Control-Shift-Command-4 format JPG

When I use the Control-Shift-Command-4 and I copy a portion of the screen to the clipboard, it always saves the image as PNG format. Is there any way to have the image saved as JPG format?

Posted on Aug 13, 2018 1:11 PM

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dialabrain

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Aug 13, 2018 3:44 PM in response to AndyBajka

Personally I've never heard of Froala or XenForo so I don't know what they do.

AndyBajka Author

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Aug 13, 2018 4:15 PM in response to dialabrain

Hi diala brain,

XenForo is a forum software similar to this community software.

Froala is an edit software similar to what we type into here.

Kurt Lang

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Aug 13, 2018 1:57 PM in response to AndyBajka

If you mean you want the clipboard data to be a JPEG rather than PNG, there's no such thing. Both of those are a file format. What's on the clipboard is uncompressed raster data waiting to be saved as something.

VikingOSX

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Aug 13, 2018 2:59 PM in response to AndyBajka

What I posted works to send .jpg data to the clipboard, or to a file. Tested before I posted.

Set the screencapture to jpg per my first item. Then, perform a control+shift+command+4 partial capture to the clipboard. In the Terminal, immediately do the following:

pbpaste > ~/Desktop/foo.jpg

And from the Finder, click once to select this foo.jpg file on your Desktop, and press option+command+i. The file type is reported as jpg.

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