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If you recently purchased SnagIt and are entitled to a free upgrade, you might want to go ahead. Besides the two features outlined in this article, SnagIt 6.1 can now capture multiple regions, capture irregular or fixed regions, add text annotations and captions to images, and delay or schedule captures.Ĭurrent SnagIt users should ask themselves if the new features make upgrading worth the price. If you're not currently using SnagIt and you need a quick, easy-to-use screen capture program, SnagIt 6.1 is the perfect solution. So is SnagIt 6.1 worth downloading? Well, it depends. Make SnagIt part of your documentation toolkit You could place such a slideshow on your help desk's intranet Web page and cut down on support calls for a new program. The slideshow feature could easily be used as a tutorial to show users how a particular process or program is supposed to work. SnagIt 6.1 allows you to create seven Web page formats including various table types and slideshows. When you click the thumbnail photos from a Web browser window, the images enlarge.īut thumbnails aren't the only type of Web output. The result of going through the wizard-in the case of the support staff photos-would be a Web page with thumbnail photos. This is actually a wizard that steps the user through naming the Web page, setting up the page's appearance, locating the image files, and telling the program where to put the Web page. Under the Tools menu in the Catalog Browser window is the Create Web Page option. The Catalog shows thumbnails of the pictures in the directory. Then you would put the photos in the directory associated with the Catalog Browser you set in the Output properties (Figure B). First, you would use SnagIt Studio to add names to the images.
Why would you want to do this? Let's say you wanted to put pictures of all the support staff on the intranet so that their fellow employees would recognize them. Although earlier versions allowed you to FTP your SnagIt output directly to a Web server or other network location, version 6.1 actually creates a Web page that can be viewed from any Internet browser. SnagIt's long list of output options has always been a great strength, and version 6.1 adds the Web page output to this list. And best of all, you don't have to run SnagIt to use the print capture feature. Using the print capture feature, you can improve readability, add borders or watermarks, add a time and date stamp, or annotate the contents before printing. From there, you can send the image to the actual printer or open it in SnagIt Studio where you can modify the image, e-mail it as an attachment, or save it to a file.
The SnagIt virtual printer shows up as an option in any program.Īfter clicking the Print button, you'll see a preview of the printing image. I had to select the Print To File check box to get this feature to work on my test network machine, but SnagIt documentation doesn't mention this step.
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Then install SnagIt 6.1, and the SnagIt virtual printer will appear as a printer option (Figure A). Enter SnagIt 6.1's virtual printer.īefore you can use this feature, you must select a default printer (either network or local). Print capture adds preview functionality to any programĪlthough print preview is standard on most mainstream office productivity applications, some programs still lack this paper-saving feature. Read my review and then decide for yourself whether these new features make SnagIt 6.1 worth the upgrade.
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But is this latest release an essential upgrade for current SnagIt users? After trying out the latest version, I decided that SnagIt 6.1's handiest new features are print capture and Web page output.
For years, TechSmith's SnagIt has been one of the best screen-capture programs available, and with the release of version 6.1, TechSmith has continued this trend.