Cropper

Point and shoot screen captures

Cropper is a screen capture utility written in C#. It makes it fast and easy to grab parts of your screen. Use it to easily crop out sections of vector graphic files such as Fireworks without having to flatten the files or open in a new editor. Use it to easily capture parts of a web site, including text and images. It's also great for writing documentation that needs images of your application or web site.


The basic Cropper UI

Plugins

A community plug-in project is available at http://www.codeplex.com/cropperplugins

Controls

• Right-Click: Context menu on main form.
• Arrow keys: Nudge form one pixel.
• Alt+Arrow keys: Resize form one pixel.
• [ or ]: Resize entire form while keeping the crosshairs centered.
• Alt+[ or ]: Resize the thumbnail indicator one pixel.
• Double-Click or Enter: Take a screen shot or start/stop a recording plug-in.
• Tab: Cycle form colors.
• Shift+Tab: Cycle form sizes.
• Esc: Hide the main form.
• F8: Show the main form.

Known Issues

• The maximum size of the crop form is smaller than the screen size. This is a limitation of the way the UI is currently drawn. There is an area of transparent form around the visible area which causes Cropper to appear to be smaller than the maximum form size. With the original usage of cropping out small areas of the screen this was not pressing problem.

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