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The Screen Capture action captures a specified object or area of the screen to the system clipboard or a named clipboard. | The Screen Capture action captures a specified object or area of the screen to the system clipboard or a named clipboard. | ||
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*Always Nominal Resolution | *Always Nominal Resolution | ||
+ | Nominal resolution means the images will be captured at 72dpi despite a possibly higher dpi used by the monitor (for example, if you have a retina monitor, without this option the screen capture would be at 144dpi). | ||
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+ | Keyboard Maestro does NOT replicate OSX's interactive capture area functionality – e.g. <key>⌘</key><key>⇧</key><key>4</key>. | ||
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+ | Unfortunately Apple has not provided an API for that. | ||
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+ | Therefore to use it in a script you need to use an **Execute a Shell Script** action: | ||
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+ | ``` | ||
+ | screencapture -ic | ||
+ | ``` | ||
+ | This will capture interactively to the clipboard. | ||
+ | Enter “man screencapture” in the Terminal.app for more information. |