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screen shot preferences...Posted by Frank Meek
Hi there,
I know that Shift>Cmd>3, (or 4 to enclose), are the methods to create a "screenshot." This useful tool I have used often but my "screenshot" is always a PDF file. While this has worked well for some applications, I would like to be able to make this picture a TIFF, PNG or JPEG file as necessary for my desired purposes. How do I set these preferences? Thanks. FE Meek
Something you all forgot: the 'control' key ;-)
Press cmd-crtl-shift-4 and make your selection or press 'space bar' to select a window or use '3' instead of '4', open Preview and press cmd-n. Then save to whatever format you want. Hope that helps Andreas P.S. You can even use some shell script to that automatically
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Tom, Sorry to contradict. The additional 'control' key puts the screen shot to the clipboard and not to a file. Cmd-n in Preview creates a new file from the clipboard. So doing it my way saves some steps - just try it ;-) Regards Andreas
But that wasn't the question. He's not having a problem getting into PDF. It's PDF as soon as he makes it. He wants to get it into a bitmap graphics format. All he was to do is open the file and save as in whatever format he wants.
I'm curious about this, because there is a way to set the preference I'm pretty sure, but I can't remember what it is. My screen shots are generating PICT files in 10.4.9. All the best, Tom
Tom maybe I've not been clear enough. 'cmd-crtl-shift-4' or other combinations for screen shots using the 'control' key do NOT save the screen shot to a special format but just put it to the clipboard. From there you can paste it into 'anything' and/or save it to 'anything' if the selected app allows to paste clipboard picture content. Have a look at this. It's just a 'cmd-crtl-shift-4', then doing a selection, then a cmd-n in QT Player, a cmd-v, a cmd-s (or a cmd-e) and here we go. It's easy and straight forward with most of the apps on the Mac. And as said with Preview you get a new file with cmd-n and just do a 'save as' instead of doing the screen shot, select it in Finder, open it in Preview and then do a 'save as' Just play with the control key and the apps - it saves a lot of time ;-) Same Andreas
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? but it?s basically a one-line terminal command: defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleScreenShotFormat imageFormat Replace imageFormat with one of JPEG, TIFF, PNG, or PICT to change the format of the screenshot From me: screen shot Hope this helps Andreas
Again fellows,
Where is the problem to press the 'control' key - not enough fingers available ? ;-), too much 'windows like' ? ;-) or what? ;-) Using the 'control' key additionally you can go anywhere any time and don't have your desktop cluttered with those 'Picture X' files. Andreas P.S. Snapz Pro can be handy as well
If you're running Tiger the command is slightly different to the NSGlobalDOmain one.
Open your terminal by going to Applications > Utilitites > Terminal. Don't get freaked out. Nothing will explode. Type the following defaults write com.apple.screencapture type tif Press return. Quit the Terminal and restart your computer. Screenshots should now be tiffs by default.
Seriously really sorry if I did hurt you in any way - there was no intention to hurt anyone it was just to make a joke - obviously a bad joke. It was meant to move something in the brains of the involved people without being offending. Really sorry for that, I should have known Andreas
Hey Andreas - remember that render alert script you made the other day - is there a way to get that to work for Maya as well? Or would it require a new version? Would it work just to change " tell application process "Final Cut Pro" to tell application process "Maya"? What about After effects?
Astounding. The simplest keyboard commands command the longest thread in a week!! Gotta love it.
Question-- is SnapZPro the champ in commercial screen capture? What do folks use? (Let's keep this going until we reach China.) Seriously, for tutorial motion captures, I'd love to know. I can tell you this: the 29.00 MacCapture ain't it. - Loren Today's FCP 4 / 5 keytip: Fast scan your clips or timeline with Control-F12 ! Go slower with lower F keys. Go reverse with F6 down to F2 The FCP KeyGuide?: your power placemat. Now available at KeyGuide Central. www.neotrondesign.com
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