Hi guys!
Is it possible to make a screenshot of a webpage? I really need to make
a screenshot and cut out part of a page. I guess it will be pretty hard
thanks
Hey,
press the “Print Screen” button on your keyboard.
Then paste the Screenshot in a graphic program.
zok
There is an absolutely fantastic outstanding (I’m not affiliated but I
absolutely love it) plugin for Firefox called Fireshot. I think this is
the URL for it: FireShot - Instant Full page Screen Capture in your browser
In my opinion, it’s really useful for capturing a screenshot of either
the visible area or the entire page - and also lets you annotate it. I
promise you that you won’t use anything else 
Cheers,
Mohit.
3/1/2008 | 9:13 PM.
zok wrote:
Hey,
press the “Print Screen” button on your keyboard.
Then paste the Screenshot in a graphic program.zok
thanks
But I was thinking how to do it from a web application (for example
cutting out the google map i displayed on the screen)
You can use Firefox “headless” to take screenshots of web pages.
Google “firefox headless” for a few solutions.
–Jeremy
On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 9:02 AM, Pawel Jur
[email protected] wrote:
thanks
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Pawel Jur wrote:
thanks
But I was thinking how to do it from a web application (for example
cutting out the google map i displayed on the screen)
I’m quite sure that I’m not clear what you want to do. Do you want to
capture a portion of the end user’s screen by using a Rails app? That
won’t work. You’ll need to get something like a Java applet - that
/might/ work.
If you want to capture a screenshot on the “server” where you Rails
scripts are running - and you want to try to do a screenshot in response
to a web request, you could look at a recent thread on the Ruby (not
Rails) mailing list - I think there’s something called win 32 screenshot
(you should be able to find it in the archives of that list).
Finally, if you are actually planning to take a screenshot of a screen
on the server in response to a web request, good luck! What happens if
you receive 2 or 3 requests at the same time? Will you be able to
prepare the screen to be clean enough for each capture. I wouldn’t
think that this is a very good way.
Cheers,
Mohit.
3/2/2008 | 12:07 AM.
Might want to also check out a little app called Paparazzi. It is for
the Mac only, but works perfectly for taking screen shots.
–Cory
Mohit S. wrote:
There is an absolutely fantastic outstanding (I’m not affiliated but I
absolutely love it) plugin for Firefox called Fireshot. I think this is
the URL for it: FireShot - Instant Full page Screen Capture in your browser
I just wanted to make a comment on Fireshot. I just downloaded it and
tried it out and it is really, really, awsome. I have these links that I
have saved because they print out really crappy and waist a lot of paper
so I can’t print them out, but with Fireshot I can get a screen shot of
the entire page (even the parts taht are not currently visible), it is
really cool! No RoR related but I couldn’t resist.
-S
Get this one for firefox, works great and the basic version is for free,
I for myself dont need more than that…
http://pearlcrescent.com/products/pagesaver/
Regards, matthi
There is a great online service for creating web page screen shots:
You could pull the image from the service in code (after it makes the
screen shot) and use an image library to cut it up.
-Jim