Nice OSX tip: creating an image with a desktop snapshot without scripting

[Howard Bornstein]

On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 5:12 AM, Colin Holgate <coiin at verizon.net> wrote:

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> On May 15, 2010, at 5:52 AM, Jim Sims wrote:
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> >
> > Command-SHIFT-4-Space Bar captures the window under the cursor.
>
> That can be described better as: Command-Shift-4 gives you the usual
> caption selection to a file, and Control-Command-Shift-4 gives you the usual
> capture to clipboard, but if instead of dragging the mouse to make a
> selection, you press the space bar and then move the mouse over the various
> open windows, you can click to capture the one that is highlighted. It also
> grabs all of the window, not just the parts that are sticking out from under
> other windows.
>

This trick is very versatile.  Beside capturing entire windows as you've
described, it will also capture the entire menu bar, any open menu, the
dock, and any icon on the desktop, including the icon name. Very useful for
documentation that requires showing parts of the Macintosh interface.
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Regards,

Howard Bornstein
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