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Capture windows which are larger than the screen
Authored by: cougar718 on Jul 05, '06 11:09:25AM

This hint is misleading.

If you use this method, it will *not* capture the entire contents of a window. Only the content that would be visible if the window was centered on the screen is captured.

I believe this is more geared towards having a window off to the side of the screen where the window in it's entirety is not visible and using this method of screen capture captures the entire window instead of part of the window.

Again: This method does not capture the entire contents of a window.

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Rick alias cougar



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Capture windows which are larger than the screen
Authored by: osxpounder on Jul 05, '06 11:51:27AM

Works great for me. I tried 2 things: I moved this Firefox window so that most of it was off screen, at bottom of a 2-monitor setup. It was also slightly spanning across both monitors. CMD-OPT-4, Space, click, and I got exactly the screen cap described: the contents of the window, even the stuff off the screen.

Next, I zoomed the window to fill Monitor 1 again, and then stretched its corner so it spanned across both monitors. I moved the window to the left, and stretched it some more, so it spanned more than 2 monitors wide. Again, the screen cap got all the window's contents, no probs.



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Capture windows which are larger than the screen
Authored by: magir on Jul 06, '06 12:53:05AM

I guess it depends on the application you use. If it paints its contents by itself it might not do that for outside content. Which application have you tried?



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Hint correct, some confusion over wording.
Authored by: gabester on Jul 06, '06 09:21:08AM

I think we're getting into semantic arguments over this...

When any window is completely visible on screen in Mac OS X, command-shift-4 followed by the spacebar bring up the camera element mode; you can then move the mouse/camera over the desired area you want to screenshot and the window's entire area will be captured. However, only the currently visible contents of that window will be in the screenshot; this hint does not intend to suggest otherwise - it merely is pointing out that you can capture a screenshot of a window that is larger than your screen in the same fashion as any window fully visible on your screen.

By having a window larger than your screen, however, you do not suddenly gain the ability to magically screenshot the entire contents of that window when you execute this hint, merely what would be the visible area of the contents of that window were your screen large enough to accommodate it.

<phew> I think I got that right.
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