Lightscreen

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Lightscreen
Developer(s) Christian Kaiser
Stable release
2.0 / 15 April 2014;10 years ago (2014-04-15)
Written in C++ [1]
Operating system Windows 9x, Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows XP [1]
Platform Qt [2]
Available inEnglish, Chinese (Simplified), Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovenian and Spanish [3]
Type Screenshooting software
License GNU General Public License [1]
Website lightscreen.com.ar

Lightscreen is a lightweight screen shooting application for Microsoft Windows, used to automate the process of saving and cataloging screenshots. [1] It operates as a hidden background process that is invoked with one (or multiple) hotkeys and then saves a screenshot file to disk according to the user's preferences. It has no built-in editing or annotation tools. [4] Lightscreen has features to set a delay time and save screenshots in multiple image formats. [1] [5] A portable version is available [6] [7] [8]

Current Website: https://lightscreen.com.ar/ As of August 20, 2020, Lightscreen is at Version 2.4 and the download is hosted on GitHub. It no longer appears to be using Sourceforge.net which is still hosting version 1.01 and was last updated 2014-04-15.

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References

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  3. See Lightscreen v1.01 Options dialog box
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