CS112:: GUIs ::: Printing a Mac screen shot

MATLAB does not have a print option in the GUI window, so we'll take a screen shot and print that.

  1. Have your final GUI sketchpad drawing on your screen as the active window
  2. Hold down these three keys together: COMMAND(apple key) + SHIFT + 4
  3. Your picture of the active window is saved as a .pdf file on your Desktop called Picture 1
  4. If you double click on Picture 1, it will open using an application called Preview
  5. From within Preview, you can print your picture by selecting Print from the File menu.
  6. You can also save your picture in Preview in different formats by selecting Export from the File menu and choosing your format there.
Notes:
  1. If you take more than one picture, they will be numbered sequentially in the order you take them
  2. If you want just a part of your window (rather than the entire window), at the point when your cursor turns into a crosshair, you can select part of the screen to become your snapshot (rather than hitting the space bar) by using the mouse and selecting from the upper left corner to the lower right (the area will be highlighted). This will take a picture of just part of your screen.