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Mac not using default screenshot type - what to do?

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Avery1

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Mar 14, 2010
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For quite some time, screenshots taken on my Mac (Ventura) are not using the default type defined through terminal. I typically take screenshots using Cmd-Ctrl-Shift-4. I've set the default type to .jpg, but when I paste to Evernote, everything is a .png. When I paste to Apple Mail, everything is a .tiff. This creates for large files, and I'd prefer jpg.

Can anyone suggest a way to get these screenshots to copy to clipboard as a .jpg?

user@computer ~ % defaults read com.apple.screencapture
{
"last-analytics-stamp" = "723025408.666865";
style = display;
target = clipboard;
type = jpg;
video = 0;
}

Yes, the machine has been rebooted. I also saw the same behavior on my prior Mac and prior OS's.

Edit: I notice that when I save a screenshot here, it is displaying as .jpeg, but I assume this is a result of macrumors re-saving the image as a .jpg.
 
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I'm finding that this issue has to do with use of the clipboard. Apparently mac's clipboard / pasteboard saves all images captured to clipboard as a lossless format, and thus when it is pasted to another program, it either gets written as .tiff or .png. In this case, Evernote > .png and Apple Mail > .tiff

To say the least, it is a bit frustrating.

Does anyone know if there is a means to change the pasteboard/clipboard default image type to .jpg?

I cannot imagine why Apple things there is a benefit to storing such a large file on the pasteboard, versus offering a more compressed (or configurable) format. Usually when folks are concerned about resolution, they won't be using the clipboard.
 
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