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Right then, I have only had my mac for 3 days now and i have been a bit puzzled by something. I know how to take a screenshot of my desktop but it is confusing me why it comes up as a .pdf, is there a quick way of changing it to a jpg or another file extension?

As i really want to post a screenshot and upload it to neowin.

Thanks all for taking the time to look at this topic for me.

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thedose, is there a screen of your workspace? ( would love to see all the macs )

sry for thread hijaack :p

There's a Mac desktops thread in this forum! ;)

Crowman. Panther has something called 'Folder Actions'. Basically you can attach a script to a folder, and the script will work on the fly, with stuff added to the folder you've attached the script to.

I have a script applied to a folder, and basically when I drag in a PDF, it creates a jpg straight away. Its really nice.

Wasn't sure if you knew about that, but 'Folder Actions' is under-rated as a feature of Panther, IMO.

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There's a Mac desktops thread in this forum! ;)

Crowman. Panther has something called 'Folder Actions'. Basically you can attach a script to a folder, and the script will work on the fly, with stuff added to the folder you've attached the script to.

I have a script applied to a folder, and basically when I drag in a PDF, it creates a jpg straight away. Its really nice.

Wasn't sure if you knew about that, but 'Folder Actions' is under-rated as a feature of Panther, IMO.

Hi mate,

thanks for this little hint, but i am really new to it so how do i go about doing this active folders thing and the script you were on about?

cheers for the help i really appreciate it :)

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Are you using Panther? If you are, go to /Applications/AppleScript Run "Folder Actions Setup". This will give you a context menu to attach a script to a folder. I have a folder on my desktop with Duplicate as Jpeg script attached.

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