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• It's an AmbrosiaSW product (Score:3, Informative)

  by hfb (74) on 2003.02.19 5:27 (#17224) Homepage Journal

  called Snapz which apple started to bundle in with Jaguar. You can get the Pro X version for a small upgrade price http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/snapzprox/. I've been using this for years. I *heart* AmbrosiaSW :)

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  • Re:It's an AmbrosiaSW product (Score:2, Insightful)

    by pjm (639)

    Really? I'm pretty sure the shortcuts that Matt described are built-ins rather than nabbed from Snapz (which is a great product by the way). I certainly don't have Snapz on my machine, but do have the shortcuts.
    
    Oh yeah, screenshots can be command-line generated as well, though I'm not really sure what this offers you over the keyboard shortcuts: maybe scriptability (and aliasing capability). The control key action is worth knowing in any case.
    
    ~ % screencapture
    
    usage: screencapture [-icmwsWx] [file] [curso
    • Re:It's an AmbrosiaSW product (Score:2)

      by hfb (74)

      hmm...I thought apple had started bundling Snapz since it came with my dual powermac last fall and that shortcut Matt mentioned is exactly like the snapz shortcut.
      • Re:It's an AmbrosiaSW product (Score:2)

        by ziggy (25)

        Cmd-shift-4 has always [nobleswan.com] been screenshot of the selected area all the way back to the 680x0 Macs. Cmd-shift-3 has always been capture the entire screen, and Cmd-shift-[12] used to be eject the internal/external floppy, back when that made sense.

        Ambrosia's product patched the Mac traps to override the standard behavior and use their product instead. It may well come pre-installed with some recent mac models for some period of time. (My iBook didn't come with Quicken this summer, but my iMac did this f
        • Re:It's an AmbrosiaSW product (Score:3, Interesting)

          by hfb (74)

          Apple apparently bundles it only with the powermacs along with Omnigraffle and Omnioutliner. I've used snapz for so long I forgot the crap one that the old Mac OS had by default. Snapz will export the screenshots to PDF or jpeg or quicktime movies. It's a pity Apple didn't license snapz as part of the OS since it's so much more usable than the one that the os has.
        • Re:It's an AmbrosiaSW product (Score:2)

          by TorgoX (1933)

          The interesting and obvious difference with OS X is that the screen shot is a PDF file. It used to be a bitmap, and changed to a PICT file in some reasonably modern release of MacOS.

          I just don't understand Apple's new love affair with PDF.
          • Re:It's an AmbrosiaSW product (Score:2)

            by Matts (1087)

            Me either.
            
            but if you hold down ctrl it goes to the clipboard which is better.
          • Re:It's an AmbrosiaSW product (Score:1)

            by chromatic (983)

            She looks as good close up as she does far away (if a little fuzzier)?
          • PDF love (Score:1)

            by sbwoodside (3935)

            Eh. It's a bitmap embedded in a PDF, so you can open it with bitmap apps (e.g. photoshop) and get what you want. PDF's a very flexible format.
            • Re:PDF love (Score:3, Interesting)

              by TorgoX (1933)

              So why the PDF? Why not just generate a PNG instead?
              • Re:PDF love (Score:2)

                by darobin (1316)

                Because the entire interface is PDF. PDF has some excellent features for a high-level graphic interface. Just dumping some PDF is simple for them I guess.

                Of course, they should have used SVG, but unfortunately the REC came out a little too late for them. However the model is almost exactly the same, and it's no coincidence.

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                • Re:PDF love (Score:2)

                  by TorgoX (1933)

                  Atomic flyswatter.
                  • Re:PDF love (Score:2)

                    by darobin (1316)

                    Care to elaborate? (not on the saving of a snapshot but on using PDF for UI).

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• It messes up with BBEdit (Score:1)

  by graouts (2892)

  It is quite a cool functionality but that prevents me from using cmd+shift+4 within BBEdit and an AZERTY keyboard to switch to window 4. Anybody has a workaround to this?

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  • Re:It messes up with BBEdit (Score:2)

    by Matts (1087)

    Don't use BBEdit. It really does suck ;-)
    • Re:It messes up with BBEdit (Score:1)

      by sbwoodside (3935)

      So what do you use instead?! (and don't say emacs or vim...)
      • Re:It messes up with BBEdit (Score:3, Insightful)

        by Matts (1087)

        I use Project Builder. It sucks too, but slightly less than BBEdit. I also use jEdit, which doesn't suck but is slow on my G3. I look forward to getting the G4 so I can switch to jEdit full time.
        • Re:It messes up with BBEdit (Score:2)

          by pudge (1)

          If you think BBEdit sucks, you likely haven't used it much.
  • Re:It messes up with BBEdit (Score:1)

    by blech (1597)

    Maybe this is something odd to do with the AZERTY layout, but for me (UK QWERTY), command 4 will switch to the fourth window; I don't need shift.
    
    Perhaps you could email Bare Bones support? They're usually responsive, even when it turns out to be a silly user error (like my expectation that C-w would work the same in Emacs mode as it does in the shell; it doesn't, and hence it does a different thing in BBEdit too). The address is support [at] barebones.com.
• I use this, too (Score:2)

  by petdance (2468)

  I use this shortcut, too, so that I can print my calendar from Entourage.

  That's right, Entourage doesn't have any print functionality that prints a calendar like I see on the screen, which is EXACTLY the format I want on paper to go on my bulletin board.

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