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If you go to View and then Developer you can go to Developer Tools. But you could also use that same developer tools technique here. Then you can go to PDF or you can go to Open PDF in Preview and you'll get a PDF using the printing style sheet for that webpage. Then if you go to More Settings and click on that and scroll down you'll see Print using the System Dialogue. Chrome has a special window for printing. In Chrome you could also go to File and then Print and you see no special print button here. In this case you can see right here in Quick Look it actually did save the page and it looks good. Then do Capture Screenshot and then Save it. I use Option Command i here on My Home Page and Control click right where it says html. So Safari failed to actually create a valid screenshot. If I double-click on it in Preview it says it can't be opened. Now this webpage is a really good example of when it doesn't work! If you click on it here and use Quick Look you'll see nothing but the icon. Then I'll save it and I end up with this png file. If I select it it will take a moment to actually build the screenshot. What this should do is capture the entire page as a screenshot and save it to a file. Put your pointer right over the very first thing here where it says html and Control click it to bring up the Context Menu. If you look on the left you should see all the html. So you bring up the Inspector and it's all these developer tools here. So now when you go into a page you can go to Develop, Show Web Inspector or just Option Command i, and you may need to restart Safari before you use this the first time. This gives you some advanced functionality. Let's go to Safari, Settings, and then go to Advanced, and then click Show Develop Menu in Menu Bar. Now there is another way to get a full page screenshot from Safari, but results will vary. Note the image version is fairly large, 4 megs, whereas the PDF version is much smaller because it includes the actual text and is rendering it as a PDF. Let's export it as a png and now I've got a large image version of the webpage. So I can open it up in Preview here and then go to Export and export that as an image. This first one here is just one super long PDF page. How well either of these work really depends on the webpage and how it is built. The other one is actually printing it using the Page's built-in Style sheet for printing and then it is simply saving that as a PDF instead of sending it to your printer. One is actually exporting the page as you see it. Then when you look at this you can see it looks a little different than when you look at this. Then you can go and click the PDF button here at the bottom and it will save this out to the same location. Another way to do this with a preview is go to go to File and then Print. You can scroll through it and it's got everything. We can take a look at the PDF here and it looks pretty good. For instance, here on this long Wikipedia page you can go to File, and then to Export as PDF. If you just want to capture all the contents of a webpage, maybe to view them off-line later, then you may not need a screenshot at all. Let's talk about what you really need from the screen capture. Let's take a look at Safari, Chrome, and Firefox and how to do it in each and how well it works.įirst let's look at Safari. There are some third party apps that can do this but what if you just wanted to do it using your browser. If you were browsing a webpage and you wanted to capture the entire page, not just the visible part, it's a little more difficult to do. So it is easy to take a screenshot on your Mac but it only captures what is actually on the screen. Join us and get exclusive content and course discounts. There you can read more about the Patreon Campaign. MacMost is brought to you thanks to a great group of more than 1000 supporters. Let me show you how you can take a screenshot of an entire webpage, not just the visible part, on your Mac. Check out Screen Capture Entire Web Pages On Your Mac (2023) at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.
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