Comments on: How do I take screenshots of tall windows on a Mac?

Question: How do I take screenshots of tall windows on a Mac?

gilgamesh — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 13:22:27 -0800

Is there a program for the Mac that will scroll a window to capture a screenshot of its entire contents?

Years ago before I switched I used SnagIt to take screenshots on my Windows machine. One of its most useful features was that you could select a window and it would vertically scroll it for you to capture it's entire contents as one tall image. I have been unable to find a Mac utility that does the same. Now when I need to take a screenshot of a tall window (like a long web page) I take multiple screenshots and stitch them together by hand.

By: neustile

neustile — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 13:27:24 -0800

Well, for websites, just print it as a pdf in Safari -- make sure to have "Print Backgrounds" on and make the page setup a very long but wide enough piece of "paper." You can then convert the pdf to a png or whatever in Preview.

For other apps, I'm out of my league.

By: elvissa

elvissa — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 13:27:29 -0800

Print Window
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/12161

By: jadepearl

jadepearl — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 13:29:07 -0800

Here have been my various solutions:

1) use Print PDF function of the mac;

2) Use the Firefox extension Snapper;

3) Here is a list of screenshot 'ware

By: McSly

McSly — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 13:29:17 -0800

Also the Screen grab! extension for Firefox should get the work done.

By: Steve3

Steve3 — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 13:29:42 -0800

Specifically made for webpages:

Paparazzi

By: mkultra

mkultra — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 14:07:00 -0800

Command-Shift-4, then hit space. Click over the highlighted window you want. Works for anything.

By: dobbs

dobbs — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 14:21:40 -0800

Command-Shift-4, then hit space. Click over the highlighted window you want. Works for anything

And that snap went... where?

By: bink

bink — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 14:32:03 -0800

On your desktop. It's called Picture 1.png.

By: bink

bink — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 14:32:52 -0800

(It won't contain the whole scrollable page, though, unfortunately.)

By: tkolar

tkolar — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 14:33:36 -0800

Command-Shift-4 followed by space will only show the visible portion of the window. It won't scroll for you.

By: dobbs

dobbs — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 14:34:10 -0800

Yeah, that just grabs the visible area, which isn't what the OP was after.

On preview...

By: gilgamesh

gilgamesh — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 15:09:10 -0800

I've tried Paparazi in the past but have had problems because of the pages I needed screenshots of were not directly accessible with a URL (i.e. they needed POSTed form elements or relied on some sort of session data). But, it looks like the Screen grab! Firefox extension does exactly what I need; I honestly never even thought to look for a browser extension...

By: ceri richard

ceri richard — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 23:59:07 -0800

McSly's suggestion to use the Firefox extension Screen grab is excellent - you can "save document as image" (or viewport or window) to a graphic, it will capture the entire page no matter how long/tall/wide.

I often use it, then converting the graphic to a pdf in order to add notes (just because I'm more familiar with Acrobat note taking than Fireworks or PhotoShop).