Anyway to force Preview to grab screenshots as a JPG?

[aphex]

Right now in Leopard, Grab in Preview automatically creates a .TIFF file. Anyway to force Preview to grab screenshots as a JPG?

 

[aphex]

BTW, i tried

defaults write com.apple.screencapture type jpg
killall SystemUIServer

But that doesn't seem to work from preview

 

[Shlong]

From a quick google search in terminal... defaults write com.apple.screencapture type jpeg

 

[aphex]

Originally posted by: Shlong
From a quick google search in terminal... defaults write com.apple.screencapture type jpeg

Doesn't work unfortunately for preview.

 

[TheStu]

did you write jpg or jpeg? That might matter

 

[Tyranicus]

As far as I know there is no way to change Preview and Grab output. That terminal command applies to using the key commands for screen capture.

 

[TheStu]

Grab can be changed, it can be done through either Terminal or the Secrets Preferences Pane. Also, after any of those changes are written, you have to either restart or do

sudo killall SystemUIServer. Though the sudo may not be necessary.

 

[Injury]

http://www.bresink.com/osx/TinkerTool.html

That should help... plus a whole lot more.