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[mac] Change Screenshot File Type

Change Screenshot File Type

If you don't like that screenshots are saved as PNG files on your Mac, you can switch it to either BMP, GIF, JPG, PDF, or TIFF instead. Just be sure to change the "png" portion of the below command to your desired file extension.

defaults write com.apple.screencapture type -string “png”

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