Grab
Grab is an application that can capture screen shots of Mac OS X and its applications. You tell Grab to capture what appears on your screen and it creates a TIFF file. You can then view the TIFF file with Preview or any application capable of opening TIFFs.
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You might find screen shots useful for documenting software—or for writing books like this one.
Although Grab is a handy screen shot utility, it isn’t the best available for Mac OS X. Snapz Pro X, a shareware program from Ambrosia Software, is far better. If you take a lot of screen shots, be sure to check it out at www.ambrosiasw.com.
To create a screen shot
1. | Set up the screen so it shows what you want to capture.
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2. | Open the Grab icon in the Utilities folder (Figure 1). ... |
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