You can capture images of the BeOS screen ("screen dumps") and open them in the ImageViewer application. You can also convert the screen dumps you create into a format that's understood by Adobe Photoshop and other applications.
To capture a screen dump, press the Print Screen key (labeled "Print Screen" or "F13" on most keyboards). This saves a Be ImageViewer file with an image of the screen in the root folder of the boot disk. The first dump you capture in this way is named screen1, the second screen2, and so on. You can double-click these files to view them in ImageViewer.
The size of the screen dump matches the resolution of the screen: 640 x 480, 800 x 600, and so on (for more information on setting the screen resolution, see "Screen").
If you want to work with a screen dump or other ImageViewer file on a Macintosh, you can save it in a raw format, which you can open in Adobe Photoshop and other image-editing applications.
To convert an ImageViewer file, double-click it to open it in the ImageViewer application. Then choose the Export to 24 Bits command from the ImageViewer window's File menu. This saves a raw version of the file in the root folder of your boot disk, with the name screen.raw.
Once you've converted an ImageViewer file to raw format, you can use ftp or tar to move it to a Macintosh (for more information, see Appendix B, "Transferring Files to and from the BeOS").
When the raw file is on the Macintosh, start Photoshop, choose Open from its File menu, and double-click the file you want to open.
In the dialog box that appears, enter the width and height in pixels that matches the resolution of the BeOS screen when you created the screen dump: 640 x 480, 800 x 600, and so on. Enter 3 in the Count field and make sure Interleaved is checked and the Depth is set to 8 Bits. Then click OK.
The Be file opens in Photoshop, where you can edit it, save it in other formats, and do any other work you want.
BeOS User's Guide, DR8.2 for Power Mac Edition, 1/16/97.
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