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Take screenshots in many formats via the keyboard System
I've used a simple collection of apps called ScreenShotApps (30-Mar-2005 zip file on that site) and Spark to create hot keys for different types of screenshots -- PICT, PDF, JPEG, PNG, BMP, and TIFF are all a keyboard shortcut away.

After expanding the ScreenShotApps bundle, store the bundled mini-programs on your hard drive, then use Spark to assign each to a keyboard shortcut. I've chosen to use Shift-Command and the number keys. So Shift-Command-1 gets a full screen PICT, -3 is a PDF, -5 is a JPEG, etc. I use -2, -4, and -6 for selected region screenshots in those same formats. As with the built-in screenshot tool, you can add the Space Bar for object capture, or Control to capture to clipboard.

I've explained this all in more detail in this PDF.

[robg adds: taketo's native language is not English, so I've rewritten the above hint based on my understanding of the process from his original submission. I have not done any work on the PDF, however, but it's still quite easy to follow along. The ScreenShotApps site is very slow to load, but it will eventually show up. I haven't tested this myself on 10.4; it worked for the author on 10.3.]
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Take screenshots in many formats via the keyboard
Authored by: kevans on Jun 22, '07 07:24:32AM

The hot-key hint is not of much interest to me. However, the ScreenShots apps are great. The "interactive" version of each works just like the built-in Mac utility. Finally, I'm free of PDF for screenshots on 10.3.9. The PDFs didn't print properly and I ALWAYS had to convert them to JPEGs for further use, using Graphic Converter. Since ScreenShots apps do NOT show up in the dock, I made an alias to the JPEG app (my main interest) and put it in the dock. Now screenshots are just a click away!



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Take screenshots in many formats via the keyboard
Authored by: taketo on Jun 25, '07 08:26:45AM

You don't have to click any part of your desktopp even you have stand-alone apps alias located on your dock, if you had fixed your screenshot(s) via keyboard hotkeys. Is quite convenient, once you had fixed. Please try.
Thanks to robg, introducing my small submission and covering my poor English. Appreciated !

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