Re: [MacPerl] Converting a page of text into a bitmap (correction)

[Greenblatt & Seay <g-s@alltel.net>]

>CopyScreen [selection/window/screen/(#L #T #R #B)] [file]
>
>*  selection = Lets you use the mouse to select a rectangular area to
>capture (default).
>*  window = Takes a screen shot of the frontmost window.
>*  screen = Takes a screen shot of the Mac's main screen.
>*  #L #T #R #B = Copy a specific rectangular area with L = left, T = top, R
>= right and B = bottom coordinates.
>*  file = Instead of copying the selected screen image to the clipboard, it
>saves it to a 'PICT' file named Screen Image 1, 2, 3Š on the root level of
>the system disk.
>
>
>Sample MacPerl code with embeded Keyquencer command to capture screen to
>clipboard (could be easily modified to save to PICT file by adding path
>info)...

Oops. Path info can't be specified. As it says above, "it saves it to a
'PICT' file named Screen Image 1, 2, 3Š on the root level of the system
disk".

Of course your MacPerl program could rename the file to whatever you want,
making batch processing easy to employ with MacPerl running the show.

David Seay
http://www.mastercall.com/g-s/




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