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Use Butler and SnapClip to capture JPEG screens
Authored by: roncross@cox.net on Aug 17, '04 02:36:22AM

There are other ways to do it, do a search for screencapture and jpeg or jpg and you will quickly find that most people use scripts to convert pdf to jpg. I believe that once you set it up using snapclip and butler, it is simple. What I do to simplify the process is to make sure that I have snapclip and butler startup on login. It runs in the background and I never know that it is there until I need to use it. I don't have to remember snapclip preferences shift+command+5 thru shift+command+8 to take a jpg image since my screen capture jpg is mapped to shift+command+3 and my window jpg is mapped to shift+command+4. Window jpg allows you to cature a window. This is really is 2nd nature to me. I don't think about it anymore.

There are two advantages of this technique. The first advantage is that with snapclip in screen capture mode you can select any part of the screen or the entire screen. With the standard screencapture shift+command+3 you don't have this option. The second advantage is that with snapclip in screencapture capture mode you get a clipping of the image so you can see what it looks like before you open it. With the standard screencapture shift+command+3 you just get a pdf icon.

I have seen some posting that goes internally and changes pdf to jpg. One of these is

http://www.macosxhints.com/comment.php?mode=display&sid=20020824215539350&title=Much+more+than+just+command+line...&type=article&order=&pid=10405

I try the

myprompt% defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleScreenShotFormat JPEG

command and it didn't work. I am using Panther.

I also tried from the post

myprompt% screencapture -S /tmp/screengrab.pdf ; sips -s format jpeg /tmp/screengrab.pdf --out /tmp/screengrab.jpeg

and it gives you a jpeg, but it may be hard to find.

If you find a way to internally change it from pdf to jpg, please share it with the rest of us. However, I don't think that will be enough for me since I have gotten so used to the clippings.

thx
RLC

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rlc



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