Can't save a picture on Mac OS

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Darcad
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Re: Can't save a picture on Mac OS

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Tank you i know that. To print on paper it's enough, but, to put on keynote slides for a meeting, the quality is to bad.
OS: macOS 10.14
Ws of OS: 64-bit
Ws of FreeCAD: 64-bit
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Re: Can't save a picture on Mac OS

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Darcad wrote: Tue Mar 20, 2018 6:36 am Tank you i know that. To print on paper it's enough, but, to put on keynote slides for a meeting, the quality is to bad.
Usually it's the other way round: Print needs a higher resolution than on-screen. If you make a system screenshot (CMD+SHIFT+4) it has the full screen resolution. You cannot show more, even if an image has higher resolution. It rather might degrade the quality due to scaling.
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Re: Can't save a picture on Mac OS

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I don't know, if my observation is related to the Win10 problem since I'm on OS X. But I also don't get any picture saved. Instead I get an error message on the console, where I started FreeCAD from:

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<unknown exception traceback><type 'exceptions.RuntimeError'>: Cannot save null image.
OS: OS X El Capitan (10.11)
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
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Python version: 2.7.15
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Re: Can't save a picture on Mac OS

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Once again: have you read the whole topic, and tried the solutions proposed here?
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Re: Can't save a picture on Mac OS

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Yes, I did. None of the proposed parameters or environment variables solved the problem.
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