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• Changing the default Mac screen shot image type

  Posted on January 29th, 2009 in code tidbits, mac osx

  I recently had the need to change the default Mac OSX takes it’s screen shots in. There’s some occasions where you need more quality than PNG and some occasions where you need a file anyone can open and simply don’t want PNG as your default.

  Well, in OSX 10.4 and onwards you can change the default screen shot format.

  Start by opening Terminal, located in /Applications/Utilities/Terminal

  Type in:

  defaults write com.apple.screencapture type image_format
  killall SystemUIServer

  Replace image_format with your selected format that you wish to change the default setting to. The second line reloads the default so that you don’t need to log out and back in again for the change to take effect. The next time you take a screen shot after executing both of these commands, it will be saved in the new format you have chosen.

  Below is a list of several popular image types and their commands in full should you wish to paste them.

  BMP

  defaults write com.apple.screencapture type bmp
  killall SystemUIServer

  GIF

  defaults write com.apple.screencapture type gif
  killall SystemUIServer

  JPG

  defaults write com.apple.screencapture type jpg
  killall SystemUIServer

  PDF

  defaults write com.apple.screencapture type pdf
  killall SystemUIServer

  PNG

  defaults write com.apple.screencapture type png
  killall SystemUIServer

  TIFF

  defaults write com.apple.screencapture type tiff
  killall SystemUIServer

  
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