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

  by hfb (74)

  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 :)
  • 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: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:1)

            by chromatic (983) on 2003.02.19 13:22 (#17252) Homepage Journal

            She looks as good close up as she does far away (if a little fuzzier)?

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