action:Screen_Capture
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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. < | ||
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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. | ||
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