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Mac Forum / Applications / Other MS Products / July 2006how to print screen?
Does the Print Screen key work? I want to use Print Screen to capture the Windows screen, _on the PC_. Not the Mac screen capture. Nothing happens when I press F13 (the equivalent in position on the Mac keyboard, at least). I tried hooking up a USB PC keyboard, but that Print Screen key doesn't work either. It's as if RDC is not passing thru that keystroke. Maybe there's an equivalent that RDC passes as Print Screen? I tried to find a way in Windows to remap or alias another keystroke to the Print Screen function, something that does make it thru RDC, but it seems to be impossible. And I even thought about copying the Mac screenshot and pasting to the remote PC, but RDC only handles text on the clipboard between the Mac and PC. The file sharing connection (for now) is too slow to copy the Mac screenshot over (the cable connection's slow upstream speed really bogs down file sharing). > Does the Print Screen key work? I want to use Print Screen to capture > the Windows screen, _on the PC_. Not the Mac screen capture. You'll probably be better off downloading a screen capture utility that allows you to set a keyboard command of your choice. A quick search on <http://www.versiontracker.com/windows> for "print screen" offers several choices. Hope this helps! bill  SignatureWilliam M. Smith (Microsoft Interop MVP - Mac/Windows) > > Does the Print Screen key work? I want to use Print Screen to capture > > the Windows screen, _on the PC_. Not the Mac screen capture. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Hope this helps! bill I thought about that. The PCs are not ours, but a client's. They won't do that. Not in their approved software repertoire. Is this a bug or oversite? Intended behavior? We should be getting our bonded T1 soon, so that should help the filesharing connection thru the RDC. Then we can copy a Mac screenshot over. Hopefully that will work. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;301583 lists special keystrokes for printscreen functionality. >> > Does the Print Screen key work? I want to use Print Screen to capture >> > the Windows screen, _on the PC_. Not the Mac screen capture. [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > filesharing connection thru the RDC. Then we can copy a Mac screenshot > over. Hopefully that will work. > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;301583 > > lists special keystrokes for printscreen functionality. In all my searching for keyboard shortcuts in Windows, I didn't see this. Probably because I was looking for an alternative in Windows, and my brain blanked out any other "sections" it might be in. Can't try it today, but thanks. Doesn't work on the Mac RDC. Looks like that's only a Windows RDC shortcut. Bummer. That is: Ctrl-Alt-plus and Ctrl-Alt-minus. To work on a PC it has to be on the keypad, otherwise you get application shortcuts. Tried both the top-row and keypad +/- on a Mac with no screenshot. Also tried with numlock on and off (didn't matter on Windows RDC). > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;301583 > > lists special keystrokes for printscreen functionality. I get otherwise inaccessable keys by running the Windows accessibility utility "On-Screen Keyboard". Now there's a slick idea that I'd never thought of! Thanks--that may be useful. >I get otherwise inaccessable keys by running the Windows accessibility > utility "On-Screen Keyboard". (been on vacation) Sorry that didn't pan out--I use RDC on Windows platforms multiple times daily, but only occasionally on Macs, so I didn't get an opportunity to test this directly. > Doesn't work on the Mac RDC. Looks like that's only a Windows RDC > shortcut. Bummer. [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] >> >> lists special keystrokes for printscreen functionality. |
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