On Sunday, July 4, 2004, at 05:18 PM, David Elmo wrote:
A friend is frustrated by the way OS X puts screen shots in PDF format. Is
there a setting in OS X to change the way this is done? So you auto end up
with a PICT?
I can do it by opening the PDF in Illustrator and exporting as a PICT (and
lots else) but my friend is a poor schmuck in spite of being a very clever
engineer and would not do things in two steps, this is for lesser beings
like me...
I must say, it does not look very sensible of Apple to have done this given
the huge file size of PDFs. Why rip the past up so violently? PICTs are
things all older Mac software understand and they are easy to convert to jpg
etc.
Well, for one, PDFs are to Quartz what Pict files were to Quickdraw. The reason that pict files were standard is that they were the standard image format of the screen...anything you saw on the mac screen was, in essence a pict file drawn by the Quickdraw routines in the OS. (note this is hugely simplified.)
OSX's interface is based on Display PDF, meaning PDF files are the native format.
Also PDF files are far more cross-platform than Pict files.
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