Opera save whole page as image plugin/addon

Opera save whole page as image plugin/addon

Ok, hi all, this is my first post here,

and I wanna ask if it would probably be possible to make this firefox plugin Abduction! for Opera aswell, since I really love it, but sadly can't use it with Opera since it isn't available.

Keep your good work up, I really love Opera, it is (for me at least ) the best Desktop Browser out there.

Greetings.

No need for this. If you need screenshots of web pages, you need them in all browsers not just in Opera, and you probably need them in other applications too. So why should Opera developers spend their time developing what is already available for free from FastStone Capture (see my sig) or numerous other screen capture programs?

If you're using Linux or MAC, there are probably system wide solutions for that too. It makes much more sense to install a screen capture utility that can be used in any application that is running on your PC.

wow ! great tool ! I guess you are right then, there is really no need for a plugin like this with a powerful toole like FastStone Capture already available .

EDIT: Seems I was a bit over enthusiastic... it works well... for anything but scrolling windows, I tried it with this page and Opera 9.51, but it only outputs a weird picture which looks like a ugly copy&paste.

Any Ideas what I might have to change in the settings to get this working correcly ?

I attached a example of the scrolling window result below.2008-07-20_223946.png

EDIT2: forget it, I downloaded FastStone Capture 6.2, and now it works perfectly, thx for this tool again, I love it !

Originally posted by gbamp:

I downloaded FastStone Capture 6.2

I never noticed any problem on Windows XP Home with the earlier version. Maybe you're using Vista? The free version 5.3 is not Vista compatible — the latest version is, but it is $20 Shareware. I use version 6.2. There may also be other freeware products.

You may know this already, but you can save a webpage with its pictures locally as hypertext a few different ways - which beats an image in some ways (still searchable and editable, and the links work) and it's the whole page (not sure if FastStone can grab whole pages).

For starters, there are save-as-folder and save-as-single-file (.mht) options via FIle menu / save as. Best in my experience, though - quick and painless - is a new button by Lex1 you can find here on the 9.5 buttons thread. If you have made a selection, only that gets saved; if no selection, it's the whole page. You can even use it to merge pages.

and if you just want to save a whole webpage as html you can do this with "Ctrl + Alt + S" or the action "Save document As" (eg in mousegesture or in rightclick popup menu)

What about a button to automatically save the page as a picture through the third party tool (e.g. the above mentioned FastStone Capture)?

Just for information, other programs for the same purpose are:
http://www.websitescreenshots.com/
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/web_site_screenshot.html

By the way, even though there are great external tools for webshots, I don't think a built in "save as jpg" function would hurt...

Actually it wouldn't.

Depending on the OS' "screen capture" means you can not capture the full page, only the part that is displayed in the current viewport (which would suck if you're using a non-maximised window). Plus it woul capture the entire Opera interface, you would need to crop margins containint toolbars, panels, etc.

Depending on an external tool means it depends on the external tool being available. That means if you depend on a Windows program to perform the capture, you can not use the feature from Opera under Linux/Mac/Wii/whatever.

Converting the entire page to an image should not be that complicated, after allthe page was already rendered on screen, which means information about objects, sizes and colours was processed successfully. Isn't that the purpose of a "canvas", anyway?

Originally posted by ryan.chappelle:

Plus it woul capture the entire Opera interface, you would need to crop margins containint toolbars, panels, etc.

you can allways use [f11] to go to fullscreen first ^^

Originally posted by serious:

Originally posted by ryan.chappelle:

Plus it woul capture the entire Opera interface, you would need to crop margins containint toolbars, panels, etc.

you can allways use [f11] to go to fullscreen first ^^

...and then screenshot the first part of the page, then scroll down, screenshot the second part of the page, then scroll down, then ...., ...., .... then scroll down, then screenshot the n-th part of the page, then fire up a graphic manipulation program, then calculate the size of a canvas to fit all the n pictures, then paste the first picture, then load the second picture and calculate the position and cropping so that it matches to the previous picture, then scroll down, then load the third picture, then ..., ..., ... then scroll down, load the nth picture, and calculate the position and cropping so that it matches the previous picture, then edit the image height to discard any eventual remanent from the image. Oh, and just in case, there are a couple of "Save..." in the middle of this whole iteration.


No, thanks. An integrated option would be a real lifesaver her. As I said, work-wise it is just a button, as there's a canvas: the job is already done! Shouldn't be that difficult to implement.

Originally posted by ryan.chappelle:

Depending on an external tool means it depends on the external tool being available

True enough, but my point remains that if you need a screen capture for Opera you most likely also need it for other applications too. It is much better to implement at the system level. In Windows, FastStone Capture or similar applications will capture a whole web page in Fullscreen Mode. In Windowed mode, it captures only the web page, not the toolbars or scrollbar.

@ryan.chappelle - WebShot (http://www.websitescreenshots.com) captures the whole page no matter how much of the page is visible on the screen. No need to scroll down and make screenshots in parts.

By the way Maxthon has that option neatly implemented. It offers you several choices and capture of the whole page is one of them.

Btw why doesn't Opera steal ideas from Maxthon??? They have so many great features lacking in Opera.

@Pesala

So why should Opera developers spend their time developing what is already available for free from FastStone Capture (see my sig

I wasn't expecting such a ridiculus excuse. Then there are various other web browsers as well. and all features of opera(mail/torrent/webserver/devtools etc etc) are available as standalone applications. So why are opera developers spending their time on developing browser itself ?

Opera is first choise for devs who want all in one interated solution with dev tools,mail,webserver,notes etc. and Image capture is something that is needed every now and then. Its not about what is available with other tools. Its for better usability and feature addition to opera to make it best browser.
Here is why this feature needed in opera
1. I dont want to rely and switch to on other browser/application. It just kills time.
2. I dont want to use any onlne application because I do development on my local machine. furthermore some website stores screen capture. I dont want to share my secrets with them.
3. cross platform screen capture. I dont want to use different solutions for windows/linux/mobile. e.g. FastStone Capture is available only for windows. Also I dont see a decent way to take screenshot in my mobile opera browser to see how my website looks on different resolution android phones.

-prabhat

Imo save as web archive (mht; save as -> single file) is much more flexible than an image capture.

Originally posted by serious:

Imo save as web archive (mht; save as -> single file) is much more flexible than an image capture.

+1

use http://browsershots.org/
and please close the thread.
thx.