[Phosphor]

(Posted also at MacOSXHints forum. You may also want to view that short thread for any info I might forget to put here)

I'm trying to capture LARGE Google maps (in excess of my largest possible monitor resolution).

I tried the tutorial at the link below, and followed it to the letter.

http://www.dq.winsila.com/tips-trick...ogle-maps.html

After saving the text file as "***.html" I try to open it in Firefox and all I see is the actual code. It doesn't open the big map in my browser window. JFI, I tried also after disabling the NoScript and AdBlock Plus extensions. I also made sure to allow java, javascript and pop-up windows in Firefox prefs...that's all I can figure out to do.

Long-Time user "Las_Vegas" over at MOSXH Forums has no trouble with the method. He made a couple recommendations but I've had no luck. I know this almost like asking someone to become a mindreader, but since I can't get this to work in ANY browser I'm wondering if the culprit might be in my ../BootVolume/Library/Internet Plug-Ins. I can't figure out how I could tell without trading them in and out. BUT, If I trade them out of that folder for testing purposes, what I'm trying to access and do through the Google API might not work.



Any help would be greatly appreciated.

In case anyone can suss the problem just by looking at the code, or wants to try the capture for themselves, here it is. I'm using Seinfeld's apartment address from the TV show as an example:

Code:
<iframe width="6000" height="6000" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;source=s_q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=129+W.+81st+Street+New+York+NY&amp;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&amp;sspn=43.393645,63.017578&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hq=&amp;hnear=129+W+81+St,+New+York,+10024&amp;ll=40.783614,-73.97535&amp;spn=0.000636,0.000962&amp;t=h&amp;z=20&amp;output=embed"></iframe><br /><small><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;source=embed&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=129+W.+81st+Street+New+York+NY&amp;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&amp;sspn=43.393645,63.017578&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hq=&amp;hnear=129+W+81+St,+New+York,+10024&amp;ll=40.783614,-73.97535&amp;spn=0.000636,0.000962&amp;t=h&amp;z=20" style="color:#0000FF;text-align:left">View Larger Map</a></small>

[mduell]

Be helpful if you posted the complete URL instead of the truncated version.

[Phosphor]

YIKES! Sorry about the faulty URL pasting from another forum. (I fixed it above, as well.)

Here's the full boat:
How to easily capture large maps from google maps — Digital Quest

[Phosphor]

Solution found!

My pal James Dempsey from The Graphic Mac popped into my thread about this over at MacTech's forum and offered the following solution:

Follow the steps as stated in the first link. When you paste the code into TextEdit, make sure you go under the Format menu and choose Make Plain Text (Command + Shift + T). Now go to the Save As dialog box, make sure that just below the file list the dropdown menu "Plain Text Encoding" has Unicode (UTF-8) selected. Name your file and add .html as the extension.

That should work for you. The key is making sure it is a Plain Text file before saving

For practically ever, I've had TextEdit's preferences set to create all new documents in *.rtf (Rich Text Format). Command + Shift + T on the selected text makes the document Plain Text, and makes it work.

Thanks to those who participated...and help me thank James for getting it sussed by taking a jump over to his The Graphic Mac blog for "Tips, reviews & more on all things OSX & graphic design."