Re: Screen capture lost
- From: CyberTaz <onlygeneraltaz1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:30:43 -0400
Hello Elliott -
Once again we get enact adversarial roles... On a most congenial basis,
however ;-)
On 7/18/08 7:40 AM, in article 180720081240266812%nospam@xxxxxxxxx, "Elliott
Roper" <nospam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <C4A5ED8E.3F495%onlygeneraltaz1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, CyberTaz
<onlygeneraltaz1@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Carrie -
Screen shots aren't an Office operation so they don't go into the Scrapbook
- which *is* an Office feature - automatically, although the shots can be
added. Content you cut/copy in the Office apps are stored in the Scrapbook &
can then be pasted repeatedly in any of the Office programs.
Elliott gave you some good guidance on screen shot alternatives to the
built-in OS X method, but I personally find that the included utility called
Grab does a fine job. You might want to try it out - you should find it in
Applications/Utilities. It isn't as versatile as GraphicConverter, but I've
found it to be more than adequate.
A bit pedantic, this reply. Sorry CyberTaz.
Pedantic? I don't think so... Read on;
The screen shot stuff I recommended is pretty much the keyboard
shortcut way of using Grab. It *is* the OS X method.
If that's the case, perhaps you can enlighten me as to why removing Grab.app
to the Trash OS X screen captures still work the same way. Further, the
keyboard shortcuts for the two methods are totally different & the pointer
appearance/behavior is not the same for the equivalent actions.
Additionally, using Grab makes content immediately available to be pasted
without involving the Clipboard, whereas the OS X screen capture methods
work differently.
Lastly, the OS X methods generate PNGs whereas Grab generates TIFFs.
My GraphicConverter remark was a possibly misleading sideshow. It was a
roundabout way of recommending the use of separate software to prepare
your screen grab for insertion into Word rather than give Word a chance
to fry it, as it will. You can of course paste the clipboard flavoured
grabs straight into Word. If they are the wrong size or not compressed
enough for your final output, then Word will make an irretrievable mess
of your only copy.
Not misleading at all - the point was made clear enough. What I didn't
expand on - since the matter of saving the capture hadn't been mentioned by
the OP - is that the Grab TIFF is a bit sharper than the OS X PNG, although
Grab, admittedly, doesn't offer the editing or format options provided by
GraphicConverter and some others of similar ilk.
But you did explain the scrapbook v clipboard relationship better than
I did, so I guess we work as a team? ;-)
Let's hope so... It would be a rather sorry world if a few of us couldn't
agree on at least some issues without going at one another's throats
whenever we don't see eye to eye ;-)
Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac
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