Re: Printscreen

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From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject	Re: Printscreen
Date	9 Jul 2014 05:21:48 GMT
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On 2014-07-09, Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:
> In article <c23lkrF7h9tU1@mid.individual.net>, Jolly Roger
><jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>> On 2014-07-09, Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
>> > Okay, so one time? In band camp? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> was
>> > all, like: 
>> >  -->     8 Jul 2014 15:42:45 GMT <c22hrlF9jU8@mid.individual.net>
>> >> On 2014-07-08, Andreas Rutishauser <andreas@macandreas.ch> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> TinkerTool Classic can set the screenshot format in 10.1, but not 10.2 
>> >>> or 10.3
>> >>><http://www.bresink.com/osx/0TinkerToolClassic/details.html>
>> >
>> >> I thought I remembered not being able to change it in one or two
>> >> releases. I recall being irked about the format Apple chose at the time.
>> >
>> > PNG was annoying for some people because Firefox didn't support it for
>> > some time. It is a *far* superior format to pict or tiff.
>> 
>> Yep. I always considered PDF to be a very strange default choice.
>
> Mac OS X's default print format is Postscript / PDF, so it's also the
> default choice for the screen capture because it basically prints the
> screen.

That may or may not be, but the average Apple customer doesn't care
about that, and would rather have something that resembles a typical
image format file.

> PNG is a horrible image format that takes longer to decompress and has
> bigger files than JPEG. TIFF without compression is much better,
> especially for print use. Websites that insist on using PNG format
> images take much longer to download and display via a dial-up
> connection.

LOL... 

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Re: Printscreen gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2014-07-07 09:28 -0700
  Re: Printscreen nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-07-07 13:35 -0400
    Re: Printscreen Steve <gratefuldead@xs4all.nl> - 2014-07-07 19:55 +0200
      Re: Printscreen Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-07-08 09:26 +1200
        Re: Printscreen nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-07-07 18:04 -0400
          Re: Printscreen gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2014-07-07 17:38 -0700
            Re: Printscreen nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-07-07 20:58 -0400
              Re: Printscreen Andreas Rutishauser <andreas@macandreas.ch> - 2014-07-08 07:51 +0200
                Re: Printscreen Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-07-08 15:42 +0000
                Re: Printscreen Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-07-09 00:34 +0000
                Re: Printscreen Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-07-09 01:53 +0000
                Re: Printscreen Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-07-09 16:11 +1200
                Re: Printscreen nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-07-09 00:23 -0400
                Re: Printscreen Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-07-09 05:21 +0000
            Re: Printscreen Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-07-08 13:27 +1200
              Re: Printscreen nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-07-07 21:46 -0400
            Re: Printscreen Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-07-08 05:43 +0000
  Re: Printscreen Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2014-07-07 20:22 +0000
    Re: Printscreen gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2014-07-07 14:20 -0700

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