Thanks all,
here is what I found on the subject:
html2jpg sounded great, but it's not automatic - i need to load each page
myself and click "capture image"
if there was a command line syntax or some other batch mode way to do it -
it would be nicer.
html2ps doesn't help much and it's too complex, I don't want to maintain
links and tables,
I just need a low-medium quality snapshot (capture) of the website page.
as for one of the suggestions, to minimize table heights and font sizes into
"mini" version of the
sites - it's not doable and looks TOO complex.
Imagefolio promises loads of features but I can seem to find out an
evaluation version to check
it out. I'm not willing to pay 189$ for a "program that creates thumbnails"
from everything -
what, where, which, how? god knows!!
so, if anyone had ANY experince with imagefolio or other automated program
that
captures webpages AUTOMATICLLY, I'm hearing.
thanks alot for your participation in this.
Thanks,
Michael Lugassy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rey Bango" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 4:06 AM
Subject: Re: What a task!
> One solution might be to take a look at ImageFolio. It seems to do
> everything that Michael wants.
>
> http://www.imagefolio.com
>
> Rey...
> Team Allaire...
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Raymond B." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2001 9:36 PM
> Subject: RE: What a task!
>
>
> > Haven't really been following this thread, but at it's highest level
your
> > problem seems to break down into these three steps. (If you want quick
> fixes
> > skip to the bottom.)
> >
> > 1. Render the HTML
> > 2. Convert rendered screen to image
> > 3. Resize image
> >
> >
> > RENDER THE HTML
> > ---------------
> >
> > You might check out http://www.mozilla.org/ for mozilla's HTML rendering
> > engine if you want something you can bring into your own code. There are
> > some other engines that are open as well, I'll leave them to you to
find.
> >
> > Alternately there's closed source such as the popular IE. Which you
decide
> > to use counts heavily on the next step.
> >
> > CONVERTING TO AN IMAGE
> > ----------------------
> >
> > The whole purpose of the exercise is to get the render (R) to output to
a
> > bitmapped image (I). Theoretically the easiest way would be get R > I;
> > somehow I doubt it's going to be as easy as a 'mozilla --url=www.foo.com
>
> > bar.jpg' though.
> >
> > Given the mozilla source you may be able find where you could redirect
the
> > screen display though. I'm not overlly familiar w/ IE but it might have
> some
> > COM objects accessable to pull the information from.
> >
> > RESIZE IMAGE
> > ------------
> >
> > So many programs and algorithms to accomplish this, choose whichever
> suites
> > you (http://www.imagemagick.org/ is one of my favourite utils for this).
> >
> > CONCLUSSION
> > -----------
> >
> > I realise this isn't exactly detail specific, but if you were floating
> > around wondering how to even begin tackling the problem this might
provide
> > some grounding.
> >
> > QUICK FIXES
> > -----------
> > http://www.html2jpg.com has a win9x/IE5 specific program to accomplish
> step
> > 1 and 2 if you're on that platform.
> >
> > http://www.tdb.uu.se/~jan/html2ps.html converts to PS, w/
> > http://www.imagemagick.org/ it's only a step away from a properly sized
> > jpeg and it's not platform specific. (I don't have a clue how the
html2ps
> > script renders the HTML though)
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jon Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: May 18, 2001 19:28
> > To: CF-Talk
> > Subject: Re: What a task!
> >
> >
> > How many thumbnails are there going to be? It might be more cost
effective
> > to train a peon (no offense to any peons out there;-)) to use a
screenshot
> > program....
> >
> > jon
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Michael Lugassy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Friday, May 18, 2001 8:03 PM
> > Subject: What a task!
> >
> >
> > > I got this assignment recently:
> > >
> > > I need to create a thumbnail view of the front/home page of a given
> site.
> > that should be done automaticlly, ofcourse.
> > >
> > > for example: I run this: <CF_THUMBSITE site="http://www.imvamp.com";;>
> > > somehow I need to grab all of the site content and PICTURE IT as it
were
> > > on a browser.
> > >
> > > this gots you thinking, ha?
> > >
> > > I know http://www.girafa.com does something similiar.
> > >
> > > if anyone can solve this, I'm hearing! :)
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > -=Michael
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>
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