Title: Inconsistent Output
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Inconsistent Output

 *  [bbhank](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bbhank/)
 * (@bbhank)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/inconsistent-output/)
 * The pages I’m doing screen shots of don’t show up correctly. I does not work 
   at all. What I see on screen is not what is in its screenshot. Does not update
   if page changes.
    Cant resize and show proportionally. Renders some pages, others
   not. No rhyme or reason as to which is what. Takes long time if renders at all.
   Wanted to use on pages created on own site to produce pdfs. Will not update as
   pages are changed. Good idea but does not work well at all in real time. Need
   to be able to capture any part of screen as well as whole. Developed blank theme
   for use in producing accurate pdfs from actual screen shots. Pages will be in
   constant change. That’s the purpose. Not consistent enough to do what it says
   it does.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/browser-shots/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/browser-shots/)

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 *  [Ciprian Dracea (Drake)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dracea/)
 * (@dracea)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/inconsistent-output/#post-5734649)
 * I used this plugin for years and I can tell that it does exactly what is says
   to do. Not does what you expect to do.
 * The plugin just access a service from wordpress.com which generate those screenshots.
   Not generate screenshots by itself, only access this service and help you to 
   integrate easily this service on your own site. The crawler from wordpress come
   to refresh the screenshots very rare… once a week or even rarely, not even close
   to be a real time service… If in the second when the crawler came, the site wasn’t
   accessible for some reason (even because exactly at that moment your server was
   busy with a backup and the website was slow), the screenshot will show a 404 
   error till to next visit of crawler. If you have on frontpage a flash animation–
   the service will generate a blank screen instead… and so on…
    In conclusion, 
   you cannot use the plugin in the way you want.
 *  Plugin Author [binarymoon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/binarymoon/)
 * (@binarymoon)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/inconsistent-output/#post-5734708)
 * Thanks for responding Ciprian – you’re exactly right. This is just a wrapper 
   for a third party service and so is not something I can help with or change.

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/inconsistent-output/#post-5734708)
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