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SnagIt Screen Capture Plugin for Windows Live Writer

© West Wind Technologies, 2005-2007  
License: Free use and modification
Requires: Microsoft .NET Runtime 2.0 or later, SnagIt 7.0 or later


Screen captures are important when blogging and having an easy way to capture images from the screen and embedding them into a blog entry is a key feature.

This plug in lets you capture screen shots using the popular SnagIt utility from Techsmith Corporation which is a cheap (but not free) and powerful utility that allows many useful capture and editing options on image captures.

This plug integrates SnagIt directly into Microsoft's Windows Live Writer blogging client software and provides these features:
  • Captures screen shots with many of nagIt's options
  • Lets you utilize the nagIt image editor for customizing captures
  • Embeds captured images directly into Blog posts
  • Gives you the choice of whether images are saved locally or not
  • Persists capture settings between captures
  • Available with C# source code

Here's what the plug in looks like in Windows Live Writer:

SnagIt Screen Capture Plug in for Live Writer

Clicking on the Insert SnagIt Screen Capture link causes the above dialog box to pop up which allows you to configure various common SnagIt capture options. Clicking Capture then activates SnagIt's capturing engine using the standard SnagIt selection mechanisms that allow you to select - in this case - the window to capture. Most of SnagIts native options are available through this interface.

By default the settings made on the above dialog are not saved, unless you click the Save Settings button which persists the settings for future access. Once saved the saved settings become the default prefilled settings.

Images can be captured and optionally do not need to be saved to disk permanently. Checking the Don't save image file option will capture the file to disk and let Live Writer pick up the image for internal storage, but the actual captured image on disk will then be deleted so you don't clutter up your drive with captured images.

The plugin comes with the C# source code so you can customize the tool as necessary.

It's Free and comes with Source Code

This is a free utility. Use and distribute it as you like. It comes with all C# for the Live Writer Api so you can customize it as needed. If you want to find out more about how the plugin is built you can visit the release blog entry.

Aloha,

+++ Rick ---
Version .90 released!
NEW.GIF (147 bytes) 3/19/2007
This is the first release of the SnagIt Live Writer Plugin. Use it to make quick screen captures in Live Writer using many of SnagIt's advanced screen capture and editing options.

Free Download
This tool is completely free and comes optionally with C# source code.

But if you find it useful and you use it frequently, consider making a small donation to show your support.




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