Print screen? Or different name for Mac

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MikeAppz

macrumors member

Original poster

• May 7, 2006

• #1

I just switched over from a PC. If I want to do a print screen (at least that is what it was called on a dell) and copy it to the clipboard or save the image of my screen, how do I do this? Is there a key for this on the keyboard like on PC's

 

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mikes63737

macrumors 65816

• May 7, 2006

• #2

Command+Shift+3 will save your entire screen as a PNG image.

Command+Shift+4 will allow you to select part of your screen and save that as a PNG image.

Edit: PNG's are saved to the desktop.

 

gekko513

macrumors 603

• May 7, 2006

• #3

There are four different keyboard combination to do a screen capture.

cmd+shift+3 - capture screen to a file on the desktop
cmd+ctrl+shift+3 - capture screen to the clipboard
cmd+shift+4 - capture screen selection to a file on the desktop
cmd+ctrl+shift+4 - capture screen selection to the clipboard

See "System Preferences -> Keyboard & Mouse" for more useful keyboard shortcuts.

 

macOSX-tastic

macrumors 6502a

• May 7, 2006

• #4

you can also download a handy little widget here:

http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/developer/screenshotplus.html

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slooksterPSV

macrumors 68040

• May 7, 2006

• #5

YOU GUYS OMG you forgot the best one!!!

CMD+SHIFT+4 then press Spacebar to take snapshots of windows/desktops =O

It's awesome when you get the camera

 

motulist

macrumors 601

• May 7, 2006

• #6

slooksterPSV, that's awesome! I never knew that one.

 

truz

macrumors 6502a

• May 7, 2006

• #7

motulist said:

slooksterPSV, that's awesome! I never knew that one.

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I agree, this is a very handy one 🙂 thanks

 

disconap

macrumors 68000

• May 7, 2006

• #8

That is so awesome, thanks for the little camera! Makes my life a lot easier. 🙂

 

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iMarley

macrumors member

• May 8, 2006

• #9

I'm running 10.3.9 and when I take a screenshot it saves it to the destop as a pdf??? Is there anyway to change this?

 

motulist

macrumors 601

• May 8, 2006

• #10

Yeah, upgrade to 10.4 😉 Seriously though, I'm pretty sure there's no way to change it in 10.3.

 

disconap

macrumors 68000

• May 8, 2006

• #11

Other than converting it in Photoshop, of course...

 

motulist

macrumors 601

• May 8, 2006

• #12

or graphicconverter, the shareware alternative.

 

gekko513

macrumors 603

• May 8, 2006

• #13

Or Preview ... the bundled alternative. (At least it can do "Save As" and "make new from clipboard" in Tiger.)

 

camomac

macrumors 6502a

• May 8, 2006

• #14

you could also use "grab" in your applications/utilities folder.

i like that quite a bit, saves it as a .tiff

just a thought....

 

slooksterPSV

macrumors 68040

• May 8, 2006

• #15

You can also use Onyx (I gotta run Onyx) and change to what it saves as.

 

WildCowboy

Administrator/Editor

Staff member

• May 8, 2006

• #16

iMarley said:

I'm running 10.3.9 and when I take a screenshot it saves it to the destop as a pdf??? Is there anyway to change this?

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Doesn't the Terminal trick work in Panther? I seem to remember doing it.

Open Terminal and at the prompt, type:

Code:

defaults write com.apple.screencapture type png

(Or use your favorite file format if you don't like PNG.)

Log out of your account and back in, and it should work.

 

motulist

macrumors 601

• May 8, 2006

• #17

Somebody should try that terminal trick out and tell us if it works so that I don't have to be the guinea pig. 😀

 

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trainguy77

macrumors 68040

• May 8, 2006

• #18

motulist said:

Somebody should try that terminal trick out and tell us if it works so that I don't have to be the guinea pig. 😀

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I checked does not seem to work. It still outputs pdf files.🙁

 

WildCowboy

Administrator/Editor

Staff member

• May 8, 2006

• #19

trainguy77 said:

I checked does not seem to work. It still outputs pdf files.🙁

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Hmmm...I thought that worked in Panther. My bad. 😱 🙁

 

jeremy.king

macrumors 603

• May 10, 2006

• #20

WildCowboy said:

Hmmm...I thought that worked in Panther. My bad. 😱 🙁

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Edit: I'm retarded, I used a different defaults command in Jaguar and relied on Folder Actions in Panther...

 

jeremy.king

macrumors 603

• May 10, 2006

• #21

motulist said:

Somebody should try that terminal trick out and tell us if it works so that I don't have to be the guinea pig. 😀

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You can always change it back with

defaults write com.apple.screencapture type pdf

Edit: An alternative is to use Folder Actions - http://creativebits.org/mac_os_x/folder_action_script_image_conversion