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1. #Automator mac workflow screenshots how to
2. #Automator mac workflow screenshots install
3. #Automator mac workflow screenshots full

#Automator mac workflow screenshots install

workflow file is stored and double-click the file to install the service. Setting this up on a new machine, I tested by capturing the Automator window:Ĭlose Automator. Do that and you should end up with an image on your desktop. You should see the familiar crosshairs that indicate you should click-and-drag to capture part of the screen. To test, click the "Run" button in the upper-right. In the shell script window, paste the script from above. In the actions, type "shell" and double click the result called "Run Shell Script". Give the "workflow" a name, I use "Screen Capture 1x". Click "New Document" and select "Service" for the type of document. To make this useful, open Automator (use Spotlight or go find it in /Applications). The resizing happens on the line that starts with sips. You could mess with the date format or filetype and get slightly different results. Osascript -e 'set the clipboard to POSIX file "'$SS_1X'"' # if you hold control key when do capture, causes screen shot 2X to go to clipboard # copy small one to clipboard by applescript Sips -resampleWidth $WIDTH $SS_2X -out $SS_1X # get the 50% width of screenshot by sips

#Automator mac workflow screenshots full

# full path of screenshot execute screen capture command and save to $SS_2X # image format to create, default is png (other options include pdf, jpg, tiff and other formats) # a variable of unix timestamp for screenshot file name SS_PATH="/Users/rutherfordthefake/Desktop" # if you want to save them to your desktop, SS_PATH should be "/Users/YOURNAME/Desktop" Here's the shell script: # the path where screenshots to save Google turned up good info and I eventually settled on using Automator to allow a keyboard shortcut to trigger a shell script, the crux of which is a great little utility that ships with OS X called sips combined with screencapture and a handful of variables.

#Automator mac workflow screenshots how to

So the search began for info on how to either reconfigure OS X's screen capture functionality or define my own custom something-or-other to make small screen shots. Not to mention that making every image 144 DPI when 72 DPI will do takes significantly more disk space and bandwidth. But viewed on a lower DPI screen, which is where many screen shots end up because I'm making them as accompaniment to something, they look comically large. "Too big" probably isn't the best description. Menu How to take 1x screen shots on a retina mac 06 September 2016 on OS X, screen shot, retina, automatorĪ few years ago, when I got my first retina screen equipped mac, I quickly noticed that the screen shots it produced are too big.