Wondered if anyone could help me on little OSX query…
I’ve got a utility progamme called Grab, but it’s such a chore to use.
In OS9 it was a simple apple+shift+3 (or 4) from wherever you were to capture the screen or window. No going into special progammes.
Is there any ‘simple’ system shortcut for getting screen grabs in OSX?
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Uh, did you try Command-Shift 3 and 4? They still work. The Grab
utility was the only way back in the late 90’s, when the OS was still
called Rhapsody, but I think that they got the old shortcuts working
before the first public Beta of OS X.
Grab still does some things that you can’t do easily using the basic
shortcut methods, like capture the cursor or do timed grabs, so you
can show a system menu dropped down or a similar blocking event. But
for most things, the old way is the new way.
Walter
On Feb 28, 2008, at 10:18 AM, hugh wrote:
Wondered if anyone could help me on little OSX query…
I’ve got a utility progamme called Grab, but it’s such a chore to use.
In OS9 it was a simple apple+shift+3 (or 4) from wherever you were
to capture the screen or window. No going into special progammes.Is there any ‘simple’ system shortcut for getting screen grabs in OSX?
Hugh
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On 28 Feb 2008, at 15:18, hugh wrote:
In OS9 it was a simple apple+shift+3 (or 4) from wherever you were
to capture the screen or window. No going into special progammes.Is there any ‘simple’ system shortcut for getting screen grabs in OSX?
Ignore ‘Grab’. Just use the old OS9 shortcuts; they all work fine in
OS X. Apple-Shift-4 will give you the selection tool to draw a
rectangle around what you want. Add the spacebar and it’ll allow you
to click on a window or dialog and just capture that. Also search the
forum - I’m sure Keith has posted on this in the last fortnight or so.
best wishes
Paul Bradforth
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Hugh, it’s still the same command for me using 10.4.11, command+shift+3.
On 28 Feb 2008, at 15:18, hugh wrote:
In OS9 it was a simple apple+shift+3 (or 4) from wherever you were
to capture the screen or window. No going into special progammes.
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On 28 Feb 2008, at 15:18, hugh wrote:
In OS9 it was a simple apple+shift+3 (or 4) from wherever you were
to capture the screen or window. No going into special progammes.
Command-shift-3 takes the whole screen.
Command-shift-4 gives you a cross-hair cursor which lets you drag an
area to grab. If you press the space bar, it targets the window or
menu over which the cursor is hovering. Escape backs out if you
decide not to snap anything.
Have a peep through the Apple Help for further shortcuts: search for
“taking pictures of the screen”.
The downside with the shortcuts is they don’t grab the cursor at all.
Grab let’s you choose which cursor you would like. And for the
serious pro snapper, then SnapzPro from Ambrosia Software is de rigeur.
=o)
Heather
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It’s still the same is it not!
On Feb 28, 2008, at 4:18 PM, hugh wrote:
Wondered if anyone could help me on little OSX query…
I’ve got a utility progamme called Grab, but it’s such a chore to use.
In OS9 it was a simple apple+shift+3 (or 4) from wherever you were
to capture the screen or window. No going into special progammes.Is there any ‘simple’ system shortcut for getting screen grabs in OSX?
Hugh
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ahhh…right…
thanks!!
(mind, I couldn’t find the file at first…coz it makes it a pdf!)
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The output format is something you can set in the preferences
somewhere. I have mine set to PNG, the better to confound my PC-using
clients.
Walter
On Feb 28, 2008, at 10:39 AM, hugh wrote:
ahhh…right…
thanks!!
(mind, I couldn’t find the file at first…coz it makes it a pdf!)
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Sometime around 28/2/08 (at 10:47 -0500) Walter Lee Davis said:
The output format is something you can set in the preferences
somewhere. I have mine set to PNG, the better to confound my PC-using
clients.
I think the output format is actually set by what version of the
Mac OS you’re running! Unless you’re talking about Grab, which
provides a short list of options. Older versions of Mac OS X made
PDFs (more precisely, bitmap data in a PDF wrapper), the most recent
versions save a 24-bit PNG bitmap files.
Here are the screengrab shortcuts…
Command-Shift-3 grabs the whole screen.
Command-Shift-4 lets you grab an arbitrary section of the screen.
Command-Shift-4 and then Spacebar puts you into object-grabbing mode;
point at something and click to grab it.
These grabs are saves as named files on the desktop.
Holding down the Control key while you make the actual grab will put
the image data onto the Clipboard, ready to past somewhere directly,
rather than saving to a file.
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No, but it requires you to use a third-party low-level preference
tweaker. I use Onyx for this, on account of it’s free.
Walter
On Feb 28, 2008, at 11:56 AM, Keith Martin wrote:
Sometime around 28/2/08 (at 10:47 -0500) Walter Lee Davis said:
The output format is something you can set in the preferences
somewhere. I have mine set to PNG, the better to confound my PC-using
clients.I think the output format is actually set by what version of the
Mac OS you’re running! Unless you’re talking about Grab, which
provides a short list of options. Older versions of Mac OS X made
PDFs (more precisely, bitmap data in a PDF wrapper), the most recent
versions save a 24-bit PNG bitmap files.
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Waltd said [quote]it requires you to use a third-party low-level preference tweaker…[/quote]
AAARRRGGGHHHH…(runs screaming into the Lancashire twilight, never to be seen in front of a computer again…
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Sometime around 28/2/08 (at 12:08 -0500) Walter Lee Davis said:
No, but it requires you to use a third-party low-level preference
tweaker. I use Onyx for this, on account of it’s free.
Ahhhh… I vaguely remember seeing this a long time ago! I’m happy
with the modern default of PNG. Also, I do like keeping my Macs
running fairly vanilla, as it keeps me from forgetting and making
major assumptions when talking to people about their Mac problems or
ways of doing things.
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Walter is only saying that preferences that are available to be set in Mac
OSX haven’t always been given a user interface for interaction with - such
as both arrows at both ends of a window scrollbar.
Onyx and others are a simple method to access some of these and thus
customise some aspects of Mac OSX to the way YOU prefer.
all the best
Brian
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Waltd said [quote]it requires you to use a third-party low-level preference
tweaker…[/quote]AAARRRGGGHHHH…(runs screaming into the Lancashire twilight, never to be
seen in front of a computer again…
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You could try Web Snapper - that will give you the whole page - even below the fold.
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