Scrolling Screenshots

[Condobloke]

Linux Mint 22

I use Brave browser

Is there an app that allows scrolling screenshots ?

(Screenshot of a long page, that doesn't fit in one frame. So using mouse drag we scroll to capture a longer view.)

 

[Trenix25]

Linux Mint 22

I use Brave browser

Is there an app that allows scrolling screenshots ?

(Screenshot of a long page, that doesn't fit in one frame. So using mouse drag we scroll to capture a longer view.)

You could take multiple screen shot pictures and stitch them together in a graphics program, or you can save the web page in html format, or you can print the web page to a pdf document. Scribus can convert a pdf document to a jpg or png picture.

I managed to print this page, which took three "pages" and exported them, and used Scribus to convert them to three png image files, but I didn't find a way to stitch all three image files together into a single image.

Signed,

Matthew Campbell

 

[Trenix25]

ffmpeg didn't work this time around. It said the pdf document had invalid data.

Signed,

Matthew Campbell

 

[MikeWalsh]

@Condobloke :-

Shouldn't be hard, Brian.

Most screenies tend to be taken in PNG format. Any image viewer will let you scroll a larger image to view the whole thing...

@Trenix25 :-

Not being funny, Matt, but using ffmpeg here is rather like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut. I get the impression you quite like ffmpeg, but for our purposes here it's somewhat "overkill"; image stuff is usually pretty simple.....and saving a web-page as an HTML document, you can view the thing in most image viewers anyway.

Either that, or just open it in a web-browser and view it there, using the file:/// function...


Mike.

 

[Condobloke]

Any image viewer will let you scroll a larger image to view the whole thing...

Using Flameshot here.

I see no way of implementing it to take a scrolling screenshot......and the default screenshot in linux Mint 22 shows no signs of being able to do anything different

Taking a look at 'Image Viewer' in LM22 now....

 

[KGIII]

Shutter used to do this but it appears broken in the current iteration.

Personally, I'd just grab one of the browser extensions and use that.

 

[Condobloke]

Personally, I'd just grab one of the browser extensions and use that.

Which one ?....

 

[KGIII]

Which one ?....

I just tested this one:

Screenshot Entire Webpage - Chrome Web Store

Capture a full page screenshot easily with the Screenshot Entire Webpage extension. Perfect for whole page screen capture.

chromewebstore.google.com

An example result:

 

[Condobloke]

Thank you, kind sir !

 

[KGIII]

I can't remember the name of the one I used to have installed. It had some additional features but this seems like a nice basic tool. Sadly, it saves the images in the Downloads directory and not in ~/Pictures.

 

[Trenix25]

@Condobloke :-

Shouldn't be hard, Brian.

Most screenies tend to be taken in PNG format. Any image viewer will let you scroll a larger image to view the whole thing...

@Trenix25 :-

Not being funny, Matt, but using ffmpeg here is rather like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut. I get the impression you quite like ffmpeg, but for our purposes here it's somewhat "overkill"; image stuff is usually pretty simple.....and saving a web-page as an HTML document, you can view the thing in most image viewers anyway.

Either that, or just open it in a web-browser and view it there, using the file:/// function...


Mike.

It's a useful program. I just figured one should use what works. I fail to see how it's overkill. It's just another program. Being versatile doesn't make it wrong or too powerful, just useful.

Signed,

Matthew Campbell

 

[Condobloke]

I have just played/tested that one....it's a bit like taking a bazooka to an arm wrestle

The alternate the same developer has is a bit awkward too.

Thanks for your suggestions @KGIII

I will keep digging around.

If Flameshot were to have that capability, that would be quite perfect

There has to a simple solution, somewhere.

 

[MikeWalsh]

@Condobloke :-

Ah. So; what you want is the ability to take a screenie of, say, something like the site's "front page".....where the page doesn't fully show on the screen - goes off 'down the bottom', as it were - yet you want to be able to capture the whole thing in one go.....yes?

My bad. I got the wrong end of the stick, Brian. I assumed, from your first post, that you already had a captured image that was just too big to show all at once. Which was why I pointed out that any image viewer would let you see it all......but of course, you already know that, don't you?

D'ohh..! (whoops....)


Mike.

 

[MikeWalsh]

@Trenix25 :-

Oh, I guess it's personal preference, Matt. On the odd occasions I do use ffmpeg, it's almost exclusively for video or audio stuff. I tend to forget it'll work for image stuff as well.....but I've never really got my head round the almost endless permutations the thing will allow.

I have a habit of researching, then "cherry-picking"/modifying stanzas that will do what I need - StackExchange sees a LOT of visits when I'm doing this! - but as for using it as a general-purpose 'toolbox', nope; I'm nowhere NEAR that....

.....and probably never will be.

(shrug...)


Mike.

 

[MikeWalsh]

@Condobloke :-

Don't know if you're still pursuing this, Brian, but I made an interesting discovery today.

Puppy has for years offered Pale Moon as the default OOTB browser. Fast, and lightweight, it works pretty well even on really old hardware - which is what Puppy is all about. It was forked from Firefox many years ago, as it follows the XUL platform development agenda, NOT Mozilla's. They developed their own browser "engine" - Goanna - and have developed their own eco-system of extensions.....as Pale Moon and Firefox have diverged further & further over the years, very few Firefox extensions work on it any more.

I've run it alongside all the other 'portable' browser packages I've created for the community; indeed, it was one of the very first I turned INTO a 'portable'.

I installed a handful of their own extensions a couple of years ago, after the debacle where one of their devs left in a massive strop, and "poisoned" the browser source code-base as he went......generating more than a year's work by Moonchild and the rest of the team to put everything right again.

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One of these is a screenshot extension called 'FireShot'.....and it turns out it will capture an entire webpage in one go, including all the hidden portion:-

Pale Moon Add-ons - FireShot

addons.palemoon.org

Have a read for yourself; see what ya think. Pale Moon is pretty lightweight, so wouldn't take up much extra space as an additional browser.

Just thought I'd mention it, like. You might be surprised at just how fast & responsive Pale Moon is.....


Mike.

 

[Condobloke]

brilliant find, Mike !!!

I looked further still and found it has a Chrome Web Store presence.

First shot is below.......

and the second attempt is :
View attachment 1732829402057.png
JUST AWESOME !!!!

That was a stroke of Brilliance.....thank you, @MikeWalsh

 

[Condobloke]

or just a selected piece !

perfect !

 

[MikeWalsh]

Ah, well. Glad I could help.

Nice to know it's available in the Chrome Web Store, too; I hadn't looked that far into it. I normally use a Puppy-native screenshot app called TAS (Take A Shot!).....which lets you select whole page, window, or a "region" that is user-selected.

Capturing entire web-pages is not something I really do.....but at least we ended up with ONE happy customer!


Mike.

 

[Condobloke]

here's a screenshot of its drop down menu

The choices are many....and the best bit?...It works!