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blowpipes

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Howdy - I wonder if anyone's come across this and can help. I'm trying to take an whole window screenshots by pressing CMD-SHIFT 4 then the space bar. When I click the mouse it takes the shot. But when I view the image it is off centre and has shaved 20 or 30 or so pixels off the right side.

I'm running Snow leopard on a quad core hackintosh. I'm hoping the problem is the not the hackintosh element...if you need any more info let me know. Can anyone advise?

I've attached an example

Much appreciated
 

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Oh I know this one!

When you use the Spacebar option for screenshots, you will notice it adds the shadow around the edge of the chosen window.
OS X seems to only be able to create screenshots as large as your screen's resolution, so when you have a window which takes up the whole screen, it cuts off the right and bottom due to the extra space taken up by the shadows.

Try shrinking your window to take the picture, or just use command-shift-3 to take a whole screen image.
 
Not a free option, but if you take a lot of screen shots, I recommend little snapper It has the ability to take screen shots, of areas, windows, scrolling windows. Stores them in library to further annotate, or edit and from there you can then upload to an FTP site of your choosing or the cloud where realmacsoftware offers a service.
 
mickbab said:
Oh I know this one!

When you use the Spacebar option for screenshots, you will notice it adds the shadow around the edge of the chosen window.
OS X seems to only be able to create screenshots as large as your screen's resolution, so when you have a window which takes up the whole screen, it cuts off the right and bottom due to the extra space taken up by the shadows.

Try shrinking your window to take the picture, or just use command-shift-3 to take a whole screen image.
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Yeah looks like that's what I'll have to do. In terms of it being a hackintosh issue MacDawg, I was fine taking shots in this way on a macbook pro using tiger - shadows and all in tact all the way around. On a mac clone using L 10.6.4 it doesn't work. I've just checked my macbook pro now running SL and it is wrong on this too... so I think that could be the answer. Now then, just need to find out why..

Thanks for all your replies chaps - much appreciated
 
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