Bug 958210 - RFE: add option to save screenshots as jpg instead of png to decrease file size
Summary: RFE: add option to save screenshots as jpg instead of png to decrease file size
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gnome-screenshot
Version: 19
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Matthias Clasen
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-04-30 15:17 UTC by Stefan Assmann
Modified: 2013-05-25 03:39 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2013-05-25 03:39:05 UTC
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Description Stefan Assmann 2013-04-30 15:17:40 UTC 
Description of problem:
Currently all screenshots taken with gnome-screenshot are saved as png. So the file size easily hits 1MB. This often is too much for just a screenshot for example if you want to attach it to a bugzilla.
If the screenshot would be saved as jpg the file size is roughly 100kb. So please add an option to save screenshots as jpg.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gnome-screenshot-3.8.1-1.fc19.x86_64

How reproducible:
always
Comment 1 Matthias Clasen 2013-04-30 22:11:57 UTC 
You can easily convert the png to jpeg before uploading it (which, i know, is annoying). 

Jpeg as a lossy format is not really suitable as default format for saving screenshots.

I guess we could consider making the interactive saving be smart if you give it a filename ending in .jpg or .jpeg or so.

Filed as:  https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=699358
Comment 2 Stefan Assmann 2013-05-02 08:20:49 UTC 
Thanks Matthias, you nailed what I was aiming for.
Comment 3 Matthias Clasen 2013-05-25 03:39:05 UTC 
fixed upstream, will be in gnome-screenshot-3.8.3
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