Automatically taking screenshots of program window

Asked 2011-01-20T19:41:46.167

I'm looking for a software that combines macro recording with screenshot taking capabilities.

We have a software manual with a number of screenshots. When new version of software is released we need to update most of screenshots and we have to do it manually. Now we started translating manual to several languages and number of screenshots to take have increased ten fold. We'd like to automate this process.

There will be a recorded macro or something that clicks button within our software and takes screenshots of the program window. Better yet, we can specify the name of each screenshot individually though it's less important.

Does such a thing exist?

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I've tried many and the one that really stands out, in my opinion, is Adobe (formerly Macromedia) Captivate. It's atrociously expensive (~800$) but worth every penny.

Creating tutorials etc. takes minutes instead of hours.

answered 2011-01-31T10:19:08.300

I would use the Open Source tool Sikuli. Pretty straight forward scripting language or you can use their classes and write your own java code.

Here is the documentation to grab a part of the screen: http://sikuli.org/docx/screen.html#capturing

The bonus is that this is supported on Windows, Linux and Mac!

answered 2011-01-31T15:25:41.073

Automatically taking screenshots of program window

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