Scrolling capture fails for many web pages, PDF docs etc.

I'm often asked why scrolling capture fails for many web pages, so decided to post this and the possible workarounds:
 
Scrolling capture relies on capturing the visible part of a page, scrolling it a little bit, capturing again and comparing the two to find how much the contents has moved. If your page has contents that animates quickly, or elements that don’t scroll, just stay in place, any such comparison will fail and I cannot fix it.
 
Workarounds include using “scroll region” function and carefully outlining what you want to capture with scrolling, avoiding non-scrolling elements (e.g. navigation) or fast animated ad columns.
 
To capture fully a web page from the most popular browsers, you don't need HyperSnap anymore. Read capture full web page post here.
 
Capturing PDF documents with scrolling fails
The reason you sometimes cannot capture PDF documents with scrolling is due to the background behind the pages in a PDF viewer, which has some kind of pattern or shading, but does not move as you scroll the pages. If you capture something that is not uniform color and does not scroll with the rest of the window, auto-scroll will not work. The reason is that HyperSnap has to compare the images before and after each scroll, to find identical parts and what was added at the bottom, to correctly stitch the images. If some part of the window moves, and another (background) does not move, such comparison will fail, as there is no identical parts before and after the scroll. The problem is similar if you have some part that are animated fast or change the image before and after scroll.
 
The work around would be to either set a uniform color background in your PDF viewer, or make PDF viewer narrower so that the background on each side of the page is not showing, and setting the viewer to show continuous pages (so that no background is shown between the pages). That way the images before and after each scroll will have identical large parts and can be correctly stitched.
 
Greg

Hello Rafa,
whenever you choose the FireFox add-on from the HyperSnap Configuration ribbon, it will try to find the latest version and install it.
Please be aware, that the plug in cannot solve all problems with scrolling pages. If you have moving elements, blinking banners or video clips, HyperSnap has trouble finding the changend content by "looking downward", as changes already happened "up there".
Imagine pages of paper laid out under another building a vertical row.
HS snaps the first page and looks down, comparing the second page with the first. If HS "sees" differences, it will snap the second page and so on.
Now, you have blinking ads, banners, videos on the first page. HS won't even look down, as the changes are on the first page, and again and again and again.
 
See next post for a tip circumventing the problem.
 
Thomas
The Lesser Admin
 
 

You might also want to try different browsers - Firefox, older MSIE, Vivaldi etc.
My best results came from MSIE 9 (I deliberately refused to upgrade beyond v9)
 
Does screen resolution have any bearing on this ?
Maybe a lower res like 800x600 would help?