Screenshot

I’ve been researching how to make easy, but good looking modified screenshots. The tools we have available are LibreOffice mostly. Adequate tools if a bit unpolished.

LibreOffice Draw is a fine editor. It is great for office work kind of graphics. Boxes, ovals and arrows all over the place works out great. Once you have your graphics all dolled up, exporting as a PNG for example is a nightmare. You have to set the page size to match the output. It is a nightmare. If you wait to the Write program to crop, it is about the same fight to crop the end product down for 8.5x11 or whatever your page size was set to.There is no freehand crop tool in LibreOffice that I can find. The best solution I’ve found is to simply use the rectangle screenshot tool to transfer from Draw to Write.

Windows 7	Ubuntu Linux - Unity
run snip tool	screen shot tool
Paste in to Draw	Paste in to Draw
Edit to heart’s content	Edit to heart’s content
run snip tool	screen shot tool
Select rectangular screen shot	Select rectangular screen shot (shift prt-scr)
copy to clipboard and paste in to document	copy to clipboard and paste in to document