Posted by Marcus Bointon on 12/22/05 02:16

On 21 Dec 2005, at 18:17, Richard Lynch wrote:

> 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.

It is indeed called webthumb: http://www.boutell.com/webthumb/

After installing firefox on my server, tweaking webthumb to use
firefox instead of Mozilla, a bit of messing with xauth settings, and
I've got it working! It seems like a more polished alternative to
html2jpg. It uses Xvfb for a local display so you don't need a real
one, and it doesn't interfere with remote X sessions, though firefox
complains if you try to run it on both X displays at once. Now I just
need to go find a borderless chrome package for ff...

khtml2jpg is definitely a more advanced solution as it contains its
own browser and is thus not limited by screen size - you could grab a
page 10,000 pixels tall if you wanted to - and it can monitor browser
state e.g. so it can know when all images are loaded instead of just
waiting for a bit. Flipside - it's not working for me...

Thanks very much for the tip, very glad to have finally found a
solution.

Marcus
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Marcus Bointon
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