HotShots – screenshot and annotation tool

Last Updated on July 11, 2021

HotShots is an application for capturing screens and saving them in a variety of image formats as well as adding annotations and graphical data (arrows, lines, texts, …).

You can also upload your creations to the web (FTP/some web services). HotShots is written with Qt.

HotShots is not available in Ubuntu’s Software Center. But it’s easy to install by typing at the command line:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/apps
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install hotshots

Features include:

• Simple to use.
• Full featured.
• Built-in editor.
• Hotkeys.
• Built-in magnification.
• Freehand and multi-screen capture.
• Supported Output Formats: Black & Whte (bw), Encapsulated PostScript (eps, epsf), Encapsulated PostScript Interchange (epsi), OpenEXR (exr), PC Paintbrush Exchange (pcx), Photoshop Document (psd), ras, rgb, rgba, Irix RGB (sgi), Truevision Targa (tga), eXperimental Computing Facility (xcf), Windows Bitmap (bmp), DirectDraw Surface (dds), Graphic Interchange Format (gif), Icon Image (ico), Joint Photographic Experts Group 2000 (jp2), Joint Photographic Experts Group (jpeg, jpg), Multiple-image Network Graphics (mng), Portable Pixmap (ppm), Scalable Vector Graphics (svg), svgz, Tagged Image File Format (tif, tiff), webp, X11 Bitmap (xbm), X11 Pixmap (xpm), and Khoros Visualization (xv).
• Internationalization support: Basque, Chinese, Czech, French, Galician, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Singhalese, Slovak, Spanish, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese.

Website: sourceforge.net/projects/hotshots
Support:
Developer: xbee
License: GNU GPL v2

HotShots is written in C++. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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