{"id":21306,"date":"2018-04-20T11:24:02","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T15:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=21306"},"modified":"2018-04-20T11:24:02","modified_gmt":"2018-04-20T15:24:02","slug":"when-pngs-suddenly-become-jpegs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/20\/when-pngs-suddenly-become-jpegs\/","title":{"rendered":"When PNGs Suddenly Become JPEGs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2018\/04\/20\/lost-in-icloud-translation-when-pngs-suddenly-become-jpegs\/\">Howard Oakley<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2018\/04\/20\/lost-in-icloud-translation-when-pngs-suddenly-become-jpegs\/\">\n<p>I wasted half an hour trying to get one screenshot yesterday, a good illustration of how workflows involving Pro-branded products with iCloud Drive may not deliver pro results.<\/p>\n<p>But later last night, in discussion with those marvellous folk at @AppleSupport, they found me a workaround, and pinpointed where the problem must lie. When I take a screenshot, then view it in Photos, tap the Share icon there, and despatch it to iCloud Drive, that image is shown as a JPEG throughout, with the .JPG extension. When I take a screenshot and immediately tap its transient thumbnail at the bottom left, before it vanishes, and despatch it from there to my iCloud Drive, that remains a PNG with the extension .png (also note the lower case).<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>One important lesson for me is the value of the new Apple Support app available free from the iTunes App Store: I have installed this on my iPhone and iPad now, as it makes support calls so much easier. It&rsquo;s a shame that Apple hasn&rsquo;t yet produced a version for macOS.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howard Oakley: I wasted half an hour trying to get one screenshot yesterday, a good illustration of how workflows involving Pro-branded products with iCloud Drive may not deliver pro results. But later last night, in discussion with those marvellous folk at @AppleSupport, they found me a workaround, and pinpointed where the problem must lie. When [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-04-20T15:24:05Z","apple_news_api_id":"94e4d117-cdf9-44a3-86cb-267fd10fb51a","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-04-20T15:24:06Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AlOTRF835RKOGyyZ_0Q-1Gg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[416,913,31,1472,177,927,1661,282],"class_list":["post-21306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-applecare","tag-icloud-drive","tag-ios","tag-ios-11","tag-jpeg","tag-photos-app","tag-png","tag-screenshots"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21307,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21306\/revisions\/21307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}