On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Tony Rick <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 > > The attachment didn't get through, but when I tried the above mentioned command the png image looked exactly like the webpage as rendered by Firefox. Bill _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
