Re: RFQ - new contribution - org-screenshot.el

[Feng Shu <tumashu@gmail.com>]

Haider Rizvi <harizvi@gmail.com> writes:

> Max Mikhanosha <max@openchat.com> writes:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I've been writing some documentation in OrgMode with screenshots, and
>> as with any screenshot taking, it takes a while to get one just right.
>>
>> A few tiny helper utilities, quickly snowballed into this :-) It may
>> need some cleanup, but IMHO its too awesome not to share it with the
>> list.
>>
>> To try it out, you'll need /usr/bin/scrot which is available as
>> "scrot" package on most distributions.
>
> Cool. Can you make this a bit portable. On Mac OSX, the utility is
> called screencapture, and can be run with the same flags. Here is a
> piece of code that was published earlier with a sample use.

It's a good idea, "import" has nearly same feature as "scrot" and should
work with  org-screenshot ,it is included imagemagick

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Taking_a_Screenshot


>
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/69221/focus=69272
>
> ,----
> | #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
> |   (defun paste-clipboard-to-file (&optional filename temp-dir)
> |     "Take a screenshot using the crosshairs and saveit to FILENAME,
> |     if it is given or to a temp file in the TEMP-DIR
> |     directory. Then add an orgmode style link at point."
> |     (interactive)
> |     (let* ((temporary-file-directory (or temp-dir "images"))
> |            (fname (or filename (make-temp-file "img" nil ".jpg"))))
> |       (call-process-shell-command (concat 
> |                                     "/usr/sbin/screencapture -s " fname))
> |       (insert "\n[[file:" fname "]]")
> |       (org-display-inline-images)))  
> |   ;;
> |   (global-set-key (kbd "C-c p") 'paste-clipboard-to-file)
> |   
> | #+END_SRC
> `----
>
> Regards, 

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