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ScreenShot Plus uses Apple’s built-in screen capture tool to do the capturing, but enhances its functions, allowing you to scale the capture and select a format, jpeg, tiff, psd, and more.

ScreenShot Plus is activated by pressing Shift-Apple-2, You will then have the option of selecting a region on screen, toggle to window select mode by pressing the space-bar. A window will appear showing the captured area. From here you can scale the image and select a format to save in.

I found that ScreenShot Plus works extremely well, and adds a level of convenience to the screen capture process that is not there in the basic OS X function or even in the Grab utility. The main advantage is that you can save screenshots in formats likely to be more useful than PDF without resorting to subsequent cumbersome conversion steps.

The ability to scale your shot at the time of capture is also a nice time-saver.

My only complaint is that ScreenShot Plus has no user interface outside the function windows. It does not appear in the Dock or the OS X menu bar. The only way to quit the program, which runs in the background when launched I could fugure out was to kill it with the Process Viewer. This is not a major problem, since it’s the sort of program that you will likely want to keep running anyway, and it seems well-behaved, but I like to have control over such things.

A useful and user-friendly tool.

New in this version:
• Launch at Login checkbox added.
• Now allows scale up to 1000% by manually entering a value

ScreenShot Plus is $5.00 shareware

Unregistered copies will save images with a watermark.

System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.2 or higher

For more information, visit:
http://www.pidog.com/screenshotplus/index.html

From Bob Wier

Dear Mr. Moore,

“LucidaGrande.dfont” is the only font required by the US system.

“Helvetica.dfont.” and/or “Helvetica Neue.dfont.” are required by many Apple applications. These can be replaced by OpenType, PostScript or TrueType version.

Print publishers replace the “dfont” version to help prevent font conflicts and because it’s an Apple OSX only font, image setters have difficulties rastering them.

The easiest procedure to remove/replace the fonts is by launching OS9 and dragging the fonts into another folder.

None of the three OSX font managers, FontAgent, FontReserve nor Suitcase can unite fonts into families nor efficiently activate fonts for a document as ATM Deluxe’s Reunion, FontReserve and Suitcase did in OS9 and earlier OS versions.

The most important concept regarding fonts in OSX is the order OSX accesses the folders containing the fonts. Re: http://www.apple.com/creative/fonts/

Additional font info is available in the Typography section of the Adobe Forums at
http://www.adobe.com/support/forums/main.html

Bob

Charles W. Moore