Since Tahoe I can no longer capture the screen—or parts of it—directly to PDF The only option left is to use the terminal command to switch the screenshot format back to PNG or JPG. Has Apple disabled the PDF option altogether? If so, that’s a step backwards, forcing you to open each PNG in Preview and export it to PDF—a real hassle if you need to make multiple screenshots.
Mac mini (M2 Pro, 2023)
The following certainly works on Tahoe 26.0.1 and is sufficiently generic as to have worked on several previous generations of macOS:
defaults write com.apple.screencapture type pdf
FWIW, it’s working here too in two different macs.
aist-15 wrote:
Hopefully it changes with future updates.
Hopefully not, since it's working for the others and myself.
Luis Sequeira1 wrote:
I don't know why people would want a pdf either, but now at least we know why it did work for some but not others :-)
Indeed.
You're more than welcome to continue arguing with yourself.
Did Tahoe block changing the default screenshot format to pdf?
