Screenshot

A screenshot, screen dump, or screen capture is an image taken by the computer to record the visible items on the monitor or another visual output device. Usually this is a digital image taken by the host operating system or software running on the computer device, but it can also mean when a capture is made by an external device such as a camera or something intercepting the video output of the computer.

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Screenshots, screen dumps, or screen captures can be used to demonstrate a program, a particular problem a user might be having or generally when computer output needs to be shown to others or archived.

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All three terms are often used interchangeably; however, some people distinguish between them as follows:

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; Screenshot : Outputting the entire screen in a common format such as PNG or JPEG.

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; Screen dump : The display system dumps what it is using internally upon request, such as XWD X Window Dump image data in the case of X11 or PDF in the case of Mac OS X. As of Mac OS X 10.4, pictures are no longer saved as PDF. They are saved as PNGs.

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; Screen capture : Capturing the screen over an extended period of time to form a video/">Video file.

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