[X4U] Default Screen Capture format?

[Eddie Hargreaves]

What version of OS X are you using? Some versions allow the screen capture
format to be changed and others don¹t. Although I don¹t recall that any
version of OS X defaulted to PICT (which was the default for MacOS pre-X).


On 2/1/06 8:09 PM, nk <netkat at comcast.net> wrote:

> I typed that string you show below, except for "png" I typed first "jpeg"
> then  "jpg" ( I mean I tried one, then the other ) 
> 
> I tested it by taking a Shift-Cmd-3 screen cap, which deposited a file on the
> desktop; its icon said PICT.
> 
> tried it several times making extra sure that I typed the string as given,
> putting all the spaces and periods in the right spot.
> 
> 
> On Feb 1, 2006, at 9:56 PM, John Baltutis wrote:
> 
>> What didn't work for you? If the com.apple.screencapture.plist doesn't exist,
>> then this command:
>>  
>> defaults write com.apple.screencapture type png
>>  
>> executed in the Terminal app creates it and makes png the default
>> screencapture. If you use pdf, tiff, or jpg instead of png, that's what
>> screencapture's will become. A little more information on what you did and
>> what resulted would help the rest of us.