[macOS Sonoma] screencapture CLI no longer includes DPI information

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Created Sep ’23

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Using the screencapture CLI on macOS Sonoma 14.0 (23A344) results in a 72dpi image file, no matter if it was captured on a retina display or not.

For example, using screencapture -i ~/Desktop/test.png in Terminal lets me create a selective screenshot, but the resulting file does not contain any DPI metadata (checked using mdls ~/Desktop/test.png), nor does the image itself have the correct DPI information (should be 144, but it's always 72; checked using Preview.app).

I noticed a (new?) flag option, -r, for which the documentation states:

-r Do not add screen dpi meta data to captured file.

Is that flag somehow automatically set? Setting it myself makes no difference and obviously results in a no-dpi-in-metadata and wrong-dpi-in-image file.

The only two ways I got the correct DPI information in a resulting image file was using the default options (forced by -p): screencapture -i -p, and by making the capture go to the clipboard screencapture -i -c. Sadly, I can't use those in my case.

Feedback filed: FB13208235

I'd appreciate any pointers, Matthias

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Answer 1

tonyappleforum OP

Sep ’23

I'm having the same issue on Sonoma. Looking forward to see a fix for this :(

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Answer 2

m.gansrigler OP

Oct ’23

For video recordings (screencapture -v -R 0,0,400,400 ~/Desktop/test.mov), the pixelDensity metadata tag appears to be correctly written to the file, though on the other hand, -r (see explanation above) doesn't seem to have an effect here, either (the pixelDensity metadata is still written to the movie file nonetheless).

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Answer 3

m.gansrigler OP

Oct ’23

Issue still exists in macOS Sonoma 14.1 (23B74)

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Answer 4

m.gansrigler OP

Feb ’24

Issue still exists under macOS Sonoma 14.4b23E5196e (Feedback ID: FB13208235)

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