Enoch Posted April 2, 2014 Share Posted April 2, 2014 I tried before to take and post a screen shot here using the standard method for Mac (in my case MacBook Pro), but the result would not display; instead I got an error message (as I recall) ; I think that the format was not acceptable here. So, how can I take a screen shot & then post it on this forum? Thanks for ur help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Han Posted April 2, 2014 Share Posted April 2, 2014 (edited) Mac screencapture defaults to tiff format, which can't be displayed in the forum. You need to open it in Preview, then save/export as jpg or png file. Or type the following two lines into your terminal, and it will permanently change the screen capture file format to jpg, or png. defaults write com.apple.screencapture type jpg Just change the jpg with png if you want that. Then type killall SystemUIServer Then your screen capture will default to whatever file format you specified above. Hope this helps. Edited April 2, 2014 by Ken Han Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timothy Jenney Posted April 2, 2014 Share Posted April 2, 2014 Interesting. I am running OSX 10.9.2 and my default screenshot is PNG. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael J. Bolesta Posted April 2, 2014 Share Posted April 2, 2014 (edited) Interesting. I am running OSX 10.9.2 and my default screenshot is PNG. When I use Grab, the files save as tiff. I have to manually convert to png. Preferences in Grab do not include file type and there is no "save as." Preview lets one "export" to png. Accordance for Mac 10.4.0 [Mac OS X 10.9.2] Accordance for iOS 1.7.2 [iOS 7.1] Edited April 2, 2014 by Michael J. Bolesta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Λύχνις Δαν Posted April 2, 2014 Share Posted April 2, 2014 The somewhat sad part of this is that the screencapture utility that Grab drives does support telling it to save the file as a particular type as a cmdline argument. It would be nice enhancement for Apple to add a preference to Grab for this. Until then Ken's solution above is the best. I use an OSX alias for the screencapture cmd and run it from a terminal but that's not to everyone's taste. Thx D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timothy Jenney Posted April 2, 2014 Share Posted April 2, 2014 Ah, I see what you are saying. I don't use Grab. I use Cmd-3 (for the whole screen) and Cmd-4 (to select part of the screen). Either sends a PNG directly to my desktop. Enjoy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Λύχνις Δαν Posted April 2, 2014 Share Posted April 2, 2014 I looked at this a long time back and while I could not categorically prove it I was pretty convinced that Cmd-3 and Cmd-4 called screencapture also presumably specifying better defaults for saving the capture. Maybe someone knows for sure .... In the end, sad as it may seem, I could not keep Cmd-3 and 4 straight in my head, so resorted to other techniques Out of shortcut memory storage error Thx D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael J. Bolesta Posted April 2, 2014 Share Posted April 2, 2014 Like Daniel, I cannot remember those keyboard commands. I will say it is the infrequency that I need them. It couldn't be age! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Simpson Posted April 3, 2014 Share Posted April 3, 2014 (edited) Personally, like many of us, I can't remember these either. So I use a program called Deeper which is free and allows you to set a lot of parameters in the Mac OS (some of which are a little dangerous - i.e. can mess with your system) Edited April 3, 2014 by Ken Simpson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darin Franklin Posted April 3, 2014 Share Posted April 3, 2014 This is the one to remember: ⇧⌘4 Select a region with the crosshairs, or press space once, and it turns into a camera that will capture a whole window. Either way, it saves a png file to your desktop. http://support.apple.com/kb/ph11229 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julia Falling Posted April 3, 2014 Share Posted April 3, 2014 (edited) If you can't remember which is which, just try one. If the cross hairs come up, you can select a portion of your screen. If they don't come up, you know you've got the entire screen. You can change the format and destination of your screen shot by following these instructions (attached). I switched to .jpg because it's cross-platform. Even a PC can see it. Screen Shot Destination & Format.pdf Edited April 3, 2014 by Julie Falling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joel Brown Posted April 3, 2014 Share Posted April 3, 2014 For those that want to be fancy, adding a 'Control' to the mix sends it to the clipboard rather than desktop, for easy pasting into an e-mail or other. Finally, during a Shift-Command-4, you can hit the spacebar to switch from a crosshairs to a camera, selecting your window or menu that you want to screen capture instead. Cool stuff! For some reason, the -3 and -4 commands have stuck with me since the early Mac days. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julia Falling Posted April 3, 2014 Share Posted April 3, 2014 Joel – I like the options you mention. Macs are truly wonderful. For some reason, the -3 and -4 commands have stuck with me, too. When you consider my age and erratic memory, it's kinda surprising! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abram K-J Posted April 3, 2014 Share Posted April 3, 2014 Some great tips here! I had no idea about pressing shift to change from crosshairs to camera--that's really helpful. Because I change computers (from work iMac to home MacBook) so much during the course of a week, I have it set up so that all my screenshots save to Dropbox, so I can access them anywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Λύχνις Δαν Posted April 3, 2014 Share Posted April 3, 2014 With all the back and forth on this topic there is now a chance I'll remember - which might make life easier. BTW I checked and shift-cmd-4 does in fact use screencapture. Thx D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enoch Posted April 4, 2014 Author Share Posted April 4, 2014 Thank you all so much for your help. Julie, thanks for going to the trouble to supply me with that pdf. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enoch Posted April 10, 2014 Author Share Posted April 10, 2014 (edited) I tried again and learned that the screen shot was a PNG file, but I still can't get it to paste here. All I get is the address for where it is found in my computer: file:///Users/Me/Desktop/Screen%20Shot%202014-04-09%20at%2022.49.07.png And if I prefix ]img[ and suffix ]/img[, the whole thing disappears! and just now I got "You are not allowed to use that image extension on this community." So I went back and inverted the brackets Edited April 10, 2014 by Enoch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Buck Posted April 10, 2014 Share Posted April 10, 2014 (edited) The issue is that you need to first upload the image to the server. See this screencast for the steps. Edited April 10, 2014 by Graham Buck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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