Screen capture

[stacer]

Can someone remind me how to do a screen capture? I need to save my class schedule as an image I can email.

Alternatively, what would be a good "verification of student status" that I can email? Should I just scan my student ID?

[fuzzyoctopus]

alt + printscreen, unless you're on my laptop which makes life hard.

[Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock]

I thought you just had to hit the Print Scrn button? What's the Alt for?

[stacer]

Well, perhaps I am on your laptop, because nothing happens when I do that.

[Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock]

You need to "paste" the image into Paint or some other type of imaging software program. Like Photoshop or PSP.

[stacer]

Yay! It worked. Thanks.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

the ALT captures just that window, rather than the entire screen.

[stacer]

Too late. Paper sent.

[Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock]

Oh yeah. How about that. I learned something new, again.

[Mistress of Darkness]

Me too. That will save me a lot of time.

[Peter Ahlstrom]

On macs you hit command-shift-3 to cap the whole screen or command-shift-4 to get a crosshair and drag over what you want capped, OR after pressing command-shift-4 hit the space bar and then click on the window you want capped. The pictures are saved as PDFs on the desktop.

On the Mac 512 which was our family's first computer, command-shift-3 did the same thing (but it saved as PICT), but command-shift-4 sent the screen directly to the printer. Which was cool because it was an old dot-matrix printer, and after it printed the top of the screen you could move the mouse down and it would show up on the middle, and then move it down again...you could get the mouse pointer on that printout 3 or 4 times!!

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

heh, funky. But I find the windows way of capturing to the clipboard to be more effective than capturing to a file of any sort. I can paste it into whatever I want this way.

[Peter Ahlstrom]

If you take 10 screenshots in a row, do they all stay on the clipboard?

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

Actually its cool because the preview program lets you export it as any type of graphic file....

This way it lets you send somene a screenshot they can probably scene.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

you can fix it so you have multiple items on the clipboard, yes. In fact, when Word is open, it generally defaults to multiple item clip board.