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DESCRIPTION

DropImageURL is a drop application which images a whole web page into a single graphic file, such as a JPEG or TIFF image.

In other words DropImageURL makes a screen capture of the page, including the portions which may not be viewable in your web browser due to its width or size.

The program provides the option to output in various image formats, and to scale the output image by a given percentage.

You can invoke this functionality in several ways:

Drag URLs from your browser's location field onto the status window
Drag URLs from your browser's location field onto the Dock icon
Select "Image Browser URL" from the Dock menu to image the front window of your browser
Select "Image URL" from the DropImageURL menu in your applications Services menu when a text selection is a URL.
Drag "webloc" (web location) files onto the Dock icon or application
Drag URLs directly from your web browser's displayed pages onto the Dock icon
Drag the supplied file "DropImageURL.inetloc" into your Safari or FireFox bookmarks bar (renaming as necessary) to create the bookmark.Then click on the bookmark to image the current browser URL in DropImageURL.

Once the program begins processing the URL it will display a status window which monitors the progress of the download prior to imaging. A resources pane shows all the resources which were loaded to image the URL (akin to Safari's "Activity Window") The list of URLs can be copied and used for, say, import to a batch downloader such as Blue Crab, for individual retrieval.

Select "Preferences..." from the application menu, or the Dock menu, to specify various options:

Scale image by a given percent
Specify image format (tiff, jpeg, etc.)
Set comment to location URL
Overwrite files by same name, or append a unique ID to differentiate
Show status window
Bring application to front
Open image file in default image viewer
Select image file in the Finder

DropImageURL is part of the Limit Point Software Utilities Bundle : http://www.limit-point.com/Utilities.html. Purchase a Utilities password to activate all the utilities, including DropImageURL. Upgrades are always free, new utilities are always included!

DropImageURL initially runs for about ten days without a permanent password.

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WHAT'S NEW

Version 1.0.8:

Added Danish localization.

Version 1.0.7:

Drag and drop into the status window is now supported.
A new resources pane shows all the resources which were loaded to image the URL (akin to Safari's "Activity Window") The list of URLs can be copied and used for, say, import to a batch downloader such as Blue Crab, for individual retrieval.
The "completion sound" (a harp) is now optional. You can turn this feature off in the preferences window.
Previously the program would only image URLs that had a title in the HTML because it used the title to create the image filename. This is no longer the case and if a title is missing the program will name the image using the current date and the name of the program.
Bug fix: it the title contained a colon the file would not be saved, because filenames are not allowed to have colons.

Version 1.0.6:

A new option to create a single page PDF of a URL has been added. Select this option from the image format menu in the Preferences window.
Added a Close command to the File menu so you can use the usual keyboard command to close windows.

Version 1.0.5:

Added an option to preferences to always prompt for the destination directory of the generated image file, as opposed to always putting the image into a selected folder (which defaults to the Desktop.)
Changes to the "Image URL" window, which prompts for a URL to image: It is now called "ImageURL", the "Image" button has been made the default button so it responds to the "Return" key and if you leave out the "http" protocol it is added for you.
Put a convenience button to open preferences in the status window.
Added some documentation on how to use the DropImageURL.inetloc file because it is a very useful feature which enables you to create images of web pages right from within your browser (Firefox or Safari.)
An animated progress indicator has been added, adjacent to the resource loading status field.

Version 1.0.4:

The program responds to the "get url" request, so you can create "bookmarklets" for loading URLs into the program within your web browser. A sample is provided in the software distribution for this release: drag the file "DropImageURL.inetloc" into your Safari or FireFox bookmarks bar (renaming as necessary) to create the bookmark. Then click on the bookmark to image the current browser URL in DropImageURL.

Version 1.0.3:

Added a status window which displays URL download progress. After tyhe imaging is complete the window's proxy is set to the image file.
When the option to overwrite files by the same name is deselected the image is saved under a new name, which is derived from the original name by appending a UUID to it.
The Help menu now takes you to the products home page on the web.
Added options to Preferences for displaying the status window automatically during imaging, and for bringing the program to the foreground.
Bug fix: If no output folder was selected the "Go to Output Folder" functionality was not opening the default location, namely the Desktop folder.

Version 1.0.2:

Imaging URLs is now provided as a service so that the funtionality is available from the Services menu. This enables DropImageURL to image URL text selections in any application.
A URL imaging dialog window has been added. Open it by selecting "Image URL..." from the File menu.
Added a dock menu item to go to the image folder.
Added an Edit menu, and copy and paste support for program text fields.

Version 1.0.1:

Implemented a "Preferences" window which enables you to specify image scaling[1-100%], image format [TIFF, BMP, JPEG, PNG, PICT, Photoshop, QuickTime, MacPaint and JPEG2000], output folder, option to set image file comment to the URL being imaged, option to automatically open image file, option to select image file in Finder and option to overwrite files by the same name.
Added two Dock menu items: "Preferences..." to open preferences window, and "Image Browser URL" to image the currently frontmost browser URL (for all supported browsers: Safari, FireFox, Camino and OmniWeb.)
Added a File menu, with the same "Image Browser URL" as in the Dock menu.
Fixed a bug that could cause a crash.

REQUIREMENTS

Mac OS X 10.4 or later.