Archive for May, 2006

Record audio with multiple sound cards

Sunday, May 21st, 2006

Our audio record object can support recording with multiple sound cards. You can do like this:
1. Create multiple audio record objects at initialization time like this. (Take VB.Net as example)

Html to image on Linux

Saturday, May 20th, 2006

If you want to convert html to image on linux, try out html2image linux
It is a command line tool that is easy to use.

Stack error with VS2005

Sunday, May 14th, 2006

Recently I found an issue with our VB.Net and C# demo for PDF components. When compiling with VS2005, the component will fail to be initialized with a stack overflow error. The one compiled with VS2003 (.Net 1.1), the VB, VBScript demo all works well. So I doubt if this is a bug of .Net 2.0.
Overal it […]

Convert html to image at a given size.

Saturday, May 6th, 2006

Html snapshot can capture the whole html page into image as JPG, TIFF and PNG etc. Sometimes, you may not need a full image but an image at a given width and height. There are several ways to do this:
 1. Use EnableSnapDimensionAsImageSize and SetSnapDimension

Tutorial: Install php and run html snapshot with IIS

Friday, May 5th, 2006

So you are a PHP fan that wants to convert html to image? You can do it with html snapshot with php on windows server. This tutorial shows how to do this with php and IIS. ( Apache for windows can also be used as well.)
My steps (based on Win2003)
1. Download php for win32 from php.net
http://www.php.net/downloads.php

Convert html to EMF and WMF with html snapshot

Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006

As you know, Html snapshot can convert html to raster image format like jpg, jpeg, tiff, png, gif and bmp.
Now it can convert html to vector image format like EMF and WMF. It is a new feature of html snapshot. Hope you like it.

It is May now

Monday, May 1st, 2006

Time goes fast.