Re: Screen Capture software for Macintosh

[Mike Stockman <stockman -at- jagunet -dot- com>]

On 09/01/1999 2:54 PM, John Ryan (jr -at- seattlelab -dot- com) wrote:

>Does anyone know of a good screen capture application for the Macintosh?

Well, the Mac OS has screen capture abilities built-in that can do any of 
the following:

* Command-shift-3 takes the whole screen and saves it to a PICT file.

* Command-shift-4 changes the mouse cursor to a crosshairs so you can 
select a rectangular region and save it to a PICT file.

* If the caps lock key is active, command-shift-4 changes the cursor to a 
bull's eye. Click any window with the bull's eye cursor to capture the 
complete window to a file or the clipboard.

In all of these options, the screenshot is saved on the root level of 
your hard drive as a PICT file (convertible to any other bitmap format) 
as Picture 1, Picture 2, and so on.

* Add the Control key to any of the above combinations to capture to the 
clipboard instead of a file.

Add the MenuCapture utility (check 
http://hyperarchive.lcs.mit.edu/HyperArchive/Abstracts/rec/HyperArchive.htm
l, and search for menucapture) to use any of the built-in screen capture 
functions but add the ability to capture menus and pop-ups (and anything 
that involves the mouse button being pressed).

The best commercial alternative is Snapz Pro from Ambrosia Software 
(http://www.AmbrosiaSW.com/Products/SnapzPro.html). Saves in TIFF format, 
among others, and does snapshot delay, screen regions, and tons of other 
stuff.

Hope this is useful,
----->Mike

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