Capturing Flash Website Screen Shots
Problem: Lately I've been trying to capture website screenshots in various formats, but mainly PDF, PNG and JPG. For this, I have used a great webkit based command-line tool called wkhtmltopdf . Unfortunately, this tool does not support flash sites. We can use the "--enable-plugins" parameter, which will overcome the "flash is required to view this page" warning for missing flash extensions, but no usable rendering will come up from that. Turns out there is a tool, PhantomJS , that did once allow generating Flash-based sites/content to be rendered by its CLI version. Sadly enough, they completely removed this feature since 1.4.1, which is the last version to support Flash rendering. They remove Flash support for several reasons, but mainly to keep their ideals of "headless" script generation. For more info, here is a link . Solution: So the solution *** seams *** quite straight-forward: grab the 1.4.1 binaries and try them! For those of y...