[Ham-Mac] OSX tip on Changing Screenshot formats

Dick Kriss, AA5VU aa5vu at arrl.net
Sat Nov 5 07:18:11 EST 2005


I learned a new (to me) OSX tip this morning from a link to Tidbits on how
to change the format of screenshots from the normal Picture 1.png to Picture
1.jpg format

http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=08147

1. Open Terminal.

2. Copy the "defaults write" line below, paste it into the Terminal window,
and press Return.

defaults write com.apple.screencapture type jpg

3. Log out or restart your Mac to make it pick up the new setting.

If you wish to reset the file format back to PNG, just repeat the steps,
replacing "jpg" in the "defaults write" line with "png

Now that I have it I don't know why I wanted to change from .png to .jpg and
may go back.

Dick AA5VU




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