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

[alfred at thunderstick.com]

Rob,

I was actually playing with dcop control of a Konqueror session but I got
distracted right around the point where I "think" I was successfully
copying it to the clipboard. Couldn't figure out how to use dcop to
"paste" to another application though :(

The word 'print' triggers a good idea - I'll investigate dcop control of
printing from Konqueror or Mozilla...

If I can ever get a rendered copy of a page ANYWHERE I can get my hands on
it ImageMagick's convert is definitely the final step for me !

Alfred

On Thu, 22 May 2003 roBman at InfoBank.com.au wrote:

> > 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
>
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