Posts Tagged SnipSVG
SnipSVG and HelpXplain Maintenance Update
Posted by Alexander Halser in HelpXplain, Software Updates on August 16, 2024
We are glad to announce the immediate availability of SnipSVG 1.4 and an updated version of HelpXplain 1.8.4.
SnipSVG 1.4
- Paste from clipboard: additional support for SVG data implemented. SnipSVG understands the ‘image/svg+xml’ format as well as plain text. If clipboard contains regular text starting with “<svg”, SnipSVG attempts to insert the SVG data as image.
- Insert SVG icon: problem with initial size calculation fixed (width and height always preferred the viewbox attribute)
- Favorites button: this button is now always enabled. When empty, it shows an info text with a link to the corresponding help topic.
- F1 help: more detailed context-sensitive help when pressing F1
- Formatting text: when applying a text format to a partially selected text, the caret sometimes vanished.
HelpXplain 1.8.4
- Creating screencasts: the layout and options dialog for screencasts includes a new option: Enlarge cursor icon. The cursor symbol of screencasts recorded on displays with high resolution (Windows scaling > 100%) had a different size than in screencasts recorded at scaling 100%.
- Paste text from clipboard: if the text on the clipboard contained HTML tags (brackets), the special characters were not escaped.
- Formatting text: if the text contained literal HTML code (e.g. “<b>Text</b>”), the content was taken as raw code, resulting in the removel of the brackets.
- Insert SVG icon: problem with initial size calculation fixed (width and height always preferred the viewbox attribute)
All updates are available from our download page.
SnipSVG and HelpXplain Updated
Posted by Alexander Halser in HelpXplain, Software Updates, Utilities on May 14, 2024
We are glad to announce the immediate availability of SnipSVG 1.3 and an updated version of HelpXplain.
SnipSVG got new object alignment functions (similar to HelpXplain, which already had them for quite a while) and both apps implement improved clipboard handling: when copying images to the clipboard, some programs (Microsoft Outlook, for instance) do not place the actual image on the clipboard, but a HTML fragment with an embedded picture. Both, SnipSVG and HelpXplain can now read and paste this format.
In SnipSVG, we have implemented a list of default sizes for social media postings. This app is ideal to create this kind of images, but you had to know the typical sizes by heart. The new helper function sets the picture frame to a dedicated size, so that your social media postings look perfect.
As a result of a dedicated picture frame size, we realized that it would be a good idea to implement object alignment functions. Normally, you move objects around and resize them as you like, then simply auto-size the picture frame. For a dedicated frame size, however, it is helpful to have the reverse option and move/resize objects to the picture frame. The six new arrangement options are implemented in the Edit > Arrange menu.
SnipSVG 1.3
- Can paste images from clipboard in HTML format
- Share to clipboard as PNG: if the picture had a transparent background, the PNG image on the clipboard was misinterpreted by some programs (resulting in a black background, not transparent)
- Share to HTML/RTF: when sharing an image with numbering tags, the numbering table used wrong symbols for tags > 10.
- Default sizes for social media postings implemented next to the picture width/height settings.
- Object alignment functions added in Edit > Arrange.
HelpXplain 1.8.3
- Can paste images from clipboard in HTML format
- (Object alignment functions were already implemented in earlier versions)
All updates are available from our download page.
SnipSVG 1.2 Update
Posted by Alexander Halser in Software Updates on March 26, 2024
We are glad to announce the second update of SnipSVG, our new free screen capture and image editing tool for Windows and macOS!
SnipSVG uses SVG vector images as its primary format. SVG images can be used directly in HTML and many other applications. They give you the same sharp quality at all zoom settings, and unlike JPG or PNG images you can always edit all the elements of the image separately.
Changes in Version 1.2
- Picture crop: Border trim function implemented. The border trim crops an image by a fixed amount of pixels. This function is particularly useful to remove the visible 1-pixel border from Windows 11 screenshots. Windows 11 displays borders with a translucent color, so that the window background may shine through, resulting an a thin border line with mixed colors.
- File menu: the Close command got a keyboard shortcut – CTRL+W. This shortcut closes the current tab. To quickly close the current tab without being asked to save the changes, you can use the keyboard shortcut SHIFT+CTRL+W.
- Bugfix in Save-to-SVG: the plain text version of text objects and shapes with text exported the wrong text color. It had written the color code as “BGR” instead of “RGB” and this has affected all text that was not black, white or green.
Download
Please download SnipSVG from the SnipSVG homepage.
SnipSVG 1.1 Update
Posted by Alexander Halser in Software Updates on March 13, 2024
We are glad to announce the first update of SnipSVG, our new free screen capture and image editing tool for Windows and macOS!
SnipSVG uses SVG vector images as its primary format. SVG images can be used directly in HTML and many other applications. They give you the same sharp quality at all zoom settings, and unlike JPG or PNG images you can always edit all the elements of the image separately.
SnipSVG for Windows and macOS
Changes in Version 1.1
- Windows version, minimize to tray: the option to save all tabs has been changed to “close all tabs”
- Load from SVG: bug fixes when reading numbering tags and text objects from SVG
- Share with numbering tags: numbering tags with labels use the label text for the description table
- Share as RTF with numbering tags: numbering table descriptions are black text (they had picked up the color of the numbering tag before)
- Paste from HelpXplain: paste of entire slides disabled, all pasted objects become unlocked and visible.
- Paste file link to an SVG file from clipboard created an error
- Toolbar Select button now not just ends insert mode, but clears selection as well
Download
Please download SnipSVG from the SnipSVG homepage.