Also, we fixed a problem that prevented some Flash sites from loading correctly when the “Arrange to Capture Flash Content” option was enabled.

For Page Saver Pro, we improved Firefox 3.6 compatibility for region capture.

Thank you to everyone who reported these problems. If you want to contact us, please visit our feedback page.

• Added an option to show the Page Saver item in the Firefox Status Bar. Learn more.
• Added a -savelog command line flag to allow the PageSaver:CaptureComplete log output to easily be captured in a file. Learn more.
• A new flashdelay command line option was added to allow an additional capture delay to be used when a page contains Flash content. Learn more.
• Improved Flash capture for dynamic pages.
• When a page is too large to be captured in its entirety, an alert message is displayed.
• Added a hidden preference named pagesaver.file.name.maxlength that may be modified to change the maximum length of the file paths that Page Saver generates. Learn more.
• Added Galician translation and updated other translations (special thanks to Eduardo Bauta Bis and all of the BabelZilla translators).

PRO In addition, Page Saver Pro purchasers can enjoy these enhancements:

• When capturing a selected region, the position and size of the selected area is displayed.
• When capturing a selected region, the arrow keys may be used to move (nudge) the selected area one pixel at a time (hold down the shift key to move it 10 pixels at a time).
• When capturing a selected region, the Enter or Return key may be used to complete the capture.
• When using the -saveoptions right and bottom command line options, negative values may be used to specify an offset from the right and bottom edge of the page.

As usual, you can upgrade from the Firefox add-ons window. If you are not using Page Saver yet, start at this page.

Most of these enhancements were requested by our customers. We value your feedback.

Recently, we’ve received several email messages from customers who report that Page Saver Basic and Pro are not able to capture Flash content on their Linux system. Unfortunately, we have not been able to determine the cause in all cases. Here are some things to check:

1) Make sure you are running Firefox 3.0.x, Flash 10.x, and either Page Saver Basic 2.1 or Page Saver Pro 2.1.

2) Make sure that your X display bit depth is 24. Other bit depth levels don’t allow Flash to be captured (see Mozilla bug 476282).

3) Make sure that you’ve enabled Page Saver’s Flash capture option. Interactively, check the menu item “Arrange to Capture Flash Content.” From the command line, be sure to include the -captureflash option along with some delay to allow some time for the Flash content to load (use the -savedelay command line flag).

If you are still having problems, it may help to:

• Install and use a copy of Firefox from Mozilla’s web site.
• Install the Flash plugin into your Firefox profile directory (~/.mozilla) rather than using a package provided with your Linux distribution. One customer reported:
  

  I found that the RPM package that Adobe distributes does some strange things with openSUSE. After uninstalling Flash completely and reinstalling the .gz manually on each user I was able to [capture Flash] with Arrange for Flash checked.

If you are experiencing this problem or if you found a fix, please make a comment here or contact us.

Enhancements included in both editions:

• Compatible with Firefox 3.5.
• The “Arrange to Capture Flash Content” supports more Flash pages and is now available on Mac OS.
• The default quality setting for JPEG images has been increased.
• If a page request fails during a command line capture (e.g., if Firefox is unable to contact the web server), an error is reported instead of capturing a blank image or an error page.
• The HTTP result code (e.g., 200 or 404) and other useful information is now reported for successful command line captures. Learn more.
• Improved coexistence with other Firefox add-ons.
• Updated Dutch translation (thanks to Markh).

Enjoy the new version, and please let us know what you think.

I am pleased to announce that Page Saver 2.0.1 was released this week. Available in both Basic and Pro editions, Page Saver now includes a translation for Traditional Chinese. Thank you to Jia Heui for providing the translation.

We also fixed problems that sometimes occurred when capturing very large images. In Page Saver Pro the height of the header and footer (if enabled) was not taken into account when limiting the height of tall pages. Thank you to Tim for reporting and helping us reproduce this problem. We also modified the way both Page Saver Basic and Pro determine when a page is too wide and/or too tall to better match Firefox’s limitations.

Occasionally we receive email from someone who wants to remove or change the position of the Page Saver toolbar icon (for example, moving it to a different location on the navigation toolbar or moving it to another Firefox toolbar). It is not obvious to many people how to do this, so I thought I would write a short article that explains how to customize your Firefox toolbars.

From the View | Toolbars submenu, choose “Customize…” A toolbar customization dialog that shows all of the items you can add to one of the toolbars will be opened below the Firefox toolbars. With Firefox 3 on Mac I see a dialog that looks like this:

At this point, you can drag items out of the dialog to any location on a toolbar or you can drag items that are already on a toolbar to a different location or to another toolbar. To remove an item from a toolbar, simply drag it into the dialog. When you are finished, click the Done button.

That’s all there is to it! The only caveat is that some toolbars cannot be customized (but most can).

Some of the customizations I like to make are to add separators and spacers and to remove the Firefox search box (I define keywords so I can search directly from the location bar).

You can also read the official Mozilla documentation on toolbar customization.

Last October, we updated Page Saver to be compatible with the early releases of Firefox 3. However, we expected that we would need to make additional changes to Page Saver since new features were still being added to Firefox at that time.

Here at Pearl Crescent, we are proud to announce version 1.7.1 of Page Saver (both Basic and Pro editions). For this release we added a Greek translation (thank you Demetris Kikizas) and made some minor adjustments and fixes for Firefox 3. In addition, Page Saver Pro now allows file name patterns to be used with the -saveas command line option.

As always, if you have any questions, comments or compliments to share with us, feel free to leave a reply below or use our feedback form.

However, now that Firefox 3 will soon be available, we have good news to share with our Macintosh customers: Page Saver 1.7 (Basic and Pro editions) can capture Flash content in Firefox 3! When I heard this good news I immediately loaded a YouTube video in Firefox 3 release candidate 1 and captured it. Thrilled with my resulting image, I tried it a few more times! Woohoo! Hurray! Yippee!

Unfortunately I don’t know when this will be addressed in Firefox for other platforms (Windows and Linux). For now, if you control the web page you want to capture and you are on Windows, you can change the HTML to include transparency (wmode=”transparent”) on the <embed> tag. For example:

  <embed src="my.swf" wmode="transparent"
         type="application/x-shockwave-flash">
  </embed>

If you want to try Firefox 3, download the release candidate here:

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-rc.html

Here is a sample capture:

With Page Saver installed, from the command line, you can specify the width and height of the browser window and capture an image of the page for review in one step. For example:

Before Page Saver does its capture, it resizes the browser window to the specified size. (Note that this is the window size including all of the toolbars, not the size of the web page content.)

Please let us know if you use this feature or if you have suggestions for how to improve this feature to make your job easier.

• The URL of the page can be used in the captured image’s file name. Include %u in the file name pattern in the Page Saver Options window.
• The MD5 hash of the page URL can be included in file names. Use %5 in the file name pattern in the Options window. This is useful when integrating with services such as the del.icio.us JSON feeds.
• Polish and Brazilian Portuguese translations are now included. Thank you to Rodrigo Bergmann Laurindo and vatzec for providing these via Babelzilla.
• Page Saver Pro now includes the capability to add a new Header and/or Footer to a captured image. This feature may be used to record the URL of the captured page, the date and time the page was captured, and other information. The header and footer is configurable in the new Header and Footer tab in the Page Saver Options window.