On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Bill Barry <[email protected]> wrote:

> Anything that can render a webpage  to a png must have behind it the whole
> rendering engine and so is subject to what that rendering engine can
> render.  There is  a program that uses webkit to convert html to pdf
> http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/
> Then you can use several tools to go from pdf to png such as the pdfimages
> utility in xpdf-utils.


I tried this using

> ./wkhtmltopdf  -O Landscape \

     http://scratchcomputing.com/tmp/freetuit/063.html - \
>
     | convert - slide63_png.png

(pipes pdf result to stdout, convert reads input from stdin)

The result is attached.  This would take some tweaking to get a reasonable
slide-like png result, if it's at all possible.

- tony
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