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FastStone Capture is a powerful, lightweight, yet full-featured screen
capture tool that allows you to easily capture and annotate anything on the screen including windows, objects, menus, full screen,
rectangular/freehand regions and even scrolling windows/web pages. You can
choose to send captures to editor, file, clipboard, printer, email, Word/PowerPoint document
or upload them to your website. Editing tools include annotating
(texts, arrowed lines, highlights), resizing, cropping, sharpening, watermarking, applying edge
effects and many more.
Other features include global hotkeys, automatic filename generation, support for external editors, a color picker, a screen magnifier and a screen ruler.
FastStone Capture saves files in BMP, GIF, JPEG, PCX, PNG, TGA, TIFF and PDF
formats.
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Features
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- A small handy Capture Panel that provides quick access
to its capture tools and output options
- Global hotkeys to activate screen
capturing instantly
- Capture windows,
objects, menus, full screen,
rectangular/freehand regions and scrolling windows/web pages
- Capture multiple windows and
objects including multi-level menus
- Options to specify output destination
(internal editor, clipboard, file, printer ...)
- Draw annotation objects such as texts,
arrowed lines, highlights, watermarks, rectangles and circles
- Apply effects such as drop-shadow, frame, torn-edge and fade-edge
- Add image caption
- Resize, crop, rotate, sharpen, brighten,
adjust colors ...
- Undo/Redo
- Support external editors
- Save in BMP, GIF, JPEG, PCX, PNG, TGA, TIFF and PDF
formats
- Send captured images by email
- Send captured images to Word and
PowerPoint documents
- Send captured images to a Web (FTP)
server
- Screen Color Picker
- Screen Magnifier
- Screen Ruler
- Support multiple monitors
- Run when Windows starts (optional)
- Minimize to System Tray area
- Small footprint in memory
- And many more ...
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History
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Version
6.2 (May
07, 2008)
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- Some UI improvements and minor bug fixes
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Version
6.1 (April
21, 2008)
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- Now it runs on both 32-bit and 64-bit
Windows
- Annotation objects (texts, lines,
boxes etc.) can be re-edited by re-opening the Draw tool
- Added auto-expand feature to
text objects as you type in them
- Maintain aspect ratio when
resizing watermark images in Draw tool
- Added "Preview in Editor"
as an output option, which allows you to edit the captured image before
sending it to the specified destination such as clipboard, printer,
email etc.
- Improved "Capture Scrolling
Window". Now it supports Internet Explorer 8 Beta
- Improved Print dialog
- Added option "Ask me to save
changes before closing" to the Editor tab of the Settings
- Some UI improvements and bug fixes
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Version
6.0 (February
13, 2008)
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- Added Line Highlighter to
"Draw" tool
- Added "Blur" option
to Line and Rectangle Highlighters
- Enhanced "Text"
in "Draw" tool. Now shadowed text is possible
- Added "To Web (FTP)"
as an Output option
- Enhanced Screen Ruler
- Added "Pick Another Color"
button to Screen Color Picker
- Used tabs to group options in
"Settings" window
- Some UI improvements and bug fixes
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Version
5.9 (November
26, 2007)
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- Support capture of multiple windows
and objects including multi-level menus (Use Ctrl key in
"Capture Window / Object")
- In the internal editor, Caption
can be modified now
- Some UI improvements and bug fixes
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Version
5.8 (October
05, 2007)
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- Enhanced "Save As"
dialog. Now the preview window is updated automatically instead of
requiring users to click on the "Update Preview" button
- Enlarged preview windows in
rectangle capture mode and freehand capture mode
- Other small improvements in the user
interface
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Version
5.7 (September
12, 2007)
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- Added option "Convert to 256 colors if output is Clipboard, Word or
PPT" to the Settings window
- Added "Color" menu to
the internal editor, which can be used to count and reduce the number of colors of the
screenshot
- Added "Obscure (Blur)" tool under "Effect" menu, which can be used to obscure sensitive information on the
screenshot
- Added option "Frame" to the Edge/Watermark tool
- Added "Screen Ruler", which can be used to measure the sizes and distances of objects on the
screen
- Fixed some bugs
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Version
5.6 (June
25, 2007)
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- Added "Send to Word" and
"Send to PowerPoint". Now it is possible to send
screenshots to Microsoft Word and PowerPoint directly
- Added option "Copy to
Clipboard" to "Auto Save" section in the Settings
- Improved usability of menus
- Fixed some bugs
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Version
5.5 (May
23, 2007)
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- Added option "Negative"
to the Screen Magnifier, which allows users with low vision to see a
magnified color-reversed screen
- In the Screen Magnifier, now it is
possible to pan around the magnified screen with arrow keys
- Added "Reset Capture Panel
Position" to the right-click menu of the system tray icon
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Version
5.4 (May
14, 2007)
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- Added Fade Edge effect. Now edge effects can be applied to
4 edges instead of only 2 in previous versions
- Supports external editors
("Edit With" list in the FastStone Editor), which allows you to edit the captured screenshot
with specified external editors. This feature enables you to add
virtually unlimited editing capabilities to the program
- Added option "Open in External
Program" to "Auto Save" section in the Settings, which allows you to open the captured image in a specified program automatically
- Enhanced the Screen Magnifier
- Solved some compatibility issues in Windows Vista
- Fixed some bugs
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Version
5.3 (February
12, 2007)
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- Compatible with Windows Vista
- Improved quality of 256 color
PNG/GIF output
- Added To Email to the Output
list
- Added Reset to Primary Screen (only
available in Multi-monitor
system) to the tray icon's popup menu
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Version
5.2 (January
16, 2007)
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- Added Scroll Refresh Time in
the Settings
- Added option (in the Settings) to show
Open File in Editor icon on the Capture Panel
- Added Download Tutorial link
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Version
5.1 (January
06, 2007)
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- Added Make Background Transparent
under Edit menu
- Added options in the Settings
to show/hide Screen Magnifier and Screen Color Picker on
Capture Panel
- Added Bring to Front/Set to Back to
the right-click menu in Draw tool
- Changed hotkey for Draw tool
from T to D
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Version
5.0 (January
03, 2007)
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- Enhanced / Simplified the User Interface
- New Effects: Drop shadow, torn-edge
- Comment Tool
- Improved the Draw tool
- Fixed some bugs
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Version
4.8 (November
10, 2006)
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- Improved the Draw tool
- Now it is possible to input double-byte
characters such as Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian in the Draw
tool
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Version
4.7 (October
26, 2006)
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- Completely new icon design
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Version
4.6 (October
10, 2006)
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- Added Adobe PDF format to the output
list
- Added "Rotate", "Canvas Size",
"Expand Canvas Size", "Sepia",
"Negative" under Edit menu
- Now it is possible to specify the
selection size under Edit menu
- Added "Send File Dropped on Capture Panel to"
option in the Settings. So it
is possible to drag and drop a file from Windows Explorer to the
floating Capture Panel and immediately edit it in the internal editor
- Fixed a bug in the Email dialog
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Version
4.5 (October
2, 2006)
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- Added "Auto-Divided" option for
long document printing. In the print window, it is possible to divide
a long/wide captured image (long scrolling web page for example) into
multiple pages
- Added more editing tools (rotate,
color adjustments, sharpen/blur) under Edit menu
- Fixed minor bugs
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Version
4.4 (September
26, 2006)
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- Enhanced Capture Scrolling Window,
now it is possible to capture full scrolling window (with horizontal and
vertical scrollbars)
- Fixed minor bugs
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Version
4.3 (September
18, 2006)
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- Added Open File button on
Capture Panel and editor Toolbar
- Enhanced Screen Magnifier
- Fixed minor bugs
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Version
4.2 (July
15, 2006)
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- Added DPI and Printer
options in the Settings
- Fixed a bug in the popup menu of the
tray icon
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Version
4.1 (July
13, 2006)
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- Fixed a bug in the Print dialog
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Version
4.0 (July
10, 2006)
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- Added Screen Color Picker on
Capture Panel
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Version
3.9 (July
02, 2006)
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Version
3.8 (June
20, 2006)
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- Added "Capture Active Window"
- Fixed some bugs
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Version
3.7 (June
20, 2006)
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Version
3.6 (June
16, 2006)
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- Added option "Close FastStone
Editor when Captured Image is saved" in the Settings
- Fixed a bug in the hotkey handler
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Version
3.5 (June
15, 2006)
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- Made some enhancements to the GUI of
the internal editor;
- Added a "Smooth" option in
the Settings for the Screen Magnifier;
- Fixed some bugs
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Version
3.4 (June
12, 2006)
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- Added a feature that allows you to
drag & drop images from Web browser or Windows
Explorer onto the Capture Panel to view them in Full Screen;
- Fixed some bugs
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Version
3.3 (June
09, 2006)
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Version
3.2 (June
07, 2006)
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- Added some options in the Settings
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Version
3.1 (June
05, 2006)
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- Added option Filename Template in
the Settings that allows the user to customize how file names are
generated by the software
- Added option Automatic file generation when "To File" is selected
in the Settings - Captured images are saved in the specified Output Folder / Output Format without showing the Save As
dialog
- Fixed some bugs
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