Monday, December 04, 2006

Snipping Tool has Issues, Snag-It Still Rocks

I had blogged a couple weeks ago about the new Snipping Tool in Vista and about how it was going to replace Snag-It. Well I must say that I must retract that as I just installed Snag-It for the following reasons:

  • Clipping Tool can't be executed with hot keys (that I can tell) and therefore can't always capture what need, such as the Application Menu in Office 2007 client applications.
  • Clipping Tool saves to clipboard as an odd format because I can't paste into my favorite Icon program, which is Axialis. This forced me to use Paint or something archaic as an intermediate step.
  • Image cleanup is very limited compared to Snag-It.

Those are enough reasons for me, and besides Snag-It is cheap.

Have a good week,

Chris

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