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How to capture a screen shot of a screen saver
Authored by: ctierney on Nov 16, '07 03:42:03PM
Here's a technique I use to take screen shots of elusive images like system menus for application documentation. In the terminal:
sleep 5 ; screencapture -m ~/desktop/image.pdf

After entering the above, you've got 5 seconds to setup whatever you want a picture of. I think it would also work with a screen saver, but I haven't tried (I'm still in 10.3.9 which is why this example captures as pdf).

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Cole

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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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