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Title: Desktop/Screenshot as TIFF or JPG not PDF
Post by: atjurhs on February 26, 2003, 09:31:00 AM

To go along with the posting your desktop thread....

Does anyone know how to designate (in OSX) the Cmnd-Shift-3 or Cmnd-Shift-4 to produce a TIFF or JPG instead of a PDF?  I remember back in the good old days of 10.0.x that is produced a TIFF.  Those can be converted.  But a PDF is pretty well fixed, isn't it?  If there isn't away to get the commands to spit out something other than a PDF, does someone know what app will convert a PDF to a JPG of TIFF?

Title: Desktop/Screenshot as TIFF or JPG not PDF
Post by: giantmike on February 26, 2003, 09:47:00 AM

With Quartz being built upon PDF technology, it's actually quite easy to convert to and from PDFs in MacOS X. For now, I'll leave the converting to alone, as you want to know how to convert from.

By deafult, the PDF file should open in MacOS X's Preview application. When opened here, you can use the File menu to select Export. From there, you can choose the format you wish, including JPG, TIFF, and a host of others. Just click save after you have selected the format, and Preview will quickly convert your file to the type you wish.

Title: Desktop/Screenshot as TIFF or JPG not PDF
Post by: tacit on February 26, 2003, 09:48:00 AM

OS X 10.2 always saves a screen capture as a PDF; you can't change this behavior. (Yeah, it's pretty dumb.)

Preview should let you export the PDF in a different format.

Title: Desktop/Screenshot as TIFF or JPG not PDF
Post by: kelly on February 26, 2003, 10:05:00 AM

Looks like you should try Grab.  

OS X Hints Thread

Title: Desktop/Screenshot as TIFF or JPG not PDF
Post by: atjurhs on February 26, 2003, 10:09:00 AM

Thanks for the scoop!

Since GiantMike opened the question, how to you convert a graphics file to a PDF, and will this work for things like Word docs and Text files as well, thereby eliminating the need for apps like Distiller?

Title: Desktop/Screenshot as TIFF or JPG not PDF
Post by: pendragon on February 26, 2003, 10:19:00 AM

To avoid screen captures and selections in OS X being created in .pdf, use Grab (Applications/Utilities/Grab) which defaults/creates in .tiff.

There is no option to save as .jpg, but .tiff may still be preferable to .pdf  and is usually easier to convert to .jpg.

Harv

Title: Desktop/Screenshot as TIFF or JPG not PDF
Post by: kelly on February 26, 2003, 10:23:00 AM

Don't you use this option?  

You can use the Print dialog to save documents in Portable Document Format (PDF) or PostScript format.

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61167

Title: Desktop/Screenshot as TIFF or JPG not PDF
Post by: atjurhs on February 26, 2003, 01:29:00 PM

The more one sits on Techsurvivors, the more one learns....

Thanks Kelly, I didn't know about that feature.

Title: Desktop/Screenshot as TIFF or JPG not PDF
Post by: taliesin on February 26, 2003, 04:55:00 PM

Snatcher  and gotcha!
Despite the occasional quit.