I am a relative newbie, at least at this board, I am using BTT already for long.
Recently I have changed to newer hardware, and installed (of course) BTT onto it. I now have two very different problems, which may be trivial, but I cannot find the solution. I will describe the first one, the second is for later. (its a sunny sunday over here, so I am requested by my wife to join her to the flowershow at Keukenhof)
What I often use is making screenshots of something on my screen. I use a selectable screenshot (Capture screenshot and then edit it in BTT). That works wonderful. I can then save the screenshot to my computer and use it wherever I want.
What I often want is to immediately paste the screenshot into a mail. So I then use the “copy to clipboard” function and paste it into the mail.
If I send the mail to myself, that works great, I am in an Apple environment. But when I send it to windows users, then they most often cannot see the picture. After some investigation I found out that the “copy to clipboard” and then pasting it into the mail, pastes a screenshot.tiff file in the mail. And that seems to be the problem.
Is there a possibility to have the clipboard paste a more normal .jpg or .png file into the mail?
Cheers,
Jim
Additional: in the mean time I know that it can be configured…. Screenshots | BetterTouchTool Documentation
BUT… where do I find this configuration possibility in the tool. ??
Additional2: I withdraw this question, as I see it is no problem from BTT but it seems to be an action of Apple copy-function itself, that is making the .tiff file. The only solutionwould be if the “copy to clipboard” action in BTT would be adapted with an extra option to change the function to a conversion into .png.
I've tried to change the format of the screencapture to jpg with defaults write com.apple.screencapture type jpg; && killall SystemUIServer but it is still tiff, however maybe a log out is needed, but I cannot do this atm, so maybe you can give it a try?
Indeed Andreas. I found that too, after some more experimenting.
Unfortunately that coincides with my flow of working, taking a screenshot, adapting it, and immediately pasting it into a mail, without even saving it. While I am already working on a mail.
Ha Andreas,
I found out that all screenshots paste in PNG …..IF… you paste/save them to disk.
When you directly paste into the mail, then Apple turns it into a .TIFF
My workflow is… while writing a mail, quickly take a screenshot of something relevant, EDIT this with some arrows, texts or graphics, and then paste them directly into the mail. At that point it pastes a TIFF in the mail.
For now I solve it by saving it to a folder, then it automatically become a PNG and then import the PNG file into the mail (two steps extra…. I am quite lazy.. ). ..
o… and by the way, if I know the receiver is an apple user, there is no problem, they can see the picture, only if I send it to a windows user, then they are not able to see it.
By the way, I have a whole different, but almost equivalent problem on a macbook, which I will describe later on.
Add on at 15:52hrs.
On my Macbook it has the same behaviour. A .TIFF file is pasted in the open mail.
My other problem on the macbook (the fact that the screenshot did not work on the macbook) has now disappeared on BTT 6.286 version. It now works exactly identical as on the mac mini
). ..