Recently, I needed to create end-user documentation for a desktop application. Although screencasting is a possible alternative, I didn’t feel it was appropriate in this type of situation, where the end user really needs something printer-friendly to have in hand while using the application.

Although I did want the document to be highly visual, I wasn’t looking forward to the tedious process of capturing screens manually, one by one, then inserting them into a document, manually, one by one. I needed something that would streamline both of these processes so I could concentrate on making good documentation.

It seems I make a new release of ZoomifyImage once a year like clockwork. This time around, I fixed a minor bug and made a few enhancements including writing temporary files to the system temporary directory and accounting for changes in ZODB’s transaction handling.