On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Keith Lofstrom <[email protected]> wrote:
> Are there any open source tools out there that can render an html > page to a png (or other) image, automatically? Yes, I know you > can display the page on a screen, then screen capture the image, > but I am looking for something I can automate, perhaps as a script > that spiders a directory. > > I'm working on a navigable web presentation tool, makeshow. > http://www.server-sky.com/makeshow > It builds a series of PNG images into a slide show (a PNG image > is very hard to mis-render - what you see is what you ALWAYS > get). There are tools, such as Eric Wilhelm's Text::Slidez, > which turn a text script into html pages, and I would like to > take the outputs of such tools and make PNG images. > > Any suggestions? Did you try the obvious: google html2png ? I turned up 'html2jpg', which ostensibly converts html to several image formats. The description says it requires Opera, but offers a hint about where to modify the code (Perl !) to use something else. The author was coming from the same place you are: he needed the tool but didn't find anything, so rolled his own. Admittedly he did it with Netscape in mind, but it might fly. I can try to play with it and see what happens. There are several other hits for 'html2png', but the ones I skimmed seem to be various Rube Goldberg contraptions. - tony _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
