #616
  • Allow text re-edit only when the text icon is selected #590
  • history_dir now supports environment variables
  • Other minor improvements

New in Snipaste 1.15.1 (Sep 27, 2017)

  • Fixed:
  • Errors (file name pattern, Quick Save, etc.) caused by config.ini simplification

New in Snipaste 1.15 (Sep 25, 2017)

  • New:
  • Snipaste is now available in Windows Store
  • (Windows Store) Support command line options. For example, snipaste.exe --snip-full --output clipboard(yes, no need to specify the path to the executable file)
  • Hold Shift to make a square screenshot when snipping
  • The way for enabling/disabling mouse click-through has changed again:
  • The double-tap X way is removed
  • To prevent misoperation, no hotkey is assigned for this feature by default. If you understand it and need it, please go to Preferences - Hotkey - Toggle mouse click-through and set a hotkey for it
  • Be sure to click on the i icon to learn the usage
  • You can now change the location of the configuration file in the Preferences Dialog:
  • Not fully tested. Please provide feedback if you find any bugs
  • Support specifying the output of screenshots via CLI
  • Not fully tested. Please provide feedback if you find any bugs
  • Turkish translation
  • Fixed:
  • (Windows Store) App does not restart after update
  • Deviation of the position of the rectangle annotation
  • Window detection problems related to the taskbar area #584
  • Hotkey problems when Auto backup is disabled #499
  • Possible crash caused by clicking on the red dots
  • Crashes related to image groups
  • Improved:
  • The default font style for text annotation becomes not outlined
  • When in the fill mode of mosaic/Gaussian blur, you can scroll the mouse wheel to adjust the blur level
  • Better visibility of the cursor when annotating #544
  • End text edit instead of quitting snipping, when you press Esc during text annotation #562
  • Stay at the current group when activating the hotkey for group switching (press the hotkey more times to switch to other groups) #556
  • Simplify config.ini by removing settings that are using default values

New in Snipaste 1.14 (Aug 4, 2017)

  • New:
  • Usage tips (indicated by red dots)
  • Support symbolic link for config.ini #494
  • Show two more auxiliary lines when holding Alt during snipping #513
  • Advanced Configs: Misc/reload_image_plugins_timer
  • Russian translation (thanks to vanja-san)
  • Arabic translation (thanks to MFMDawdeh)
  • Fixed:
  • UI element detection for Windows Explorer
  • On HDD, after Snipaste being idle for a while, the first time to drag and move any of the image windows may fail to respond instantly
  • Some bugs that cause crashes and many other minor bugs
  • Improved:
  • Refresh the tray icon when DPI changes #512
  • Some default values of options

New in Snipaste 1.13.6 (Jun 8, 2017)

  • Fixed:
  • Unable to annotate when snipping, for some multi-screen users #487

New in Snipaste 1.13.5 (Jun 8, 2017)

  • Improved:
  • The 'Rectangle' and 'Ellipse' are merged in the toolbar
  • The mosaic effect and blur effect have independent levels now
  • Avoid cleaning up the record files when restoring fails
  • Fixed:
  • Snipping unexpectedly quits when clicking on some of the widgets in the toolbar #485
  • Copying or saving annotated gray-scale images loses the colors
  • The flickering of the tooltip on the image window

New in Snipaste 1.13.4 (Jun 6, 2017)

  • New:
  • Tray menu item: Disable hotkeys #171
  • Fixed:
  • DPI problems for the snipping window #481 #482
  • Fail to start because of conflicted environment variable #457 #480
  • Using the Tab key during snipping cannot switch between element detection and window detection #479
  • Improved:
  • Lag after snipping (due to auto saving of snipping history)

New in Snipaste 1.13.3 (Jun 2, 2017)

  • New:
  • Advanced Configs: Add process_priority, remove high_process_priority
  • The default process priority will be 'Above normal'
  • Fixed:
  • On the image window, the rendering of mosaic/Gaussian blur is incorrect
  • On rotated image windows, the directions are incorrect when moving the annotations by arrow keys
  • Other minor bugs
  • Improved:
  • Update to Qt 5.9
  • Minor improvements

New in Snipaste 1.13.2 (May 22, 2017)

  • New:
  • Use the arrow keys to move the annotations
  • Crash dump
  • New log level: Trace
  • Advanced Configs: Paste/force_html_wrap
  • Advanced Configs: Misc/uppercase_hex_color
  • Fixed:
  • Some bugs that cause crashes and many other minor bugs

New in Snipaste 1.13.1 (May 8, 2017)

  • Fixed:
  • The help dialog becomes invisible under some conditions
  • The anchors are not repainted correctly under some conditions
  • The cursor shapes when hovering on finished text annotation #442
  • Improved:
  • Update some translations

New in Snipaste 1.13 (May 5, 2017)

  • New:
  • Adjust pen width continuously: Mouse scroll or 1 / 2 #276
  • A new way to switch between image groups #390
  • A more convenient way to rotate the text
  • In the meantime, remove Ctrl + Dragging corners to rotate the text
  • When editing text, use Mouse mid-button to paste #410
  • Global hotkey: snip and copy (default Ctrl + F1)
  • Option: Anchors for snipping area #391
  • Advanced Configs: Snip/anchors_threshold
  • Advanced Configs: HotKey2/exchange_wasd_and_arrow_keys #417
  • Advanced Configs: Misc/path_simplify_tolerance #371
  • Command Line Options: Rename --switch to --switch-to
  • Command Line Options: Use `--at` to specify the screen position for pinning the image
  • Improved:
  • Performance optimization
  • Update some icons
  • To avoid false operation, the shortcut for click-through mode is changed to X double-tap (previously X single-tap)
  • Now you can tell whether you are in mosaic or Gaussian blur mode by the shape of the slider handle
  • Merge all the help docs to a single window
  • Let the shadow frame and thumbnail frame be detectable by snipping
  • The range of S, V, L, I in HSV, HSL, HSI is changed from [0, 255] to [0, 100] #418
  • Scaling problem for some HiDPI settings #372
  • Automatically cancel annotations that are falsely added by double click #383
  • Allow to change the opacity of images when in thumbnail mode #425
  • Apply the opacity setting to the frame of thumbnail #425
  • When in window/element detection mode, use W A S D or arrow keys alike can move the cursor
  • Allow adjusting the snipping area by hotkeys when in edit mode
  • Disable other global hotkeys when snipping
  • Disable 'Esc to quit snipping' when in whiteboard mode
  • Resolve symbolic links when enforcing single instance application
  • Fixed:
  • Some crash bugs
  • Incorrect format when converting some HTML to images #366 #403
  • When Cortana is active, the snipping window is below the taskbar
  • Possible incorrect image size when restoring the image windows
  • Some other minor bugs #389

New in Snipaste 1.12 (Mar 9, 2017)

  • New:
  • Allow to make an individual image window mouse click-through (press X on an activated image). Meanwhile, removed the functionality to set ALL images unclickable. The original global hotkey is now used to cancel the click-through mode of the image under the cursor; if no image window is under the cursor, all unclickable images will be made clickable. Accordingly, removed command line options --click-through-toggle, --click-through-enable and --click-through-disable, added --no-click-through
  • Option: Auto save all screenshots to a specified directory
  • Option: Page margin for text to image conversion #359
  • Option: Log level (Not including the XP version)
  • Command Line Options: --config
  • Advanced Configs: Update/fake_version
  • Advanced Configs: Log/file, Log/flush_interval, Log/rotate, Log/rotate_size_mb
  • French translation
  • Fixed:
  • Unchecking the option "Quit snipping if any other window is activated" has no effect
  • Interaction bugs when making some annotations #351
  • When Snipaste is inside a sync folder of Dropbox, online updater may fail #333
  • Flipping the image window does not affect the existing annotations
  • Too much space for an empty line when converting HTML to image #366
  • Possible incorrect font used when converting HTML to image
  • Incorrect cursor used under certain conditions #363
  • Improved:
  • Improved the image quality of JPG under default settings #311
  • Now you can press the global hotkey of pasting when snipping
  • Support environment variables in paths (Quick Save / Auto Save) #367
  • Updated the cursor shapes of some annotations #352
  • Auto acceleration when holding W A S D for cursor moving
  • Support Ctrl + V on image windows
  • Added "Restart" entry in the enhanced tray menu
  • Added several hint icons in Preferences Dialog
  • More efficient Gaussian blur
  • Some improvements to the UI
  • Updated the Qt version to 5.8 (not including the XP version)

New in Snipaste 1.11.3 (Jan 27, 2017)

  • New:
  • FAQ
  • Vietnamese translation
  • Fixed:
  • Rendering error when "Auto detect widnows" is disabled #317
  • Some minor bugs

New in Snipaste 1.11.2 (Jan 16, 2017)

  • Fixed:
  • Sometimes the updater dialog does not appear when an update is available #298

New in Snipaste 1.11.1 (Jan 16, 2017)

  • New:
  • Option: Max number of history snipping areas
  • Option: Loop through history snipping areas
  • Portuguese (Portugal) translation
  • Fixed:
  • Possible restart failure after version update, when startup as admin (thanks to Fubuki)
  • Short-time interface freeze when checking for update for the first time since launched
  • Text of some widgets in the Preferences Dialog is not updated after switching languages
  • Problems on the image borders after mirroring the image #248
  • Improved:
  • Faster response for the first snipping since launched
  • Instant response for moving the image window by holding the mouse left button and pressing W A S D #315
  • Note: this operation has problems on Windows XP
  • Translated the color dialog, font dialog, etc.
  • Improvements to many details

New in Snipaste 1.11.0 (Jan 1, 2017)

  • New:
  • Remember more than one snipped area #249
  • Switch between them by pressing multiple times of R or Shift + R
  • The number is the same as the max number of history snipping records
  • Add an alternative update feed source
  • Add a "Recheck" button in the updater dialog
  • Command Line Options: --snip-whiteboard whiteboard mode
  • Option: Customize the action of Enter for snipping
  • Option: Zoom at mouse cursor #249
  • Option: 'Reset image' also works in thumbnail mode #280
  • Option: Preserve the original image window for drag-and-drop
  • Dutch translation (thanks to Stephan Paternotte)
  • Fixed:
  • Detecting elements in Nsight causes its crash #290
  • Under certain conditions, the Win key is not unhooked after snipping is finished #272
  • The first press of Tab has no effect
  • Some logical errors when checking for updates
  • Improved:
  • Now you can toggle the toolbar by Space even in edit mode
  • Let the hue value for achromatic colors be 0 instead of -1
  • Improvements to many details

New in Snipaste 1.10.5 (Dec 10, 2016)

  • New:
  • Add HSV and HSI to the color card
  • Fixed:
  • Text copied from Chrome has rendering problems after pasted to the text edit #257
  • Text copied from Android Studio loses its format after converted to an image #266
  • Cannot capture topmost windows if Snipaste is started under some special conditions #269
  • Sometimes the z-orders of image windows are not correctly restored
  • Improved:
  • If "Start on system boot" is checked and the startup shortcut is found lost when Snipaste is starting, try to regenerate one

New in Snipaste 1.10.4 (Dec 5, 2016)

  • Fixed:
  • Adding/Removing screens is not detected under some conditions #233
  • Drag-and-drop operation for GIF files #260
  • Missing magnifier under some conditions
  • Infinite update notification under some conditions

New in Snipaste 1.10.3 (Dec 1, 2016)

  • New:
  • Check out our brand new documentation site
  • Generated using docsify
  • Fixed:
  • When the system setting "Show indow contents while dragging" is not enabled, the image windows cannot be moved
  • Cannot copy the text from a pasted file path
  • Hold Shift and drag the anchor of line shapes has no shifted effect
  • #253
  • Improved:
  • Cancel the moving operation for pencil / mosaic / eraser, to avoid unintended moving for continuous drawing

New in Snipaste 1.10.2 (Nov 28, 2016)

  • New:
  • Easy text re-edit
  • Allow to move shapes as a whole, including line strip / pencil / mosaic / eraser
  • Hold Mouse left button + W A S D to move the image window by pixel #211
  • (Command Line Options) --paste-files accepts directories now
  • (Advanced Configs) exclude_from_detection
  • (Advanced Configs) crashes
  • Fixed:
  • After startup on system boot, a manual update check will cause the Preferences Dialog unresponsive #242
  • If elevated, Snipaste cannot respond to command line options #240
  • Window detection is not working if snipping is started under some special condition #123
  • Improved:
  • Various details improvement

New in Snipaste 1.10.1 (Nov 23, 2016)

  • Application crashes once started (for a few users)
  • Incorrect display when replaying snipping history
  • The "Update Success" notification doesn't pop up after online update

New in Snipaste 1.10.0 (Nov 23, 2016)

  • New:
  • Support Command Line Options
  • When snipping, allow to adjust the snipping area when in edit mode #211
  • All edit shapes now support Shift toggling
  • "Line strip" now has a "Line" mode: click and hold Mouse left button, then move the mouse to draw a single line
  • "Help" menu in the tray menu
  • Press Ctrl + Shift + C on the image window to directly copy the plain text (if this image is converted from text)
  • Click the balloon after a Quick Save to reveal the file in Windows Explorer #220
  • "Show in folder" action in the context menu of image window #223
  • (Option) Startup as admin on system boot
  • So that you can use hotkeys even if the active window is run as admin
  • (Option) Proxy server settings
  • (Option) Delay time for update checking after startup
  • (Option) Check for updates every a few hours
  • (Option) Include beta builds when checking for updates
  • (Option) Disable text-to-image conversion
  • Improved:
  • Greatly improved performance when snipping
  • The shortcut for "Pin to screen" when snipping has been changed to Ctrl + T (previously Ctrl + W)
  • Redraw all icons and use no icon fonts
  • Refine the painting of the magnifier
  • Better adjustment strategy for the position of the toolbar when snipping
  • Better adjustment strategy for the position of the resolution label when snipping
  • Fixed:
  • In the enhanced tray menu, "Show/Hide all images" performs an incorrect action #202
  • Fast switching between image groups may cause no new images can be pasted #199
  • Many minor bugs

New in Snipaste 1.9.2 (Oct 31, 2016)

  • Fixed:
  • After transferring an image to another group, the images in that group are lost (a bug of v1.9.0 and v1.9.1)
  • After transferring an image to another group created by an much earlier version of Snipaste, the application crashes
  • After this update, please switch into each image group to ensure history records are upgraded
  • Possible incorrect image counts after an image is transferred
  • Improved:
  • Make the newly transferred image on top of other images

New in Snipaste 1.9.1 (Oct 27, 2016)

  • Fixed:
  • User configs of 'Image Operations' are lost after upgrade
  • Improved:
  • Apply the file name pattern to the file save dialog (except for the suffix, which will be the same as your last saved image)

New in Snipaste 1.8.8 (Oct 18, 2016)

  • Fixed:
  • Incorrect processing for Quick Save path (the upper directory was used instead, affecting 1.8.6 and 1.8.7)
  • The previous arrow/text scaling is not restored after Snipaste is restarted
  • When the magnifier shows up, the first frame shows the old content

New in Snipaste 1.8.7 (Oct 15, 2016)

  • Fixed:
  • Fail to play the sound effect

New in Snipaste 1.8.6 (Oct 15, 2016)

  • New:
  • Option) Play a sound effect after snipping
  • When editing, press Alt+C to pick the screen color into the painting pen
  • Improved:
  • Auto switch to the corrseponding edit mode after "Redo", to make it easier for re-edit
  • Support relative path for Quick Save directory

New in Snipaste 1.8.5 (Oct 13, 2016)

  • New:
  • Support global hotkeys containing "PrtSc"
  • Improved:
  • Change the name of "Meta" key to "Win"

New in Snipaste 1.8.4 (Oct 12, 2016)

  • New:
  • (Option) Customize the mouse operation for image windows
  • Note: 'Close image' has been reset to 'Double click' and 'Toggle thumbnail mode' is now 'Win + Left click'.
  • Change them yourself if you don't like the defaults.
  • (Option) Customize the output image quality
  • The Internal Hotkeys Dialog is updated and added with a 'Copy' button
  • Press Ctrl+Shift+P on an image window to open the Preferences Dialog
  • Advanced config: General/high_process_priority
  • Advanced config: snip/do_not_omit_synthesized_c
  • Japanese translation
  • Fixed:
  • Crash when switching image groups in a row
  • The thumbnail images cannot flash their borders
  • When the default opacity for image windows is less than 100, image duplication check does not work properly
  • Improved:
  • No more omit all synthesized keys when snipping (so that synthesized keys by ahk etc. still work)
  • Even when "Auto detect UI elements" is not checked, you can press 'Tab' to start element detection
  • Images with small width/height can be easily moved now

New in Snipaste 1.8.3 (Oct 7, 2016)

  • Fixed:
  • Wrong snip history folder is used (a bug of v1.8.2)
  • Snipaste mistakenly exits due to double click on the tray icon
  • Improved:
  • The theme color will now be applied to the shadow of the active image window

New in Snipaste 1.8.2 (Sep 30, 2016)

  • New:
  • Advanced config: General/history_dir
  • Fixed:
  • Snipaste fails to restart after auto update, for some users
  • After closing a group from the tray menu, the menu does not hide itself
  • Improved:
  • Remove "Restart" from enhanced tray mene
  • Check and remove unused group folders in the history directory on startup

New in Snipaste 1.8.1 (Sep 29, 2016)

  • Fixed:
  • Some user-modified settings are not correctly applied after restart
  • (XP) Fail to create startup link for non-English system
  • Improved:
  • Show notification if config.ini is not writable

New in Snipaste 1.8 (Sep 28, 2016)

  • New:
  • Thumbnail mode for the image windows (double click on it)
  • (Option) Thumbnail size
  • "Restore Defaults" buttons in Preferences Dialog
  • The alpha channel can be applied to marker pen now
  • Fixed:
  • Window detection for maximized windows and fullscreen windows
  • Again, window detection problems on HiDPI screens
  • Dual screen (when primary screen is at bottom and screen borders are not aligned) problems of snipping
  • Shape controllers are unexpectedly drawn when saving to an image
  • Rectangle/Ellipse/LineStrip/Pencil drawing when using semi-transparent colors
  • Improved:
  • The alpha value is now saved for small colors buttons too

New in Snipaste 1.7.3 (Sep 28, 2016)

  • Fixed:
  • Taskbar area is not included if the detected window is fullscreen
  • (XP) kernel32.dll error
  • (XP) Unable to set global hotkeys
  • Improved:
  • Remember the arrow size for next edit
  • Restore the arrow sizes and text sizes after Snipaste is restarted
  • Make Quick Save folder path editable
  • Ignore transparent window from window detection
  • (XP) Remove window animation for the first snipping after started

New in Snipaste 1.7.2 (Sep 28, 2016)

  • Fixed:
  • Task bar icon for the snipping windows is noticable
  • Snipping area is set automatically on entering snipping (under some conditions)
  • Cursor shape is not updated as it should when snipping
  • Image window attaching is not working (by holding Shift key, then move the image window to align to another window and then release the mouse button)

New in Snipaste 1.7.1 (Sep 15, 2016)

  • Fixed:
  • The conflict with some translation programs (Tested on Bing Dictionary, Youdao Dictionary and QTranslate) #64
  • Snipaste becomes unresponsive when detecting some UI elements #95 #116
  • UI element detection is not working for some users #61
  • Failed to obtain keyboard focus on entering snipping, under certain conditions #114
  • Possible crashes when pasting the screenshot to the screen directly #119
  • Slowing down the machine when trying to paste a huge file as an image window #102
  • Unable to snip with fingers on a touch screen
  • Ctrl+Shift+S sometimes has no effect #42
  • Press Shift when drawing an rectangle or ellipse, the icons on the paint bar are not consistent #53
  • Blurry image on some HiDPI screens with some settings #74
  • Incorrect scaling on image windows for some HiDPI screens with some settings #74
  • Incorrect rendering for semi-transparent text
  • Incorrect rendering for eraser and mosaic on semi-transparent background
  • Duplicated image windows under certain conditions
  • The image window is not activated (with the corresponding option checked) when it is pasted directly from snipping
  • The borders are incorrectly taken into the screenshot for some users
  • Improved:
  • No more rotation when dragging the text box, unless you hold Ctrl
  • The last postfix is remembered and applied when you save an image from a file save dialog
  • Fix the arrow size instead of adjusting according to its length, but the user can change its size by Mouse scrolling or pressing 1 2
  • Merge the Quick Save Folder for Snip and Paste
  • Now you can click on the group name in the tray menu to switch to that group. To rename or close a group, right click on the group name.
  • Add a rainbow corner on the bigger color button to indicate it can be used to pick a color (By Fubuki)
  • "Hide" a single image is now called "Close", in order to distinguish with "Hide all images"
  • In case you get stuck in snipping, now you can click on the tray icon to force exit Snipaste when you are snipping
  • When you text box is empty, double click on it will also trigger a screenshot
  • The magnifier will auto adjust its size according to the screen DPI
  • Added:
  • AUTO UPDATE MODULE
  • Press Tab to toggle between pick a window/ pick an UI element when snipping
  • Press 3 4 to flip the image on an image window
  • (Option) General: Enhanced tray menu
  • (Option) Snip: Capture the cursor (You can also press ` to toggle when you are snipping)
  • (Option) Snip: Pin to screen by clicking the mid-button #63
  • (Option) Snip & Paste: Copy as Windows Bitmap #20
  • If you cannot paste the image into some apps (like Skype and UWP Wechat), check it. But in the meantime the alpha channel is lost
  • (Option) Snip: Border width
  • (Option) Snip: Show mask in the magnifier
  • (Option) Snip: Show border in the magnifier
  • (Option) Snip: Auto show cross lines
  • (Option) Snip: Quit snipping if any other window is activated
  • (Option) Paste: Default opacity #96
  • (Option) Paste: Mnemonics on the context menu
  • (Option) Paste: Flash after switching to another group

New in Snipaste 1.6 (Aug 12, 2016)

  • Fixed: Incorrect window size detection for Windows standard style windows
  • Fixed: Incorrect image conversion from HTML text with some specified format
  • Fixed: Incorrect color button size for a 150% DPI screen
  • Fixed: Obvious lagging for the magnifier on the image window
  • Improved: Some of the icons have been updated (Thanks to shejimiao)
  • Added: (Option) Copy the Hex value without '#'
  • Added: A hollow arrow style

New in Snipaste 1.5 (Aug 8, 2016)

  • Fixed：Some gloabl shortcut has no effect, though it is marked as success (Except for PrtScr and hotkeys occupied by the system or other programs, most shorcuts should be ok now)
  • Fixed：The default global hotkeys may still be possessed after the user changes the keys
  • Fixed：When in dual-screen (the primary on the right), the eraser/mosaic/blur effects are not painted correctly
  • Fixed：Snipaste may crash when detecting UI elements
  • Fixed：The color dialogs are not translated
  • Fixed：Press Alt and move the cursor acroos several image windows, some magnifiers do not hide themselves correctly
  • Fixed：The option "Use snipping position" does not affect the "Paste to screen" button (or Ctrl+W)
  • Improved：When the color value is copied from an image window, flash the magnifier to indicate the copy is done
  • Improved：The option “Ignore Win when snipping” will only affect the single press of Win. Combined keys with Win (e.g. Win+Space) will not be affected
  • Improved：You can now choose different image formats from the save file dialog
  • Improved：Add a border (of your theme color) for the hotkey editor
  • Improved：Add an obvious hint of how to delete the current hotkey
  • Improved：Change the default global hotkeys (e.g. 'Paste' is now F3 instead of F2). It will only affect new users. Existing users will not lose your own settings.
  • Improved：User arrow keys (instead of WASD) to move the image window, in order to be consistent with the behavior of snipping rectangle control
  • Added：Quick save folders for snipping and pasting (Press Ctrl+Shift+S, or Shift+"Save" button)
  • Added：When detecting the UI elements in snipping, press Space to use the current area
  • Added：Cross lines at the cursor position (nedd to press Alt)
  • Added：Press Ctrl+A when snipping, the snipping rectangle will be set to fullscreen
  • Added："Internal hotkeys" window (under "Hotkeys" tab in the option dialog)
  • Added：Send the screenshot/image to the printer (no buttons, only via Ctrl+P)
  • Added：(Option) Show usage tips on the magnifier (enbaled by default)
  • Added：(Option) Use Hex value for color picker
  • Added：German translation
  • Added：Greek translation
  • Added：Swedish translation

New in Snipaste 1.4 (Aug 8, 2016)

  • Added：XP version
  • Added：Use Backspace to delete the current hotkey
  • Added：Use Esc to hide the image window, and Shift + Esc to destroy it
  • Added：(Option) Hide all images if you paste when any image window is flashing
  • Fixed：Negative numbers appear when using Shift + Arrow keys to shrink the snipping rectangle

New in Snipaste 1.3 (Aug 8, 2016)

  • Fixed:When in dual-screen (the primary on the right), press Alt and the dashed lines are not drawn correctly
  • Fixed:When in dual-screen, the detected area for a fullscreen program outbounds its screen
  • Fixed:Press Alt and double-click the image window, the window is hidden but the magnifier is still visible
  • Added:Press Shift + Arrow keys to shrink the snipping rectangle
  • Added:Traditional Chinese translation

New in Snipaste 1.2 (Aug 8, 2016)

  • Fixed：Cannot snip in dual-screen (the primary on the right)
  • Fixed：The tray icon tooltip is not updated after the interface language is changed