On Sat, 2006-08-12 at 11:21 -0600, Matthew Frederico wrote: > Ok, I have looked high and low, downloaded script after script ... > Does anyone know of some way to take a snapshot of a rendered web page > and convert it to png? Some command line utility that perhaps takes > advantage of the gecko engine or something akin to that? > > I've seen the script that requires you to keep a browser window open > and it takes snapshots of what the browser renders, but that's > obviously not going to work. I need it to work on a server basis. > > even if there is a commercial linux app to do it, I'd be happy. > > I'm very much at a loss here.
Here's an example of a Ruby script that uses gtkmozembed to capture screenshots. http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgi?RubyGecko#MozSnapshooter+% 28HTML+page+thumbnailer%29 However, there's a catch and a possible solution. I've only spent a couple of minutes poking at the the GTK version of Gecko and I'm starting to suspect it's going to require a display to work. Xvfb is a display that requires no hardware. It used to be used with some stupid Java libraries that required a display to work. You might be able to use it to solve your current problem too. -- Stuart Jansen e-mail/jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] google talk: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results." -- Winston Churchill
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