Req: scrollable screenshot (again)

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Using Firefox 1.5, it looked just like what I was looking for, but....it
really messes all the colors up, any ideas on that ?
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Dunno. I haven't had that trouble, capture colors are precise for me.
Maybe your viewer is noodling with the colors? (for example, Irfanview
can be set to automatically manipulate viewed images under Options -->
Properties --> Viewing)
 
Are the colors too dark? Do you have a 16-bit display? There's a bug
in Mozilla's code and a patch has been issued for it.

http://blog.pearlcrescent.com/archives/23
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=323088
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I don't have a 16-bit display, not running Linux atm, and it wasn't
Irfanview either.
Here's an example:

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/

delivers this:

http://www.dse.nl/~rod/Azzman/seamonk.png

but...... a screenshot of that turns it into this again:

http://www.dse.nl/~rod/Azzman/seamonkpng.png

I'm very confused here.
I get the feeling that the problem exists between keyboard and chair, so
far I haven't discovered any brain-leaks. Errr... help ?!
 
Here's an example:

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/

delivers this:

http://www.dse.nl/~rod/Azzman/seamonk.png

but...... a screenshot of that turns it into this again:

http://www.dse.nl/~rod/Azzman/seamonkpng.png
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Whoa, that's wild. Everything's shifted but black and white!

I have no idea what could be causing that.

In the off chance that it might help, I've just uploaded the PNG engine
from my copy of the extension to alt.binaries.freeware. It's called
canvas2png.dll and it goes in

C:\Documents and Settings\USER_NAME\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox
\Profiles\PROFILE_HANDLE\extensions\{LONGASS_CLASS_ID}\platform
\WINNT_x86-msvc\components

Maybe swapping it for your's will fix it.
 
Whoa, that's wild. Everything's shifted but black and white!

I have no idea what could be causing that.

In the off chance that it might help, I've just uploaded the PNG engine
from my copy of the extension to alt.binaries.freeware. It's called
canvas2png.dll and it goes in

C:\Documents and Settings\USER_NAME\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox
\Profiles\PROFILE_HANDLE\extensions\{LONGASS_CLASS_ID}\platform
\WINNT_x86-msvc\components

Maybe swapping it for your's will fix it.
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Thank you for your effort Charlie. I grabbed your version, noticed it was
version 0.9.0.0, same as mine and exactly the same size also. Replaced
mine with it anyway. Made no difference. Rebooted. Still no difference.
I'll try to contact the author. For now, I'll do the double job (save the
png, open the png in Firefox and save a png from that again), not very
convenient, but it works.
Thanks again for your effort.
 
For now, I'll do the double job (save the
png, open the png in Firefox and save a png from that again), not very
convenient, but it works.
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In the meantime, if you use Irfanview, you can forgo the second copy by
doing Image --> Swap Colors -- RGB-BGR on the original image.
 
Azzman said:
I know this has been asked here before, still looking for one.
Something like (OT)Snagit http://www.techsmith.com/(/OT) which
captures also parts that are not visible on the screen untill you
scroll down (think webpages etc)
Anyone ?
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I just read in the DonationCoder.com newsletter:

"3. Major Software Update - Screenshot Captor
With autoscrolling window capture, deluxe object capture, and thumbnail
tools."

I have not tried this myself (and I assume you're familiar with the
conditions of the DonationCoder type of freeware/donation ware).
 
I just read in the DonationCoder.com newsletter:

"3. Major Software Update - Screenshot Captor
With autoscrolling window capture, deluxe object capture, and
thumbnail
tools."

I have not tried this myself (and I assume you're familiar with the
conditions of the DonationCoder type of freeware/donation ware).
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Thank you Sietse,
I already have a (free) life-time license-key from donation.com and it
did work with this program. It is actually quite good, does what is says
and a lot more (options, options and more options)(wait, more options).
It's a keeper, but for webpages I'll stick with the Pearl Crescent Page
Saver extension (see other posts) .
 
In the meantime, if you use Irfanview, you can forgo the second copy by
doing Image --> Swap Colors -- RGB-BGR on the original image.
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Thank you again Charlie, I do use Irfanview, it's by far my most
appreciated freeware program, never thought I'd ever use that feature.
 
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Using Firefox 1.5, it looked just like what I was looking for,
but....it really messes all the colors up, any ideas on that ?
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Weird, and I have no ideas about that.

But there's another screenshot extension for Fx that works for me.
It doesn't use canvas, and it's not as slick as Pearl Crescent, but
maybe it will help you out.

ScreenGrab: <http://andy.5263.org/screengrab/>
 
Faststone 4in1 web browser has a web capture feature. Works very well
for me on the page that caused you colour problems.

http://www.faststone.org/
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Thank you, but I don't want another browser (already 4 on my machine), and
my temp solution is good enough. BTW, all pages gave me trouble, strange
thing though, after playing around with the Pearl extension, I found that
some parts of webpages are displayed correctly in the PNG. Like the green
'powered by digital space' at the bottom of http://www.tinyapps.org/, but
on the rest of the page the rgb colors are swapped. Very strange.
 
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