HTML rendering as bitmap?

[Shiva Kaul]

Hello,

I'm writing an application in which HTML pages must be converted to GIFs or PNGs. Right now I'm using first converting the HTML to PDF via HTMLDOC and then converting the PDF to an image - this is slow and does not accurately render the pages. I was wondering if there was a way to re-route Mozilla's rendering engine so that outputs to an image, not the screen. Or: is there a way to dump an xvfb framebuffer to xwd and convert it to an image from there? (without a huge performance penalty). Anyone have any experience with something like this?

Thanks,
Shiva