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DESCRIPTION
Paparazzi! is a small utility for Mac OS X that makes screenshots of webpages. This very simple tool takes screenshots of websites which do not fit on one screen. You specify the desired width, minimal height and the URL. The program displays a preview and you can save the screenshot to PNG, JPEG, TIFF, or PDF.

It's written in Objective-C using the Cocoa API and the WebKit framework... It was inspired by webkit2png which is a commandline tool written by Paul Hammond in pyObjC, so all intellectual credit for the basic functionality goes to him ;)

WHAT'S NEW
Version 0.5.6b:

Worked around an error when adding URLs to the batch window via AppleScript.

Got rid of the token field for filename formatting. Leopard likes to collapse spaces in them.

Allow scrolling and show the resize indicator in the "Interact with Web View" sheet under Leopard, since the various redraw/update issues appear to be fixed.

Hopefully fixed crashing when the version-check hits a redirect.

REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.3 or later.

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Developer:Nate Weaver
Downloads:25,824
  - Version d/l:4,359
Multimedia & Design:Author Tools
License:Free
Date:25 Jan 2009
Platform:PPC/Intel
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Sep 25 2009
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BUMBLEB  This is great software: Easy to use, plain simple and to the point, gets the job done. Essential features, nothing missing, not too much. Wonderful! Thank you dear developer!

Works fine for me in Snow Leopard 10.6.1 as well.  
(Version 0.5b6)

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Jan 26 2009
*****

ZO219  Superb product. How about a menubar thingey? Love to have it right there!  
(Version 0.5b6)

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Jan 30 2009

WEVAH  I'd be interested to hear more about how you'd like it to work. I'm sure I could whip something up, though!  
(Version 0.5b6)

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Jan 25 2009

WEVAH  It's actually "0.5b6", and I should have put up a note to not post this on MU/VT/etc.

The deed's been done, though.  
(Version 0.5.6b)

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Oct 16 2008

QQQUIGLEY  Very nice app, awesome that it's free. Works pretty much flawlessly.

I discovered that sometimes when it doesn't quite get the picture you want (since it has to actually load the url you give it again, and sometimes it loads differently in the paparazzi window), there is a trick.

1) save the webpage that you want it to take a snapshot of as a webarchive.

a) I only know how to do this in Safari, all you do is press command+S, and save it to your desktop as a web archive. easy.

2) open up the web archive in safari, and copy the location (it will be something like "file:///Users/Desktop/blah.webarchive")

3) put that location in the paparazzi URL box, and it will load exactly what you saved as a web archive.

I hope that somebody finds this tip helpful!

It's a great app!  
(Version 0.4.3)

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Nov 4 2008

BRSMA  Thanks for this clever workaround!  
(Version 0.4.3)

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Jan 30 2009

WEVAH  Aye, good workaround!  
(Version 0.5b6)

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May 24 2008

JACKWEB  I too just realised that some web pages are truncated :(

It seems to be an off and on thing. Though it does tend to happen on very long pages.  
(Version 0.4.3)

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Feb 1 2009

WEVAH  A while back I added a hard-coded maximum dimension as going a bit over that size would cause an exception to be thrown in Apple code. I still need to implement a better workaround.  
(Version 0.5b6)

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Jan 30 2008

CONSUMER  *truncated articles when saved as a pdf*

Apparently there is a limitation on the size of a page that may be captured when saving in pdf format.

For example, the following page will look fine in the preview pane, but will be truncated in the final output:

http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/117/features-message-in-a-bottle_Printer_Friendly.html

I only just noticed this bug, and looking through my archives, I see that I have a bunch of incomplete pdf files. ack.  
(Version 0.4.3)

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Jan 25 2009

PERSON1229  If you want to save web-pages as a PDF just use the Print to PDF function in the browser.

It's part of Apple's print dialog.  
(Version 0.5.6b)

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Jan 25 2009

WEVAH  1) Print to PDF adds page margins, which aren't very nice.

2) That might be the cause of the truncation; perhaps the page becomes bigger than the PDF stuff likes.  
(Version 0.5.6b)

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Dec 23 2007
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RORO01  NEARLY PERFECT

CONSUMER is absolutely right. If the developer would add the two features he suggested, this application would be perfect and the best of it's kind.  
(Version 0.4.3)

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Jun 6 2007
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CONSUMER  A fine application that I use often.

Some things I would like to see:

1. An updated crop feature; it currently confuses me. Personally, I would like to select what I want saved/croppped in the preview window, because I am not very good at the guessing currently required.

2. A way to automatically add the captured webpage url to the file details / spotlight comments section. 'Tis handy to know whence I grabbed the webpage.

thanks for sharing this application!  
(Version 0.4.3)

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Jan 25 2009

WEVAH  I am probably going to scrap the current way of cropping (though I'll keep the code in for back-compat with scripts).  
(Version 0.5.6b)

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Jan 25 2009

WEVAH  Oh, and the app saves a bit of metadata (title/URL included) in the files (including PNG files, though it uses iTXt chunks for those).  
(Version 0.5.6b)

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Jun 4 2007

WEVAH  There's a beta of 0.5 up on the site now, at http://www.derailer.org/paparazzi/Paparazzi!%200.5b3.dmg .

Beta because the help files aren't done and some things need to be tweaked, but if you've been having issues with 0.4.3 or want to use batching or Automator stuff, there it is.

It won't work on 10.3.9, though; it crashes on startup (I fixed one crash and had it crash again, in another place, so I decided I should at least put something out for the 10.4 people :/).  
(Version 0.4.3)

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Apr 11 2007
*****

SCARLO  I found this app. to work very well and exactly as advertised. Thumbs up!  
(Version 0.4.3)

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