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How to capture a screen shot of a screen saver
Authored by: ctierney on Fri, Nov 16 2007 at 3:42PM PST
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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