Grab.app problems

[Scott Anguish]

On Apr 27, 2007, at 9:57 AM, Robert La Ferla wrote:

> I noticed that I cannot from within a Mail compose window, grab a  
> screen selection using the Grab service.  It grabs the image but  
> instead of pasting it into the compose window, it pastes text from  
> the pasteboard.  I am surprised by this because this worked for many  
> years on NextStep and OpenStep.  I know there is a 3rd party app  
> from Ambrosia but this is basic functionality that should work.   
> Also, Grab only captures as a TIFF and many Windows users can't  
> display TIFF in an e-mail without some effort.  Is there some way to  
> configure Grab to use another image format?  Is there a workaround  
> for the grab selection bug?  i.e.  other than launching the app,  
> grabbing the selection, saving to a file, etc...

	I've not used Grab.app in a long time.

	what is wrong with Shift-Command-3 (or 4, and I think there are  
option things as well.. check in the keyboard shortcuts prefs pane)