No matter how I fiddled with the settings, I wasn't able to get SnagIt to write the drive and directory to the XML file it uses. This makes moving settings to another machine (for example if, as I did, you buy a copy of SnagIt for use at the office and you want to take the settings from the review copy in to use.) Most of the settings were saved, except the default location for files. As with previous versions, SnagIt allows users to save their settings. Fortunately, there's a setting that controls this and restoring what seems to me the more logical arrangement is easy. Now pressing the Escape key closes the editor. In previous versions of SnagIt, users could cancel an action by pressing the Escape key. The size I really want seems never to be available I hope that finer-grained zoom will be available in a later version. There are keystrokes that make the process easier and faster the "+" key enlarges and the "-" key reduces, but only in large-step increments. When it's time to return to the standard view, I thought that I had to repeat the process. Initially I thought that zooming in required me to click the View button to open the View ribbon, then click on the Zoom menu to open a drop-down menu, click on the magnification or reduction I want, and then click to return to the Draw ribbon. Normally I'll have the Draw ribbon open because I'm adding text, arrows, call-outs, or shading to the image. When I'm viewing an image in the editor, I often want to look at an enlarged view. The problem with this change is that some modifications weren't thought through very well. SnagIt uses the "ribbon" interface that users of Microsoft Office 2007 will find familiar. There's a lot to like about the interface, but a lot to dislike, too. The Problemsįirst, there's the interface. The company can do this because they know that anyone who needs the ability to perform screen captures will, within 30 days, become so attached to SnagIt that they won't want to let go.
#Snagit 9 trial#
TechSmith continues to offer SnagIt on a 30-day trial period. If you use SnagIt a lot, and you probably will, this makes finding images much faster.Īs usual (left), SnagIt's default menu uses large icons to display the kind of capture that will be performed (each type of capture can have its own associated hot key), but I prefer the the detail view (right), which uses screen real estate more efficiently. Think of flags as categories (documentation, cats, cartoons) and also associate keywords with each image. Once you have an image, you can apply a flag to it. This makes it possible for users to search for an application name and find all of the images that are associated with that program. And it keeps track of information-for example, which application it was that you captured. In previous versions, you could capture an image, forget to save the image, and capture a new image that would replace the first image. If you have an image with a lot of white space around it, you can crop it by dragging the 4 crop handles (top, right, bottom, left) or you can use the trim tool to perform the action automatically. In addition, you can have multiple images open simultaneously. The SnagIt 9 image editor is far more capable than the previous version and there are more options for annotating images. The new interface has moved the "Finish" button from the far left side to the far right side and this puzzled me for a bit. Interface example: Now SnagIt looks like an Office 2007 application with an Office-like ribbon. In version 8, this was a great feature when it worked, but it often didn't. Rough-edge example: The ability to capture a scrolling window has improved. Version 9 of SnagIt adds a few new features, but it also updates the interface and fixes some rough edges from the previous version.
#Snagit 9 mac#
And someday there may be a Mac version! Is Version 9 Really an Improvement? When TechSmith released SnagIt 7, I said "You won't find a better screen capture program anywhere, at least until TechSmith develops SnagIt 8." When version 8 arrived, I said, "How does TechSmith keep making this product better?" Now I have SnagIt 9 and, once I got past some initial problems, it was clear that TechSmith continues to develop an application that has no rival. SnagIt 9: After a few Problems, WOW (More or Less)