Hmmm ... if you can get HTML -> ps done, I think you can go from ps to PNG using ImageMagick.
On 5/27/09, Tony Rick <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky http://www.linkedin.com/in/edborasky I've never met a happy clam. In fact, most of them were pretty steamed. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
