What is SVG Screenshot?
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SVG screenshots offer various benefits over normal PNG screenshots, while keeping the good parts:
š¼ Flexible: Freely select the region of the website you want to capture or capture the whole page. š¢ Scalable graphics: Screenshots never get pixelated when zooming in. š Semantic: Text can still be selected and copied to clipboard. š¦» Accessible: SVG is annotated with ARIA attributes and can be read by screen readers. š„ Paste into design tools: SVGs will work in design tools like Illustrator, Figma, Sketch etc. š Interactive: Links are still clickable. š¦ Self-contained: Inlines external resources like images, fonts, etc. šø Static: Styles and layout are recorded at the time of snapshot and will not change. š Small: Depending on the content, SVGs can be magnitudes smaller than PNGs and compress loslessly. š” Secure: The SVG will not contain any JavaScript.
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- Works out of the box and produces results close to the original.
- Screenshot in SVG format is very useful with scalable texts and clickable links.
- Amazing extension that is capable of capturing root pages accurately.
- Fonts are often saved incorrectly.
- Fails to capture certain elements like dropdown menus and modal components.
- Produces large SVG files with unnecessary attributes.
- Many sites result in an error mentioning '<image> element must have ID'.
- Does not capture images, and links behave just as normal text.
- Fonts are saved wrongly.
- Does not capture dropdown menus.
- Many sites result in an error mentioning '<image> element must have ID'.
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SVG Screenshot requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.
Risk likelihood
SVG Screenshot has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.
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