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Take a picture of a screen saver in action
Authored by: ctierney on Mon, Aug 21 2006 at 11:21AM PDT

Another option is to use the screencapture utility preceded with a sleep command. I find this especially usefull when taking screen shots of system menus:

sleep 5 ; screencapture -m ~/desktop/image.pdf

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Cole