Quick question re: screen capture

Everytime I do an apple-option-4 screen cap, I get a .png file. I'd really like the computer to be spitting out .jpg files, like my laptop at home. Can someone give me a clue?

you can command-shift-4 and then in Preview "Save As" and choose jpg. Or you can use Grab in Utilities to get a tiff.
-mj
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This thread attempts to tackle the issue of screen captures in FrameMaker.
Please post questions about screen captures to the FrameMaker forum outside the FAQ thread using Add Topic. http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx?14@@.ee6b312
Please, post corrections and suggestions to the FAQ Corrections and Suggestions thread:
DorothyK "FAQ Suggestions and Corrections" 5/9/01 7:12am.
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Dov Isaacs on Screen Captures Dov Isaacs had this to write about screen captures: *************** Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 10:23:22 -0700 From: "Dov Isaacs" <[email protected]> Subject: Imported / Placed Images - MORE (You Asked for It!) All: Some additional issues were raised yesterday both on-list and in some private emails to me about me postings with regards to screen capture images specifically and images in general. Issue #1 - UNIX =============== UNIX is not my specialty and Adobe no longer provides a version of Photoshop for any flavour of UNIX. Thus, my advice for UNIX users of FrameMaker are effectively to capture the raw image as TIFF, process the image on Windows or Macintosh to obtain the EPS file with the image interpolation option, and then move the resultant EPS file back to your UNIX-based system for use with FrameMaker. 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The EPS save/export from Acrobat maintains the images' ZIP compression. The remaining "bloat" in these Acrobat-generated EPS files is the result of Acrobat's PostScript procedures in the EPS file as well as the TIFF header. Bottom line is that I think the extra steps are worth it if you want to conserve disk space. If you want to re-edit THESE EPS files in Photoshop, unlike the EPS files directly saved from Photoshop, extreme care must be taken in opening them to avoid weird resampling. Issue #3 - Non-Screen Capture Images ==================================== I would still recommend EPS as a better means of importing/placing images into FrameMaker such that resampling does not occur in the application or driver. Likewise, I would not recommend ever resampling any such images to a higher resolution. Turn on the image interpolation option and let either Acrobat or the ultimate PostScript printing device do the hard lifting for you. 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