Short answer: scrolling screenshots come out as one giant image — awkward to print, share or read. Lovely Screenshots captures the long page and exports it as a proper multi-page PDF (A4 or Letter), breaking pages on whitespace so no line of text is ever cut in half.
The problem with one giant screenshot
Scrolling capture tools — CleanShot X, Shottr, and others — all produce a single very tall image. Fine for a quick look; terrible the moment you want to print it, attach it to a report, or archive it. Printing crops it arbitrarily, and a 12:1 aspect ratio reads like a supermarket receipt.
People ask for exactly this on Reddit: “Is there a screenshot app that can take a scrolling screenshot and turn it into pages, not one large scrolling screenshot?” — that's this feature.
Scrolling capture → PDF pages in Lovely
- Take a scrolling capture. Press ⌘⇧5 and pick Scroll (or choose Scrolling Capture from the menu bar), drag a box over the scrollable area, and scroll to the end. Press Return to finish.
- Open the PDF export. The capture appears as a card on the shelf. Hover it and click the PDF button in the bottom-right corner — it only appears on scrolling captures.
- Pick a page size. Choose A4 (default) or Letter in the save dialog. Lovely slices the tall image into pages, breaking on whitespace between blocks — never through a line of text.
- Save and share. You get a clean multi-page PDF that prints properly, attaches nicely to email, and reads like a document instead of a 9,000-pixel-tall image.
Frequently asked questions
Why pages instead of one long image?
A single tall PNG is awkward everywhere paper-shaped documents are expected: printing crops it, email previews shrink it to a sliver, and PDF viewers show one absurdly long page. Splitting it into A4/Letter pages makes the capture behave like a normal document.
How does Lovely decide where to break pages?
It looks for real gaps — the whitespace between paragraphs, messages or cards — near each page boundary and cuts in the middle of the gap. It deliberately ignores the thin spacing between lines inside a paragraph, so text is never sliced mid-line.
Can Safari do this natively?
Safari's File → Export as PDF saves a web page as a PDF, but as one continuous page, not paginated sheets — and it only works for web pages in Safari. Lovely's export works on anything you can scroll: chat threads, native apps, code, spreadsheets.
Is this free?
PDF export is included with scrolling capture, which is part of Lovely Pro — a one-time $12 (beta price), no subscription.