[PLUG] render html to png image

Joe Pruett joey at clean.q7.com
Thu May 28 01:03:10 UTC 2009


> 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?

you should be able to find a way to go html->ps->png.

http://www.w3.org/Tools/html2things.html

has some pointers for the html->ps part.  not sure if any of them will be 
what you want.



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