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Create full-screen desktop pictures using Preview Apps
If you want to make desktop images adapted for your screen size, here's a trick using Preview.

Open the picture in Preview, and go to the View menu and choose Full Screen. Press Command-Shift-3 to take a screenshot, then exit full screen mode. You'll find a "Picture 1" file on your desktop; now you have your picture in full screen mode with black border around it. Very useful to have 1024x768 desktop images on the PowerBook with correct sizes.
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Create full-screen desktop pictures using Preview
Authored by: FunkDaddy on Jan 15, '04 04:46:12PM

Why don't you just use the image and stretch to fit?



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Create full-screen desktop pictures using Preview
Authored by: Craigthulu on Jan 15, '04 04:28:49PM

For those of us that don't want to see a distorted image as our background.

Panther doesn't seem to give you the option of turning off the stretching of desktop background images. I used to have it set to center so there wasn't any distortion.

This is a way around the distortion problem; however, it does double (or worse) your disk usage.



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Create full-screen desktop pictures using Preview
Authored by: Frederico on Jan 15, '04 09:12:35PM

Nice hint. For those of you using multiple screens, and who do not want the multi-page, badly-ordered PDF that results from Command-Shift-3, try Command-Shift-4 and use the target cursor, or use Grab to choose only the screen you want.



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