Or even better, if you can reliably reproduce the problem perhaps record yourself doing so using something like https://www.cockos.com/licecap/
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#22No, I favor full screen screenshots because people tend to not include important things when they crop.
Also you get to spy on people a little
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's, sadly, the Web these days. Even with adblockers, I see the "advertisement" lines remaining in articles. Often every paragraph or two.
With Javascript disabled, I don't see them at all
Depending on the site, I do.
This LA Times article has two "advertisement" lines. The ads themselves don't appear. JS is disabled.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-10-31/homes-bu...
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#24This piece is so littered with ads (one per paragraph) that it is impossible to read without an ad blocker.
That's why there's so much blank space between the paragraphs! /s
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Re: annotated screenshots, there once was a module that allowed making snapshots of GTK windows as PDFs: https://github.com/nomeata/gtk-vector-screenshot Edit: here it is in action, with selectable text: https://www.joachim-breitner.de/various/pdf_screenshot_3.pdf
wow, that's awesome - thanks for sharing! :) I'm surprised it's not more popular though, but I guess it has remained undiscovered like it was for me until now, or it's simply not as useful to others as I would think. Maybe because not all apps are GTK3 apps, or people don't want pdf's because they can't be inlined on a issue ticket like plain old images can, for example?
> people don't want pdf's because they can't be inlined on a issue ticket like plain old images can
Well, this module can also produce SVGs, which, I guess, can be inlined in some issue trackers. But, aside from being GTK3-only, the main reason this sort of thing didn't become popular is simply due the fact that even JPEG screenshots are just good enough and get the job done. Virtually nobody has any need to search for text in older screenshots; selecting text—well, you can't copy-paste from most of real error windows, so you're going to re-type its content anyways; and nobody is bothered with other people's font sizes, aliasing preferences, JPEG artifacts or whatever.
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#26The downside of uncropped screenshots is information leakage from e.g. your bookmarks, open tabs, unrelated emails, IM popups etc. Another commentator mentioned annotated screenshots, and now I'm wondering about the "semantic screenshot"; imagine getting a copy of someone's desktop frozen in time with the ability to re-stack windows, check what's currently available on menus, etc.
I turned off the default Username in menu bar on MacOS so I had one less thing to take off my screenshots.
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#27That's because this article is not about screenshots, it's about the human condition with a dialectical analysis centered on the banal medium of the screenshot vis the existential angst we suffer as human beings now that the floodgates of communication have been busted wide open yet we still have very little of substance to relate
This is a person who truly gets it and knows how to paint a picture with words. Try taking a more visceral approach or listening to Baba Ram Dass in order to truly appreciate the mastery of verse contained in this blog post
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#28This piece is so littered with ads (one per paragraph) that it is impossible to read without an ad blocker.
Reader mode and adblocker and JS turned off. It was absolutely fine to read, just text and images :)
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#29> Then there are the well-meaning spirits who discovered the developer console and send these with worried emojis:
All too true. The worst I've ever gotten was an email titled "Problem!" (or similar), the body was several of the grimacing and throwing up emojis, and attached was a screenshot of a (long and ugly) SQL query without the attached results.
When I asked if they could send the results over, or at least a copy-pasteable version of the query, they said they had closed SQL Workbench already along with the query and results...
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#30This piece is so littered with ads (one per paragraph) that it is impossible to read without an ad blocker.
That's why there's so much blank space between the paragraphs! /s
One of those blank spaces is the white square screenshot mentioned in the article. I assumed it was just an ad taking a while to render the first time I scrolled past it.
http://www.stilldrinking.org/blog_images/suzy/take-better-sc...
