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Screenshots can be HEIF images

Open haykam821 opened this issue 4 years ago • 2 comments

Using the following command allows screenshots to be saved as HEIF images (.heic extension):

defaults write com.apple.screencapture "type" -string "heic"

haykam821 avatar Oct 18 '21 22:10 haykam821

I've been using this setting for years. Is this project semi-abandoned? Odd that there's no update. Or is a pull request needed? The resulting files are much smaller, with no loss in quality. (Much more recent, evolved algorithm. Facebook even supports HEIC uploads. (Twitter doesn't, for such tools, I used a quick action to convert to jpeg.)

elvey avatar May 30 '23 19:05 elvey

I've been using this setting for years. Is this project semi-abandoned? Odd that there's no update.

FYI @elvey : if you want to automate this for your macOS User, I have incorporated this here using the useScreenshotsFormat='heic' setting:

https://github.com/Swiss-Mac-User/macOS-scripted-setup

Swiss-Mac-User avatar May 31 '23 10:05 Swiss-Mac-User