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Robin Cornelius wrote: > > Some of you will probably think WTF? Nah we ask ourselves this one every couple of months at work, since it would be really handy for us to have a neat solution. > but are there any libraries (or > ways of using libraries) that can render webpages to a memory buffer > that can be grabbed as a image directly? Mozilla xulrunner 1.8 was > doing this for me the upgrade to 1.9 destroyed everything and its such > a mess now i really don't want to go there. I can't just use 1.8 as i > want to work with things that are in debian or can be added and > xulrunner-1.8 is therefor a step backwards and a fork of that is a > truly unmanageable concept and would be unlikely to be accepted into > Debian for such a specific application not to mention the unmanageable > security of (a fork of) such a large code base. khtml2png ? It does require an X session but there is a hack in the FAQ to do the minimal necessary on headless servers. I forget why we didn't use this last time we looked, but whatever the issue it may have been improved. I suspect just the poverty of khtml at the time, but the CSS support is much improved since then. > Though i would ask here as there is quite a breath of knowledge and > some one may have seen something. There are some commercial services. One of those things that should be easy, but few folks bother to maintain as the web is a moving target. One can of course drive a browser to render the page, and grab the content with script driven tools. I'm guessing easier with something like Ephiphany, or Konqueror, which is likely to allow the window manager tools for scripting stuff. But this is lacking in elegance, and prone to browser crashes. If you find a really good solution let me know!!!! -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html