diff --git a/widgets/glWidget/QtBaseViewer.cc b/widgets/glWidget/QtBaseViewer.cc
index b2976515c4f41b6fe359314b47d035ff5ccc869d..f22b4ed88efa8c2f5a30d668652d50f3ab6fe2d8 100644
--- a/widgets/glWidget/QtBaseViewer.cc
+++ b/widgets/glWidget/QtBaseViewer.cc
@@ -2222,14 +2222,9 @@ void glViewer::snapshot( int _width, int _height, bool _alpha )
 
    QString fname = fi.path() + QDir::separator() +fi.baseName() + "." + QString::number(properties_.snapshotCounter()) + ".";
 
-   QString format="png";
+   fname += properties_.snapshotFileType();
 
-   if (fi.completeSuffix() == "ppm")
-     format="ppmraw";
-
-   fname += format;
-
-   bool rval=image.save(fname,format.toUpper().toLatin1());
+   bool rval=image.save(fname,properties_.snapshotFileType().toUpper().toLatin1());
 
    if (rval)
    {