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I want my screen shots to save as a PDF.

I want my screen shots to save as a PDF. How do I do that?

iMac 27″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Sep 30, 2020 2:34 PM

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Posted on Sep 30, 2020 2:39 PM

Tested on Catalina 10.15.7. Do the following in the Terminal application:


Set screencapture to type PDF

defaults write com.apple.screencapture type pdf


Change the pdf options above, to one of jpg or png if you want it back to an image format.

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