Webpage screenshot in Ubuntu: large webpages

[Amedee Van Gasse (ub)]

On Fri, November 27, 2009 16:19, Wade Smart wrote:
> Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> I just discovered this terrific solar system scale:
>> http://www.phrenopolis.com/perspective/solarsystem/
>>
>> I would like to export it as a .png image, but I cannot figure out how
>> to do that. I have been playing with wget and imagemagick but I just
>> can't do it. Googling finds Firefox addons that do not support such a
>> large page and Windows software. Any ideas? Thanks!
>>
>
> Put your cursor on the image, right click, select "Save Image As".
> Its a jpg but you can put sun.png as the name and it works just fine.

That won't work because that would only give him the sun, he wants the
rest of the solar system too.
Just look at the page source:

<TD valign=center><A NAME="sun"><IMG SRC="sun.jpg" ALT="" HEIGHT=562
WIDTH=562></A></TD>

<TD valign=top><table width=300 cellpadding=20 valign=top><tr><td>
This page shows a scale model of the solar system, shrunken down to the
point where the Sun, normally more than eight hundred thousand miles
across, is the size you see it here.  The planets are shown in
corresponding scale.  Unlike most models, which are compressed for viewing
convenience, the planets here are also shown at their true-to-scale
average <I>distances</I> from the Sun.  That makes this page rather large
- on an ordinary 72 dpi monitor it's just over half a mile wide, making it
possibly one of the largest pages on the web.  This means you'll have to
do a bit of scrolling if you want to find the planets, but don't despair. 
They are reasonably bright and labeled, so you can probably catch them
flashing by in the blackness even if you are scrolling fairly fast.<p>
(Note: users of older versions of Internet Explorer may not be able to
scroll manually all the way to the right edge.  If you want to actually
see Pluto, you may need to click <A HREF="#pluto">HERE</A>.)<p>

Speaking of Pluto, I know it's no longer technically a planet, but it's
still included in this model for reasons of tradition.
</td></tr></table></TD>

<TD><IMG SRC="black.gif" ALT="" HEIGHT=8 WIDTH=10000></TD>
<TD><IMG SRC="black.gif" ALT="" HEIGHT=8 WIDTH=13049></TD>
<TD valign=center><A NAME="mercury"><IMG SRC="mercury.gif" ALT=""
HEIGHT=27 WIDTH=57></A></TD>
<TD><IMG SRC="black.gif" ALT="" HEIGHT=8 WIDTH=10000></TD>
<TD><IMG SRC="black.gif" ALT="" HEIGHT=8 WIDTH=10259></TD>
<TD valign=center><A NAME="venus"><IMG SRC="venus.gif" ALT="" HEIGHT=28
WIDTH=44></A></TD>
<TD><IMG SRC="black.gif" ALT="" HEIGHT=8 WIDTH=10000></TD>
<TD><IMG SRC="black.gif" ALT="" HEIGHT=8 WIDTH=6675></TD>
<TD valign=center><A NAME="earth"><IMG SRC="earth.gif" ALT="" HEIGHT=28
WIDTH=37></A></TD>
<TD><IMG SRC="black.gif" ALT="" HEIGHT=8 WIDTH=10000></TD>
<TD><IMG SRC="black.gif" ALT="" HEIGHT=8 WIDTH=10000></TD>
<TD><IMG SRC="black.gif" ALT="" HEIGHT=8 WIDTH=11576></TD>
<TD valign=center><A NAME="mars"><IMG SRC="mars.gif" ALT="" HEIGHT=28
WIDTH=34></A></TD>