Far from just being a screenshot app – and, rest easy, it does do that – it'll grab images from your webcam, and it even includes a full suite of scanning tools to make sure your documents.
Nov 29, 2018 Scrolling screenshot apps allow the user to capture and display a large amount of content in one image. Essentially, they scroll through a page while capturing it, stitching everything together into one single image in the end. Well there isn't an app for that specifically as that would require an app on both Mac and iOS. However, if you have iCloud on for your photos and set to optimise storage, by taking a screen shot it will be automatically uploaded to the cloud when.
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Being able to take quick screenshots is one of the many cool features built into Mac OS X. Few Web pages fit cleanly into the browser window, so if you need to capture a full Web page, you will need to adjust the browser's magnification level before you can capture the entire page in a single screenshot. Depending on the length of the Web page, it should still be quite legible if you need to include it in a business document or embed it on your website.
1.Navigate to the Web page you want to capture. If the entire page isn't visible without scrolling, put the browser window into full-screen mode by clicking the double arrow in the upper right corner. This feature is available in Safari, Chrome and Firefox.
2.Hold down the 'Command' key and press the '-' (minus) key to reduce the page size until you can see everything you want to capture without scrolling.
3.Press 'Command-Shift-4' on the keyboard. The cursor changes to a crosshair pointer. Move the cursor to one corner of the web page, then press the mouse button and drag it to the opposite corner. The highlighted area indicates what will be copied. Release the mouse button. The Mac makes a camera shutter sound, and the highlighted area is saved to your desktop as a PNG image.
4.Move the cursor to the top of the screen. The Apple desktop menu appears. Click the blue double arrow icon in the upper right corner to exit the browser's full-screen mode. Press 'Command-0' to return the browser magnification level to zero.
5.Double-click the screenshot image on the desktop to open it in Preview. Select 'Export' from the File menu if you want to change it from PNG to another format like JPG or GIF.
Tips
- Press 'Command-Shift-4,' press the spacebar and click the mouse button to take a picture of a browser window including the title bar.
- Press 'Command-Shift-3' to take a screenshot of the entire screen.
- Hold the 'Control' key as well as the other keys to save the screenshot to the clipboard. You can then paste it into a document by pressing 'Command-V.'
Warning
- Information in this article applies to OS X Mountain Lion. It may vary slightly or significantly with other versions or products.
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On the Mac, how can I take a screen shot of a window that includes the parts that are off-screen and need scrolling to become visible?
The built-in Grab application can capture individual windows, but it only includes the parts that are on-screen at the moment.
Clarification: By 'off-screen' I mean parts that are in the window, but are not visible, because the window has scrollbars. I do not mean parts of the window that are simply off-screen because of how the window is positioned (of course, I want those, too).
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LittleSnapper will capture whole web pages, but not capture scrolled window contents in applications such as Finder.
Here is a website with 6 Screenshot Utilities (including LittleSnapper and some others that will capture whole pages).
There is a utility specifically for Finder listings called Print Window.
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Snagit is the only software I've found for the mac that can do this for scrolling application windows as well as web pages.
There is a pretty good tutorial available, but basically when you are making a capture you can click on the vertical scrolling button and it will manually scroll the application window and piece together all the shots to make a comprehensive shot - very helpful!
Hope this helps!
Matt SandersMatt Sanders
While Little Snapper can take a picture of an entire web page, and Layers can capture every element on your screen (including stuff that’s hidden by other windows in front of it)—it’s unlikely you will find an application that can take a picture of the off-screen regions of a window.
The reason is that many applications don’t draw the off-screen portion until it’s needed. Often that part of the display isn’t even rendered until you scroll it into view. So a theoretical “whole window” snapper would capture a lot of blank or undefined areas.
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If you just want to grab the output of a webpage as an image you can check out webkit2png or Paprazzi, a GUI similar in practice to webkit2png. Little Snapper does this as well.
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In any browser, you can do File->Print. Then select PDF->Save as PDF...
Most web site don't have a special 'Print' CSS, so the result in the PDF is reasonably equivalent to what you see.
To convert to another format, open the PDF with and Save as... you can select in a good list of formats (TIFF, PNG, GIF, JPEG...)
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Sophie AlpertSophie Alpert
For Firefox centric usage, Awesome Screenshot addon is pretty great and allows snapping entire web pages.
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This drove me crazy for a while, too. But here's how you do it in little snapper:
- Open the web page you want to capture
- Click on the LittleSnapper icon in the toolbar at the top of your screen (looks like a camera lens)
- Select 'Open current website in LittleSnapper' (I've found that this works for Safari but not Chrome)
- In the LittleSnapper browser, click the camera icon to 'Snap the current webpage'
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