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Key Details of DuckCapture
- A handy screen-capture utility
- Last updated on
- There have been 7 updates
- Virus scan status:
Clean (it’s extremely likely that this software program is clean)
Editors’ Review
We love screen-capture utilities, perhaps because they can be both incredibly useful and a lot of fun. DuckCapture promised to be one of the better ones we've tried, and we were especially excited about checking out its autoscroll feature. Unfortunately, DuckCapture wasn't all we had hoped. It works well for the most part; but for us, it had one fatal flaw.
DuckCapture is known for its user-friendly features. You can capture just the window you are working on with the Capture a Window feature, which helps keep your screenshot clean by excluding anything in the background. If you need to capture a specific part of your screen, the Capture a Region feature lets you draw a box and take a screenshot of the area inside it.
For capturing content that is too long to fit on your screen at once, like a web page or document, DuckCapture can automatically scroll and capture everything for you, a feature called Capture a Tall Web Page. After taking a screenshot, you can immediately add notes or highlight parts of it using Annotation Tools, like arrows and blocks. The Multiple Captures feature is also handy because it allows you to select and adjust several parts of a screenshot for detailed editing.
Besides these main functions, DuckCapture also offers customizable settings that make it even easier to use. You can set up the app to automatically name your files and create keyboard shortcuts for different types of screenshots, making the process quicker and more intuitive. DuckCapture is light on system resources, which means it runs smoothly in the background and won't slow down your computer.
The program has a straightforward interface, with icons that users can click to select the region, window, full screen, or scrolling page that they want to capture. The scrolling feature is especially cool; click on a long Web page that you want to capture, and DuckCapture will automatically scroll down and capture the entire thing. Once the capture is done, users can annotate it, copy it to the clipboard, print it, or even share it on Minus, a file-sharing Web site. Ostensibly, users can also save their captures as images, but that's where we ran into problems. Try as we might, we could not successfully save any of our screen captures. We tried saving them as different file types and in different locations, but when we went to open them, they weren't there. A search of our machine indicated that we hadn't inadvertently saved them to some obscure directory; they had just vanished. This is obviously a major problem for a screen-capture utility, and one that we're at a loss to explain. The program has no Help file to speak of, so we weren't able to take any troubleshooting steps. There are workarounds--we were able to upload our captures to Minus and then save them to our computer--but that's obviously not how we'd prefer to do things. Overall, we think that DuckCapture has a lot of potential, but we'll probably stick to other utilities that reliably work for us.
Bottom Line
DuckCapture installs and uninstalls without issues. We recommend this program with reservations.
What’s new in version 2.7
- Version 2.7 updated scrolling feature, fixed system tray panel and file saving.
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