EE 2310

PROF. C. D. CANTRELL

HOW TO SAVE A SCREEN IMAGE IN MacOS 7/8

  1. Make sure that the window of which you want to take a snapshot is on top (in the foreground), and that the cursor is not in the window (unless you want it to be there).
  2. In MacOS 7 or 8, the (simulataneous) key combination Command-Shift-3 takes a snapshot of the entire screen.
  3. In MacOS 8, pressing the (simulataneous) key combination Command-Shift-4 brings up a crosshair cursor, which you can click and drag to select any region of the screen.
  4. The screenshot is saved in a SimpleText graphics file titled "Picture n" (where n=1 if this is your first screenshot), at the root level of your hard drive.
  5. The screenshot file "Picture n" can be viewed with SimpleText by double-clicking on the file. However, to extract just the window you want, you have to use a bitmap graphics editor.
  6. If you want to edit your picture, launch your bitmap graphics editor and open the file "Picture n". Adobe Photoshop will work superbly, of course, but a much cheaper alternative is the excellent shareware program Graphic Converter.
  7. When you have finished cropping the picture to include only what you want, select File.. -> Save As.. and save the picture in a reasonably compact format such as JPEG.
  8. You can print directly from your graphics editor, or you can attach a saved JPEG file to an email message containing the text portion of your homework.
  9. If you would prefer to have an editable text file instead of a graphics file, you can use James Walker's utility Text Capture FKey to copy the text in a SPIM/SAL window to the Clipboard, from which you can paste into any text document.