Resize Safari window beyond screen limits

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#1

Hello,

I would like to resize Safari’s window beyond the vertical screen size, but


set {b1, b2, b3, b4} to (get bounds of window 1)
tell window 1 to set bounds to {b1, b2, b3, 3000}

doesn’t work. (It works with Finder.)

I’d like to increase the vertical size so that it matches the size of the content of a web page. Then I could do a simple screen capture of that window to save its contents (all the tools out there to save long web pages that I am aware of have some drawbacks).

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Bernhard

#2

I cannot get the window to go beyond the size of my monitor.

If you haven’t already thought of it, hiding the Bookmarks and Toolbar
will give you a little more room.

Regards,

Craig

#3

Hi,

screen capturing outside the visible range of a screen is physically (and logically) impossible

#4

Hi bkruepl,

Have you already tried webkit2png, an excellent and easy-to-use tool that creates png screenshots of webpages?

You can download the script here:

http://www.paulhammond.org/webkit2png/

#5

Thank you to everybody who answered so far, this forum is great!

@Craig: This is a good tip, but unfortunately I need way more space than hiding the toolbar and bookmarks provides.

@StefanK: I understand why you say that, but I can prove the opposite with a Finder window:


tell application "Finder"
	tell window 1 to set bounds to {30, 30, 800, 3000}
end tell

Now press SHIFT-CMD-4, press SPACE to switch to window selection mode, CLICK. Voila, you have an image of a Finder window that has a height of 3000 pixels. (Maybe “window grab” would be a more accurate term than “screen grab of a window” though.)

@Martin: I already looked into it, and I believe Paparazzi! is also based on this one. But the one main obstacle of using some tools outside of Safari is that you cannot make a dump of a page that you reached by some complex navigation, because these tools cannot access Safari’s session information. E.g., try to make a dump of some search results.

The other tools I am aware of are based on PDF export, but there are still some flaws with this method (it does not look exactly like the Safari version).

If I could just create a larger Safari window with Applescript, it would be a perfect and simple solution, so all ideas are still welcome!

Bernhard

#6

Hi

Checkout this link to a very good script which may do what you want.
http://joyofscripting.com/wp/?p=176

i tested it on the new front page to these forums which is way longer than my screen it and it got the lot!!

if it doesn’t work then i apologise, however still checkout this guys website he’s very clever and has some great scripting info on there.