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Posted by "Richard Lynch" on 12/21/05 20:17
On Wed, December 21, 2005 12:13 pm, Marcus Bointon wrote:
> Has anyone seen such a thing? I'm looking to be able to generate web
> page previews dynamically and automatically, so I need to render the
> page on the server. The most efficient way would be if there was a
> PHP HTML rendering extension - gecko or KHTML perhaps. HTML2PDF
> doesn't go nearly far enough. Alternatively something like a CLI
> option to firefox to run without X (i.e. no visible windows) and
> output to a file instead of a display device. The options here don't
> indicate that it can do that:
I've been told that there is a "webthumb" command line tool to do just
what you ask as a JPEG.
At least I *think* it was called "webthumb"...
Maybe from the GD folks???
It's out there somewhere, and I was going to look into it, but...
You'd feed it a URL and it gives you an image. You need X installed,
so it can run X in the background and render it.
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