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Quickly create screenshots with Paparazzi
Here's an
interesting utility. Paparazzi! allows you to quickly take a
screenshot of just about any website without having to launch a browser. Just enter the URL of the site you're after
and click the "Capture" button. Once the image has loaded, adjust the size (using either the default options
or your own guidelines) and the crop area and you're done. Click "Save Image As..." and you've got it. Paparazzi is universal and free (requires Mac OS 10.3 or later).
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Ireland said 11:32AM on 3-29-2006
Shitft>apple key>3 key, a tad easier!
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b said 11:35AM on 3-29-2006
I really wish there was a mac equivalent to SnagIt, which is by far the best screen capture program to date; for one thing, it allows you to capture scrolling windows
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David said 11:39AM on 3-29-2006
I've used this app for a while now, and Ireland, it is actually different than the apple shortcut because it takes a screenshot of just the website not including the browser, and the whole website, not just what is visible on the screen.
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Christopher said 12:11PM on 3-29-2006
I've tinkered with it a bit, seems to work as advertised.
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Jarrod Turner said 12:34PM on 3-29-2006
Does it have Automator actions? That would validate it as an app.
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Don O'Shea said 12:39PM on 3-29-2006
Actually Shift>Apple Key>4 gets you a size adjustable version and the results appear on your desktop as Picture 1, Picture 2, ....
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dashiel said 1:03PM on 3-29-2006
yes, but this app takes a screen shot of an entire web page, beyond the scroll. you can't do that with command-shift-3 or command-shift-4. for web developers it's great.
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crescentdave said 1:25PM on 3-29-2006
I fail to see the point of this. Instead of using a browser to view the site, this program does. Instead of having the option of selective copy/paste to preserve the "live" elements of a site in a program like Word or sent in an email program like Thunderbird, for example, you're left with a dumbed down pic.
Whoop. Eee.
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David said 1:26PM on 3-29-2006
Don O'Shea, right I know about apple shift 4, but like dashiel said, this is for beyond VISIBLE web screen page. The entire thing. I love it.
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Wry Cooter said 2:05PM on 3-29-2006
Yeah about command key snap shooting already built into the system, and yeah about who is going to be using this without a browser open anyway... But what this apparently does that is different is...
Allow you to set a standard capture size at least, so you do not have to edit further if placing several such surfs elsewhere.
And I think it might capture a full page without scrolling. Hard to tell from this article though.
Oh, wait, I think I have actually used this. It does do the entire page thing. Be careful about setting the resolution of the image however - it resamples, and what you save may not necessarily be readable later.
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Jason said 2:10PM on 3-29-2006
As a graphic designer, this is an excellent way of capturing some of my web design work to put it in my portfolio. The old way of doing things was to take a screencap, scroll down, take a screencap, scroll down... then bring everything into Photoshop and stitch it all together. Since websites are updated so often, this becomes a tedious task. I haven't tried it yet, but it looks like Paparazzi will become a great tool for me.
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Brent said 2:45PM on 3-29-2006
Great little app. Like Jason said - a great alternative to taking multiple screen shots and putting them together in Photoshop.
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papaleco said 8:54PM on 3-29-2006
Yes it's a great app for web developers but it doesn't render pages with Flash content :(
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XIV said 9:34PM on 3-29-2006
Am I the only one who had problem with a flash website ? The capture has blanks, where there is suppose to be some flash animations.
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Wevah said 7:58AM on 3-30-2006
Whoa; linkage!
Now that that's over with...
As the current author of said application, I feel I should address a few things (not to be defensive, or anything):
Flash capturing was working for me on my TiBook (!) under 10.3.9, but it's not under 10.4.5. I have a fix in-place on my local copy, though I had to use some secret CoreGraphics functions.
For the people that want the ability to select a region of a live web page: You're right, that's something that should be added; my only concern is wrecking the way it works now.
At any rate, this app isn't for everyone, and I myself really only use it while testing. It's just really fun to write.
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