Change The Default File Format For Screenshots On Mac OS X

In this Episode, How To Change The Default File Format When Taking Screenshots on Mac OS X.

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Normally when taking screenshots using the keyboard combinations as shown on one of my video titled: “Screenshot on Mac Using Keyboard”, the captured screenshot is saved in the Default PNG file format.

Link for YouTube Video: Screenshot on Mac Using Keyboard
http://youtu.be/Jhzr1OMZ08E

If you prefer to have your screenshots saved in one of the following file extensions, jpg, tiff, gif or pdf , you can do so by launching Terminal and type the following commands:

defaults write com.apple.screencapture type jpg   (carriage return)

Then be sure to restart the user interface server for the changes to take effect, by typing the following:

killall SystemUIServer (carriage return)

(Case sensitive….  Only: S, U and I are in Caps….NOT k )

Likewise, to change to tiff, gif, pdf or back to png, just replace and add the file extensions after “type” and not forgetting to re-launch the SystemUIServer each time.

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