Screen Capture - How do I scroll & capture at the same time?

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I've been using the shift+command+spacebar keys to take a screen shot. When using firefox or finder - I can enable the screenshot crosshair, but can not use the up down left right keys to extend the screenshot beyond the currently visible text.
Any suggestions?
 
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I don't quite understand what you're trying to do. You can't take a screen capture of what isn't on your screen. That's like trying to take a photo of both sides of a mountain.

If you want to capture your screen as you scroll, you'll have to take a video as you scroll using a program like Snapz Pro X or Screenflow.

Otherwise, you'll have to take separate pictures and combine them in Photoshop or a similar program.
 
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Yeah, I think you have the gist of what I want to do. Instead of capturing video, I would like to take a screenshot and end up with a picture. For example, the attached file I have added to this post - I would like to include "Additional Options" and the text below it - all in the one screen grab.
 
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Scrolling Screen Capture

DaveDave's request parallels mine - I would also like to have a screen capture program that can create an image of a window's entire scrolled content. Before becoming a Mac convert, I used a Windows program called HyperSnap which does exactly what DaveDave describes. And it isn't at all like photographing both sides of a mountain simultaneously - it is a progresssive capture of window information while automatically scrolling the window all the way to the bottom, and a video is not needed here. HyperSnap is just one example of a whole bunch of widely available very useful utilities for Windows that either do not exist or that are extremely hard to find for the Mac; or if equivalents do exist, they usually are poorly executed compared to the best Windows products. Anyway, that has been my experience in my quest to find MAC equivalents of my favorite Windows utilities - as always, YMMV. So, if any of you long-time Mac experts out there can point DaveDave and me to a MAC program that works like HyperSnap, we would both be very grateful.

Harry
 
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Try File > Print > Save as pdf ~ should get you everything that is available.
Open each pdf page in preview and you can 'save as' in most formats.
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Try Jing. It's a snag it like utility. Works great!
 
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Not sure if this is pertinent but one i have used in Keynote is to take two screenshots one at top and scroll down and one at bottom and then use 'Magic Move' for transition which scrolls down page on next slide click in the presentation.
 
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Try File > Print > Save as pdf ~ should get you everything that is available.
Open each pdf page in preview and you can 'save as' in most formats.
S.

I want to do this but everything is shrunk to fit making long pages illegible! I've tried lots of different things........anyone have any new recommendations?:[
 
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No it isn't. File> Print> bottom left pdf button, save as pdf.

It saves what youre looking at exactly as it is formatted in a pdf form.
 
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Cool! I tried the Save as PDF myself and it does exactly what the OP wants it to do.
 
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There's a certain website on which I post projects and I don't know what it is about the way the pages are populated, but it doesn't print out like the screen, I should have explained that to begin with. It's a crafting site, it's nothing that would be illegal to print out, but a simple page print to PDF doesn't cut it. That's why I need some sort of scrolling print to PDF.
 
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Screen capture scroll mac

Hi guys,

I've done a quick search on Google withe the term on the title and found loads of results. The first one already helped me, its an app you install on google chrome, called: screen capture.
Its free:
Chrome Web Store - Screen Capture (by Google)

Hope I helped!
 
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Download "Awesome Screenshot". It is available as an extension for Safari and Firefox. (don't know about Chrome or Opera) and it can take a shot of an entire page, no matter where the view is. Love it.

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Hi guys,

I've done a quick search on Google withe the term on the title and found loads of results. The first one already helped me, its an app you install on google chrome, called: screen capture.
Its free:
Chrome Web Store - Screen Capture (by Google)

Hope I helped!

Seconded. I just checked out this Chrome extension and it worked fine.
 

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