Text mode is intended for web pages where text can’t be directly or properly selected, but its crosshair selection is also useful for extracting text from layouts that use multiple columns. In addition to images, Snagit can also capture text and video. This has options for including the mouse pointer in the captured image, capturing multiple screen selections sequentially and specifying a destination program for the captured image other than Snagit's own editor. The flexible All-in-One capture mode used here should suit most requirements, but Snagit’s capture behaviour can be fine-tuned in the Settings window. Clicking one of these scrolls the window automatically as Snagit captures the appropriate sections, which are then all stitched together to make a seamless whole. A web page that’s taller and/or wider than its browser window, for example, causes Snagit to displays yellow scroll buttons on the window's bottom edge, right-hand and bottom-right corner, as required. So far, so straightforward, but Snagit’s strengths come to the fore when capturing the content of a window that won’t all fit into one screen.

The entire screen can then be captured by clicking the crosshair anywhere, while clicking and dragging it captures the selected area - something that’s assisted by the crosshair’s pixel-level magnification.

Once installed, Snagit overrides Windows’ default Print Screen key behaviour (though the shortcut can be changed) and, when pressed, this instead pops up a crosshair on the screen. Now on version 11, Snagit has been around since 1990, but the program has long since expanded to include all manner of screen capture and subsequent image-editing features.

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