Author Topic: Desktop/Screenshot as TIFF or JPG not PDF (Read 2579 times)

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?

giantmike · « **Reply #1 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.

tacit · « **Reply #2 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.

kelly · « **Reply #3 on:** February 26, 2003, 10:05:00 AM »

Looks like you should try Grab.

OS X Hints Thread

atjurhs · « **Reply #4 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?

pendragon · « **Reply #5 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

kelly · « **Reply #6 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

atjurhs · « **Reply #7 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.

taliesin · « **Reply #8 on:** February 26, 2003, 04:55:00 PM »

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Author Topic: Desktop/Screenshot as TIFF or JPG not PDF (Read 2579 times)