DuckLink Screen Capture 2.5

DuckLink Screen Capture is a pretty light and, at the same time, powerful software designed to provide you with the capability of taking screenshots in four different modes, which allows you to make your captures exactly of the sizes required. This program works in the background, consuming very few system resources, but it is in the windows notification area, so that you can make a precise capture any time you need.

The first capturing mode offered by this program is the "Region" mode, allowing you to capture rectangular and non-rectangular areas of your screen (polygonal) without the need to predefine borders. The second one is the "Window” mode, which allows you to capture a particular window either totally or partially. A third option is the "Scrolling" mode, which is for sure the most interesting one, since it allows you to capture larger areas than those shown in any of your browser's windows - even when in full-screen mode - letting you capture all the contents of a web page just by scrolling down while in the capturing process. Finally, you have a fourth mode called the "Full Screen" one, a quite self-explanatory term. Once you make a capture, the program allows you to edit it changing its size or adding notes, among other interesting features. Then, you can save it as an image file, or send it directly to your printer. This is really an amazing software tool.

v2.5 [Dec 1, 2010]
Version 2.5 is just a minor update with usability refine: close the full screen editor after you successfully copied to clipboard or saved to file. This will reduce one click in the whole “print screen” process.
Many users have complained that after they installed the new version of DuckCapture, they don’t like the way the version 2.4 behaves after a screen area capture. In the version 2.3, a couple of small buttons appeared at the lower right corner after you selected the area to capture, and give you the option to save or discard. In version 2.4, these buttons have been moved to the bottom of the screen, and more editing/annotation tools are provided there. User may need one more click to exit, and it makes many users confusing. You may wonder why 2.4 is not easy to exit as before. The reason is, more editing tools have been provided and it’s not just capturing screen anymore. If user only captured something, and discard it by mistake, what user need to do is to re-capture it. But if user has spent some efforts on adding annotations, then we should be very careful. That’s why one more click in 2.4. Finally version 2.5, a quick update with minor fix, make it have the same usability as 2.3 according to a lot of users’ suggestions.