Skip to content

Automating Screenshots in Documentation

Published on January 31, 2017

Automating Screenshots in Documentation

Drawing my short series to a close (we’ve talked about testing code examples in documentation and automating spelling and grammar checks in documentation), let’s cover one of the hardest elements of documentation to create and keep up to publishDate: screenshots.

If you like what you're reading, support my work

Text based video and audio editing
Text based video and audio editing

Are you looking to make editing audio and video easier and more powerful with a suite of AI-powered features? Try Descript, I use it for editing all my podcasts and you can to!

Download Descript
Learn something new today
Learn something new today

Start learning something new or up-skilling with a book or course.

30% off ANYTHING at Manning

Join my mailing list

My roughly fortnightly newsletter, sent via Substack.

Latest issue: Full disk regrets (14/10/2026)

View archive