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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.

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