[Sigia-l] Tool to automate generation of thumbnails of webpages?

[roBman at InfoBank.com.au]

> I have a need to generate many, possibly thousands, of thumbnails of
> snapshots of homepages. Is anyone on the list aware of a tool to automate
> this when given a URL and some defaults such as height/width? I'm playing
> with remote control of a browser and having it do a print screen / copy to
> clipboard and automating pasting that into a graphics program and having
> it resize, but it seems like there HAS to be a tool that already does this
> somewhere :)

You can write a script to get pretty much any browser on *nix to print 
each page and then use ImageMagick to process the images for you...

Or you could use LWP->html2ps->ImageMagick - but html2ps doesn't always 
render reliably and doesn't really handle frames...


roBman