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On Thursday 04 September 2008 16:52, Robin Cornelius wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > Some of you will probably think WTF? 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. > > Alternatively any ways i can "grab" the rendered output of a Gtk > Widget? i can get a webkit Gtk widget running in a few lines of code > but this just uses standard Gtk and i presume that what i am trying to > do requires hacking in to a much lower level that no one ever designed > anything to do. > > Though i would ask here as there is quite a breath of knowledge and > some one may have seen something. There are screengrabbers for most operating systems - some of the Linux ones allow you to just take an apps window so scripting seems like a good bet In majorly dire pseudo code $window = firefox http://"your webpage url" screengrab $window file close $window Tom te tom te tom > > Thanks > > Robin -- 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