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Has anyone else found that in printed max patches, and PDFs printed 

from max (on Mac), the triangles in number boxes don't show up 

(thereby making number boxes indistinguishable from message boxes...)

This is an (admittedly minor) problem for me in teaching max, as I 

prefer to give students handouts of class examples (so that they do 

the work of constructing the patch). My little-triangle-drawing 

skills are getting rather honed. Besides doing screen captures, does 

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Has anyone else found that in printed max patches, and PDFs printed 
from max (on Mac), the triangles in number boxes don't show up 
(thereby making number boxes indistinguishable from message boxes...)

This is an (admittedly minor) problem for me in teaching max, as I 
prefer to give students handouts of class examples (so that they do 
the work of constructing the patch). My little-triangle-drawing 
skills are getting rather honed. Besides doing screen captures, does 
anyone know of a way to fix this?

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I've experienced this same frustration, and have also had to 

photoshop in little triangles for my students. seems a little silly 

to have to do that, but I haven't found any other way.

I've experienced this same frustration, and have also had to 
photoshop in little triangles for my students. seems a little silly 
to have to do that, but I haven't found any other way.

On 23 Mar 2006, at 08:07, Roald Baudoux wrote:

> Keyboard shortcuts ctrl-alt-3 and ctrl-alt-4 are provided by MacOS 

> (the latter allowing to choose the captured zone).

Leaving aside the fact that Macs have option keys, not alt keys (OK, 

so on my TiBook it has an "alt" label but I'm sure that's just to 

make PC users feel at home; it's always referred to as "option"), I 

don't know whether these old OS 9 code-resource shortcuts work under 

OS X at all - I certainly don't get any response on my machine.

OS X comes with a "Grab" utility program which generates TIFFs.

nick rothwell -- composition, systems, performance -- 

> Keyboard shortcuts ctrl-alt-3 and ctrl-alt-4 are provided by MacOS  
> (the latter allowing to choose the captured zone).

Leaving aside the fact that Macs have option keys, not alt keys (OK,  
so on my TiBook it has an "alt" label but I'm sure that's just to  
make PC users feel at home; it's always referred to as "option"), I  
don't know whether these old OS 9 code-resource shortcuts work under  
OS X at all - I certainly don't get any response on my machine.

   nick rothwell -- composition, systems, performance -- http:// 
www.cassiel.com


it's not alt 3 / 4, but command-shift-3 / 4. I think they are the 

same on a Powerbooks, although I can't check myself.

it's not alt 3 / 4, but command-shift-3 / 4. I think they are the  
same on a Powerbooks, although I can't check myself.

On 23-Mar-2006, at 10:59, Nick Rothwell wrote:

> I don't know whether these old OS 9 code-resource shortcuts work 

> under OS X at all - I certainly don't get any response on my machine.

Maybe if you try using Command-Shift-4 you'll have a bit more luck. 

Option-command-4 never did anything in particular.

In general they do the old FKEYs work, but support is a bit mixed. I 

particularly miss CapsLock-Shift-Command-4.

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> I don't know whether these old OS 9 code-resource shortcuts work  
> under OS X at all - I certainly don't get any response on my machine.

Maybe if you try using Command-Shift-4 you'll have a bit more luck.  
Option-command-4 never did anything in particular.

In general they do the old FKEYs work, but support is a bit mixed. I  
particularly miss CapsLock-Shift-Command-4.

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On 23 mars 06, at 10:59, Nick Rothwell wrote:

> On 23 Mar 2006, at 08:07, Roald Baudoux wrote:

>> Keyboard shortcuts ctrl-alt-3 and ctrl-alt-4 are provided by MacOS 

>> (the latter allowing to choose the captured zone).

> Leaving aside the fact that Macs have option keys, not alt keys (OK, 

> so on my TiBook it has an "alt" label but I'm sure that's just to make 

> PC users feel at home; it's always referred to as "option"), I don't 

> know whether these old OS 9 code-resource shortcuts work under OS X at 

> all - I certainly don't get any response on my machine.

It's command-shift-3/4, not ctrl-option. You'll get .pdf files under 

X.3.9, but I'm not sure it's still the case under X.4.x

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> On 23 Mar 2006, at 08:07, Roald Baudoux wrote:
>
>> Keyboard shortcuts ctrl-alt-3 and ctrl-alt-4 are provided by MacOS 
>> (the latter allowing to choose the captured zone).
>
> Leaving aside the fact that Macs have option keys, not alt keys (OK, 
> so on my TiBook it has an "alt" label but I'm sure that's just to make 
> PC users feel at home; it's always referred to as "option"), I don't 
> know whether these old OS 9 code-resource shortcuts work under OS X at 
> all - I certainly don't get any response on my machine.

It's command-shift-3/4, not ctrl-option. You'll get .pdf files under 
X.3.9, but I'm not sure it's still the case under X.4.x

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On 23 Mar 2006, at 10:43, r.julien wrote:

> it's not alt 3 / 4, but command-shift-3 / 4.

On 23 Mar 2006, at 11:16, Patrick Delges wrote:

> You'll get .pdf files under X.3.9, but I'm not sure it's still the 

> You'll get .pdf files under X.3.9, but I'm not sure it's still the  
> case under X.4.x

On 23 mars 06, at 13:38, Nick Rothwell wrote:

>> You'll get .pdf files under X.3.9, but I'm not sure it's still the 

story=20050627224051361&query=screen+capture

>> You'll get .pdf files under X.3.9, but I'm not sure it's still the  
>> case under X.4.x
>
> I seem to be getting PNGs.

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php? 
story=20050627224051361&query=screen+capture

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