Webpage screenshot
I'm searching for a simple way to create a screenshot from a web page, i. e. convert the rendered page into a PNG (or something similar) graphic format. This is intended to be used for usability and design visualization where different components of the web page can be colored using Gimp to show their structure by inking the different elements. The idea of taking a screenshot from the web browser may look sufficient at first, but it is problematic when the web page doesn't fit horizontally or vertically. This sometimes doesn't even work when using the browser in total fullscreen (which is 1400x1050 or 2800x1050 here). Using the browsers print to PS functionaliy also add pagination that is not desired, and continuous form printing export doesn't exist. How would you suggest to solve this task? CLI utilities are welcome - the less interaction, the better. It doesn't matter if the result is a 800x1 px image with 300 px white margin left and right. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Webpage screenshot
On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: I'm searching for a simple way to create a screenshot from a web page, i. e. convert the rendered page into a PNG (or something similar) graphic format. This is intended to be used for usability and design visualization where different components of the web page can be colored using Gimp to show their structure by inking the different elements. The idea of taking a screenshot from the web browser may look sufficient at first, but it is problematic when the web page doesn't fit horizontally or vertically. This sometimes doesn't even work when using the browser in total fullscreen (which is 1400x1050 or 2800x1050 here). Using the browsers print to PS functionaliy also add pagination that is not desired, and continuous form printing export doesn't exist. How would you suggest to solve this task? CLI utilities are welcome - the less interaction, the better. It doesn't matter if the result is a 800x1 px image with 300 px white margin left and right. :-) If you're using Firefox, the Fireshot addin does exactly this kind of thing. Kurt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Webpage screenshot
On Sunday 05 August 2012 19:41:38 Polytropon wrote: The idea of taking a screenshot from the web browser may look sufficient at first, but it is problematic when the web page doesn't fit horizontally or vertically snip How would you suggest to solve this task? How about the Pixlr Grabber extension for Firefox. You can specify the entire page, an area defined with the mouse or just the visible area and save the result to a .PNG file or copy it to the clipboard to paste directly into the Gimp. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Webpage screenshot
Hi all, On 05.08.2012 20:41, Polytropon wrote: [website to picture cli] google search comes up with http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/ which also provides a download called wkhtmltoimage ... which in turn seems to be what you want. cheers, frank\ -- 43rd Law of Computing: Anything that can go wr fortune: Segmentation violation -- Core dumped ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Webpage screenshot
On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 8:41 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: I'm searching for a simple way to create a screenshot from a web page, i. e. convert the rendered page into a PNG (or something similar) graphic format. This is intended to be used for usability and design visualization where different components of the web page can be colored using Gimp to show their structure by inking the different elements. The idea of taking a screenshot from the web browser may look sufficient at first, but it is problematic when the web page doesn't fit horizontally or vertically. This sometimes doesn't even work when using the browser in total fullscreen (which is 1400x1050 or 2800x1050 here). Using the browsers print to PS functionaliy also add pagination that is not desired, and continuous form printing export doesn't exist. How would you suggest to solve this task? CLI utilities are welcome - the less interaction, the better. It doesn't matter if the result is a 800x1 px image with 300 px white margin left and right. :-) I'm still using xwd(1) to grab a window (using -frame to add the decoration of the window manager) here, and convert it then to .png with the Gimp. Of course, I take care of displaying just the interesting part of the web page that I need by scrolling to the interesting part. If you need a complete snapshot of the page, you may try this: open Firefox with some insane big -geometry settings, perhaps to a big virtual screen in X; and then grab that whole window with xwd(1). I didn't try that, but it may be enough. If your X server won't handle this big a screen, try with a nesting server like x11-servers/xorg-nestserver. Good luck! Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
