I would think this is outside the realm of AppEngine - at least in the short term. I suppose a java application might justabout be able to do it.
Just use a third party application to do it http://webshotspro.com/ or many more http://www.google.com/search?q=thumbnail+website 2009/11/9 Gerard McGovern <[email protected]>: > > Hi All, > > I want to dynamically convert html pages into images and manipulate > the images in my App Engine application. This is to provide thumbnails > and show off the pages in different ways as images. This is planned to > be a central part of the application - I want to leverage the beauty > of these pages. > > I have looked around and cannot see an easy way to do this. The > difficult part is the first step of converting the page into an image. > It seems I may have to setup a webkit or other browser engine > application outside App Engine and call that. I had a look at Android > but it was not clear that I could use it. I won't be able to use C++ > libraries in App Engine. > > However, if someone does have a suggestion as to how I can convert > html pages into images inside App Engine or even the best and simplest > way to do it with an external application I would greatly appreciate > this info. > > Thanks for your help. (Come on, you can do it !!! ) > > Cheers > > Gerard > > > > > > -- Barry - www.nearby.org.uk - www.geograph.org.uk - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
