Screen Shot broken in Lion??
SUMMARY:
Still fairly new to Lion (7.2), but just came across a major behavior difference vs. Snow Leopard, and hoping someone can tell me if it's a bug or a "feature":
I can't get Lion to take a partial screenshot when the display image has been magnified (using the "Opt-Cmd =" zoom function), something which worked perfectly well in Snow Leopard.
DETAILS
In SL, I could zoom in on my screen, position the now magnified image anywhere I chose, then press Cmd-Shift-4 (to bring up the crosshair pointer), drag-select whatever portion of the magnified (but now static) screen image I wanted, let go of the mouse button, and get a screenshot of just that selected area.
[This is different than simply doing a Cmd-Shift-4 screenshot of a selected portion of the non-zoomed screen, since the scenario I'm describing instantly gives me a much larger image (up to virtually the entire 1920x1080 pixels on my external display) of the magnified, and therefore screen-smoothed portion I'm capturing -- much quicker for my run-and-gun purposes than having to open each and every regular screenshot in an image-editor and upscaling.]
But in Lion, I can't seem to do the same partial screenshot of a screen which has been zoomed in on -- I just get a full-screen shot exactly as if I'd simply pressed Cmd-Shift-3 while displaying the regular, non-magnified image.
I can still do the regular Cmd-Shift-4 screenshot of just a selected area of the screen at regular magnification of course, but as I explained above that's not the same as being able to capture a screen shot of a selected area of a zoomed-in, magnified image.
This was easy to do in Snow Leopard -- so long as your selection area was at least one pixel in from the display's outside edges, SL let you use Cmd-Shift-4 to grab a shot of whatever area of the screen you'd selected, regardless of whether that area was part of a magnified screen image or not.
Any theories on why Lion seems crippled in this regard?
Thanks,
John B.
Toronto
MacBook Pro (early 2011)-OTHER, Mac OS X (10.7.2), 13" 2.3GHz i5 8GB RAM, 500GB HD