[comp.sys.mac.misc] WANTED: Screen grabber

tope@enea.se (Tommy Petersson) (04/18/91)

I need a utility, preferrable PD, that let me "grab" a part
of the screen and save it as a file (MacPaint, MacDraw format...)

Can anyone point me to one?

Thanks in advance,
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barvian@ece.cmu.edu (Scott Barvian) (04/19/91)

In article <3215@enea.se> tope@enea.se (Tommy Petersson) writes:

   I need a utility, preferrable PD, that let me "grab" a part
   of the screen and save it as a file (MacPaint, MacDraw format...)

   Can anyone point me to one?

Isn't it nice to find out that you *already have* this utility built in
to your System file?  I was checking this out just the other day-

Command-Shift-3 prints the entire screen to a MacPaint file!
And of course from there you can use MacPaint to pick out the section you
want.

For reference, the other built in "F-keys" are

Command-Shift-4 prints the screen to an attached printer
                (although I think it bypasses Page Setup and the normal
                print dialog, and if the printer isn't really there or
                it's turned off it doesn't come back and tell you)
Command-Shift-4 prints a single window in the same way.
with Caps Lock

Command-Shift-1 ejects (like command-E) a floppy in drive 0.
Command-Shift-2 ejects a floppy in drive 1.
Command-Shift-0 ejects a floppy in drive 2.

(It's not obvious what drives 0,1, and 2 are- I suppose it depends on
your configuration.  I know that a Plus knows its one internal drive
as "drive 0".)

sb