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CapturePage, panels and timing

Results & savingFiles, PDF and editor

Rulers & guidesMeasurement and reusable guides

Open ruler and guide instructions

RecordingAuto-scroll and quality

Presets & transferImport and export

History & storageCaptures and baselines

Pro licencePlan and licence key

Help & feedbackUser guide and support

User guide

Every capture type, ruler and guide control, editor key and export option on one page. It is part of the add-on and works offline.

Open the user guide

Output

Save as

PDF pages

One long page keeps a tall column intact. A4 and Letter split it for printing.

PDF resolution

Applies to One long page. Nothing is re-encoded at any setting: the same pixels are laid on a smaller page, which is what makes them denser. Native size matches the screenshot on screen, one image pixel per screen pixel. A4 and Letter already fit the image to the page, so they are unaffected.

PDF image encoding

Lossless keeps every pixel the capture holds, so the edges of small text stay clean however far you zoom - and on a flat page design it is often the smaller file as well. JPEG is smaller on pages full of photographs, and leaves faint ringing around small text when zoomed. Applies to every PDF, including batch runs.

Sharper batch PDFs (capture at double resolution) Off by default. Every page in a batch run is captured with twice the detail, so text stays crisp when you zoom in past 400%. The trade: files about three times larger, and a run that takes two to three times as long. Only for batch runs saved as PDF; the screenshots you copy and paste are not affected. A very long page - more than about 16,000 pixels tall - is captured at normal detail instead, so it never loses width to fit.

PDF page margin

Only applies to A4 and Letter pages - a single long page always prints edge to edge.

PDF header

Needs a page margin above (A4 or Letter, margin not None) to have room to print in.

PDF footer

Same margin requirement as the header above.

PDF watermark

Printed diagonally in light grey across the capture itself, on every page, in every PDF mode.

Watermark scale 300% Colour Pro Opacity 100%

Header shortcut after upgrading

Choose the small shortcut shown beside Settings after your licence is active.

Show Pro labels after upgrading Off by default. Free users still see Pro labels on locked features.

Keyboard shortcuts Off by default. Turn on to capture without opening this popup.

Leave a box empty to unbind that one. Chrome needs a modifier: Ctrl, Alt, Shift or a combination, plus one key.

After capture

The result page is where zoom, Crop, Save JPEG and Save as PDF live, along with Set baseline and Compare. Those last two need Pro.

Open the result page after a capture On by default. The result page is where comparing against a baseline, saving as PDF and saving every panel at once live. Turn it off if you only ever paste, and captures will copy silently instead. Show a rule-of-thirds grid in the crop tool Off by default. Draws two lines each way inside the crop box on the result page, dividing it into thirds, which is the composition guide most photo croppers use. The crop tool reads this every time it opens, so a change here takes effect on a result page that is already open. It does not appear in the cropped image. Show a notification when a capture is saved Tells you the filename and where it went. Show on-page hints On by default. While you pick an element or clean a page, a small card in the lower-left corner lists its keys, and the ruler readout lists the keys for the guide you are moving. The × on the card, or Hide tips in the readout, hides them for that one tool. Switching this on again brings them all back. Open the containing folder after saving Reveals the file in your file manager. Ask where to save each file Off means files go straight to your download folder.

Capture

Ruler placement

The default reserves 24px along the top and left while rulers are shown, so they do not cover normal page content. This can reflow narrow pages; a site with fixed-to-viewport elements may still overlap the gutter. Overlay keeps the page layout unchanged but covers those edges.

Spacing scale

Copy measurements lists any size or gap that is not a multiple of this number, with the nearest value that is.

Settle fixed and sticky overlays after the first tile Fixed overlays are hidden and sticky ones drop into their normal place, so a sticky header is captured once instead of repeating down a long capture. Include rulers and guides in captures Off by default, so captures show the page alone. Turn it on to burn rulers and guides into visible-window and region captures. Scrolling and stitched captures keep guides but omit repeating ruler strips. Combine panels side by side Produces one composite image as well as the individual panels.

Capture delay 220ms

Time allowed for repaint between tiles. Raise it if captures show torn or blank bands.

Screen recording

Auto-scroll drives the page (or a panel you pick) while recording instead of leaving it to the mouse wheel, advancing it by the same distance for every frame that is captured. It is on by default, and the on/off switch sits next to the recording button in the popup. The speed below is what that works out to while captures keep up; a page that is slow to capture moves more slowly than the dial says, and the recording still comes out evenly spaced. The two settings below shape it.

Scroll speed 350px/s

How far the scroll travels before the recording's time cap ends it.

Start delay 1.0s

How long the recording holds still before the scroll starts moving, measured from the moment the recording starts. A beat of stillness at the top reads better as a demo than motion from the very first frame. At 0 the scroll starts as soon as it can, which is still a few frames in: the recorder captures for a few hundred milliseconds while it sets the scroll driver up, and those frames are held ones whatever this is set to.

Smoother recording On by default. Captures 15 frames a second instead of 5, so the motion steps 23 pixels at a time at the default speed instead of 70. It costs noticeably more CPU and makes the file larger; a full five-minute Pro recording can use several hundred megabytes, depending on window size and page motion. Free and Pro both have it. If your machine cannot keep up with 15, the recording drops to a rate it can hold rather than stuttering, and the result page says which rate it used. Turn this off for the lighter, steppier 5fps capture.

Button order

The order capture modes appear in the popup. Shown/Hidden takes a mode out of the popup and out of batch capture's mode list without changing anything about how it captures, so a keyboard shortcut still runs a hidden mode. At least one mode stays shown, and the last one's button greys out to say so.

Screen recording sits at the end of the list and its arrows stay greyed out. The popup draws it in its own block under the capture modes whatever this order says, so there is nowhere for it to move to. Hiding it also removes the auto-scroll switch and the panel picker beneath it. It differs from a hidden capture mode in one way worth knowing: the popup button is the only place a recording starts, so hiding it switches recording off rather than just tidying it away. Alt+Shift+S and Alt+Shift+X keep working on a recording already running.

Guide templates Pro

A template is a named set of guides that can be re-drawn on other pages. Templates are matched by address prefix: one saved on https://staging.example.com/docs covers that page and anything under /docs. Other sections of the site fall outside it.

Apply automatically on matching pages Re-draws the set on pages whose address starts with the one it was saved on, and marks it "default" in the list below. Only one template can hold that mark, so ticking this box clears it from any other. It relies on the all-sites access that "Keep guides after reload" in the popup asks for, and a page that already has its own saved guides keeps those.

Export & import presets and templates Pro

Bundles every capture preset and guide template above into one JSON file - no account, no server. Share it with a teammate, or keep a copy before switching machines. Importing a file adds its presets and templates here, overwriting any already saved under the same name.

Stored capture data

The extension keeps two kinds of capture content, both in this browser profile only, never uploaded anywhere. Each can be deleted here in one click.

Capture history

Recent captures are kept at full resolution so they can be reopened from the toolbar popup after the result tab is gone.

Diff baselines

Capture diffing saves a baseline image of a page so a later capture of it can be compared against that baseline and show what changed.

Screenshot Crawler Pro

Checking licence…

The success page straight after purchase hands your key to the extension by itself, so there is usually nothing to paste here. Your receipt email carries the same key. If you have lost both, email support@screenshotcrawler.com.

Rulers, guides, every capture mode, PNG and PDF stay free, and so does screen recording, capped at 10 seconds with a watermark. Free still captures carry a thin credit line over the bottom edge reading "www.screenshotcrawler.com - free version", which the Crop button on the result page trims off.

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