Screen Capture Utility?

[Mac In School]

I'm looking for a fairly flexible screen capture utility for OS X.

I need to view some PDFs at a size that is much larger than my screen, and capture them as images. So I guess I need screen capture software that will grab an active window, and not just what is currently visible.

Right now I'm grabbing 4 of them and pasting them together in Photoshop. There must be an easier way.

Thanks.

 

[CanadaRAM]

Well, a screen capture by definition captures what's on the screen.

If you have Acrobat (the full version) you can save as... a JPG or a TIFF file.

You know you can open PDF files directly with Photoshop, right? Then scale and save to your heart's content? Ditto with Preview, and Illustrator.

 

[Mac In School]

Perhaps I gave too much information for my own good.

It's not always a PDF document. Sometimes I need to capture a Web page that scrolls for a bazillion pages.

 

[Osarkon]

It's not always a PDF document. Sometimes I need to capture a Web page that scrolls for a bazillion pages.

Could you not just print the web page to a pdf?

Haven't the foggiest idea how that would help you get it as an image, but at least it'll put it in the same place as your pdf documents.

 

[Mac In School]

Maybe what I'm looking for doesn't exist. On Windows, I used Snagit. From their Web site:

Capture all of the contents of any window or Web page that has a scrollbar. SnagIt automatically scrolls the window during the screen capture, so you get all of the images and text in the window. This capture mode is perfect for saving those long articles you find online for easy reference later.

 

[Killyp]

Couldn't you just view the PDF in Preview and Save As a JPG or PNG? Or try PhotoShop?

 

[albeik]

I use http://www.derailer.org/paparazzi/ to capture Web pages into an image.

 

[CanadaRAM]

Perhaps I gave too much information for my own good.

It's not always a PDF document. Sometimes I need to capture a Web page that scrolls for a bazillion pages.

So print it as a PDF then see above.

 

[Mac In School]

^ Often left with undesirable results. Particularly with dark backgrounds.

I know the workarounds, and use them. Just wondering if such a utility exists to save me a few steps. If not, no biggie. Thanks for the replies.

 

[GregE]

Did you ever find anything? I used HyperSnap in Windows and would like a similar app for my iMac.

 

[dejo]

You should check out Snapz Pro X.

 

[feyn-man]

I'm looking for a fairly flexible screen capture utility for OS X.

I need to view some PDFs at a size that is much larger than my screen, and capture them as images. So I guess I need screen capture software that will grab an active window, and not just what is currently visible.

Right now I'm grabbing 4 of them and pasting them together in Photoshop. There must be an easier way.

Thanks.

just use the 'command+shift+4' and then press spacebar, you can grab the active window.

 

[dejo]

just use the 'command+shift+4' and then press spacebar, you can grab the active window.

Yeah, but they want to be able to capture the hidden parts of the window that you'd need to scroll to as well. Command+Shift+4 won't handle that.

 

[GregE]

That and the application then let you edit the capture by typing text over it or hi-lighting parts of it. I could also easily capture the entire screen, an open window, or a region very easily.

 

[clevin]

Perhaps I gave too much information for my own good.

It's not always a PDF document. Sometimes I need to capture a Web page that scrolls for a bazillion pages.

firefox has some extensions like "save as image" "grab it" etc that can save the whole webpage "not only the visible portion" into PNG/jpg, etc files.

 

[GregE]

I did some more searching and it looks like Jing Project or Skitch would work best for me. Not sure if they will do what the OP wanted.