How to Print Screen on Mac OS X Leopard
While doing work for your company using a Mac running the OS X Leopard operating system, you can print all or part of the screen to keep a record of what you see. Screenshots are handy for employee training materials or standard operating procedure documentation, for example, because you can record step-by-step views of what appears onscreen. Apple includes Grab, a screen-capture utility on all Macs running Leopard, which enables you to print a screenshot as well as save the image file for future use. Grab enables you to take a shot of the entire screen, a single window or any portion of the screen that you select.
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Click “Applications” on the Dock of your Mac. Click “Utilities,” and then click “Grab” to launch Apple’s native screen-capture utility.
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Click “Capture” from the Grab menu, then click “Screen,” and then click anywhere on the screen to capture the image of your Mac’s entire screen. An untitled image appears.
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Click “Capture” from the Grab menu, click “Window,” click “Choose Window” and then click the window of an application from which you want to grab a screenshot. Grab displays an unnamed screenshot showing just the window you chose.
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Click “Grab” and then click “Selection” when you want to capture a selection of the screen. A dialog box appears. Click and drag the section of the screen that you want to make an image of. An untitled image appears.
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Click “File” from the Grab menu, and then click “Print.” Click the “Printer” drop-down menu, then click the printer you want to use, and then click “Print” to print the untitled screenshot of your Mac.
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Click “File” from the Grab menu and then click “Save” if you want to save the screenshot to your Mac’s hard drive. Type a name for the image, click a folder on your Mac where you want to save it, and then click “Save.”
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