[Ham-Mac] OSX tip on Changing Screenshot formats

[harris ruben]

When I take a picture (control-shift-4) my results come out at PDF 
files. What's a png?
n2ern

>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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