Comments on: One more thing…. Browser Snapshot and file attachments

By: Eugene

Eugene — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 21:33:01 +0000

How about just storing the page as an *.MHT web-archive? I never print out the invoices. I save the confirmation pages as MHT archives. So basically anyone can do that, however, I admit that not everyone knows of their browser features and prefer following the instructions from the screen. To make it even easier, the “Print Screen” key has always been on the keybord since the 80’s. It captures to the clipboard the BMP image of watever is on the screen, and all you have to do is paste the BMP file into the Paint application.

As a businessman, however, I agree that’s a good marketing solution, anyway.

By: Marc Hedlund

Marc Hedlund — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 21:40:47 +0000

@Woody: We’ve added support for PNG snapshots. If you go to Tools -> Add-Ons in Firefox, then choose “Find Updates,” you’ll be prompted to install the 1.0.1 version of the Uploader. PNG is a selection in the Options pane.

@Dan: PDFs are a great idea, especially since they would make it easy to search, as you say. It looks like there isn’t a quick and easy way to add this (like there was for PNG), but we’ll look into what it would take.

Thanks for the suggestions!

By: Chris Roos

Chris Roos — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 06:50:38 +0000

Excellent work guys. I’ve wanted something like this for ever. I was even intending to create it myself at some point. Luckily, you just saved me some work. Grand.

By: Dan Peterson

Dan Peterson — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 05:07:01 +0000

Really sorry for the multiple posts, I keep thinking of things to add and you don’t support editing of comments. The other great advantage to PDFs is that you can make them searchable so if I need to find something and it’s either not named or tagged properly in the entry we could still find it with a simple search. I think that would be another “killer” feature for Wesabe.

By: Dan Peterson

Dan Peterson — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 05:04:09 +0000

Also, have you considered doing the “browser snapshots” as PDFs instead of JPGs? That would reproduce a whole lot better for when we do need to print one, it would make the files a bit larger but not so much that I can see it becoming an issue for anyone. I’d greatly appreciate it.

By: Dan Peterson

Dan Peterson — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 04:57:32 +0000

The whole package is just awesome guys, thank you soooo much for doing this! I was already really excited after reading about the FF plugin for uploading (and watching the video of course) and this just put the cherry on top. I currently print as PDF all my online receipts rather than printing on paper so I already have them all ready to upload and attach , this just makes it sooo much easier from now on. I think I’ll wait until they get encrypted but just knowing it’s there makes me a very happy camper.

By: Woody

Woody — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 23:46:33 +0000

How about making it save to PNG? The JPG quality looks ok, but “muddy”. just a thought?