Hi Barry, Thanks for the suggestions. However, I need to be able to generate the images on the fly inside my application. There are one or two services that would allow me to do that but I want to develop my own to keep costs down.
Cheers Gerard On Nov 10, 6:46 am, Barry Hunter <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 ithttp://webshotspro.com/ > > or many morehttp://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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
