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Re: Use AppleScript to capture PDF screenshots in 10.4
Authored by: Uncle Asad on Jun 16, '05 02:56:31AM

These *don't* actually seem to work in 10.3.x, unless I'm missing something huge here. Did robg test the 10.3 claims?

screencapture does not support -t or any format options under 10.3.9 (plus the alert/dialog syntax is different, but that's easily fixed...).

Wish it were so, though, as it would have saved a trip through Grab or Preview and GraphicConverter to convert screenshots.... :-(



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Re: Use AppleScript to capture PDF screenshots in 10.4
Authored by: llee on Jul 03, '05 08:44:18PM

Correct, you can't make them work in 10.3 simply by changing the "set format_" line. What's more, although I haven't tested in 10.4, I don't see how it could work as is there either, because in the versions of the scripts that are linked as of this posting, there is no space between the "-mit" and the "format_" variable, so the Applescript constructed shell command actually begins with "/usr/sbin/screencapture -mitpfd". Could that work?

But, more importantly for me, is there indeed a Panther defaults write command that results in changing the default screen capture format that corresponds to the Tiger compatible "defaults write com.apple.screencapture type pdf"?

I would certainly rather have that. Thanks.



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