Keyboard Shortcut, Screen Capture On Mac OS X

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January 21, 2005
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Most users are not aware that Mac OS X comes built in with a screen capture tool that captures screens and windows into pdf format files with a strike of the keyboard.

The following are the only shortcuts you need to remember(extremely useful if you’re grabbing information for an assignment):

Keystroke	Description
Shift + Cmd + 4	captures an area specified by user
Shift + Cmd + 4 + Spacebar	Spacebar toggles between capturing a specified area to capturing the contents of a selected window
Shift + Cmd + 3	captures the content of an active window

All captured images are saved into your desktop. If you need the screen capture in any other format other than pdf then a photo editing application is necessary to convert the images.

Mack

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