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_posts/2014-11-11-second-release-candidate-greenshot-1-2.markdown create mode 100644 _posts/2014-12-05-third-and-hopefully-last-release-candidate-for-greenshot-1-2.markdown create mode 100644 _posts/2014-12-22-a-little-present-from-us-greenshot-1-2.markdown create mode 100644 _posts/2015-03-31-greenshot-says-goodbye-to-facebook.markdown diff --git a/_config.yml b/_config.yml index 55a08939f..e6fc1e966 100644 --- a/_config.yml +++ b/_config.yml @@ -15,15 +15,20 @@ collections: faqs: output: true permalink: /faq/:title/ - - + defaults: - scope: path: "faq" type: "faqs" values: - layout: "faq" + layout: "faq" + + scope: + type: "posts" + values: + permalink: /:year/:month/:day/:title/ + # Build settings markdown: redcarpet diff --git a/_posts/2010-06-30-new-domain-new-look.markdown b/_posts/2010-06-30-new-domain-new-look.markdown new file mode 100644 index 000000000..36519d0a5 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2010-06-30-new-domain-new-look.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,96 @@ +--- +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: New domain, new look +author: + display_name: greenshot + login: admin + email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net + url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +author_login: admin +author_email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net +author_url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +wordpress_id: 128 +wordpress_url: http://getgreenshot.org/?p=128 +date: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wNi0zMCAwMDoxNTowOSArMDIwMA== +date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wNi0yOSAyMjoxNTowOSArMDIwMA== +categories: +- Announcements +tags: +- website +- relaunch +- domain +- logo +- blog +comments: +- id: 5 + author: Jimmy Jet + author_email: jimmyjet@auburnmich.com + author_url: '' + date: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wNy0wMiAwNjozMjoxMyArMDIwMA== + date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wNy0wMiAwNDozMjoxMyArMDIwMA== + content: ! "Greenshot is great! Thanks for making it. If I might suggest an enhancement: + borders. A lot of the screen caps I take are on white backgrounds, and in documentation + and emails and such I feel I need to set the images (often of text) apart from + the text I write there. My current favorite is PicPick's Marco 1 frame, which + not only provides white space and a subtle frame, but also a great shadow effect. + \r\nBut I really like all the features of Greenshot, thanks again, and I wish + you much success." +- id: 35 + author: Eric + author_email: eric.podico@gmail.com + author_url: '' + date: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wNy0zMCAxNDo1MzozMCArMDIwMA== + date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wNy0zMCAxMjo1MzozMCArMDIwMA== + content: ! "This software is really nice, and well programmed.\r\n\r\nWhat about + having also the -NO-INSTALLER- version easy to find online?\r\nI tried a v.0.8xxx + \ -NO-INSTALLER-v ersion, on USB, but process greenshot.exe died, io error, file + not fount.\r\nIs this issue known?" +- id: 149 + author: greenshot + author_email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net + author_url: http://getgreenshot.org/ + date: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wOC0wOSAyMjowNzozOCArMDIwMA== + date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wOC0wOSAyMDowNzozOCArMDIwMA== + content: ! "Thanks for your feedback :)\r\nWe have actually decided to put the installer + version front, since it is a lot easier to use and does not have any drawbacks.\r\n\r\nRegarding + to your error: have you copied all the files and folders from the ZIP to the stick? + It should not be a problem to run Greenshot from a USB stick.\r\nIf you still + encounter problems, please file a bug report." +- id: 157 + author: Robby + author_email: r.kornfeld@itlooksorange.at + author_url: '' + date: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wOC0xMCAwNjozNDo0OSArMDIwMA== + date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wOC0xMCAwNDozNDo0OSArMDIwMA== + content: ! "awesome program!\r\nwhat i would really need to advertize your program + is the ability to make screenshots of scrolled windows!\r\nthat would definately + make most other programs obsolete!\r\nkeep it up!!" +- id: 395 + author: speed dating + author_email: '' + author_url: http://www.freedatingsites24.com#1 + date: !binary |- + MjAxMy0wNy0yMCAwMDoyOTo0MyArMDIwMA== + date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMy0wNy0xOSAyMjoyOTo0MyArMDIwMA== + content: ! 'speed dating... + + + Reading this post - the gift of the time...' +--- +

Today we have moved our website from the sourceforge.net subdomain to our new domain http://getgreenshot.org/, which will from now on be the one and only official URL of Greenshot. The Greenshot project is still hosted on sourceforge.net, and you can still visit Greenshot's sourceforge pages, but they are no longer integrated in our main navigation.

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Is has been a while since we have introduced the new logo on Twitter and Facebook - today, finally, it has arrived on our website, too. And - as the new logo is far too fresh and funky to go with the previous layout of the website - we decided to have a redesign here as well :) We hope you like it.

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We have added a new page for screenshots, and - as you probably figured out already - we also have blogging capabilities now, so there is a central place for announcing things like new releases (yes, very soon ;-)). Of course, we will still keep the status message up to date on our Facebook and Twitter profiles.

diff --git a/_posts/2010-07-02-greenshot-0-8-beta-is-out.markdown b/_posts/2010-07-02-greenshot-0-8-beta-is-out.markdown new file mode 100644 index 000000000..b739126f5 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2010-07-02-greenshot-0-8-beta-is-out.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,271 @@ +--- +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Greenshot 0.8 beta is out +author: + display_name: greenshot + login: admin + email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net + url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +author_login: admin +author_email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net +author_url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +wordpress_id: 134 +wordpress_url: http://getgreenshot.org/?p=134 +date: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wNy0wMiAxMDo0MzoxNCArMDIwMA== +date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wNy0wMiAwODo0MzoxNCArMDIwMA== +categories: +- Releases +tags: +- '0.8' +- release +- features +comments: +- id: 6 + author: Hamers + author_email: s.hamers@vanderheide.nl + author_url: http://www.vanderheide.nl + date: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wNy0wNSAxNjoyMTozNiArMDIwMA== + date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wNy0wNSAxNDoyMTozNiArMDIwMA== + content: ! "L.S.,\r\n\r\nI was wondering, does Greenshot 0.8 Beta supports Terminal + Server environments (yet)?\r\n\r\nKind regard,\r\n\r\nSjaak Hamers" +- id: 8 + author: greenshot + author_email: jens.klingen@jklm.de + author_url: '' + date: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wNy0wNyAxOTowMjoxMyArMDIwMA== + date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wNy0wNyAxNzowMjoxMyArMDIwMA== + content: Just tested on Windows Terminal Server, which worked fine for me, just + like on the desktop. Have you encountered problems with this? +- id: 14 + author: NAT Helpdesk + author_email: helpdesk@nat.eu + author_url: http://www.nat.eu + date: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wNy0xMiAxNzoyNDoyMSArMDIwMA== + date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wNy0xMiAxNToyNDoyMSArMDIwMA== + content: ! "Error in interactive windows screenshot function\r\nWe found + an error in the interactive window screenshot function. If you select a window + (not the active one) which is overlapped by another one the screenshot does not + show the complete window. It just shows the window as you can see it (with the + overlapping window in one corner)." +- id: 15 + author: greenshot + author_email: jens.klingen@jklm.de + author_url: '' + date: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wNy0xMiAyMTo1MDozNCArMDIwMA== + date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wNy0xMiAxOTo1MDozNCArMDIwMA== + content: Whether this is an error or not depends on what one intends to take a screenshot + of. This behavior can as well be desired, e.g. when capturing a window with a + modal dialog or popup window in front. Greenshot 0.9 will have an option to configure + whether overlapping windows shall be captured or not, so that users can decide + how Greenshot shall handle this :) +- id: 17 + author: Martin + author_email: mploug@pc.dk + author_url: '' + date: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wNy0xNiAwMDoyMjozMyArMDIwMA== + date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wNy0xNSAyMjoyMjozMyArMDIwMA== + content: ! "Hello\r\n\r\nWill it be possible to add speech bubbles to your captures?\r\nWill + it be possible to group and ungroup shapes by selecting\r\nthem, right click and + choose Group og Ungroup? \r\n\r\nThank you.\r\n\r\nkind regards, \r\nMartin" +- id: 18 + author: Tim + author_email: nospam@nihonbunka.com + author_url: http://nihonbunka.com + date: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wNy0xOSAxMTo1OTo0NiArMDIwMA== + date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wNy0xOSAwOTo1OTo0NiArMDIwMA== + content: ! "Very Nice. I like the green :-). The text editor is excellent too.\r\n\r\nI + am not sure where I should post comments if at all. It would be nicer still if\r\nIt + said that it worked with 64 bit windows in a \"system requirements\" section on + the site. I thought that \"system requirements\" were de rigeur. Greenshot does + work with 64 bit windows. I am very pleased.\r\nThere were someway of changing + the hotkeys even if from a text file or xml file (e.g. log4net). I don't need + a window to be able to change the hotkeys. Change them once and they are changed + for life. On my keyboard print requires I press the function key near bottom left + plus F11 near top right, requiring the use of both hands on rarely used keys and + I am used to another hotkey on 32 bit only software. \r\n\r\nBut otherwise excellent. + I am a teacher. I was using 32 bit MWsnap and Sn****t when I can affort it. Sn****t + has scrolling window, text capture and settable hotkeys so I am not going to be + able to go Green for a whilte yet." +- id: 24 + author: greenshot + author_email: jens.klingen@jklm.de + author_url: '' + date: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wNy0yNCAxMTowNzozNyArMDIwMA== + date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wNy0yNCAwOTowNzozNyArMDIwMA== + content: ! 'Thanks for your suggestions, Martin. + + There are good chances for both features to be implemented, we have had similar + ideas. + + However, I cannot make any promises on whether or when, since we are developing + Greenshot in our free time and free time is limited ;-) + + + I have just created two feature requests for speech bubbles and element grouping, you can monitor those to be notified when + there''s something happening.' +- id: 25 + author: greenshot + author_email: jens.klingen@jklm.de + author_url: '' + date: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wNy0yNCAxMToyMTowNyArMDIwMA== + date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wNy0yNCAwOToyMTowNyArMDIwMA== + content: ! 'Thanks for your feedback :) + + Currently, there is no way to change the hotkeys, but this is something that we + are definitely going to implement soon. + + Capturing scrolling windows is also on our todo list with high priority, however, + this feature is a little tricky to accomplish. + + + Thanks for you suggestion about 64bit systems, you are right - we should add this + info to our homepage somewhere :)' +- id: 33 + author: oliver + author_email: raptrmastr@yahoo.com + author_url: '' + date: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wNy0yOCAyMTozMDozNSArMDIwMA== + date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wNy0yOCAxOTozMDozNSArMDIwMA== + content: First let me say that I love this little app. Then let me add on to the + customizable hotkey request. It would be nice to have the ability to change the + output of a particular hotkey. For instance I want to print with one combination + and save to my clipboard with another while yet another will email or save to + disk. I know that the functionality is there when you set the output for image + editor but it would be nice in some situations to be able to tap one or two buttons + and proceed with my normal workflow. Food for thought anyway and thank you for + your work. +- id: 139 + author: Olivier@Dominux + author_email: o.franchet@dominux.net + author_url: http://www.dominux.net + date: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wOC0wOSAxMjoxMDo1OSArMDIwMA== + date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wOC0wOSAxMDoxMDo1OSArMDIwMA== + content: ! "Hi,\r\n\r\nNice app but needs some improvements like :\r\n.. snapshot + a scrolling window\r\n.. centered snapshot in the editor, it will be usefull to + use tools\r\n.. maybe a zoom in editor\r\n\r\nregards\r\n\r\nOlivier" +- id: 147 + author: greenshot + author_email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net + author_url: http://getgreenshot.org/ + date: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wOC0wOSAyMjowMDoyMyArMDIwMA== + date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wOC0wOSAyMDowMDoyMyArMDIwMA== + content: ! "Thanks for your feedback. Something similar has been suggested not long + ago, so I have created a feature request for this:\r\nhttps://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3033934&group_id=191585&atid=937975\r\n\r\nThe + solution could be a hotkey / toggle key or button. We just have to take care that + it doesn't get too complicated :)" +- id: 152 + author: greenshot + author_email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net + author_url: http://getgreenshot.org/ + date: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wOC0wOSAyMjozOToyOCArMDIwMA== + date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wOC0wOSAyMDozOToyOCArMDIwMA== + content: Olivier, thanks for your feedback, too. There are also feature requests + matching your proposals :) A lot of cool features left to implement :) +- id: 174 + author: cristofer morley + author_email: thezone@benway.com + author_url: '' + date: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wOC0xMSAxNDoyODoyMiArMDIwMA== + date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wOC0xMSAxMjoyODoyMiArMDIwMA== + content: Great product! This has really hit the mark. I've tested them all and + this has the basics down pat. The only thing I really miss is a 'pencil' tool + for quick drawing. Any chances this is comming? +- id: 240 + author: Homepage + author_email: '' + author_url: http://www.MpubAt3.com + date: !binary |- + MjAxMi0wOC0wMiAwODo0Nzo1NyArMDIwMA== + date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMi0wOC0wMiAwNjo0Nzo1NyArMDIwMA== + content: ! '... [Trackback]... + + + [...] Find More Informations here: getgreenshot.org/2010/07/02/greenshot-0-8-beta-is-out/ + [...]...' +- id: 370 + author: free dating sites + author_email: '' + author_url: http://www.freedatingsites24.com#1 + date: !binary |- + MjAxMy0wNy0xOSAwNTo1NDowNiArMDIwMA== + date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMy0wNy0xOSAwMzo1NDowNiArMDIwMA== + content: ! 'free dating sites... + + + r u positive that is certainly true?...' +--- +

We have released a new version of Greenshot. With this release, version 0.8 is no longer flagged "unstable" :)
+Download
+Thanks to everyone who helped us creating the best Greenshot version ever by testing and providing feedback.

+

So what's new in Greenshot 0.8 beta?

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Some of the most obvious (and most requested) features can be found in the image editor: for example, there's a new tool for cropping the screenshot down to the desired size.
+Very handy: attaching the screenshot to a email right out of Greenshot.
+We also added new utilities for highlighting things on a screenshot, you can also obfuscate things by blurring or pixelizing them.
+These are just some of the new features of Greenshot 0.8 - please have a look at the release notes at the end of this post for further information.

+

At least as much has changed under the hood - we have refactored quite a lot of the code and optimized things so that the new version performs much better and is more stable. Of course, we have also fixed many bugs, e.g. the odd "GDI+ exception" some of the users encountered often, problems when copying screenshots to the clipboard, etc...

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We hope you like the new version as much as we do :)

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P.S.: Greenshot is flattrable (do you say so?) now - if you are using Flattr, you might want to flattr here :) If you are not, have a look at their concept of contributing to "the internet"... Or consider to support the development of this screenshot software in another way. Thank you :)

+

Bugs resolved:
+* save-as dialog honors default storage location again
+* fixed loop when holding down prnt key [ 1744618 ] - thanks to flszen.users.sourceforge.net for supplying a patch
+* fixed displayed grippers after duplicating a line element
+* fixed a lot of GDI+ exceptions when capturing by optimizing memory usage

+

* typo [ 2856747 ]
+* fixed clipboard functionality, should be more stable (not throwing exception with "Requested Clipboard operation did not succeed.") Bugs [ 2517965, 2817349, 2936190 ] and many more* fixed clipboard to work with OpenOffice [ 1842706 ]
+* 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.

+

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.

diff --git a/_posts/2010-07-06-greenshot-goes-multilingual-ready-for-translation.markdown b/_posts/2010-07-06-greenshot-goes-multilingual-ready-for-translation.markdown new file mode 100644 index 000000000..5a5663e9d --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2010-07-06-greenshot-goes-multilingual-ready-for-translation.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,134 @@ +--- +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Greenshot goes multilingual – ready for translation +author: + display_name: greenshot + login: admin + email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net + url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +author_login: admin +author_email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net +author_url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +wordpress_id: 153 +wordpress_url: http://getgreenshot.org/?p=153 +date: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wNy0wNiAyMzo1MjoxMiArMDIwMA== +date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wNy0wNiAyMTo1MjoxMiArMDIwMA== +categories: +- Translations +tags: +- '0.8' +- translation +- interface +- internationalization +comments: +- id: 11 + author: Peter + author_email: pxsteiner@yahoo.ca + author_url: '' + date: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wNy0xMCAyMTo0MDowMCArMDIwMA== + date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wNy0xMCAxOTo0MDowMCArMDIwMA== + content: ! 'I am missing a function to capture a user definde area. + + + Furthermore i miss a hotkey asisgnment option tab. + + + When will it be included? + + + Peter' +- id: 13 + author: greenshot + author_email: jens.klingen@jklm.de + author_url: '' + date: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wNy0xMSAxMDoxNDoyMyArMDIwMA== + date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wNy0xMSAwODoxNDoyMyArMDIwMA== + content: ! 'You can capture an area of the screen by hitting "Print" or selecting + "Capture region" from Greenshot''s context menu. Then select the area for your + screenshot by dragging the green rectangle to the desired position and size. + + + "Configurable hotkeys" is an important item on our to do list. It will most probably + be implemented soon. + + + Best regards, + + Jens' +- id: 247 + author: Introducing the brand new Greenshot Language Editor – translators + wanted | Greenshot + author_email: '' + author_url: http://getgreenshot.org/2012/08/10/introducing-the-brand-new-greenshot-language-editor-translators-wanted/ + date: !binary |- + MjAxMi0wOC0xMCAwOTozOToxMSArMDIwMA== + date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMi0wOC0xMCAwNzozOToxMSArMDIwMA== + content: ! '[...] two years ago we have added internationalization to Greenshot + by simply adding translated XML files to the [...]' +- id: 309 + author: michael kors bags + author_email: '' + author_url: http://www.coursacademiques.fr/michaelkorsoutlet.html + date: !binary |- + MjAxMy0wNS0wNCAwODo0OToyOSArMDIwMA== + date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMy0wNS0wNCAwNjo0OToyOSArMDIwMA== + content: ! 'michael kors bags... + + + Greenshot goes multilingual – ready for translation | Greenshot...' +- id: 329 + author: fake oakley + author_email: '' + author_url: http://www.buyoakleyusa.com/ + date: !binary |- + MjAxMy0wNi0yMyAxOTowMDoyMCArMDIwMA== + date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMy0wNi0yMyAxNzowMDoyMCArMDIwMA== + content: ! 'fake oakley... + + + Greenshot goes multilingual – ready for translation | Greenshot...' +- id: 331 + author: discount oakley + author_email: '' + author_url: http://www.discountoutletvip.com/ + date: !binary |- + MjAxMy0wNi0yNSAxMjozMTo0NyArMDIwMA== + date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMy0wNi0yNSAxMDozMTo0NyArMDIwMA== + content: ! 'discount oakley... + + + Greenshot goes multilingual – ready for translation | Greenshot...' +- id: 391 + author: speed dating + author_email: '' + author_url: http://www.freedatingsites24.com#1 + date: !binary |- + MjAxMy0wNy0xOSAxMzo0NDowNCArMDIwMA== + date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMy0wNy0xOSAxMTo0NDowNCArMDIwMA== + content: ! 'speed dating... + + + I will not talk about your competence, the post basically disgusting...' +--- +

You may have noticed that since version 0.8, we are offering additional language files on our downloads page. Greenshot's user interface content is loaded from separate XML files now, which means that you can change existing language files or even add new languages simply by editing or adding an XML file. (There will probably be an easier feature in future versions, allowing the download of additional languages right out of Greenshot.)

+

At the time of this writing, Greenshot has already been translated to Czech, French, Russian and Traditional Chinese (thanks to vodim, EminoMeneko, Aleksey and Timothy Lin), a Dutch version is in progress already. English and German are included in Greenshot by default.

+

We are excited about seeing the Greenshot interface in different languages and hope that there are more to come.
+If you create a translation for Greenshot, we would of course be very happy if you shared it with us and other Greenshot users.

+

Before starting a new translation, please make sure that none has been provided for this language yet in our translations tracker as well as in our SVN repository, to avoid the translation work being done twice.

+

In order to create a new translation, use an existing language file from your Greenshot installation (they are located in the Languages subdirectory of Greenshot's installation directory - please make sure that you are having the latest available version installed) and duplicate it using the respective language code in the filename. Make sure the filename is still something like language_##_##.xml. Open the file using a text editor and translate the entries.
+When you are done, please upload the translation to our translations tracker, we will offer it for download as soon as possible.

+

Please note that we prefer translations from registered sourceforge.net users. For a simple reason: it allows for other users to contact the translator about enhancements or improvements. Feel free to discuss things with a translation's creator in the tracker, because - in most of the cases - the Greenshot development team will not be able to discuss about specific languages with you.

+

Thanks a lot in advance to anyone who wants to do a translation.

diff --git a/_posts/2010-07-12-small-bugfix-release-today.markdown b/_posts/2010-07-12-small-bugfix-release-today.markdown new file mode 100644 index 000000000..2029cdf48 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2010-07-12-small-bugfix-release-today.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,184 @@ +--- +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Small bugfix release today +author: + display_name: greenshot + login: admin + email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net + url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +author_login: admin +author_email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net +author_url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +wordpress_id: 199 +wordpress_url: http://getgreenshot.org/?p=199 +date: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wNy0xMiAyMjo0OTozNiArMDIwMA== +date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wNy0xMiAyMDo0OTozNiArMDIwMA== +categories: +- Releases +tags: +- '0.8' +- release +- bugfix +comments: +- id: 16 + author: Stefan Thieme + author_email: info@isnoroot.de + author_url: '' + date: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wNy0xNSAyMDozNjo0MSArMDIwMA== + date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wNy0xNSAxODozNjo0MSArMDIwMA== + content: ! 'Dear Greenshots, + + + I really like the features you built into the software, especially how you can + highlight or obfuscate some things. + + That said I appreciate your work and would like to give you some positive feedback, + please remind me if I may have missed something or you have changed the behaviour + I am describing in a later version. I have Greenshot 0.8.0 Build 0627 installed. + + + Being used to take a lot of screenshots let me make some recommendations for further + cleansing up of the tool. + + * I am used to select a specific rectangle with Ctrl+Print, which usually gives + me most Control of what I select. + + * Selecting a Window/Section is the second most important feature, currently I + have to press Print and then press the space bar. I would prefer to either select + this hotkey, e.g. simply Print or Alt+Print. (1) + + Also the space bar sometimes hangs in my version, I have to select a small rectangle + and before releasing the Mouse Button I hit space. + + * The Editor Window that appears should be triggerable by the space bar, this + way I can decide before releasing the mouse button whether I want to edit/highlight/obfuscate + the screenshot I am going to take. This mode setting could be shown by a small + test or an edit Icon somewhere top left/right corner of the screen. (2) + + * In the Edit window I usually want to make some adjustements that I want to either + save or copy into another application. Currently I have to select Ctrl+A and Ctrl+C + to update the contents of the ClipBoard and also for saving I have to select Ctrl+A + and Ctrl+S to retain my changes. + + I would like to be able to define this task, i.e. when I choose to edit a screenshot, + see previous point, I usually prefer to save/copy the changed version. Could you + make this a Preferences Option by default. (3) + + * When closing the Editor I currently get a request that asks me whether I want + to save the file. Usually I have either copied it to the clipboard and inserted + it into a document or want to have it saved. This is a general Preferences Options + as well, I should be able to select whether this last screenshot is saved automatically + to some folder Edited Screenshots. The current default Preferences Option of automatically + saving the Original Screenshot is fine as well, but I am mostly interested in + the edited. Maybe both Options for Autosave can coexist with either different + folders or _edited_ pre/postfix notations to the filenames. (4) + + The current default behaviour to confirm every Editor window before closing is + a tedious task, for which it should be possible to disable this safeguard feature + in the Preferences for power users. + + + I assume these are mostly minor changes that would propel your tool as the number + one screenshot solution on my USB stick with portable apps, as well as on my Linux + notebook for heavy mugshot usage. I hope that you will accept these usability/accessibility + additions as your current shortcuts for Lines, Arrows, Rectangles, Ellipses, Text + Obfuscation and Highlighting are already very intuitive to me! + + + Kind regards, + + Stefan' +- id: 23 + author: greenshot + author_email: jens.klingen@jklm.de + author_url: '' + date: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wNy0yNCAxMDoyMjo0NiArMDIwMA== + date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wNy0yNCAwODoyMjo0NiArMDIwMA== + content: ! 'Thanks for your feedback and suggestions, Stefan. + + + (1) Can''t you use the existing hotkey Alt+Print in order to capture + windows? You should not have to start region mode and then switch to window mode + by hitting the space key.... + + And yes, there are some special situations in which the space bar would not work + during region mode - this has something to do with window focus. We are aware + of this and will fix it. + + + (2) I have added this as a feature request. Seems to be a useful feature to me. Feel free + to monitor the tracker item and add new feature requests if you have more ideas + how Greenshot could be improved :) + + + (3) and (4) I am not sure if I understood this correctly, but these two points + are basically referring to the same things, right? When using the editor screenshot + destination in combination with clipboard and/or save to file destination, you + would prefer to have the image copied/saved when closing the editor window, or + maybe both - before and after editing. Is that correct? + + + Thanks again, + + Jens' +- id: 58 + author: Jozef + author_email: jozefu@gmail.com + author_url: '' + date: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wOC0wMiAxMjo1MzowOCArMDIwMA== + date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wOC0wMiAxMDo1MzowOCArMDIwMA== + content: ! "Dear Greenshots.\r\nYour program is very nice. But it would be better, + if the program should have function paste (add) new screenshot into the previous + image, (screenshots). What do you think about it? \r\nThanks.\r\nJozef" +- id: 151 + author: greenshot + author_email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net + author_url: http://getgreenshot.org/ + date: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wOC0wOSAyMjozNzo0OCArMDIwMA== + date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wOC0wOSAyMDozNzo0OCArMDIwMA== + content: ! "Thanks for your feedback, Jozef.\r\nYou can do this already, however + (currently) not directly.\r\nJust take two screenshots, so that there are two + editor windows open. Copy one of the screenshots to the clipboard (Ctrl+Shift+C), + focus the other editor window and paste the image (Ctrl+V). Here you are, screenshot + within screenshot :)" +- id: 365 + author: free dating sites + author_email: '' + author_url: http://www.freedatingsites24.com#1 + date: !binary |- + MjAxMy0wNy0xOSAwMzowNTowOCArMDIwMA== + date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMy0wNy0xOSAwMTowNTowOCArMDIwMA== + content: ! 'free dating sites... + + + I am a long time in the past I study your weblog and possesses extended been stating + that you’re an incredible writer...' +- id: 3832 + author: backlink checker + author_email: '' + author_url: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-WG-qFA2Jc + date: !binary |- + MjAxNC0wOC0xMiAxMzoxNToxOSArMDIwMA== + date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxNC0wOC0xMiAxMToxNToxOSArMDIwMA== + content: ! 'backlink checker + + + [...]Here are a few of the web sites we suggest for our visitors[...]' +--- +

The current version, Greenshot 0.8.0-0627, fixes some bugs and/or annoyances of the previous version. This includes a few errors that occurred under special circumstances. The most obvious changes in general are that new editor windows now open in the same position where previous editor windows have been closed, highlight and obfuscator elements no longer re-use the last used values (e.g. for line thickness and color) from other elements (e.g. rectangle) and that larger font sizes are allowed in the editor (has been limited to 24px before).

+

We recommend updating to the current version of Greenshot.

diff --git a/_posts/2010-07-22-300k-downloads-thank-you.markdown b/_posts/2010-07-22-300k-downloads-thank-you.markdown new file mode 100644 index 000000000..8fc47d324 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2010-07-22-300k-downloads-thank-you.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,180 @@ +--- +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: 300K Downloads – thank you :) +author: + display_name: greenshot + login: admin + email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net + url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +author_login: admin +author_email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net +author_url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +wordpress_id: 212 +wordpress_url: http://getgreenshot.org/?p=212 +date: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wNy0yMiAwODoxMToyNSArMDIwMA== +date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wNy0yMiAwNjoxMToyNSArMDIwMA== +categories: +- Uncategorized +tags: +- downloads +- stats +comments: +- id: 19 + author: ju8ular + author_email: ju8ular@yahoo.com + author_url: '' + date: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wNy0yMiAwOToyMTozMSArMDIwMA== + date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wNy0yMiAwNzoyMTozMSArMDIwMA== + content: ! "hi, this is a fantastic little utility saving me a *lot* of time at + work. the only feature request I'd add is a \"blur\" option - like the rectangle + or oval tool, being able to blur out sensitive data in the image capture. \r\n\r\ngreat + job guys, keep it up!" +- id: 22 + author: Robin + author_email: robin.krom@gmail.com + author_url: http://getgreenshot.org + date: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wNy0yMyAyMDo0NzowMSArMDIwMA== + date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wNy0yMyAxODo0NzowMSArMDIwMA== + content: ! "Hello ju8ular,\r\nthe feature you are looking for is already there, + since version 0.8. It's called Obfuscate, which is available as Blur or Pixelize.\r\nBest + wishes,\r\nRobin" +- id: 26 + author: chlitto + author_email: 3923210@gmail.com + author_url: http://www.chlitto.com + date: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wNy0yNCAyMDowNjoxOCArMDIwMA== + date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wNy0yNCAxODowNjoxOCArMDIwMA== + content: ! "there should be a feedback page :>\r\nhttp://codefusionlab.blogspot.com/2009/08/21-effective-feedback-tools-now-you-can.html" +- id: 27 + author: greenshot + author_email: jens.klingen@jklm.de + author_url: '' + date: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wNy0yNCAyMDo1ODoxMSArMDIwMA== + date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wNy0yNCAxODo1ODoxMSArMDIwMA== + content: ! "Actually, there are a lot of ways to give feedback to Greenshot: this + blog, Facebook, Twitter, the bug/feature request tracker and forums on sourceforge. + Perhaps we should point out existing possibilities better. Another channel would + probably lead to parts of the feedback going unnoticed.\r\n\r\nInteresting link + anyway, thanks :)" +- id: 28 + author: chlitto + author_email: 3923210@gmail.com + author_url: http://www.chlitto.com + date: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wNy0yNCAyMTo1MToxMCArMDIwMA== + date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wNy0yNCAxOTo1MToxMCArMDIwMA== + content: ! "single scattered requests that nobody can see in one place is soo xx + century! its about social feedback and voting for the best ideas in a userfriendly + environment :) \r\nbut sourceforge can work too, i didnt see that one...\r\n(but + it would be much better to use a \"proper tool\", it build a community)" +- id: 29 + author: greenshot + author_email: jens.klingen@jklm.de + author_url: '' + date: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wNy0yNSAyMzozMTo1NiArMDIwMA== + date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wNy0yNSAyMTozMTo1NiArMDIwMA== + content: ! "Yes, some of the feedback tools seem to be great indeed and worth thinking + about it... \r\nOf course, the sourceforge stuff is a bit old style ;-) But speaking + of \"one place\" - that's exactly the problem, we already have some ;-) each one + of them being important in one way or another." +- id: 31 + author: chlitto + author_email: 3923210@gmail.com + author_url: http://www.chlitto.com + date: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wNy0yNiAyMTozODo1OCArMDIwMA== + date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wNy0yNiAxOTozODo1OCArMDIwMA== + content: many of them have twitter / facebook integrations ;] and the "Best Way + To Get Help" sourceforge link can be changed :> +- id: 34 + author: Chris C. + author_email: c.criner@gmail.com + author_url: '' + date: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wNy0yOSAxNTo1NDoxNCArMDIwMA== + date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wNy0yOSAxMzo1NDoxNCArMDIwMA== + content: ! "Hello!\r\nLovely little tool!\r\nTried to update to latest stable version + just now, but the d/l link doesn't resolve.\r\n\r\nLately, I am not able to paste + my pic captures into Outlook email , I hit Paste & nothing pastes(v 0.7.009), + hence wanting to try more recent version. It just stopped working for some reason.\r\n\r\nKindest + Regards,\r\n\r\nChris" +- id: 57 + author: Alex + author_email: none@none.de + author_url: '' + date: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wOC0wMiAwOTozMzozNSArMDIwMA== + date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wOC0wMiAwNzozMzozNSArMDIwMA== + content: ! "Hi, \r\n\r\nnice tool, is it avialible as msi file too, for 32bit and + 64bit?\r\n\r\nkind regards" +- id: 148 + author: greenshot + author_email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net + author_url: http://getgreenshot.org/ + date: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wOC0wOSAyMjowMzowNyArMDIwMA== + date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wOC0wOSAyMDowMzowNyArMDIwMA== + content: ! "Did you get the link working? I have never had any problems with it, + there has probably been a temporary issue with the SourceForge site (where our + downloadable files reside). Please try to download again.\r\n\r\nWe have changed + a lot for Greenshot 0.8, also made improvements to the clipboard code, there are + good chances that your problem is resolved with the new version." +- id: 150 + author: greenshot + author_email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net + author_url: http://getgreenshot.org/ + date: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wOC0wOSAyMjoxMToyNSArMDIwMA== + date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wOC0wOSAyMDoxMToyNSArMDIwMA== + content: ! "Hi Alex,\r\nCurrently the installer is not available as msi file. The + current is reported to be working fine on 32 and 64bit systems, though." +- id: 355 + author: free dating sites + author_email: '' + author_url: http://www.freedatingsites24.com#1 + date: !binary |- + MjAxMy0wNy0xOCAxMzozNjoxNCArMDIwMA== + date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMy0wNy0xOCAxMTozNjoxNCArMDIwMA== + content: ! 'free dating sites... + + + Gorgeous essay, got the pleasure of studying...' +- id: 402 + author: Homepage + author_email: '' + author_url: http://www.owdx7CfD.com + date: !binary |- + MjAxMy0wOC0yMyAwNzoyMTowOCArMDIwMA== + date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMy0wOC0yMyAwNToyMTowOCArMDIwMA== + content: ! '... [Trackback]... + + + [...] There you will find 40726 more Infos: getgreenshot.org/2010/07/22/300k-downloads-thank-you/ + [...]...' +--- +

We are happy to see that Greenshot has been downloaded 300,000 times so far from sourceforge.net... What's more: there have been more than 100,000 downloads within the last six months. Wow :)

+

Here are Greenshot's all time download stats on sourceforge.net.

+

This is a good occasion to say thank you to those who donated - your appreciation is very motivating to keep things going :)
+And of course, thanks to everyone supporting Greenshot in whatever way. We really appreciate your support.

diff --git a/_posts/2010-07-22-greenshot-in-japanese-spanish-or-simplified-chinese.markdown b/_posts/2010-07-22-greenshot-in-japanese-spanish-or-simplified-chinese.markdown new file mode 100644 index 000000000..548973d2c --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2010-07-22-greenshot-in-japanese-spanish-or-simplified-chinese.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,93 @@ +--- +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Greenshot in Japanese, Dutch, Spanish or Simplified Chinese +author: + display_name: greenshot + login: admin + email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net + url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +author_login: admin +author_email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net +author_url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +wordpress_id: 221 +wordpress_url: http://getgreenshot.org/?p=221 +date: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wNy0yMiAyMjo1NTo0MCArMDIwMA== +date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wNy0yMiAyMDo1NTo0MCArMDIwMA== +categories: +- Translations +tags: +- translation +- internationalization +- japanese +- simplified chinese +- spanish +- dutch +comments: +- id: 21 + author: greenshot + author_email: jens.klingen@jklm.de + author_url: '' + date: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wNy0yMyAxOTozMjoxMCArMDIwMA== + date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wNy0yMyAxNzozMjoxMCArMDIwMA== + content: ! "The list keeps growing - Robin has finished the Dutch translation today + - cool :)\r\nOf course, you can get it from the Downloads + page, too.\r\n\r\nHartelijk dank, Robin. :)\r\n\r\nBy the way: in future versions + the dutch language file will be delivered with the program by default." +- id: 32 + author: deeptechtons + author_email: admin@deeptechtons.net + author_url: http://forum.deeptechtons.net + date: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wNy0yNyAxMzoxOTo0MyArMDIwMA== + date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wNy0yNyAxMToxOTo0MyArMDIwMA== + content: ! "Hey your tool is reviewed on our forums , come have a look. Thanks for + such a neat tool\r\nhttp://forum.deeptechtons.net/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=30" +- id: 92 + author: Robin + author_email: robin.krom@gmail.com + author_url: http://getgreenshot.org + date: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wOC0wNSAxMjowOTowNCArMDIwMA== + date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wOC0wNSAxMDowOTowNCArMDIwMA== + content: ! "I need to \"rectify\", the Dutch translation was made by me but corrected + by Jurjen Ladenius as my Dutch (though being Dutch) was never very good and I + have been living in Germany way to long.\r\n\r\nThe thanks go to Jurjen, + who is also mentioned in the XML as the main translator." +- id: 212 + author: URL + author_email: '' + author_url: http://www.sGbKL9eID.net + date: !binary |- + MjAxMi0wNi0zMCAxODozMTozNCArMDIwMA== + date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMi0wNi0zMCAxNjozMTozNCArMDIwMA== + content: ! '... [Trackback]... + + + [...] Informations on that Topic: getgreenshot.org/2010/07/22/greenshot-in-japanese-spanish-or-simplified-chinese/ + [...]...' +--- +

We have just uploaded three four new translations to our downloads section. Thanks to the translators, you can now create and edit your screenshots in Japanese, Dutch, Spanish and Simplified Chinese - simply copy the respective XML file to the Languages subdirectory of Greenshot's installation directory and choose the desired language in the settings dialog.

+

有難うございます。, asabu. Hartelijk dank, Jurjen and Robin. Muchas gracias, darkprop. 非常感谢, uralhan. :)
+(Hope this is anywhere near correctness ;-)

+

For those who have not discovered yet: Greenshot 0.8 has improved multilingual support - several nice users have supplied translations (Thanks again). The complete list of available languages you can use this screenshot tool with is now:

+ diff --git a/_posts/2010-07-24-a-few-words-on-memory-usage-or-working-set-vs-private-working-set.markdown b/_posts/2010-07-24-a-few-words-on-memory-usage-or-working-set-vs-private-working-set.markdown new file mode 100644 index 000000000..6b8d0b738 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2010-07-24-a-few-words-on-memory-usage-or-working-set-vs-private-working-set.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +--- +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: ! 'A few words on memory usage or: working set vs. private working set' +author: + display_name: greenshot + login: admin + email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net + url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +author_login: admin +author_email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net +author_url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +wordpress_id: 205 +wordpress_url: http://getgreenshot.org/?p=205 +date: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wNy0yNCAxNjowNDowNyArMDIwMA== +date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMC0wNy0yNCAxNDowNDowNyArMDIwMA== +categories: +- Uncategorized +tags: +- memory +- ram +- working set +- performance +comments: [] +--- +

Every once in a while, we read statements like "Woah, the task manager says my Greenshot installation takes x MB of RAM when it is idle! Why does Greenshot need so much memory?"

+

Actually, it does not. Please do not judge any software by what the task manager says. Of course, the task manager is not lying to you; but its presentation of facts is rather misleading.

+

The value pointed out as "Mem usage" is actually the size of a processes working set. A working set is not reserved for a single process. When analyzing the memory performance of a process using a tool like Process Explorer (or - with Windows Vista or 7 - changing the displayed columns in the task manager; see link below how this can be done) it is obvious that the working set size is split into two values, WS Private and WS Shareable.

+

[caption id="attachment_244" align="alignleft" width="212" caption="Example: Process Explorer distinguishing Private and Shareable Working Set"]Process Explorer screenshot[/caption]

+

These terms are pretty much self-explanatory: the private part of a working set is how much the process actually needs, it cannot be used by other processes. The shareable part is most often the bigger part of a working set. What is in there is free for use by any other application running, which is most obvious when running multiple .NET applications. Launch Paint.NET next to Greenshot and you will notice WS shared increasing. Launch SharpDevelop and it will increase even more. Loaded resources are shared between applications, which is a good thing.
+If you are curious about the shared working set: cybernetnews has posted a nice article on Windows memory usage.

+

Another thing: as long as RAM is not scarce, used memory is not wasted memory. Actually, unused memory is literally of no use. For this reason Windows may be more generous in spending your RAM than actually demanded. So if the process needs some more at a later point, it is already there and can be accessed quickly (i.e. more performant). If other processes demand it, it can still be reallocated.
+Just imagine three persons sitting on a sofa. No matter how big the sofa is, they will probably spread along the whole length instead of stacking up on one side of it, allowing each of them some extra space to sit comfortably and uncramped, leaving room to move. But when needed, they can still move together so that other persons can find a seat, too. Now there are maybe five or six persons sitting of the sofa, which still works out. But reaching out for ones drink on the table is a little bit more cumbersome, every move is a bit less effiecient now.

+

That said, be sure that we are always having an eye on memory usage, we definitely have no intent to waste memory for whatever reason. We can do our best to free resources as soon as they are no longer needed, but we also have to rely that Windows and .NET do a good job when it comes to memory management.

diff --git a/_posts/2010-10-03-greenshot-featured-on-ct-software-collection.markdown b/_posts/2010-10-03-greenshot-featured-on-ct-software-collection.markdown new file mode 100644 index 000000000..b145bf0f2 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2010-10-03-greenshot-featured-on-ct-software-collection.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +--- +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Greenshot featured on c't software collection +author: + display_name: greenshot + login: admin + email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net + url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +author_login: admin +author_email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net +author_url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +wordpress_id: 262 +wordpress_url: http://getgreenshot.org/?p=262 +date: !binary |- + MjAxMC0xMC0wMyAxMDo0MDowMCArMDIwMA== +date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMC0xMC0wMyAwODo0MDowMCArMDIwMA== +categories: +- Announcements +tags: +- '0.8' +- magazine +- press +- media +comments: [] +--- +

Wow :) We're happy to see that Version 0.8 of Greenshot is part of the c't magazine's current edition of software collection on CD. (c't is one of the most popular professional computer magazines in German speaking countries, just in case you should not know it.)

+

The c't software collection 6/10 offers 88 software tools, most of them about editing photos and other images, among those: one tool for taking screenshots :)

+

By the way: you may have noticed that it has been a little bit quiet here lately, but that does not mean that the development is not going on. We had less time available for working on this screenshot tool for several reasons - it has been holiday season, bigger work load at our jobs, and of course there are always some other time consuming things in life... Version 0.8.1 is in development (we will post some more information about the changes in this minor release soon) and we have already made some preparations for version 0.9.

diff --git a/_posts/2010-12-09-current-development-status.markdown b/_posts/2010-12-09-current-development-status.markdown new file mode 100644 index 000000000..21adcd039 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2010-12-09-current-development-status.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +--- +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Current development status +author: + display_name: greenshot + login: admin + email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net + url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +author_login: admin +author_email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net +author_url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +wordpress_id: 265 +wordpress_url: http://getgreenshot.org/?p=265 +date: !binary |- + MjAxMC0xMi0wOSAyMzo1Nzo1NSArMDEwMA== +date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMC0xMi0wOSAyMTo1Nzo1NSArMDEwMA== +categories: +- Uncategorized +tags: [] +comments: [] +--- +

Just wanted to drop a short notice on the current status. Actually, there is not very much going on right now with Greenshot, caused by general lack of time. One of us is currently moving to a new place and does not even have internet access (ouch!), the rest of us is busy with work and stuff; this is resulting in a slowdown in development and reaction time regarding tracker and forum entries... We are sorry about that and hope we will be able to catch up soon.

+

Thanks for your patience - we will keep you updated :)

diff --git a/_posts/2011-04-24-greenshot-now-available-in-swedish-finnish-greek-and-hebrew-language.markdown b/_posts/2011-04-24-greenshot-now-available-in-swedish-finnish-greek-and-hebrew-language.markdown new file mode 100644 index 000000000..902626292 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2011-04-24-greenshot-now-available-in-swedish-finnish-greek-and-hebrew-language.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +--- +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Greenshot now available in Swedish, Finnish, Greek and Hebrew language +author: + display_name: greenshot + login: admin + email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net + url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +author_login: admin +author_email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net +author_url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +wordpress_id: 271 +wordpress_url: http://getgreenshot.org/?p=271 +date: !binary |- + MjAxMS0wNC0yNCAxMzo0NjowOCArMDIwMA== +date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMS0wNC0yNCAxMTo0NjowOCArMDIwMA== +categories: +- Translations +tags: +- translation +- internationalization +- greek +- hebrew +- finnish +- swedish +comments: [] +--- +

We have received a bunch of new translations from friendly users :)

+

We are happy to announce that Greenshot translation files are now available for Swedish (Tack, Eric F.), Finnish (Kiitos, Jari Majaniemi), Greek (Χάρη, ΓΙΩΡΓΟ ΣΚΟΥΝΤΖΗ) and Hebrew (תודה, רן ששון).
+Furthermore, grazie to tonytogna and gracias to Alejandro de Gárate for submitting revised versions of the Italian and Spanish translations.

+

Thanks to dedicated users, Greenshot is now available in 18 languages - wow... this is really great :)

+

You can get hold of all translations on our download page - just download the desired language file and save it to the "Languages" subdirectory of Greenshot's installation directory.

+

Your language is still missing? Have a look at our translations tracker - maybe someone has already submitted it, but we have not found the time to check it and put it onto the website.
+If there is none, and you would like to submit a translation of your own, you are very welcome to upload it there, of course.

+

Thanks again to all translators - good job :)

diff --git a/_posts/2011-08-25-greenshot-0-8-1-rc1-is-available-for-download.markdown b/_posts/2011-08-25-greenshot-0-8-1-rc1-is-available-for-download.markdown new file mode 100644 index 000000000..cb97fc8db --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2011-08-25-greenshot-0-8-1-rc1-is-available-for-download.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,67 @@ +--- +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Greenshot 0.8.1 RC1 is available for download +author: + display_name: greenshot + login: admin + email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net + url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +author_login: admin +author_email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net +author_url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +wordpress_id: 277 +wordpress_url: http://getgreenshot.org/?p=277 +date: !binary |- + MjAxMS0wOC0yNSAyMDo0MToxNCArMDIwMA== +date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMS0wOC0yNSAxODo0MToxNCArMDIwMA== +categories: +- Releases +tags: +- release +- release candidate +comments: [] +--- +

We have just uploaded the first release candidate for the next Greenshot version, 0.8.1.
+Thanks to Robin's tireless efforts, many bugs of version 0.8.0.0627 have been fixed, and some new features have been added as well.
+We believe that the release candidate is quite stable, but please keep in mind that it is not yet thoroughly tested by the masses.

+

Enough talk for now, here is the download link for Greenshot 0.8.1 RC 1. We hope you like it :) In case of bugs, please let us know.
+Thanks a lot, have fun!

+

P.S.: Here is the list of changes for the release candidate:

+


+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}, a.o 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
+* Capture & editor performance improved
+* Fixed capture region selection screen losing focus
+* Many other minor stability fixes
+* At first start all available languages can be selected

+

Features added:
+* Changed the configuration from a proprietary binary format to a readable & modifiable "greenshot.ini".
+* Added the Dutch language as a third default language for all Greenshot parts (application, plugins and installer)
+* Added all currently available languages to the installer but only those that your windows can display are shown.
+* Added configurable hotkeys
+* Added Aero (DWM) window capture on Windows Vista and later! Either the window is captured with transparency or it is 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 environment variable support for the filename and path. Now one can use e.g. "${TMP}"…
+* 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.
+* Added Imgur (see: http://Imgur.com) plugin
+* Added plugin white/black listing, mainly needed for administrators specifying which plugins will be loaded and which not.
+* Added Outlook support, if Outlook is available this is used instead of MAPI: e.g. Creating HTML email with "in-body" image using the default signature for new Emails.
+* Added GDI capturing windows with transparency, only works if Aero (DWM) is disabled!
+* Added update check, if an update is detected a popup is shown asking if the user wants to download this
+* Added HTML as clipboard format

+

Known bugs:
+* When having multiple monitors the systray context menu will have options which apear on a different screen. (Issue in Microsoft Windows)
+* The "I" Mouse-Cursor will not be rendered correctly on the final image. (Issue in Microsoft Windows)
+* There might still be some minor rendering problems due to performance improvements, these will not be visible on the resulting image. We will fix them as soon as we find them.
+

diff --git a/_posts/2011-10-20-third-release-candidate-for-greenshot-0-8-1-is-ready-for-download.markdown b/_posts/2011-10-20-third-release-candidate-for-greenshot-0-8-1-is-ready-for-download.markdown new file mode 100644 index 000000000..b2aafd883 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2011-10-20-third-release-candidate-for-greenshot-0-8-1-is-ready-for-download.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +--- +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Third release candidate for Greenshot 0.8.1 is ready for download +author: + display_name: greenshot + login: admin + email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net + url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +author_login: admin +author_email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net +author_url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +wordpress_id: 284 +wordpress_url: http://getgreenshot.org/?p=284 +date: !binary |- + MjAxMS0xMC0yMCAwOToyNjoyOCArMDIwMA== +date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMS0xMC0yMCAwNzoyNjoyOCArMDIwMA== +categories: +- Releases +tags: +- release +- release candidate +- 0.8.1 +comments: [] +--- +

Greenshot 0.8.1 RC3 is now available for download. Thanks to everybody who has been testing the previous release candidates and provided feedback.

+

Here is the list of resolved bugs and added features since the first release candidate. Feel free to download the new build and, as always, let us know if you encounter problems with it.

+

Thanks a lot :)

+


+* 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
+

diff --git a/_posts/2012-03-13-new-greenshot-translations-vietnamese-korean-arabic-pserian-ukrainian-portuguese.markdown b/_posts/2012-03-13-new-greenshot-translations-vietnamese-korean-arabic-pserian-ukrainian-portuguese.markdown new file mode 100644 index 000000000..c5f1cb3f2 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2012-03-13-new-greenshot-translations-vietnamese-korean-arabic-pserian-ukrainian-portuguese.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +--- +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: ! 'New Greenshot translations: Vietnamese, Korean, Arabic, Persian, Ukrainian + and Portuguese' +author: + display_name: greenshot + login: admin + email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net + url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +author_login: admin +author_email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net +author_url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +wordpress_id: 310 +wordpress_url: http://getgreenshot.org/?p=310 +date: !binary |- + MjAxMi0wMy0xMyAxODoyMDozMSArMDEwMA== +date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMi0wMy0xMyAxNjoyMDozMSArMDEwMA== +categories: +- Translations +tags: +- translation +- internationalization +- vietnamese +- korean +- arabic +- persian +- ukrainian +- portuguese +comments: [] +--- +

Greenshot keeps getting around: in the past few months we have received some more translations submitted from industrious users all over the world, helping to make Greenshot available to a wide audience in their preferred language.

+

Among the newest translations are Vietnamese and Korean (thanks to Nguyen Vu Hung and Scott UC), there are Arabic and Persian language files available now, too (kudos to Ramzy Samman, Jamal Mashal and Dadkan Mirzaee) for these. We are also glad to see the Ukrainian version of Greenshot (translated by oleksandr-6c6c6).
+Another newcomer is Portuguese, Brasil (by Célio Eduardo Gonçalves Costa) as well as Portugal (by Paulo Carreiro)... great job everybody :)

+

Phew. I hope there's nothing missing now, the list keeps growing :)

+

All in all this makes Greenshot available in 26 different languages now, which is really impressive! Again, thanks to all translators for their support.

+

You can download all translations on the Greenshot download page – just download the desired language file and save it to the “Languages” subdirectory of Greenshot’s installation directory. The new language will be available after Greenshot has been restarted. (If it is not, please check whether your operating system supports the language.)

+

Your language is still missing? Have a look at our translations tracker – maybe someone has already submitted it, but we have not found the time to check it and put it onto the website.
+If there is none, and you would like to submit a translation of your own, you are very welcome to upload it there, of course.

diff --git a/_posts/2012-03-26-how-to-upload-a-screenshot-to-facebook.markdown b/_posts/2012-03-26-how-to-upload-a-screenshot-to-facebook.markdown new file mode 100644 index 000000000..6f54fa9ea --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2012-03-26-how-to-upload-a-screenshot-to-facebook.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +--- +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: ! 'Updated: How to upload a screenshot to Facebook' +author: + display_name: greenshot + login: admin + email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net + url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +author_login: admin +author_email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net +author_url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +wordpress_id: 328 +wordpress_url: http://getgreenshot.org/?p=328 +date: !binary |- + MjAxMi0wMy0yNiAxNjowNjo1OCArMDIwMA== +date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMi0wMy0yNiAxNDowNjo1OCArMDIwMA== +categories: +- How-to +tags: +- screenshot +- facebook +- upload +- social media +comments: [] +--- +

Updated 2013/07/29: Facebook has changed where to find the settings described below. Updated the link to display the current information from Facebook's Help Center.

+

If you want to share screenshots via Facebook, there is an easy way to do so with Greenshot: simply use the so-called post-by-email address Facebook has set up for you.

+

In case you do not know your post-by-email address, you can find it out very easy, Facebook's Help Center entry tells you how to do it.

+

Once you know it, the rest is quite easy: Take a screenshot with Greenshot and use the E-Mail feature with your upload email address to upload it to Facebook. If you want to add a description, you can do so by typing it into the E-Mail's subject. That's it :)

+

P.S.: Of course we are aware that Facebook offers interfaces to upload images directly from a desktop application. But as there is no Facebook Plugin for Greenshot yet, uploading it via email is currently the easiest solution to share your screenshots on Facebook.

diff --git a/_posts/2012-04-17-working-towards-greenshot-1-0.markdown b/_posts/2012-04-17-working-towards-greenshot-1-0.markdown new file mode 100644 index 000000000..f8a37c34d --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2012-04-17-working-towards-greenshot-1-0.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +--- +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Working towards Greenshot 1.0 +author: + display_name: greenshot + login: admin + email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net + url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +author_login: admin +author_email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net +author_url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +wordpress_id: 421 +wordpress_url: http://getgreenshot.org/?p=421 +date: !binary |- + MjAxMi0wNC0xNyAxODowNTo1OSArMDIwMA== +date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMi0wNC0xNyAxNjowNTo1OSArMDIwMA== +categories: +- Announcements +tags: +- release +- '1.0' +comments: [] +--- +

If you have been following the published unstable versions and release candidates of Greenshot you might be wondering "What has happened to Version 0.8.1? There have been several release candidates some time ago... when will it finally be released?"

+

Well, there's bad news and good news. The bad news is that there won't be a 0.8.1 release at all. The good news... no... the really awesome news is: we will release Greenshot 1.0 soon! Yay!

+

Yes, that's right: after five years, we are finally going to push Greenshot out of beta, with the probably most grown-up, most feature-crammed, most-stable and most-bug-free Greenshot version ever.

+

Why? While working on the release candidates for 0.8.1 the feature-set still grew very rapidly with every version, and (kudos to our hard-working team member Robin) several long and often requested features have been implemented and also a lot of bugs of the previous version have been eliminated. After some time, we decided that a minor release would not do justice to the terrific list of changes.
+With the current status being very stable we also thought it would be a good idea to leave beta status and put the 1 before the dot.
+Of course, we will publish a complete list of changes when publishing a new version, but just to name a few of the new features:

+ +

When? We cannot give you a release date yet (remember: we are doing this in our spare time, which is limited as for most people). But we will start publishing release candidates within the next few weeks and are very optimistic that it will not take very long from the first release candidate to the final release.

+

We will let you know when there are release candidates and - of course - when Greenshot 1.0 is finally out, our blog will keep you up to date, you might also want to follow us on Facebook, Twitter or Google+.

diff --git a/_posts/2012-06-06-greenshot-is-nominated-for-sourceforges-project-of-the-month.markdown b/_posts/2012-06-06-greenshot-is-nominated-for-sourceforges-project-of-the-month.markdown new file mode 100644 index 000000000..deeb9e9f7 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2012-06-06-greenshot-is-nominated-for-sourceforges-project-of-the-month.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +--- +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: ! 'Update: Greenshot is nominated for Sourceforge''s Project of the Month' +author: + display_name: greenshot + login: admin + email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net + url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +author_login: admin +author_email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net +author_url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +wordpress_id: 447 +wordpress_url: http://getgreenshot.org/?p=447 +date: !binary |- + MjAxMi0wNi0wNiAyMTowNDoyOCArMDIwMA== +date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMi0wNi0wNiAxOTowNDoyOCArMDIwMA== +categories: +- Announcements +tags: +- sourceforge +- voting +comments: [] +--- +

Sourceforge.net has nominated Greenshot as among eight projects for the Project of the Month. We are proud to enter the voting together with popular software like Liferay Portal, KeePass Password Safe and SugarCRM.

+

The voting is open for everyone, the only thing you need is a Twitter account, since the poll is created with Twtpoll. We'd be happy if you took part in the election and voted for your favorite candidate. [Update: Voting finished, see below.]

+

The complete list of candidates reads as follows:

+ +

Update: The voting phase has finished, congratulations to Liferay Portal, which was voted for Project of the Month.
+Greenshot scored 4th place - given the popularity of the top 3 projects we are quite comfortable with this :)
+Thanks for voting! You can see the final result at Twtpoll.

diff --git a/_posts/2012-08-10-first-release-candidate-for-greenshot-1-0-is-out.markdown b/_posts/2012-08-10-first-release-candidate-for-greenshot-1-0-is-out.markdown new file mode 100644 index 000000000..286024e83 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2012-08-10-first-release-candidate-for-greenshot-1-0-is-out.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,65 @@ +--- +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: First release candidate for Greenshot 1.0 is out +author: + display_name: greenshot + login: admin + email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net + url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +author_login: admin +author_email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net +author_url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +wordpress_id: 459 +wordpress_url: http://getgreenshot.org/?p=459 +date: !binary |- + MjAxMi0wOC0xMCAwOTozNjowMCArMDIwMA== +date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMi0wOC0xMCAwNzozNjowMCArMDIwMA== +categories: +- Uncategorized +tags: +- release candidate +- '1.0' +comments: [] +--- +

Some time ago we have announced our work on the next major version of Greenshot: 1.0. Today, we are taking the next step: we have just uploaded the first release candidate for the new version (1.0.1.1980). All features for 1.0 are implemented, and a friendly bunch of people have already provided helpful feedback on the latest unstable releases, so we think that the current version is quite stable and ready to be pushed out as release candidate. But of course, large-scale testing is yet to be done and you are very welcome to help out with it. Just download and install Greenshot 1.0.1.1980 and let us know if you encounter any bugs or problems. (Note: as long as Greenshot 1.0 is in the release candidate phase, the big download button on our download page still points to Greenshot 0.8, always check the version history if you are looking for the latest release canidates or unstable builds.)

+

Depending on the number of issues reported, Greenshot 1.0 will hopefully be ready to be officially released as final version soon.

+

By the way: many translations are not up to date with version 1.0 yet. If you would like to help out: updating translations is is easy if you use our brand new Greenshot Language Editor.

+

Here is the complete change log for Greenshot 1.0:
+
+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 behaviour 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.

+

Known issues:
+* Greenshot general: I-Beam cursor isn't displayed correctly on the final result.
+* Greenshot general: Not all hotkeys can be changed in the editor. For example the pause or the Windows key need to be modified directly in the ini.
+* Greenshot editor: Rotate only rotates the bitmap, not the added elements or cursor
+* Greenshot editor: The shadow and torn edges effects don't create a transparent background yet.
+* Confluence Plug-in: the retrieving of the current page from firefox only works on the currently displayed Firefox tab. This is a problem since Firefox 13 and it is currently unknown if there is a fix.
+* OCR Plug-in: OCR is not working on 64 bit Windows, as the MODI-OCR component from Microsoft is not available in 64 bit, in this case Greenshot should be run in 32-bit or the plugins should be changed to call a 32-bit exe.

+

diff --git a/_posts/2012-08-10-introducing-the-brand-new-greenshot-language-editor-translators-wanted.markdown b/_posts/2012-08-10-introducing-the-brand-new-greenshot-language-editor-translators-wanted.markdown new file mode 100644 index 000000000..25c5f39b1 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2012-08-10-introducing-the-brand-new-greenshot-language-editor-translators-wanted.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +--- +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Introducing the brand new Greenshot Language Editor - translators wanted +author: + display_name: greenshot + login: admin + email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net + url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +author_login: admin +author_email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net +author_url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +wordpress_id: 465 +wordpress_url: http://getgreenshot.org/?p=465 +date: !binary |- + MjAxMi0wOC0xMCAwOTozNTowOCArMDIwMA== +date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMi0wOC0xMCAwNzozNTowOCArMDIwMA== +categories: +- Releases +- Translations +tags: +- translation +- internationalization +- release candidate +- '1.0' +comments: [] +--- +

About two years ago we have added internationalization to Greenshot by simply adding translated XML files to the installation directory. Today, Greenshot is available in nearly 30 different languages, most of which have been provided by motivated users from all over the world. Thanks to all of you, we really appreciate your support :)
+"Nearly 30" is a fairly impressive number, even more if you consider that creating and updating translations has been a bit uncomfortable until now: one had to edit XML files manually, and sometimes it proved to be a bit hard to find new messages to update an existing translation within the XML code.

+

Good news for our friendly translators: we have developed an all-new Greenshot Language Editor, especially for editing Greenshot's translation file. Creating and updating translations has never been so easy: it offers a side-by-side view of two language files, so that you can use a complete language file as template for updating another language. Just a few steps to create a new or update an existing translation:

+
    +
  1. Make sure you have the latest translation files on your hard disc. It is a generally a good idea to retrieve them right from our versioning system.
    2. +
  2. Download the Greenshot Language Editor and start it by double-clicking the file
    3. +
  3. Select the local folder containing your translation files
    4. +
  4. Choose the language file to edit (or create a new one by clicking the "Create" button)
    5. +
  5. Choose another language file to be used as template in the other column (e.g. lanugage-en-US.xml)
    6. +
  6. Missing messages are highlighted with a red background. Add messages to your translation or update existing entries.
    7. +
  7. Save the new/updated translation file by clicking the "Save" button
    8. +
  8. Upload the updated file to our translations tracker
    9. +
+

That's it.

+

As we have just started off with release candidates for Greenshot 1.0, now is a good moment to update existing translations for the final release. Most likely, we will not add any more messages for the next version, and of course we'd be very happy to see many translations up-to-date when we release the final version of Greenshot 1.0. If you want to help out, why don't you give the new language editor a try? And, of course, as with Greenshot itself: please let us know if you encounter any problems with the editor, too.

+

Thanks a lot for your help.

diff --git a/_posts/2012-09-09-second-release-candidate-for-version-1-0-translations-needed.markdown b/_posts/2012-09-09-second-release-candidate-for-version-1-0-translations-needed.markdown new file mode 100644 index 000000000..6081f016c --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2012-09-09-second-release-candidate-for-version-1-0-translations-needed.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ +--- +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Second release candidate for version 1.0 - translations needed +author: + display_name: greenshot + login: admin + email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net + url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +author_login: admin +author_email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net +author_url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +wordpress_id: 518 +wordpress_url: http://getgreenshot.org/?p=518 +date: !binary |- + MjAxMi0wOS0wOSAyMTo0NDo1MSArMDIwMA== +date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMi0wOS0wOSAxOTo0NDo1MSArMDIwMA== +categories: +- Releases +tags: +- translation +- release candidate +- '1.0' +comments: [] +--- +

We have released the second release candidate for Greenshot 1.0 today, fixing issues that users found while using the first release candidate. Thanks to those who helped us by providing valuable feedback. All changes since the previous version are listed at the end of this post.

+

Feel free to download and install Greenshot 1.0.2.2011 and (as always) please let us know if you encounter any bugs or problems with it. (Note: as long as Greenshot 1.0 is in the release candidate phase, the big download button on our download page still points to Greenshot 0.8, always check the version history if you are looking for the latest release canidates or unstable builds.)

+

Just one thing: there are many translations which are not up to date with the latest changes yet. Greenshot has a fallback mechanism always to display the english message if a translation is not available, so that it can be used even if a translation is incomplete. However, we'd be happy to have as many translations up-to-date as possible when Greenshot 1.0 reaches final state. Please have a look at this blog entry to see how you can help us with translations.
+By the way: we would like to offer the installer in more languages, and also the homepage of our website, so that Greenshot is easily accessible for people all over the world. For your convenience, we have extracted the text of those to language files, too. You can find them in the Languages directory of our repository, e.g. the english files are called language_installer-en-US.xml and language-website-en-US.xml.
+This means that you can use the Greenshot Language Editor for these files, too.

+

Below the release notes for Greenshot 1.0.2 build 2011 Release Candidate 2

+


+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

+

Known issues:
+* Greenshot general: I-Beam cursor isn't displayed correctly on the final result.
+* Greenshot general: Not all hotkeys can be changed in the editor. For example the pause or the Windows key need to be modified directly in the ini.
+* Greenshot editor: Rotate only rotates the bitmap, not the added elements or cursor
+* Greenshot editor: The shadow and torn edges effects don't create a transparent background yet.
+* Confluence Plug-in: the retrieving of the current page from firefox only works on the currently displayed Firefox tab. This is a problem since Firefox 13 and it is currently unknown if there is a fix.
+* OCR Plug-in: OCR is not working on 64 bit Windows, as the MODI-OCR component from Microsoft is not available in 64 bit, in this case Greenshot should be run in 32-bit. We are working on this.

+

diff --git a/_posts/2012-10-19-getting-closer-third-release-candidate-for-greenshot-1-0-published-today.markdown b/_posts/2012-10-19-getting-closer-third-release-candidate-for-greenshot-1-0-published-today.markdown new file mode 100644 index 000000000..6b2fbe5ed --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2012-10-19-getting-closer-third-release-candidate-for-greenshot-1-0-published-today.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,69 @@ +--- +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: ! 'Updated: Getting closer... third release candidate for Greenshot 1.0 published + today' +author: + display_name: greenshot + login: admin + email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net + url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +author_login: admin +author_email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net +author_url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +wordpress_id: 568 +wordpress_url: http://getgreenshot.org/?p=568 +date: !binary |- + MjAxMi0xMC0xOSAxNjo0ODoxNyArMDIwMA== +date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMi0xMC0xOSAxNDo0ODoxNyArMDIwMA== +categories: +- Releases +tags: +- release candidate +- '1.0' +comments: [] +--- +

Update: RC3 has introduced two annoying bugs with several plugins, RC4 fixes those and is available now.

+Read the RC4 release post for details.

+
+

There is a German saying "Gut Ding will Weile haben", meaning roughly "good things need time".
+For Greenshot 1.0 RC3 we took a bit more time than planned, we want to make Greenshot 1.0 as good as possible and this time was needed.
+As we made a lot of changes the risk for new bugs is higher, but if found these will be fixed quickly with RC4 / RC5.
+The final release should be shortly after RC4 RC5.

+

Download the latest Greenshot release candidate from our version history page.

+

The exact details of the changes in Greenshot 1.0 RC3 are listed below, but here are the biggest:
+* Performance improvements, in several areas but mainly noticeable directly after captures.
+* The upload plugins now use our own code, this made it possible to get a consistent experience when authorizing with different platforms
+* By removing a lot of 3rd party libs Greenshot is now smaller, should also use a bit less memory and most upload plugins no longer need .NET 3.5
+* Finally fixed a bug in our shadow/torn edges effect which forced us to use a white background, now we can use transparency.
+* A lot of small bug and translation fixes

+

Happy Greenshotting!

+

Here's the complete changelog for RC3:
+
+1.0.3 build 2159 Release Candidate 3

+

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, see bug #3569703
+* 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.

+

Known issues:
+* Greenshot general: the I-Beam cursor isn't displayed correctly on the final result.
+* Greenshot general: Not all hotkeys can be changed in the editor. For example the pause or the Windows key need to be modified directly in the ini.
+* Greenshot editor: Rotate only rotates the screenshot, not the added elements or cursor
+* Confluence Plug-in: the retrieving of the current page from firefox only works on the currently displayed Firefox tab. This is a problem since Firefox 13 and it is currently unknown if there is a fix.

+

diff --git a/_posts/2012-10-20-release-candidate-4-is-available.markdown b/_posts/2012-10-20-release-candidate-4-is-available.markdown new file mode 100644 index 000000000..55935a4bc --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2012-10-20-release-candidate-4-is-available.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +--- +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: ! 'Release Candidate #4 is available' +author: + display_name: greenshot + login: admin + email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net + url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +author_login: admin +author_email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net +author_url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +wordpress_id: 574 +wordpress_url: http://getgreenshot.org/?p=574 +date: !binary |- + MjAxMi0xMC0yMCAxNjowMTozMiArMDIwMA== +date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMi0xMC0yMCAxNDowMTozMiArMDIwMA== +categories: +- Releases +tags: +- bugfix +- release candidate +- '1.0' +comments: [] +--- +

Well, that one was short-lived ;-)
+The third release candidate (released only yesterday) introduced two annoying bugs regarding several upload plugins (OAuth authentication process was broken) and the external command plugin (not working).
+Those are fixed now, and the fourth release candidate is now available on our version history.

+

Here are the release notes:
+
+1.0.4 build 2176 Release Candidate 4

+

Bugs resolved:
+* Fixed error during OAuth process due to authorization dialog not opening, see bug #3578480
+* Fixed error in external command plugin, see bugs #3578391, #3578379, #3578377
+* Fixed editor window not being resized to image size, see bug #3578325
+

diff --git a/_posts/2012-10-27-5th-release-candidate-for-greenshot-1-0-is-ready-for-download.markdown b/_posts/2012-10-27-5th-release-candidate-for-greenshot-1-0-is-ready-for-download.markdown new file mode 100644 index 000000000..3d496feb5 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2012-10-27-5th-release-candidate-for-greenshot-1-0-is-ready-for-download.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +--- +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: 5th Release Candidate for Greenshot 1.0 is ready for Download +author: + display_name: greenshot + login: admin + email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net + url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +author_login: admin +author_email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net +author_url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +wordpress_id: 590 +wordpress_url: http://getgreenshot.org/?p=590 +date: !binary |- + MjAxMi0xMC0yNyAxNjowNDoxOSArMDIwMA== +date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMi0xMC0yNyAxNDowNDoxOSArMDIwMA== +categories: +- Releases +tags: +- release candidate +- '1.0' +comments: [] +--- +

We have just uploaded the fifth release candidate for Greenshot 1.0 - the new version contains a few bugfixes, for details have a look at the changelog at the end of this entry.

+

As always, please give us feedback if you have any problems. We are confident that (unless a serious bug is found in this release candidate) we will be ready for the final release of Greenshot 1.0 within the next few days. We are looking forward to this :)

+

For those of you that are already using Windows 8: we already did some testing with the current release candidate; we noticed that the installation process (during the optimzation phase) takes slightly longer than we are used to, but this might just be the case because if it is the first .NET application to be installed on a fresh Windows 8 system. So don't be surprised if the installer seems to do a slower job.

+

Enough talk, now download the latest release candidate (RC5) :)

+

And here is the changelog:

+


+1.0.5 build #### Release Candidate 5

+

Bugs resolved
+* Fixed translation issue in expert settings, clipboard format options not being updated right away after switching UI language, see bug #3576073
+* 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 capturung a minimized IE window, now we first restore it (un-minimize) before capturing.
+

diff --git a/_posts/2012-10-30-greenshot-1-0-is-finally-available-for-download-now.markdown b/_posts/2012-10-30-greenshot-1-0-is-finally-available-for-download-now.markdown new file mode 100644 index 000000000..4144ef6c9 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2012-10-30-greenshot-1-0-is-finally-available-for-download-now.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +--- +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Greenshot 1.0 is finally available for download now! +author: + display_name: greenshot + login: admin + email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net + url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +author_login: admin +author_email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net +author_url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +wordpress_id: 606 +wordpress_url: http://getgreenshot.org/?p=606 +date: !binary |- + MjAxMi0xMC0zMCAyMTowMTowMCArMDEwMA== +date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMi0xMC0zMCAxOTowMTowMCArMDEwMA== +categories: +- Releases +tags: +- release +- '1.0' +comments: [] +--- +

We are very proud to annouce that Greenshot 1.0 is finally available for download now. It has been two years since the last official release and we have not been lazy in the meantime. There have been a lot of bugfixes and performance improvements, but there are also loads of handy new screenshot features coming with Greenshot 1.0, to name just a few of them:

+

Dynamic destination picker

+ +

But that's just a small part of a really huge list of changes. Have a look at the change log at the end of this post.

+

For those of you that are already using Windows 8: we are able to test with it and have been testing the current relase against Windows 8. Currently Greenshot works, as far as we noticed, as designed when using the normal desktop and can capture the Metro "view" with the region or screen capture. It's not (yet) possible to select Metro applications via the context menu or use the interactive windows capture.

+

Selecting plugins during installation processGreenshot started off as a very simple tool more than five years ago and has been in beta stadium since then. Over these years, more than 2.000.000 downloads have been recorded from Sourceforge's download servers alone, not even taking into account the numerous software portals that are redistributing different versions of Greenshot (*), recently that's more than 20.000 downloads every week.
+Today Greenshot is a feature-rich (yet simple to use) screenshot tool and the current version is not only the best-featured Greenshot release ever, but also the most stable one. Time to get rid of the odd "beta" label With the help of many friendly users we have ironed out a lot of bugs of the previous versions, added a lot of cool new features, improved old features; and not to forget: we are able to offer Greenshot in 32 languages at the time of this writing. Thanks to the supporters all around the world who helped us to make Greenshot what it is today.

+

Now go ahead and download Greenshot 1.0 and have fun with the new features. We hope that you like the new version as much as we do

+

*) By the way: we strongly recommend to always download Greenshot from our official website http://getgreenshot.org/ - there have been reports about some (even popular) software portals offering wrapped installers of open source projects, bundling adware or even malware with the original installer. Also the installers for download are often outdated or "nightly builds" which might be buggy and are not intended to be used by a wide audience.

diff --git a/_posts/2013-01-28-how-to-use-the-external-command-plugin-to-send-screenshots-to-other-applications.markdown b/_posts/2013-01-28-how-to-use-the-external-command-plugin-to-send-screenshots-to-other-applications.markdown new file mode 100644 index 000000000..042372405 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2013-01-28-how-to-use-the-external-command-plugin-to-send-screenshots-to-other-applications.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,52 @@ +--- +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: How to use the External Command Plugin to send screenshots to other applications +author: + display_name: greenshot + login: admin + email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net + url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +author_login: admin +author_email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net +author_url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +wordpress_id: 715 +wordpress_url: http://getgreenshot.org/?p=715 +date: !binary |- + MjAxMy0wMS0yOCAwMDozOTo0NyArMDEwMA== +date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMy0wMS0yNyAyMjozOTo0NyArMDEwMA== +categories: +- How-to +tags: +- plugin +comments: [] +--- +

Configuring external commands +

Ever wondered what is the quickest way to have Greenshot output images to other applications on your PC, e.g. your favorite image manipulation software, upload application or instant messenger?

+

The Greenshot installer comes with a handy plugin called "External Command Plugin", allowing Greenshot to output files to a large number of other programs on your computer. E.g. if you prefer Adobe Photoshop or Inkscape for editing your screenshots, it is an easy task to configure custom destinations which you then can select like any other destination. This will work for any program that offers a command line interface accepting an image path.

+

What is a command line interface?

+

A command line interface can be used to send commands to a program, e.g.

+

explorer.exe C:
+will open Windows Explorer and display the contents of your local hard drive C:

+

copy myfile.txt myfile-2.txt
+will create a copy of myfile.txt, creating a new file called myfile-2.txt

+

mspaint.exe "C:\path\to\image.png"
+will open MS Paint to edit image.png located in C:\path\to\ (of course, these are just examples, there's probably no directory called C:\path\to on your hard drive)

+

You can execute commands yourself using the Windows command line tool (called cmd.exe)

+

But you can also configure Greenshot to execute commands like these which comes very handy if you often need to pass your screenshots to other software.

+

So how does Greenshot's External Command Plugin work?

+

List of external commands It's easy... Right click the Greenshot systray icon and click "Configure external commands".

+

(If it is not there, you are either using an old version of Greenshot or did not select to install the External Command plugin during the installation process. In both cases, you should download the latest version of Greenshot's installer and install it. When the installer asks about plugins to install, make sure to check the box next to "External Command Plugin", and proceed with the installation.)

+

After doing so, the configuration dialog opens up. For your convenience, we have already added MS Paint to the list (i.e. you can already use it as a screenshot destination from Greenshot's image editor or destination picker.)
+Let's have a look at its configuration: click "MS Paint" in the list and then the "Edit" button on the right-hand side, you'll see the configuration options for the MS Paint command:
+External command configuration window +

+

In the Argument section {0} will be replaced with the path of the temporary file you are about to export from Greenshot. You should wrap this in double quotes, otherwise it could lead to unexpected behavior if the file name or path contains whitespace characters.

+

You can close this window. Now that you've had a look at the MS Paint command, you're ready to configure external commands yourself. Simply use the "New" button to add new commands and they will be available in the editor and destination picker.

+

Please note: not every program offers a command line interface, and arguments are often different than in this example. We (the Greenshot development team) will not be able to offer guidance for working with third party software. Read the other program's documentation or contact its developers to find out whether and how it is possible to pass an image via command line arguments.

diff --git a/_posts/2013-02-07-constructive-feedback-is-always-welcome.markdown b/_posts/2013-02-07-constructive-feedback-is-always-welcome.markdown new file mode 100644 index 000000000..1edcbb566 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2013-02-07-constructive-feedback-is-always-welcome.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +--- +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Constructive feedback is always welcome +author: + display_name: greenshot + login: admin + email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net + url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +author_login: admin +author_email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net +author_url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +wordpress_id: 770 +wordpress_url: http://getgreenshot.org/?p=770 +date: !binary |- + MjAxMy0wMi0wNyAwMDo0Mjo0MCArMDEwMA== +date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMy0wMi0wNiAyMjo0Mjo0MCArMDEwMA== +categories: +- Announcements +tags: +- bugs +- support +comments: [] +--- +

Dear Greenshot users,

+

When you encounter problems with Greenshot or need any assistance, we are happy to help out as much as we can. However, to ensure that we can actually be helpful, we kindly ask you to provide the following details with your bug report / support request:

+
    +
  1. Operating system and its version on which you are facing the issue.
    2. +
  2. The version of Greenshot and where you downloaded it, espcially if it wasn't from getgreenshot.org or sourceforge.net.
    3. +
  3. A detailed description of your problem, what happened, and what did you expect to happen instead, please also include a step-by-step guide how the problem can be reproduced.
    4. +
  4. If you have found a solution (or workaround) for the problem, please update the ticket and tell us (and the other users) about the rescue.
    5. +
  5. Please be polite and patient. We know that it can be nagging if software does not work as expected, but be sure that it isn't our intention to make this software as annoying as possible for you.
    6. +
+

Always keep in mind: the better you describe the problem, the better we can be of help with it. The community will be thankful as well. The information you put down in our tracker might be a great help for other users.

+

On a side note, Greenshot is not made by a company and we don't ask money for it or earn money with it.
+We develop Greenshot and work on reported bugs/features in our spare time when we don't work on our regular jobs or have other private obligations; this might sometimes prevent us from helping someone as quickly as we would like. The reason why we make Greenshot is simply that we enjoy writing something that people enjoy using.

+

As answering every ticket and satisfying everybody takes a lot of time which we would actually rather spend developing new features and fixing bugs (to be honest) we needed to make some rules clear. We are still doing our best to make everybody happy because we believe that it is important to stay in touch with the users in order to develop usable and good software, that’s part of the game.

+

But please do not take it personally if our replies are slower and kept shorter than what you are used to by professional and commercial 24/7 customer service offices. We just can't offer that; if we did, Greenshot definitely could not be free. It's up to you to help us responding to your requests helpfully and with few expenditure of time, by submitting constructive feedback (see list above) and staying polite. And: the less time we spend replying to tickets, the more time we can spend acutually improving this software :)

+

Please keep these things in mind when getting in touch with bug reports or feature/support requests.

+

By the way: we will remove the possibility to create and comment tickets anonymously in our bug tracker. On the one hand, this is because there is an increasing amount of spam lately. On the other hand, tickets created anonymously very often lack important information and are not monitored by the creator to reply when we ask for details. These tickets are obviously not helpful to anyone, yet take a lot of our time to process. If you need to get in touch, please register with sourceforge.net or connect with OpenID, it's quite simple.

+

Thanks for using Greenshot and taking the time to read this,
+the Greenshot development team

diff --git a/_posts/2013-02-17-how-to-send-an-image-to-skype-using-command-line-arguments.markdown b/_posts/2013-02-17-how-to-send-an-image-to-skype-using-command-line-arguments.markdown new file mode 100644 index 000000000..0ff1629b2 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2013-02-17-how-to-send-an-image-to-skype-using-command-line-arguments.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +--- +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: How to send an image to Skype using command line arguments +author: + display_name: greenshot + login: admin + email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net + url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +author_login: admin +author_email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net +author_url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +wordpress_id: 792 +wordpress_url: http://getgreenshot.org/?p=792 +date: !binary |- + MjAxMy0wMi0xNyAxOTowNjowNiArMDEwMA== +date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMy0wMi0xNyAxNzowNjowNiArMDEwMA== +categories: +- How-to +tags: +- skype +- tools +- plugins +comments: [] +--- +

2-select-skype-contactYou may have read our recent blog article about how to connect Greenshot to other desktop applications using the external command plugin.

+

For most popular software, available command line parameters are well documented, so one can easily find out whether and how it is possible to send an image to it via command line arguments.

+

In the case of Skype, it takes a bit of investigation to find that out - the list of command line arguments published by Skype is very short, and there is no option listed for sending files to Skype.

+

However, after having a look at Skype's context menu integration (when you right click a file in Windows explorer, there is a Skype entry in the "Send to" sub menu) I found out that there is a undocumented command line parameter called SENDTO.

+

So, actually it is possible to send a file to Skype via command line, and it is as easy as that:
+"C:\Program Files (x86)\Skype\Phone\Skype.exe" /sendto: "C:\path\to\image.jpg"
+(of course, the path could be different on your computer)

+

Configuring external command for Skype That is good news for us, because if it is possible using command line arguments, of course it is easily possible to do so with Greenshot's external command plugin as well.
+It is easy to configure:

+ diff --git a/_posts/2013-04-02-first-release-candidate-for-greenshot-1-1.markdown b/_posts/2013-04-02-first-release-candidate-for-greenshot-1-1.markdown new file mode 100644 index 000000000..9b976552c --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2013-04-02-first-release-candidate-for-greenshot-1-1.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,82 @@ +--- +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: First release candidate for Greenshot 1.1 +author: + display_name: greenshot + login: admin + email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net + url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +author_login: admin +author_email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net +author_url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +wordpress_id: 866 +wordpress_url: http://getgreenshot.org/?p=866 +date: !binary |- + MjAxMy0wNC0wMiAyMjo1NzozMSArMDIwMA== +date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMy0wNC0wMiAyMDo1NzozMSArMDIwMA== +categories: +- Releases +tags: +- release candidate +- '1.1' +comments: [] +--- +

It has been a few months since we have released Greenshot 1.0, finally leaving beta status. This was a huge step for us and we are happy to see that the number of downloads is still rising. Greenshot 1.0 has pushed downloads past the 2 million downloads mark last year and it is still downloaded far more than 100.000 times each month.

+

Time to take it to the next level: today we have published the first release candidate for version 1.1 - we decided to keep the interval short, so that you can can benefit from the improvements and new features as early as possible. However, the list of changes and bug fixes is still fairly impressive. Most notable, the region capture mode now comes with a small zoom window, enabling pixel exact selection of the rectangle to capture. But there is a lot more, have a look at the change log below for details.

+

As usual, the disclaimer: "release candidate" means that this version has not gone through extensive testing yet. It might be buggy, so if you do not like surprises, we suggest to stick with version 1.0 until we have ironed out all issues and publish the stable release of version 1.1.

+

And, as usal, here is the complete change log - you can download the release candidate (installer or ZIP) from our version history:
+
+1.1.1 build 2550 Release Candidate 1

+

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 (for bug details go to http://sourceforge.net/p/greenshot/bugs and search on the ID):
+* 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. See: http://sourceforge.net/p/greenshot/discussion/676082/thread/31a08c8c
+* 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.

+

Known issues:
+* Greenshot general: a captured I-Beam cursor isn't displayed correctly on the final result.
+* Greenshot general: Not all hotkeys can be changed in the editor. When you want to use e.g. the pause or the Windows key, you will need to be modified the ini directly.
+* Greenshot general: Can't capture 256 color screens
+* Greenshot general: Hotkeys don't function when a UAC (elevated) process is active. This we won't change as it is a Windows security measure.
+* Greenshot general: Capturing apps on Windows 8 when having more than one screen still causes some issues.
+* Greenshot editor: Rotate only rotates the screenshot, not the added elements or cursor
+

diff --git a/_posts/2013-04-21-release-candidate-2-for-greenshot-1-1-is-ready-for-download.markdown b/_posts/2013-04-21-release-candidate-2-for-greenshot-1-1-is-ready-for-download.markdown new file mode 100644 index 000000000..2811e725c --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2013-04-21-release-candidate-2-for-greenshot-1-1-is-ready-for-download.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@ +--- +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: ! 'Release candidate #2 for Greenshot 1.1 is ready for download' +author: + display_name: greenshot + login: admin + email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net + url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +author_login: admin +author_email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net +author_url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +wordpress_id: 881 +wordpress_url: http://getgreenshot.org/?p=881 +date: !binary |- + MjAxMy0wNC0yMSAyMzo0NDo0NiArMDIwMA== +date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMy0wNC0yMSAyMTo0NDo0NiArMDIwMA== +categories: +- Releases +tags: +- release candidate +- '1.1' +comments: [] +--- +

Just a short notice that we have published the second release candidate for version 1.1 of Greenshot today. It does not only fix bugs reported with the previous release candidate, but also has two additional features:

+ +

The complete change log can be found below, the latest release candidate is downloadable from our version history page. Check it out and if you encounter an error, please report the bug. Thanks a lot :)

+


+1.1.2 build 2572 Release Candidate 2

+

Features added since 1.1.1:
+* 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 (for bug details go to http://sourceforge.net/p/greenshot/bugs and search on the ID):
+* 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
+

diff --git a/_posts/2013-04-30-getting-closer-third-release-candidate-for-greenshot-1-1-indonesian-translation.markdown b/_posts/2013-04-30-getting-closer-third-release-candidate-for-greenshot-1-1-indonesian-translation.markdown new file mode 100644 index 000000000..2d032fcab --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2013-04-30-getting-closer-third-release-candidate-for-greenshot-1-1-indonesian-translation.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +--- +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: ! 'Getting Closer: Third Release Candidate for Greenshot 1.1 + Indonesian Translation' +author: + display_name: greenshot + login: admin + email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net + url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +author_login: admin +author_email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net +author_url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +wordpress_id: 885 +wordpress_url: http://getgreenshot.org/?p=885 +date: !binary |- + MjAxMy0wNC0zMCAyMDozMTowNCArMDIwMA== +date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMy0wNC0zMCAxODozMTowNCArMDIwMA== +categories: +- Releases +tags: +- translation +- release candidate +- '1.1' +- indonesian +comments: [] +--- +

Today we have uploaded the third release candidate for version 1.1. We are very optimistic that this is the last release candidate and that we will release the final version of Greenshot 1.1 very soon.

+

The current release candidate fixes a bug when using the "Highlight Area" feature of the image editor. Furthermore, we are happy to announce a new language in the family of Greenshot translations: Indonesian is included from now on, you can download it for existing installations of previous versions from our downloads page.
+Thanks a lot to Afif Brika, who created and submitted the translation.

+

By the way: a lot of translations are not up to date with version 1.1 yet. If you would like to enhance an existing translation (or even submit a new language), have a look at this blog post. Thanks :)

+

Enough talk for now, you can download the latest version from our version history page, and here is the changelog:

+


+1.1.3 build 2596 Release Candidate 3

+

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 (for bug details go to http://sourceforge.net/p/greenshot/bugs and search on the ID):
+* Bug #1504: InvalidCastException when using the brightness-filter

+

Languages:
+* Added Indonesian
+

diff --git a/_posts/2013-05-07-greenshot-1-1-is-available-introducing-the-capture-zoom.markdown b/_posts/2013-05-07-greenshot-1-1-is-available-introducing-the-capture-zoom.markdown new file mode 100644 index 000000000..7752ed0e6 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2013-05-07-greenshot-1-1-is-available-introducing-the-capture-zoom.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,92 @@ +--- +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: ! 'Greenshot 1.1 is available: Introducing the Capture Zoom' +author: + display_name: greenshot + login: admin + email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net + url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +author_login: admin +author_email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net +author_url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +wordpress_id: 960 +wordpress_url: http://getgreenshot.org/?p=960 +date: !binary |- + MjAxMy0wNS0wNyAyMzoyNDozNiArMDIwMA== +date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMy0wNS0wNyAyMToyNDozNiArMDIwMA== +tags: +- release +- features +- '1.1' +- zoom +comments: [] +--- +

You may have noticed that we have been busy with release candidates in the last few weeks. Now, after three release candidates, the few issues that existend seem to be sorted out, so that Greenshot 1.1 is available for download now.

+

Greenshot's capture zoom featureGreenshot 1.1 includes one of the recently most requested features: the new capture zoom is very helpful while selecting a region to capture: it displays a magnified view of the area around the cursor, making it easy to select pixel-exact regions, no matter how tiny they are. The zoom view is flexible enough to stay out of your way as you move the cursor on the screen, but in case you do not want or need it, you can either toggle it off/on easily during capture region selection by hitting the Z key, or disable/enable it in the settings.

+

Another nice addition is a new output file format called "Greenshot". When saving a screenshot from the image editor in Greenshot format, you will be able to re-open the file with Greenshot later and have your annotations, shapes etc. still editable.

+

PortableApps users will be happy to hear that Greenshot is now released for the PortableApps platform, too.

+

But these are just a few of the new features, there are some more, as well as a lot of bug fixes, extended/improved and/or added translations.

+

Have a look at the detailed change log entry for Greenshot 1.1 below, or head over to our download page right now to get hold of the new version. We hope you like it as much as we do :)

+


+1.1.4 build 2622 Release

+

Features added:
+* General: Added zoom when capturing with a option in the settings for disabling the zoom. (this can also be done via the "z" key while 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}
+* General: Greenshot now also comes as a "for PortableApps" download, this now will be released just like the other files (installer & .zip)
+* 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)
+* 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

+

Bugs resolved (for bug details go to http://sourceforge.net/p/greenshot/bugs and search on the ID):
+* 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
+* 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
+* Bug #1504: InvalidCastException when using the brightness-filter
+* Reported in forum: Fixed a problem with the OCR, it sometimes didn't work. See: http://sourceforge.net/p/greenshot/discussion/676082/thread/31a08c8c
+* 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.
+... and more

+

Languages:
+* Added Indonesian
+* Installer: Added Spanish
+* Installer: Added Serbian
+* Installer: Added Finnish
+* General: Fixes for many languages

+

Known issues:
+* Greenshot general: a captured I-Beam cursor isn't displayed correctly on the final result.
+* Greenshot general: Not all hotkeys can be changed in the editor. When you want to use e.g. the pause or the Windows key, you will need to be modified the ini directly.
+* Greenshot general: Can't capture 256 color screens
+* Greenshot general: Hotkeys don't function when a UAC (elevated) process is active. This we won't change as it is a Windows security measure.
+* Greenshot general: Capturing apps on Windows 8 when having more than one screen still causes some issues.
+* Greenshot editor: Rotate only rotates the screenshot, not the added elements or cursor
+

diff --git a/_posts/2013-05-20-new-release-with-bugfixes-and-language-updates-for-greenshot-1-1.markdown b/_posts/2013-05-20-new-release-with-bugfixes-and-language-updates-for-greenshot-1-1.markdown new file mode 100644 index 000000000..9b4a6cca0 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2013-05-20-new-release-with-bugfixes-and-language-updates-for-greenshot-1-1.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +--- +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: New release with bugfixes and language updates for Greenshot 1.1 +author: + display_name: greenshot + login: admin + email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net + url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +author_login: admin +author_email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net +author_url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +wordpress_id: 982 +wordpress_url: http://getgreenshot.org/?p=982 +date: !binary |- + MjAxMy0wNS0yMCAyMDoxNToyOSArMDIwMA== +date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMy0wNS0yMCAxODoxNToyOSArMDIwMA== +categories: +- Releases +tags: +- release +- translation +- bugfix +- '1.1' +comments: [] +--- +

Two weeks ago we have published Greenshot 1.1. Just today we have uploaded an updated version (1.1.5), which fixes bugs that have been reported since then - most notably an error message occurring in Windows Vista when trying to apply a drop shadow or torn edge effect to a screenshot, and color prints being printed in grayscale under certain conditions.

+

We have also received some updates for the translations, which are included in this release: Estonian has been added as a new language (thanks a lot to Olav for submitting the translation), and there are updates for the Ukrainian, Russish, Polish and Italian translation as well.

+

For all of you interested in more details, read the change log below. Or just download the latest release from our downloads page.

+

Have fun :)

+


+1.1.5 build 2643 Bugfix Release

+

Bugs resolved (for bug details go to http://sourceforge.net/p/greenshot/bugs and search on the ID):
+* 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
+

diff --git a/_posts/2013-05-30-why-a-free-web-needs-advertising.markdown b/_posts/2013-05-30-why-a-free-web-needs-advertising.markdown new file mode 100644 index 000000000..a3c496c85 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2013-05-30-why-a-free-web-needs-advertising.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +--- +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Why a free web needs advertising +author: + display_name: greenshot + login: admin + email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net + url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +author_login: admin +author_email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net +author_url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +wordpress_id: 954 +wordpress_url: http://getgreenshot.org/?p=954 +date: !binary |- + MjAxMy0wNS0zMCAyMDo0NjozMyArMDIwMA== +date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMy0wNS0zMCAxODo0NjozMyArMDIwMA== +categories: +- Uncategorized +tags: +- website +comments: [] +--- +

First of all: we would like to thank everybody who already donated to Greenshot: thank you so much! Of course, we also appreciate people visiting our website without blocking ads.

+

Maybe you wonder what we do with your donations and the advertising revenue? Or rather you are asking yourself “What the heck does a piece of code need money for?”. Well, free services and products like Greenshot need financial means to keep going, and unfortunately we aren't backed by a company that covers our costs. Actually, we need a lot of things to generate this piece of code; our expenses involve costs for hardware, software, electricity, telecommunication, to name just a few... even if these costs wouldn't exist, we would still work for free, in our spare time. And although we really enjoy developing Greenshot, it's not just the programming which needs to be done. We spend a large amount of time working on the tickets that are reported (bugs, questions, feature request etc.), social media, coordinating the translations, maintaining this website, etc.

+

There are mainly two ways to generate at least some income: advertising and donations. Advertising revenue is just as crucial as donations to keep Greenshot running. Unfortunately, ad-blocking software reduces the strength of the advertising pillar. This is the case even if one never clicks any advertisements, since the advertising service we use also pays revenue for displayed ads (of course not as much as for clicks, but every bit helps).

+

Disabling Adblock for a specific domain For this reason, if you are using an ad-blocker, we kindly ask you to consider deactivating it on getgreenshot.org and any other websites you like, to support their and our work. We highly appreciate your consideration! To help you make your decision easier: there are no layer ads, interstitials, pop-ups or similar annoyances on our website, we also took care not to mix advertisements with content. And, most important: Greenshot itself is totally ad-free. Just fair, isn’t it?
+Just think about paper magazines you might buy regularly: most of them print a considerable amount of ads to keep them going and you still do not get them for free.

+

If however for some reason you cannot or do not want to stop blocking ads, you might rather want to make a small donation instead?

+

Thanks for giving this a read and considering action :)

diff --git a/_posts/2013-10-16-current-development-status-future-plans.markdown b/_posts/2013-10-16-current-development-status-future-plans.markdown new file mode 100644 index 000000000..c4343e58d --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2013-10-16-current-development-status-future-plans.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +--- +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Current Development Status and Plans for the Future +author: + display_name: greenshot + login: admin + email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net + url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +author_login: admin +author_email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net +author_url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +wordpress_id: 1001 +wordpress_url: http://getgreenshot.org/?p=1001 +date: !binary |- + MjAxMy0xMC0xNiAyMTo1MTo1NiArMDIwMA== +date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMy0xMC0xNiAxOTo1MTo1NiArMDIwMA== +categories: +- Announcements +tags: +- '1.1' +- '2.0' +- windows +- .net +comments: [] +--- +

So what have we been up to? You might have heard little of us, but this doesn't mean we were sleeping!

+

Of course we were working on Greenshot 1.1.6, we fixed some mean bugs and even managed to squeeze in a few small features! We will release the new version within the next few days, so stay tuned :)

+

But mainly we were busy with working on and planning for Greenshot 2.0! We need to make some decisions on how we continue the development, these decisions do not cover which features we are going to develop but rather are important infrastructure changes. When the development of Greenshot started in 2007, .NET Framework 2.0 was used and the target OS was Windows XP. Up till today we didn't change the .NET framework and still maintain code to support Windows XP, even though none of us has Windows XP anymore, which means that we cannot actually do the testing. You probably know that we are only a small development team, so we cannot support all Windows versions forever... Besides we are missing out on many features that Microsoft offers in newer versions of Windows and the .NET framework which we could use to improve on Greenshot. As .NET framework 2.0 and Windows XP both are getting end of lifed by Microsoft we will no longer be able to use and support these.

+

Based on these considerations, we decided two things:

+ +

You might ask, "What benefit does this migration bring for me?" Well, we don't plan many new features for 2.0, but we will be able to enable some hidden and prepared features and improve a lot of the current. As Greenshot was built on a user interface technology that has gotten long in the tooth, adding new settings wasted loads of efforts, which sometimes meant that we didn't add them in the end. A lot of features, expert or new, were only available by changing the greenshot.ini manually. We are already building a new settings dialog where we can add them quickly and consistent, enhancing usability with an incremental search within the dialog. It is still work in progress, but here is a screenshot to give you an idea:

+

Greenshot 2.0 settings dialog (work in progress)

+

Finally, this should make it possible for us to improve the Greenshot experience, make the user interface feel more professional and finished.

+

One thing that does have to wait, is the editor. We have spent a lot of time developing it on the old framework, if we would wait with Greenshot 2.0 before this is migrated to the newer Framework you would have to wait for ages. We rather supply you with smaller treats, so you don't have to wait so long.

+

Some other things that we are working on, maybe not so important for most of our users, is the migration our source code from subversion to GIT. This should speed up some of our development and also enable an easier way of helping us out by developing your favorite features yourself. For those that can develop C#, you can create a fork of Greenshot in a few clicks and send us your changes by pull-request (similar to github).

+

But first of all, we will get Greenshot 1.1.6 ready for you - we will let you know when it is available for download.

diff --git a/_posts/2013-10-29-greenshot-1-1-6-ready-for-download.markdown b/_posts/2013-10-29-greenshot-1-1-6-ready-for-download.markdown new file mode 100644 index 000000000..88da52dcb --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2013-10-29-greenshot-1-1-6-ready-for-download.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,48 @@ +--- +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Greenshot 1.1.6 is ready for download +author: + display_name: greenshot + login: admin + email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net + url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +author_login: admin +author_email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net +author_url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +wordpress_id: 1019 +wordpress_url: http://getgreenshot.org/?p=1019 +date: !binary |- + MjAxMy0xMC0yOSAyMTozNToxMCArMDEwMA== +date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMy0xMC0yOSAxOTozNToxMCArMDEwMA== +categories: +- Releases +tags: +- release +- bugfix +- '1.1' +comments: [] +--- +

Not so long ago we have announced that Greenshot 1.1.6 is near, today it is here :)

+

It includes a few new features/improvements but is mainly a bugfix release, fixing some issues that have been reported for the previous version, especially for those who were having problems with Greenshot "forgetting" their settings now and then and for two problems that occurring when exporting screenshots to Microsoft Office.

+

The new version is eagerly waiting for you to download it, so don't keep it waiting and get it from our download page.

+

Here is the complete changelog for Greenshot 1.1.6 - enjoy :)
+
+1.1.6 build 2779 Bugfix Release

+

Bugs resolved (for bug details go to http://sourceforge.net/p/greenshot/bugs and search on the ID):
+* 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)
+

diff --git a/_posts/2013-11-07-how-to-upload-screenshots-to-a-web-server-via-ftp-scp-or-sftp.markdown b/_posts/2013-11-07-how-to-upload-screenshots-to-a-web-server-via-ftp-scp-or-sftp.markdown new file mode 100644 index 000000000..2ef92a868 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2013-11-07-how-to-upload-screenshots-to-a-web-server-via-ftp-scp-or-sftp.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,65 @@ +--- +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: How to Upload Screenshots to a Web Server via FTP, SCP or SFTP +author: + display_name: greenshot + login: admin + email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net + url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +author_login: admin +author_email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net +author_url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +wordpress_id: 1032 +wordpress_url: http://getgreenshot.org/?p=1032 +date: !binary |- + MjAxMy0xMS0wNyAwMDoxNzoxOCArMDEwMA== +date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMy0xMS0wNiAyMjoxNzoxOCArMDEwMA== +categories: +- How-to +tags: +- plugin +comments: [] +--- +

WinSCP logo Ever needed to upload screenshots directly to a server using the FTP, SCP or SFTP protocol? Actually it is quite easy to harness WinSCP's great scripting capabilities with Greenshot's flexible external command plugin. This blog post provides a simple WinSCP upload script and explains how to make Greenshot call the script to upload your screenshot.

+

Sidenote: we know, a specialized plugin for this would be a nice thing to have. A WinSCP plugin is definitely near the top of our todo list, but it probably will not be available before Greenshot 2.0. So in the meantime the following method is a good alternative.

+

If WinSCP is not installed on your system yet, you can download it from http://winscp.net/, it is free and open source, too.
+If you have not heard of Greenshot's External Command Plugin yet or if you are not familiar with the Windows command line, you might want to have a look at How to use the External Command Plugin to send screenshots to other applications.

+

Configuring the upload script

+

It just needs a few lines to put together a WinSCP script that opens a connection, uploads a single file and closes the connection again - we have prepared a simple script for your convenience. Simply download the WinSCP upload script and store it on your hard disc. Of course, the script needs to know where to upload the files to, so you need to change your the connection settings (in the line starting with open) as well as the target directory on the server (starting with cd).

+

Testing the upload script

+

We recommend to test the script from the command line to see whether everything is alright. You can invoke the script by entering something like this into your command line:
+"C:\path\to\WinSCP.com" /script="C:\path\to\winscpupload.txt" /parameter // """C:\path\to\testfile.jpg"""
+Of course, C:\path\to\ should reference the path to the files on your local hard disc.

+

If everything works fine, the script should output something like
+
+batch abort
+confirm off
+Searching for host...
+Connecting to host...
+Authenticating...
+Using username "user".
+Authenticating with pre-entered password.
+Authenticated.
+Starting the session...
+Reading remote directory...
+Session started.
+Active session: [1] user@example.com
+/remote/path/to/directory/
+testfile.jpg | 80 KiB | 37,8 KiB/s | binary | 100%
+Session 'user@example.com' closed.
+No session.
+

+

Configuring Greenshot to call the upload script

+

The rest is pretty easy:

+
    +
  1. Select "Configure external commands" from Greenshot's main menu
    2. +
  2. Click the "New" button and enter the following values
    3. +
  3. Name: WinSCP Upload
    4. +
  4. Command: C:\path\to\WinSCP.com
    5. +
  5. Argument: /script="C:\path\to\winscpupload.txt" /parameter // """{0}"""
    6. +
+

Configuring external command for WinSCP upload script Take care of the correct syntax, especially the quotes: if there is a space somewhere in a file system path, you need to wrap it into quotes. The last part of "Argument" is literally """{0}""", including the 6 double quotes and curly braces. (Greenshot will replace {0} with the filename of the screenshot.)

+

That's it. After confirming the new external command, you can use the WinSCP Upload option for future screenshots, from the destination picker or the editor's "File" menu.

diff --git a/_posts/2013-11-19-promised-no-bundled-installers-no-toolbars-no-unfair-advertisements.markdown b/_posts/2013-11-19-promised-no-bundled-installers-no-toolbars-no-unfair-advertisements.markdown new file mode 100644 index 000000000..c2eeac321 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2013-11-19-promised-no-bundled-installers-no-toolbars-no-unfair-advertisements.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +--- +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: ! 'Promised: No Bundled Installers, No Toolbars, No Unfair Advertisements' +author: + display_name: greenshot + login: admin + email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net + url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +author_login: admin +author_email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net +author_url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +wordpress_id: 1063 +wordpress_url: http://getgreenshot.org/?p=1063 +date: !binary |- + MjAxMy0xMS0xOSAyMDo1OTo0NCArMDEwMA== +date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMy0xMS0xOSAxODo1OTo0NCArMDEwMA== +categories: +- Uncategorized +tags: +- website +- sourceforge +- advertising +- malware +comments: [] +--- +

As Greenshot is a free and open source project, we depend on donations and advertising to keep the project running. You probably know that already, since we published a blog post about our thoughts of advertising not so long ago.

+

Recently, some users told us that bundled stuff like browser toolbars etc. had been installed on their computer by what they assumed was the Greenshot installer, which would have surprised us a lot, since there are no bundled installers or similar annoyances in Greenshot. We are convinced that bundled installers are abusing the user's trust and therefore we strongly oppose to it, no matter how much money marketing companies pay for them. In dialog with our users and with some research we then found out that these issues actually had nothing to do with our installer at all.

+

Unfortunate advertisements on SourceForge and our website

+

The problem was of another nature: our advertising service (which happens to be the same as SourceForge's) recently started to deliver advertisements with big green buttons on it, labeled "Download". The advertised pages do not offer the original Greenshot installer, but other software. However, this fact is not obvious on these pages (probably intended), one of them even offered an executable called Greenshot_Setup.exe.

+

greenshot-2013-11-16 10_13_28Of course, we get more ad revenue when advertisements are clicked, but we certainly do not want to trick our users into clicking them accidentally, let alone into installing any other tools than Greenshot.

+

If this has happened to you: please take our honest apologies, we are very sorry for that. Our advertisements are delivered by Google Adsense, so if you installed anything from their ads, you might want to know that they at least have very strict rules for advertisers.

+

We are absolutely positive about web advertising to keep web projects going, but we believe ads must be fair and must not impose constraints on visitors.
+As a consequence, we have blocked all known advertisers with those unloved "download button ads" from our website and made advertisements even more recognizable by applying a prominent border. We have also gotten in touch with SourceForge asking them to get rid of these ads, too.

+

Help us to keep advertisements clean

+

We can blacklist advertisements we regard unfair or misleading, but of course new advertisements may come in now and then. Also, depending on where you live you might see ads that we will never see over here. Please help us to get rid of them, send uns an email, and don't forget to include a screenshot of the advertisement and (important) the URL it directs you, otherwise we cannot block it.

+

Bundled installers from SourceForge (aka DevShare)

+

Speaking of SourceForge: lately we got repeatedly approached about bundled installers in SourceForge downloads. There seems to be a big misunderstanding related to this: It is true that SourceForge offers a revenue program called DevShare to projects hosted on their platform, which involves a bundled installer. However, this program is opt-in. As long as the developers of a project do not explicitly choose to take part in DevShare, SourceForge are not bundling anything with the installers.

+

We, the Greenshot development team, have decided to keep our installer clean, without a doubt, now and in future.

+

Further considerations

+

We are concerned about these alarming flows around free and open source software. This concern mainly relates to practices of reckless people or companies trying to make money on the back of open source projects and their users, but also (to some extend) to the advertising strategy of SourceForge. We are currently considering further steps like moving our installer downloads to another server where we have better control over the ads. Unfortunately, qualititive and reliable Content Delivery Network (CDN) hosting is not cheap.

+

We are not alone: the developers of the open source image editor GIMP no longer upload their releases to the SourceForge file system; for the sake of completeness and fairness, here is SourceForge's statement regarding to this discussion.

diff --git a/_posts/2013-12-13-new-bugfix-release-with-important-change-for-box-com-users.markdown b/_posts/2013-12-13-new-bugfix-release-with-important-change-for-box-com-users.markdown new file mode 100644 index 000000000..84e4c5bd2 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2013-12-13-new-bugfix-release-with-important-change-for-box-com-users.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@ +--- +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: New Bugfix Release with Important Change for Box.com Users +author: + display_name: greenshot + login: admin + email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net + url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +author_login: admin +author_email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net +author_url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +wordpress_id: 1076 +wordpress_url: http://getgreenshot.org/?p=1076 +date: !binary |- + MjAxMy0xMi0xMyAxOTozOTo0MSArMDEwMA== +date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxMy0xMi0xMyAxNzozOTo0MSArMDEwMA== +categories: +- Releases +tags: +- release +- bugfix +- '1.1' +comments: [] +--- +

So here is another release in 2013 - probably the last one ;-) Important especially for those using Greenshot's Box plugin to send screenshots directly to Box.co. Box.com is applying a breaking change to the authentication API on December 13th, which means that the Box plugin released with Greenshot 1.1.6 will no longer work - we have changed the plugin to work with the new API as of Greenshot 1.1.7.

+

There are also some bug fixes, especially we got rid of an annoying problem with screenshots being exported to the wrong Word document.
+You can read detailed information in the change log below or download Greenshot 1.1.7 right now.

+

We switched our version control system from Subversion (SVN) to Git and have moved our repository to BitBucket, you can find it here: https://bitbucket.org/greenshot/greenshot/overview
+This change makes it easier for other developers to supply patches to our code by sending us pull requests.

+


+1.1.7.17-g98c8f59 Bugfix Release

+

Changes:
+* We moved our repository to BitBucket (GIT), this forced us to change the build script and the version

+

Bugs resolved (for bug details go to http://sourceforge.net/p/greenshot/bugs and search on the ID):
+* 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.
+

diff --git a/_posts/2014-04-01-happy-birthday-to-greenshot-new-bugfix-release.markdown b/_posts/2014-04-01-happy-birthday-to-greenshot-new-bugfix-release.markdown new file mode 100644 index 000000000..71a8e75dc --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2014-04-01-happy-birthday-to-greenshot-new-bugfix-release.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +--- +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Happy Birthday to Greenshot + New Bugfix Release 1.1.8 +author: + display_name: greenshot + login: admin + email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net + url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +author_login: admin +author_email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net +author_url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +wordpress_id: 1088 +wordpress_url: http://getgreenshot.org/?p=1088 +date: !binary |- + MjAxNC0wNC0wMSAyMDo1MjowOSArMDIwMA== +date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxNC0wNC0wMSAxODo1MjowOSArMDIwMA== +categories: +- Releases +tags: +- release +- '1.1' +comments: [] +--- +

Hey, did you know that Greenshot just had it's seventh anniversary? To celebrate it, we have just uploaded a new release of Greenshot, version 1.1.8. Join the party :)

+

It mainly consists of bugfixes and small improvements, most notably improved clipboard support, configurable file naming for the Imgur plugin, as well as better readability when editing white or very bright text in the image editor.

+

As always, you can download the latest stable version from our download page.

+

For more details, the complete list of changes in Greenshot 1.1.8:

+


+1.1.8.24-g99facd5 Bugfix Release

+

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
+

diff --git a/_posts/2014-05-13-greenshot-1-1-9-bugfix-release.markdown b/_posts/2014-05-13-greenshot-1-1-9-bugfix-release.markdown new file mode 100644 index 000000000..581fe937d --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2014-05-13-greenshot-1-1-9-bugfix-release.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@ +--- +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Greenshot 1.1.9 Bugfix Release +author: + display_name: greenshot + login: admin + email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net + url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +author_login: admin +author_email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net +author_url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +wordpress_id: 1097 +wordpress_url: http://getgreenshot.org/?p=1097 +date: !binary |- + MjAxNC0wNS0xMyAyMToxOTowMiArMDIwMA== +date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxNC0wNS0xMyAxOToxOTowMiArMDIwMA== +categories: +- Releases +tags: +- release +- '1.1' +comments: [] +--- +

A new version of Greenshot is available for download, containing bug fixes and small improvements. Most notably, we have

+ +

Please see the change log below for more details about what's new. As always, you should make sure to download Greenshot from our download page, rather than being confident in 3rd party download portals to deliver the original version.

+


+CHANGE LOG:

+

1.1.9.13-g01ce82d Windows 8.1 & Box bug-fix Release

+

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
+

diff --git a/_posts/2014-06-22-greenshot-switches-to-jira-for-bug-reports-and-feature-requests.markdown b/_posts/2014-06-22-greenshot-switches-to-jira-for-bug-reports-and-feature-requests.markdown new file mode 100644 index 000000000..8b2c48383 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2014-06-22-greenshot-switches-to-jira-for-bug-reports-and-feature-requests.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +--- +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Greenshot Switches to JIRA for Bug Reports and Feature Requests +author: + display_name: greenshot + login: admin + email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net + url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +author_login: admin +author_email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net +author_url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +wordpress_id: 1102 +wordpress_url: http://getgreenshot.org/?p=1102 +date: !binary |- + MjAxNC0wNi0yMiAyMTo1NTowOCArMDIwMA== +date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxNC0wNi0yMiAxOTo1NTowOCArMDIwMA== +categories: +- Announcements +tags: +- website +- sourceforge +- jira +- tickets +comments: [] +--- +

The difference between good and great software often originates from the developers closely listening to the users. As your ideas and comments are valuable input for us, we think that you need be able to easily report bugs and request features, as well as to quickly find information on problems/suggestions that have already been reported by other users.

+

For a long time, we have used the Sourceforge ticketing system for this, and although it worked for us many years we always thought it wasn't perfect for our needs. As every member of the Greenshot team also has experience with another ticketing tool, which we all like a lot, it is now time for a change.

+

We are proud to say we migrated the Greenshot bug/feature tracker to Atlassian Jira, a professional ticketing system. We really think that this improves overall user experience both for us and for you, no matter if you want to report an issue or simply get an overview about what we are up to for the next version of Greenshot. On top of this it is integrated with Atlassian's BitBucket, where our source code are hosted, which makes it easy to spot what exactly has been changed and why.

+

Thankfully, Atlassian has a great program to support open source teams with free software services and hosting. We were already using BitBucket and now we introduce Jira, maybe other products follow.

+

What does this mean for you?

+

Well, as we hate losing information, we migrated all the current bug reports and feature requests, with the complete history, to our new system. Also all Sourceforge users who reported tickets have been copied to our Jira. The users were created having the same username as with Sourceforge but without a password. At the first login you are asked to reset your password, to make this possible you will receive an email at your Sourceforge account with instructions. After successfully setting your password and being logged in you can change your email address if you like.

+

Additionally we have been looking for a solution to make it easier and quicker to bring a new version of Greenshot to you, independent of whether we want to build a release or just a version which should solve the bug(s) or add the feature request(s) you reported. For .NET applications this is not easy and as Greenshot is free it shouldn't cost money, so up to now we have been building Greenshot manually, which was very time intensive and sometimes caused a bit of stress when we forgot something and needed to start all over. Now we finally found an extremely good solution (which is also free for open source projects), and are proud to introduce AppVeyor, a Continuous Integration system for .NET applications, which builds Greenshot for us. The people at AppVeyor really created a great system, it took only a couple of hours to make our build work, and the few questions we had were answered quickly. Although you won't notice this directly, it does make it possible for us to concentrate on the development so we hope we can fix and extend Greenshot at a quicker pace.

+

We hope to see you on our new Ticketing system and are looking forward to having a good time while further improving Greenshot together with you.

diff --git a/_posts/2014-09-18-release-candidate-for-greenshot-1-2-available.markdown b/_posts/2014-09-18-release-candidate-for-greenshot-1-2-available.markdown new file mode 100644 index 000000000..d49801405 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2014-09-18-release-candidate-for-greenshot-1-2-available.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ +--- +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Release candidate for Greenshot 1.2 available +author: + display_name: greenshot + login: admin + email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net + url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +author_login: admin +author_email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net +author_url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +wordpress_id: 1105 +wordpress_url: http://getgreenshot.org/?p=1105 +date: !binary |- + MjAxNC0wOS0xOCAyMTozNTo0OCArMDIwMA== +date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxNC0wOS0xOCAxOTozNTo0OCArMDIwMA== +categories: +- Releases +tags: +- release candidate +- '1.2' +comments: [] +--- +

We have just uploaded the first release candidate for Greenshot 1.2. It fixes some bugs of the prior version, but, far more important, adds some features that have been requested very often... most notably, the Greenshot 1.2 editor will finally draw speech bubbles / callouts, auto-incrementing labels and offer the possibility to resize the screenshot.

+

As usual, the disclaimer: "release candidate" means that this version has not gone through extensive testing yet. It might be buggy, so if you do not like surprises, we suggest to stick with version 1.1 until we have ironed out all issues and publish the stable release of version 1.2. In case you encounter any problems with the release candidate, please file a bug report - thanks a lot.

+

And, as usal, here is the complete change log - you can download the release candidate (version 1.2.1.2-RC1 - installer, ZIP or PortableApps version) from our version history:
+
+All details to our tickets can be found here: https://greenshot.atlassian.net

+

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.
+* External command: If a command outputs an URI this will be captured and placed on the clipboard, the behavior currently can only be modified in the greenshot.ini

+

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.

+

Languages:
+* Updates for Ukrainian and Japanese translation

+

diff --git a/_posts/2014-11-11-second-release-candidate-greenshot-1-2.markdown b/_posts/2014-11-11-second-release-candidate-greenshot-1-2.markdown new file mode 100644 index 000000000..17be5c499 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2014-11-11-second-release-candidate-greenshot-1-2.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,48 @@ +--- +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Second release candidate for Greenshot 1.2 +author: + display_name: greenshot + login: admin + email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net + url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +author_login: admin +author_email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net +author_url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +wordpress_id: 1111 +wordpress_url: http://getgreenshot.org/?p=1111 +date: !binary |- + MjAxNC0xMS0xMSAyMjo1MDoyMyArMDEwMA== +date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxNC0xMS0xMSAyMDo1MDoyMyArMDEwMA== +categories: +- Releases +tags: +- release candidate +- '1.2' +comments: [] +--- +

It's time for another release candidate for Greenshot 1.2. If you have tried the first release candidate, you probably already saw some of the brand new features like the speech bubble tool in the editor. Thanks to the awesome users who came up with useful bug reports and suggestions we now have ironed out some things that were not working perfectly yet.

+

But that's not all: a few small features have made it into the new release candidate also.

+ +

See below for the complete changelog of the second release candidate, if you haven't seen the first one yet you might want to have a look at the changelog of RC1, too. In any case, you should check out the new release candidate - as always, it can be downloaded from our version history (1.2.2.43-RC2).

+

And, as usual, the disclaimer: "release candidate" means that this version has not gone through extensive testing yet. It might be buggy, so if you do not like surprises, we suggest to stick with version 1.1 until we have ironed out all issues and publish the stable release of version 1.2. In case you encounter any problems with the release candidate, please file a bug report - thanks a lot.

+


+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.
+* 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.
+* 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.

+

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-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-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.
+* BUG-1695: Fixed an issue with processing the response from Imgur, which caused the error "Value cannot be null. Parameter name: key"

+

diff --git a/_posts/2014-12-05-third-and-hopefully-last-release-candidate-for-greenshot-1-2.markdown b/_posts/2014-12-05-third-and-hopefully-last-release-candidate-for-greenshot-1-2.markdown new file mode 100644 index 000000000..39bbaa160 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2014-12-05-third-and-hopefully-last-release-candidate-for-greenshot-1-2.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,52 @@ +--- +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: Third (and hopefully last) release candidate for Greenshot 1.2 +author: + display_name: greenshot + login: admin + email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net + url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +author_login: admin +author_email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net +author_url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +wordpress_id: 1118 +wordpress_url: http://getgreenshot.org/?p=1118 +date: !binary |- + MjAxNC0xMi0wNSAyMTozMzozNCArMDEwMA== +date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxNC0xMi0wNSAxOTozMzozNCArMDEwMA== +categories: +- Releases +tags: +- release candidate +- '1.2' +comments: [] +--- +

Okay - finishing line in sight :) we have uploaded the third release candidate for Greenshot 1.2. We have been working on ironing out a few more bugs of the latest version, as well as a few improvements and some user interface fine tuning. Again, thanks to anyone who supported us with their valuable feedback. You are doing a great job, we really appreciate that.

+

Most notable improvements are: torn edge and drop shadow settings are now stored and remembered next time, we have also improved the usability of the torn edge settings dialog. In the editor, the font family selection now displays its entries using the respective font so that it is easier to find the font you are looking for.
+We also got rid of several bugs, mostly related to the editor, e.g. the new speech bubble feature still had some flaws.

+

See below for the complete changelog of the third release candidate, if you haven't seen the previous ones yet you might want to have a look at the changelog of RC1 and RC2, too. In any case, you should check out the new release candidate - as always, it can be downloaded from our version history (1.2.3.29-RC3).

+

Yeah, you know that already, but just to be sure: "release candidate" means that this version has not gone through extensive testing yet. It might be buggy, so if you do not like surprises, we suggest to stick with version 1.1 until we have ironed out all issues and publish the stable release of version 1.2. In case you encounter any problems with the release candidate, please file a bug report - thanks a lot.

+


+Features:
+* Greenshot now stores the settings of the torn edge & drop shadow effects
+* FEATURE-776: Improvement of the torn edge settings dialog
+* FEATURE-777: Improvement of the tool settings (font family)

+

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-1620: Greenshot crashing Chrome running in 'Windows 8 Mode'
+* BUG-1682: Speech bubble tail "gripper" moved outside of the drawing area, making it impossible to move the tail
+* BUG-1686: Shadow (drop shadow or torn edge) grows if a filter (highlight etc) is used and an element is moved around
+* BUG-1687: Speech bubble didn't have a working shadow
+* BUG-1698: Cannot enter textbox/Speechbubble lowercase text after changing font family
+* 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-1701: Drop shadow setting "shadow thickness" wasn't restored.
+* 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-1711: Changing settings (e.g. fill color) on the speech bubble before drawing it, caused an exception.
+... and a lot more small changes to make Greenshot more stable.
+

diff --git a/_posts/2014-12-22-a-little-present-from-us-greenshot-1-2.markdown b/_posts/2014-12-22-a-little-present-from-us-greenshot-1-2.markdown new file mode 100644 index 000000000..aa2819d08 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2014-12-22-a-little-present-from-us-greenshot-1-2.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,85 @@ +--- +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: ! 'A little present from us: Greenshot 1.2' +author: + display_name: greenshot + login: admin + email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net + url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +author_login: admin +author_email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net +author_url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +wordpress_id: 1124 +wordpress_url: http://getgreenshot.org/?p=1124 +date: !binary |- + MjAxNC0xMi0yMiAyMjoyMTowNiArMDEwMA== +date_gmt: !binary |- + MjAxNC0xMi0yMiAyMDoyMTowNiArMDEwMA== +categories: +- Releases +tags: +- release +- translation +- '1.2' +- latvian +comments: [] + +--- +

Speech bubbles in Greenshot editor

+

Finally! For those of you who celebrate Christmas, here is a little Christmas present from us. For the rest, here is a little present for you, for no particular reason :)

+

If have a look at our blog regularly or follow us on Twitter or another social media channel, you probably have noticed that we have been eagerly working on release candidates for Greenshot 1.2. The new version comes just in time before 2015 is about to start; after three release candidates and a lot of bug fixes, improvements and enhancements in between.

+

So, what's new, you ask? Here we go, just to name a few:

+ +

Incrementing labels in Greenshot editor Of course, that's not all - way too much to describe everything in detail here... we have also fixed quite some bugs and usability issues and we have a new language aboard, welcome Latvian (kudos to Kārlis Kalviškis for supplying the translation) as well as updates for many other languages.

+

Thanks again to everyone who keeps supporting us by submitting translations, feature requests, bug reports and donations! We really appreciate your support a lot, your help keeps the project going. :)

+

So much for now, we're getting ready for Christmas and new year's eve now. Have a good time everybody, and have fun with Greenshot - the latest version is always available at http://getgreenshot.org/downloads/
+And of course, here is the complete change log:

+


+All details to our tickets can be found here: https://greenshot.atlassian.net

+

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 (thanks to Kārlis Kalviškis for providing the translation)
+* Updates for Ukrainian, Japanese and Italian translation
+

diff --git a/_posts/2015-03-31-greenshot-says-goodbye-to-facebook.markdown b/_posts/2015-03-31-greenshot-says-goodbye-to-facebook.markdown new file mode 100644 index 000000000..ed47fa200 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2015-03-31-greenshot-says-goodbye-to-facebook.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +--- +layout: post +status: publish +published: true +title: ! 'Greenshot Says Goodbye to Facebook' +author: + display_name: greenshot + login: admin + email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net + url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +author_login: admin +author_email: greenshot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net +author_url: http://getgreenshot.org/ +wordpress_id: 1124 +wordpress_url: http://getgreenshot.org/?p=1124 + +categories: +- Announcements +tags: +- facebook +comments: [] + +--- +When we started Greenshot’s Facebook page back in 2009, it was a brilliant thing for us to have… obviously, a lot of our users were using Facebook as well, and it was a good way to send out project-specific updates to a peer that showed interest in Greenshot (i.e. liked the page). After all, RSS and Atom feeds are not for fancy enough for everyone – so it was a good idea to offer an alternative.

+

Throughout the years, Facebook has changed a lot, especially with regards to how they handle posts from pages. If you have been using Facebook for some years, you may remember the time when they took more control over your stream and started to silently filter out many posts – in order to protect their users from being over-flooded with posts, they said (which still does not explain why even feeds with a very low post frequency are being filtered).

+

So, Facebook’s idea is that we should pay for our friends (or fans or likers, whatever you want to call it) to actually see our posts, even though these people had actively indicated interested in our project.

+

Well, we do understand that even a company like Facebook needs to generate some revenue, but not on our expense. We are not some creepy marketing agency, baiting for social likes and shares in order to sell stuff afterwards. We are a small open source project driven by few people in their spare time, giving away quality software for free – there is no such thing as a marketing budget, obviously.

+

Sure, we could continue to use Facebook for free – but it really does a bad job for publishing information.

+

That’s why we decided that we will no longer actively maintain Greenshot’s Facebook page. The page will still be available, and of course you are welcome to like and share – but there won’t be any more updates, also comments and messages are deactivated. We hope that’s okay for you. If not, sorry for the inconvenience – it’s nothing personal, really.

+

We suggest to follow up on our blog on getgreenshot.org (there’s an RSS feed also), or to follow Greenshot on Twitter.
+For bugs, feature requests or support requests, please use our ticketing system.