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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Screen capturing on Retina Macs...
Date: 16 Oct 2015 02:09:26 GMT
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On 2015-10-15, David Empson <dempson@actrix.gen.nz> wrote:
> Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> On 2015-10-15, Ant <ANTant@zimage.com> wrote:
>> >> > I noticed screen capturing on Retina Macs show very high resolutions and
>> >> > sizes. Is there a way not to have this big since I copy and paste them
>> >> > into documents, e-mails, etc. often?
>> >
>> >> Easily resized via Preview|Tools.
>> >
>> > Is there a way to resize in memory without saving as files? Like always
>> > set 50% of the screen captures I take? I usually screen capture and then
>> > paste directly into Word 2011 documents.
>> 
>> Nope. You'll have to take a screen shot to a file and resize it. Again,
>> this can easily be automated with tools built into OS X. 
>
> No temporary files manual method: hold down the Contol key while taking
> the screenshot and it goes to the clipboard. Preview has a "New from
> Clipboard" command, then resize, then you can copy and paste from
> Preview to final destination (usually email in my case).
>
> I do this rarely enough that I haven't bothered trying to automate it.

Ah, that's true. I have used that a few times. 

>> BTW, I'm not sure what your reasoning is behind pasting graphics into
>> Word documents; but you should know you may very well be making life
>> harder than need be for whoever you happen to be sending these Word
>> files to. Word screws up images pasted into Word documents such that it
>> is often impossible to get anything but a low-resolution copy of the
>> image out of the document, which can be especially bad if there is text
>> or other fine details in the image that someone needs to be able to read
>> easily. I hope you aren't using Word needlessly for this purpose.
>
> Why does this not surprise me?
>
> (To my great relief, I have never needed to use Microsoft Office enough
> to bother learning its idiosyncracies.)

I mostly have to support people who do more than use it myself. When I
need a quick rich text document, I reach for TextEdit more often than
not.

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