Sometime, we encounter a long webpage and at the same time, we need to screenshot. However, it is difficult to screen shot since it is a long webpage and need to screenshot multiple times and later merge them as one single image.
So, is there a special web browser or tools that allow one to screen shot a single long webpage into a image file and have the ability to control the quality of the image (such as the percentage of compression for JPG format)?
It only does PNG, but Firefox has a way to capture the whole page built in: Shift-F2 brings up a command prompt, which includes a screenshot command. For instance, screenshot --clipboard --fullpage as I was writing this answer produced https://i.sstatic.net/eXbgW.jpg.
If you want something designed to be automated, phantomjs has page.render() which takes a filename and an optional options object, with format and quality entries; the example given is
page.render('google_home.jpeg', {format: 'jpeg', quality: '100'});
help (or help <command> for more details). Good to know, +1 for that – though I don't understand why it's not working on Windows.
screenshot --clipboard --fullpage when use on firefox. However, seems not working when capture this whole page http://blog.bahraniapps.com/gifcam/
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Feb 6, 2015 at 9:56
http://blog.bahraniapps.com/gifcam/
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Feb 11, 2015 at 6:20
I use Nimbus Screenshot a plugin for my Firefox for this task.
You can right click any page and say "make a screenshot of the whole page" and it will. It will open the screenshot in a new tab and allow you to modify it.
Then you hit "Done" and can save it to your hard disk, clipboard, in their cloud (and more).
As example, here is a screenshot of this very page:
Their Options bar looks like this (screenshot made with Nimbus, because it can do "selected area" screenshots as well).
I upvoted the answer from @tls, as that is also my tool of choice, after having tried many, many, screen-capture programs.
However, you might also consider trying "print to file". IIRC; the default Windows print to file only supports text, but you can Google around for one that supports graphics.
The big advantage of this is that you don't need to launch an extra application, just use the Print menu.
In fairness, though, FastStone Screen Capture let's you crop and annotate, which can be useful.
One of the first hits prints to PDF (Goggle further if you want anther format).
The Bullzip PDF Printer works as a Microsoft Windows printer and allows you to write PDF documents from virtually any Microsoft Windows application.
This program is FREEWARE with limitations, which means that there is a FREE version for personal and commercial use up to 10 users. It does not contain any advertising or popups. For commercial applications with more than 10 users there are commercial versions available with advanced features.
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FastStone Capture http://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=775 has exactly what you need. It is also portable. Note however that the last freeware version (v5.3) might have some problems with the Firefox browser rendering engine. However I get great results capturing the entire page using IE and the latest version of Google chrome browser.
I personally use phantomJS for such tasks. It can be used to take screenshots programmatically where I can even specify the size of the image, the user agent to be sent to the web-server and other related things.
You don't need any of the fine tools mentioned here. All you need is Google Chrome since it allows you to print the current page to PDF no matter how long the page is. This feature is built into Chrome. So if you use Chrome, you already can easily capture many web pages into a PDF just as if you had printed it to a physical printer.
I use FireShot: http://getfireshot.com/ It's a browser plugin, available for most browsers.
From their website:
Capture full web page screenshots in Firefox, Chrome, Opera or IE, and then edit and save them.
They have a free version which does all of the above, including capturing very long pages. It also has a built in editor which allows basic image manipulation. The pro version has some more editing and annotation features.
PicPick, which is available free as a portable app from PortableApps, is a multi-function utility that includes screen capture. One of the screen capture modes is Scrolling Window, which does what you want. The standard version is at PicPick Home page. The portable version About window shows it as free for personal use. The single user purchase price for the standard is $21.99 to $24.99 (they show a limited time offer on their Buy Now page at the moment). It includes an editor that can be used to mark up the screen shot as soon as it's captured. It should work with any browser.
I use the Full Page Screen Capture Chrome extension. It allows you to create full height screenshots.
If you are running OS X, there is a little utility program that's been around forever called Paparazzi! that does what you're looking for. It's very customizable (including batch-capturing screenshots of multiple URLs), and can export JPG, PNG, PDF, and TIFF files.
When I'm not on OS X, I also use the Awesome Screenshot Chrome extension. It's nice because it allows you to annotate your image before you save it.
Unfortunately neither of these options has compression options built-in, but I hope they'll still be helpful to you.
Use this Full Page Screen Capture for Chrome.
I had tested on my machine, here is the snapshot of it (click for original size):
As you can see clearly the picture quality is not degraded.
Use WebToPDF firefox addon which will generate a PDF and Image both.Click here to know more
Firefox browser Addon for full web page screen shot
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/fireshot/
All details how to use available on above link. Install the addon
