March 2003
Beginner
432 pages
11h 30m
English
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Top Screenshot Tips
These screen-capture tips provide built-in and add-on solutions to just about anything you might wish to snap.
Capturing good screenshots in Mac OS X requires some experimentation. If you simply want to capture the screen for reference later on, you can do it easily with the built-in screen-capture tool. However, if you are a professional writer or a student preparing that term paper and need great-looking screen shots, you have to spend a little more time exploring your options.
These screen capture tips provide built-in and add-on solutions to just about anything you might wish to snap.
Built-Ins
Mac OS X Jaguar comes with a built-in capability for capturing screenshots. To capture the entire screen, simply press
-Shift-3 and a PDF grab of your current
view will appear on your desktop. Screenshots are numbered
sequentially, such as Picture 1.pdf,
Picture 2.pdf, and so on.
To capture a particular region of the screen, type
-Shift-4 and highlight — using click-and-drag — whatever portion of the screen you’d like, as shown in Figure 4-26.
Figure 4-26. Capturing a portion of the screen
An extension to region grabbing is snagging a picture of a particular window or ...
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