I get the screenshot of a webpage contained inside a WebBrowser control just as described here and here, but I have a problem: if the WebBrowser control is not at full screen, the screenshot gets cropped to the size of the control.
Is it possible to save a screenshot of the whole page if the WebBrowser control is not at full screen?
This is the code I'm currently using to save the screenshot:
private void SaveBrowserScreenshot(WebBrowser browser, string path, string name)
{
const int width = 1024;
const int height = 768;
const string extension = ".png";
using (var bitmap = new Bitmap(width, height))
{
var rect = new Rectangle(0, 0, width, height);
browser.DrawToBitmap(bitmap, rect);
using (var image = bitmap)
{
using (var graphic = Graphics.FromImage(image))
{
graphic.CompositingQuality = CompositingQuality.HighQuality;
graphic.SmoothingMode = SmoothingMode.HighQuality;
graphic.InterpolationMode = InterpolationMode.HighQualityBicubic;
image.Save(String.Concat(path, "\\", name, extension), ImageFormat.Png);
}
}
}
}
Performance is not an issue since this will never be used in production.
Could you make a button that when it takes the snapshot it takes the current URL and puts that into a new WeBrowser object which is then expanded to a much bigger size so when it takes the screenshot it's full size?
Since my WebBrowser control was hidden, I was able to fix this by simply resizing it. If the control isn't hidden, it will get re-sized while the screenshot in being saved.
private void SaveBrowserScreenshot(WebBrowser browser, string path, string name)
{
const string extension = ".png";
int width = Math.Max(1024, Screen.PrimaryScreen.Bounds.Width);
int height = Math.Max(768, Screen.PrimaryScreen.Bounds.Height);
int originalWidth = browser.Width;
int originalHeight = browser.Heignt;
browser.Width = width;
browser.Heigt = height;
using (var bitmap = new Bitmap(width, height))
{
var rect = new Rectangle(0, 0, width, height);
browser.DrawToBitmap(bitmap, rect);
using (var image = bitmap)
{
using (var graphic = Graphics.FromImage(image))
{
graphic.CompositingQuality = CompositingQuality.HighQuality;
graphic.SmoothingMode = SmoothingMode.HighQuality;
graphic.InterpolationMode = InterpolationMode.HighQualityBicubic;
image.Save(String.Concat(path, "\\", name, extension), ImageFormat.Png);
}
}
}
browser.Width = originalWidth;
browser.Height = originalHeight;
}
As an alternative, you could create another WebBrowser control, hide it and re-size it as willDaBeast suggested, but this will have some performance implications.
Unfortunately this is not possible, as a "ScreenShot" records the visible items on the screen at that time
Maybe you could look into saving the HTML and rendering that as an image instead?
EDIT:
This link could help with my suggestion:
How do I save a web page to image