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Print Screen to Website


My user need to screen shot their error message throw my website. They should directly paste from clipboard in my website instead convert the jpeg. Preferable browser is Firefox. I try to use ZeroClipBoard but it works for words not images. Appreciated if anyone could advice and share any links for references.


Solution

  • Simple answer: you can't. There is no web-standards way to read binary data from the clipboard, I also do not believe that Flash or Silverlight does this either (Flash can expose bitmap data from the clipboard, but only under AIR, i.e. not in a browser context).

    You could write a small desktop utility program that your users download and run, which will take a screenshot and upload it for them, but without that your users will have to paste the image into Paint, save to disk, and upload with an <input type="file">.