Here is detailed example on how to use html2image linux on Ubuntu 64 bit (Ubuntu 7.10 - the Gutsy Gibbon)
This serves as a good example on how to use html2image. Other 64 bit Linux distribution can be done similarly.
Here are a more complete examples of using htmlsnapshot to convert html to image with php on Windows.
Note the following things:
You may need to run a command line utility to convert html or url to image. Here is a handy script that converts url/html to image with our award winning htmlsnapshot product.
Save the below code into a script snapurl.vbs (Or you can find this script in htmlsnapshot\demo\vbscript)
Silverlight is the new web authoring technology proposed by Microsoft. It is implemented as an ActiveX like the Flash.
It can be used to build interactive, vector based web pages.
Htmlsnapshot now supports converting html into multiple page tiff files. here is the sample code. You just need to specify the page width in pixel. The component will save the image into a multipage tif.
‘demo html to multipage tiff generation function
It is possibe to use html CSS sheet with SnapHtmlString when converting a html string to image. The trick is to store the css in a local file and refer to it in the html string like below:
<link href=”file://c:/Styles.css” rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” />
Htmlsnapshot can capture image of an existing webbrowser control and save it into jpg, bmp, gif, png etc.
You need to pass the object instance of the webbrowser control (IDispatch in C++).
We just released a new version of html to image
It fixes an issue when capturing javascript enabled page such as the google map.
Our htmlsnapshot component is designed to convert html or text content into image.
If a URL is not text/htm content, the snapUrl method may fail.
Do you ever want to take a screen shot of a web page in your desktop or web application? HTML Snapshot ActiveX is a software component that can make html to image easier than ever before. It can download and parse web sites and save a screenshot of the page in GIF, JPG, JPEG, BMP, […]
Some times a URL is protected by autentication scheme such as http authentication or NTLM if you are in a windows domain network. It ususally asks user to input username and password so as to access the protected URLs by poping up a dialog.
Our Htmlsnapshot now supports authentication URLs with a method called SetAuthUserAndPasswd
html to image is an end user product for normal users. It has a UI to batch convert a lot of URLs to image.
htmlsnapshot is a component that aims to be used by developers. It allows maxinum flexiblity by providing a set of methods
Htmlsnapshot is a component to convert html or url to image. It can be used to build large scale URL to image conversion system. Here, the large means the system is designed to convert millions of URLs to image in the future.
My recommendation for making a robust system is to use process based method. There are […]
The easiest way is to use our award-winning product htmlsnapshot.
Here are some guidelines:
When you use html2image Linux on Linux OS, you can convert any URL into image.
But some times, you may need more advanced image processing features such as controlling the size of the image.
The solution is simple: you can use tools like ImageMagick or perl to easily resize the image to your size requirements after converting html […]
Well, it is new year. A new release of htmlsnapshot product is updated.
DrawTxt method is added to allow user to add text watermark to the captured image.
We release a new version of html2image linux
This version fixes the problem of https URL.
htmlsnapshot supports reporting error code for SnapUrl function. This can help you decide the problem of failing to snap certain pages.
It works like this:
Htmlsnapshot can convert html with SVG to image as well. To do this, you need to install the free SVG plugin from Adobe.
http://www.adobe.com/svg/viewer/install/main.html
Htmlsnapshot supports converting html to gif. And it supports creating transparent GIF as well.
The SetGIFOption can be used to enable or disable transparent Gif
htmlsnapshot generates the image at the screen DPI by default. To get a higher resolution image, there are two methods.
1. Use setzoom and setDPI method. The following code zooms the image 3 times and set DPI as 300, 300
VML is a kind of vector based graphic format.
html snapshot can convert VML to image like jpg, tiff etc.
In Win2003, there is an “IE enhanced security” component which may restrict some behaviour of rending vml to image.
Want to send an image from php to browser? You can use code like this
< ?php
header('Content-type: image/jpg');
readfile('your.jpg');
?>
You can generate thumbnail for a web page with html snapshot in several ways.
You can do in an easy way:
snap.SnapUrl(”www.google.com“, “1.jpg”)
We have added the functions:
1. Handle time out for some URL.
2. A web server wrapper around it so the html to image function can be called via http request at a speical port. Especially designed for php etc.
check it out
Some people want to convert html file at local disk to image. This can be done with html snapshot easily
Suppose your local html file is c:\1.htm, you can call html snapshot like this to convert it into jpg file:
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We have updated our html2image for Linux product.
The new added feature is to support jpg and jpeg file format.
Html snapshot supports converting html to vector image format such as EMF and WMF.
Now it also supports the function to convert EMF or WMF into raster image format like JPG, JPEG, BMP, TIFF, PNG or GIF.
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.