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Only captures PDFs?
Authored by: mithras on Aug 29, '02 12:07:07AM

Despite having changed my AppleScreenShotFormat preference to JPEG (as detailed in another hint, I think), screencapture still writes PDFs.

It seems that Apple has decided the issue for us, unless anyone else can think of or discover another trick?



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Only captures PDFs?
Authored by: carsten on Aug 29, '02 07:43:14PM

You can still use the Grab utility, which only saves a TIFF file. At least a TIFF is more useful than a PDF for cropping or otherwise manipulating the screen shot.

The defaults write hack no longer works in 10.2, and unfortunately even the latest TinkerTool hasn't found a way to work around this yet.

PDF might be a nice *option* to have sometimes, but I would rather use PNG.

My question to Apple is, which BRANIAC at Apple decided that command-shift-3 and /usr/sbin/screencapture should now ONLY create PDF files, where PNG and TIFF were previously available too? GRrrr



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Only captures PDFs?
Authored by: EvanE on Aug 31, '02 01:24:16PM

So far (as of August 31), there's no way around this, but you can always open PDFs in Preview and Export them as Tiffs (or BMP, JP2, JPEG, MacPaint, PDF, Photoshop, PICT, PNG, QuickTime Image, SGI, or TGA files, to quote from the pull-down menu that I captured, then scanned w/ OmniPage Pro X - serious technology overkill).

Evan Evanson



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