SVG Screenshot
Take scalable, semantic, accessible screenshots, in SVG format.
What is SVG Screenshot?
SVG Screenshot is a Firefox add-on that allows you to capture flexible, scalable, semantic, and accessible screenshots in SVG format. It offers various advantages over normal PNG screenshots including the ability to freely select the capture region, scalability without pixelation, semantic text, accessibility for screen readers, compatibility with design tools, interactive links, inlined external resources, static styles, compact file size, and enhanced security without JavaScript execution.
Add-on stats
By: Felix Becker
Creation date: 2020-11-29
Weekly download count: 17
Firefox on Android: No
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
- activeTab
- <all_urls>
- storage
Size: 1.14M
URLs: Website
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Add-on summary
SVG screenshots offer various benefits over normal PNG screenshots, while keeping the good parts:
- 🖼 Flexible: Freely select the region of the website you want to capture or capture the whole page.
- 💢 Scalable graphics: Screenshots never get pixelated when zooming in.
- 📝 Semantic: Text can still be selected and copied to clipboard.
- 🦻 Accessible: SVG is annotated with ARIA attributes and can be read by screen readers.
- 🖥 Paste into design tools: SVGs will work in design tools like Illustrator, Figma, Sketch etc.
- 🔗 Interactive: Links are still clickable.
- 📦 Self-contained: Inlines external resources like images, fonts, etc.
- 📸 Static: Styles and layout are recorded at the time of snapshot and will not change.
- 🗜 Small: Depending on the content, SVGs can be magnitudes smaller than PNGs and compress loslessly.
- 🛡 Secure: The SVG will not run any JavaScript.
User reviews
Doesn't properly render a local file that I tested. Additionally, whether the viewport option captures the entire page or merely the visible portion isn't evident.
by RokeJulianLockhart, 2024-10-30
by Kai, 2024-09-30
Doesn't work. Throws some error. Waste of time. Move along.
by Firefox user 14752524, 2023-10-07
Add-on safety
Risk impact
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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