Mortimer Houghton <mortimer@VivoBook.X512D> wrote

>>> I've often wanted a screenshot program that would save the whole web
>>> page. most don't, they're limited to the currently visible part.
>
>>Then you don't want a screenshot, you want a web page saver ...
>
> except firefox does fine at saving the whole web page

Does Firefox natively save an entire web page (even the parts you can't see
in one screen) in a way that you can then easily _use_ the linked pages?

Long ago (Thu, 21 Jun 2018) Paul had suggested https://wkhtmltopdf.org/
which saves an entire web site to a PDF with lots of settings for bounds.

Having pointed out that freeware solution from Paul, for me, I use
Control+Shift+O in the Adobe Acrobat Writer which (as with Paul's
command-line wkhtmltopdf solution) will save any web site to PDF starting
and stopping where you defined it to start & stop.

Get that? It could save the ENTIRE INTERNET to a cross-linked PDF if you
had enough space - but normally you set it to stop at a couple of levels.

I don't even know what the command is called 'cuz I use control shift O
all the time to save an entire web site to editable cross-linked PDF.

Long ago, when I wanted to screenshot long web pages, there was a plugin
that I used to do that in Firefox - but I don't remember the name of it.
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comp.text.pdf added because they know how to save & edit PDF better than I.

On 08/10/2023 22:21, Wally J wrote:
> Mortimer Houghton <mortimer@VivoBook.X512D> wrote
>
>>>> I've often wanted a screenshot program that would save the whole web
>>>> page. most don't, they're limited to the currently visible part.
>>
>>> Then you don't want a screenshot, you want a web page saver ...
>>
>> except firefox does fine at saving the whole web page

So does Vivaldi, which is why I use it. Of course, a whole web page
saved as a JPG image is extremely narrow and very, very tall. But it
works perfectly.

> Does Firefox natively save an entire web page (even the parts you can't see
> in one screen) in a way that you can then easily _use_ the linked pages?

AFAIK no. It saves an image. If you want the whole page with usable links,
just a regular Save will do it, but the usability of the result depends
on the quality of the HTML. The safest way is to run the HTML file
through HTML Tidy with the -asxml option. That way you're practically
guaranteed a well-formed file.

> Long ago, when I wanted to screenshot long web pages, there was a plugin
> that I used to do that in Firefox - but I don't remember the name of it.

I ditched FF a long time ago for bloat. But I stick with Vivaldi because
of the page-saver images.

P

On 29/10/2023 22:18, Peter Flynn wrote:
> On 08/10/2023 22:21, Wally J wrote:
>> Mortimer Houghton <mortimer@VivoBook.X512D> wrote
>>
>>>>> I've often wanted a screenshot program that would save the whole web
>>>>> page. most don't, they're limited to the currently visible part.
>>>
>>>> Then you don't want a screenshot, you want a web page saver ...
>>>
>>> except firefox does fine at saving the whole web page
>
> So does Vivaldi, which is why I use it. Of course, a whole web page
> saved as a JPG image is extremely narrow and very, very tall. But it
> works perfectly.
>
>> Does Firefox natively save an entire web page (even the parts you
>> can't see
>> in one screen) in a way that you can then easily _use_ the linked pages?
>
> AFAIK no. It saves an image. If you want the whole page with usable links,
> just a regular Save will do it, but the usability of the result depends
> on the quality of the HTML. The safest way is to run the HTML file
> through HTML Tidy with the -asxml option. That way you're practically
> guaranteed a well-formed file.
>
>> Long ago, when I wanted to screenshot long web pages, there was a plugin
>> that I used to do that in Firefox - but I don't remember the name of it.
>
> I ditched FF a long time ago for bloat. But I stick with Vivaldi because
> of the page-saver images.
>

Thanks.
HTML Tidy (online markup corrector) - https://htmltidy.net/

I keep Firefox with the Singlefile add-on specifically for this purpose.
- https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/singlefile.html

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Regards
wasbit