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How to capture a screen shot of a screen saver
Authored by: UtahRugbyGuy on May 26, '10 02:57:10AM

I realize this post is really old but I just came across it and someone else who comes across it might find this useful. I tried the original code using Terminal but I ran into a couple problems.

1) 5 seconds isn't enough delay to do a screen cap of your screen saver because it takes a few more seconds to load ...especially if your screen saver is the iTunes artwork (about 12 seconds).
2) When it saved, it told me the PDF format wasn't recognizable so I changed it to the default format that screen capture normally uses, which is .tiff

...so, here's what I used in Terminal and it worked perfectly:

sleep 15 ; screencapture -m ~/desktop/image.tiff

(although, when I double-clicked the TIFF it wouldn't open in Photoshop. You have to drag it to open in Preview and then save out as a JPEG or whatever)



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