A screenshot/webpage capture app like Shutter?

Lenore Horner LenoreHorner at sbcglobal.net
Sun Feb 7 15:20:10 PST 2016


> On Feb 7, 2016, at 15:48, bunk3m <bunk3m at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 06.02.2016 10:17, Clemens Lang wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> On Thu, Feb 04, 2016 at 10:58:45PM -0500, bunk3m wrote:
>>> @ryandesign, OSX does a great job at capturing an image of the screen
>>> but what I'm looking for is the ability to capture the content, links
>>> and pictures of a webpage.  Most webpages are bigger than the screen
>>> (in length) so the only way to capture using OSX screenshot is to
>>> capture a part, scroll, capture another part and then join together
>>> using Gimp/Photoshop.
>> 
>> Firefox supports making screenshots of full webpages out of the box from
>> the console:
>> 
>> 1. Press Shift + F2 (might have to use Fn too, if you have multimedia
>>    keys enabled)
>> 2. Type "screenshot --fullpage" into the bar that appears at the bottom
>> 3. Press enter, your screenshot will be placed in ~/Downloads
>> 
>> Via http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13158083/take-a-full-page-screenshot-with-firefox
>> 
>> 
>> AFAIR there are extensions that improve the UX of this process a bit,
>> too.
>> 
>> Note that this won't preserve clickable links. If you need clickable
>> links, PDF is probably the way to go.
>> 
> Thank you @Clemens & @arno.
> 
> I had no idea you could do that with Firefox.  Pretty cool!
> 
> FF does capture a png of the site page.  While a png is good, it will not allow copy and paste of any of the text and as you mentioned, it won't allow using the links.
> 
> I don't like using non-opensource, but it looks like only OneNote and Evernote allow capture of the text, links and pictures.  Both allow the links to continue to function and the ability to copy text.  I only wish they worked consistently.  :-( SOHONotes was better ... when it worked.  Sigh.
It seems more and more like what you really want to do is simply save the web page.  


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