A few posts ago I spoke of our Thanksgiving gift to all of you i.e., Voila v2.5, although then, I didn’t elaborate on what’s new in it. I guess now it’s time to unravel the gift and let you know what is in store for you. The new version of Voila, apart from being Snow Leopard compatible, has additional features that will make your screen capturing experience on Voila more pleasant.

Isn’t Copy-Paste ever so convenient? Just copy from here and paste it over there. Guess what, you can now do the same with Voila. Just copy an image from the capture tray or multiple images from the image browser to your Word Document, PowerPoint, Text Edit, Keynote, Pages, Apple Mail, Entourage and more. The copy-paste feature is not restricted to images alone;  you can also do it with annotations. You can also copy-paste similar annotations across images within Voila, thus saving you tons of time.

Copy to Clipboard is an important feature in the new version. Here, the last captured image on Voila gets copied to the clipboard. Now all you have to do is paste to your documents. This saves you from a lot of hassles that you would otherwise face. In Voila, just do a Cmd+V and the image gets pasted from the Clipboard onto your documents. Do note, however, that you must enable  ’Copy last capture to Clipboard’ in the Voila Preferences. Voila can also now capture windows in their active state using the global keyboard shortcuts or from the status menu. Thus you can get screenshots of windows exactly as it would appear on your Mac screen, thereby making your presentation, manuals or any other document all the more wholesome and presentable.

One of my favorite features is the Spotlight. This feature lets you draw attention to a specific portion on your image. The rest of the portion is dimmed, the intensity of which can be adjusted as per the need. You have the option of applying multiple spotlights at a time and in multiple shapes. It helps a lot in making a specific area stand out from the rest.

We have added one more Edge under the Effects Tab. It’s a simple Outline border. I know most of you wanted this particular border, and here it is. It’s a simple border that you can apply to your images, giving it a distinct and neat look, clearly demarcating the image from rest of the text, be it in your documents, manuals or others.

With the new version the color profile of the captured image will be the same as the system profile or the one set by you. Thus while printing an image you will obtain it as it appears and like you want it. This would be of great assistance to artists.

Apart from these great feature additions we also have fixed some issues which most of you had pointed out in the version 2.1 which had resulted due to the 10.5.8 update. You can now drag and drop  images from Voila to the Dock items, Finder, Tweetie, Word Document, Apple Mail and to other compatible applications.  The arrow heads and line endings have been smoothened. There are a lot more improvements which I shall let you discover on your own. I have told you the most important ones already. You can read more about them from here.

Voila v2.5 is certainly an improvement from the previous version and this was only possible with your support. We thank all our customers who helped in Beta testing this version, providing valuable suggestions and feedback. Do try Voila v2.5 now, let us know what you think and do give us your feedback. Also help us spread the word by using the ‘Tell a Friend’ option within Voila.

We have more surprises in store with regard to Voila. Keep watching this space.

-Vaishnavi

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