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filthywalrus

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How do you take a screenshot?
« on: November 04, 2010, 07:52:58 pm »
How do you take a screenshot in Dwarf Fortress? I want to take pictures of my horribly mutilated victims so that i can look at them and reflect on how hilarious it was when i killed that person. (I also want to be able to post some of them on the forums, but that's not as important.)
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Re: How do you take a screenshot?
« Reply #1 on: November 04, 2010, 08:03:15 pm »
In full screen mode (F11), press ALT+PRINT SCREEN. Go to paint, paste, save, imageshack does the rest.

At least, thats how I take my screenshots.
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Re: How do you take a screenshot?
« Reply #2 on: November 05, 2010, 09:53:14 pm »
^ and please don't save as jpg, save as png. JPG is ugly quality.
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filthywalrus

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Re: How do you take a screenshot?
« Reply #3 on: November 05, 2010, 11:19:07 pm »
Alt+Print Screen seems to work somewhat, but when i paste it into paint/GIMP/whatever it just shows up as a black box. how can i fix this?
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Re: How do you take a screenshot?
« Reply #4 on: November 06, 2010, 01:09:04 am »
Quote from: filthywalrus on November 05, 2010, 11:19:07 pm
Alt+Print Screen seems to work somewhat, but when i paste it into paint/GIMP/whatever it just shows up as a black box. how can i fix this?

Are you using TrueType?  That seems to screw up print screen for whatever reason.
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Re: How do you take a screenshot?
« Reply #5 on: November 06, 2010, 12:03:07 pm »
You don't have to be in fullscreen mode to use printscreen FYI.
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Re: How do you take a screenshot?
« Reply #6 on: November 07, 2010, 02:35:38 pm »
And, at least for me anyway, you don't need to use ALT+printscreen, just printscreen
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Re: How do you take a screenshot?
« Reply #7 on: November 07, 2010, 04:01:44 pm »
Quote from: Jusman on November 07, 2010, 02:35:38 pm
And, at least for me anyway, you don't need to use ALT+printscreen, just printscreen

Printscreen captures the whole screen, alt+printscreen captures just the active window.
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