How to capture web browser's content.

World Wide Web is very big. And it is also full of interesting stuff, and sometimes you cannot find today that article, you've read yesterday. Of course, you can bookmark interesting pages and return to them later. But it's just a half of a problem. Web pages updated every day. You click your bookmark and realize, that it is pointing to the web page you've never bookmarked. Or, in the worst case it isn't pointing to anywhere: page was deleted or the website is down. How we can avoid this situation? The simplest and the most convenient way is to make a screenshot of given webpage. You're pushing you Print Screen button and you get a only a visible part of desired web page. Not good.

Is there any way to capture whole scrolling web page to image?

Yes. CapTrue — screen capture application, which is able to do this work.

Download CapTrue and install it. Choose 'Launch CapTrue' option during installation to automatically start CapTrue after installation.

Now we have to set some things up. Open CapTrue settings window by right clicking on CapTrue tray icon and selecting 'Settings'.

Tray settings

It is highly possible that we want to save our screenshot to some file. So, let's check 'Capture to file', select output path and graphics file format. PNG is suitable for web pages with lots of text, while JPEG is good for pages with pictures.

Settings for scrolling capture

By default, Scroll Lock key is defined for capturing scrolling windows. Press Scroll Lock and you will see red rectangle, highlighting the window, which you've pointed with mouse cursor. So point your mouse to the center of your web browser and left click the mouse.

Capturing scrollable windows

CapTrue will scroll web page and will save a screenshot to disk. Of course, you can capture not just tall web pages, but all scrolling documents and windows as well.

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News

21 March 2009 - Thumbnailer 1.7 has been released. Embedding thumbnails into video files has been discontinued in this version.
05 March 2009 - Thumbnailer Lite, the set of Windows Explorer extensions for easy thumbnail embedding has been released.
04 March 2009 - CapTrue Thumbnailer has been renamed to Thumbnailer Plugin
06 January 2009 - Thumbnailer 1.6 has been released. Thumbnails are automatically assigned to video files. Download Thumbnailer 1.6


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