Yes that is precisely what I want to do, so it looks as though it's undo-able.
mervt

Sorry for the confusion

No prob. Thanks for the help. Someone please crack it. It would be most useful for saving grabs of settings in modems, email address preferences, site access details in Dreamweaver etc. etc.
mervt

There is a couple of Applescripts for printing a folder listing under printing Scripts (Applescript in Applications Folder)
Print Window With Subfolders.scpt and Print Window.scpt
These I think will print a list but would need to be modified to save as a text file

Also found this PrintFinder which might do the trick.

Thank you. Yes the scripts will be useful in recording the contents of folders, but what I really want to do is what grab does and that is take a pic of the entire contents of an on screen window.

An example would be - - I am in the ADSL site and am viewing a long list posts on a particular topic and I would like to preserve all of them as a pic in one go.

mervt

To save a full web page as it appears in a scrollable window, if you use Firefox you can use the ScrapBook extension. I have been using this for several years now, very useful. It can also do an efficient search of pages saved. Note that by default the files will be saved in a folder in your FF profile (this can be altered), and I assume you need the extension to view them. Scrapbook will also save a precise selection from a web page. It's easy to use and organise.

However while Scrapbook will save a scrollable page of the window open in your browser, it won't save any additional pages of a full forum thread for instance. To capture a full length thread (all the pages) in a TBB forum, one option is to use the "Print Thread" view button (bottom right of the page), then 'Save Page As" from the File menu, and save as a Web Page. This is fairly efficient and the files can be opened in any browser window.

There is a (free) programme called Paparazzi! - a small utility for Mac OS X that makes screenshots of webpages. Not tried it though.

Yes - that's it. Firefox Scrapbook does just what I need - at last!
Thanks a bunch s_h

mervt

Good news
I find a myriad uses for Scrapbook. Saving records of a travel booking for instance. There are all sorts of fleeting web pages which can't be bookmarked in the normal way. If later you find you want a PDF of a Scrapbook page, use the printer dialogue.

I use a similar approach but using a small paid for app called Yojimbo it gives me an extra global option in the Print to pdf menu in any application. And as a .mac user it syncs to idisk and all my other macs too.

Cracking app. (but not free).

HTH