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Windows 8 compability

Sunday, August 19th, 2012

we are committed to maintain our products on the new platform.

We will test and verify our products on the up-coming new Windows 8.

Html snapshot is already tested to run well on windows 8.
You can convert html to jpg or image on windows 8 without any issues.

 

Record internet radio in Windows 7

Friday, February 12th, 2010

To record the “Stereo Mix” or “Wave Mix” on Windows 7 with Audio Record Expert or Active Audio Record, you will need to enable the device first as in Windows Vista

  1. Select sound from the control panel.
  2. Select the recording tab.
  3. Right click on the background of the tab and choose “show disabled devices.”
  4. Right click on Wave Out Mix and click enable.
  5. Now it should work the same way as Wave Out Mix in Windows XP, allowing you to record any sound your computer makes.

PDF Toolkit Pro

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

PDF Toolkit Pro is our new product line for PDF related tools going forward. It has all in one PDF operation functions like pdf split and merge, stamping, encrypting and decrypting. We recommended all existing user to update to this new version. We can provide discount properly. Please email us if you are interested.

For more information, please read:

http://www.guangmingsoft.net/PDFToolkit/PDFToolkitPro.htm

Html To Image Update

Monday, October 5th, 2009

We  just released a new version of html to image.  A coupe of issues are fixed.

Please welcome download and try freely!

How to change the recording volume

Friday, October 2nd, 2009

Audio Record Control supports setting the input device line volume.

Sometimes, if you found the volume is still not loud enough, you need to consider updating the input volume at device level.

Here is the way to do this.

On windows XP, you can do like this:

1. Open Sounds and Audio Devices in Control Panel.
2. On the Audio tab, under Sound recording, click Volume.
3. In the Recording Control dialog box, drag the Volume slider for the appropriate device up or down to increase or decrease the input volume. 
 
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/soundscpl_set_recording_volume.mspx?mfr=true

 On windows Vista,

1.  Click Start, click Control Panel, click Hardware and Sound, and then click Manage audio devices.
2.  Click the Recording tab, click the audio device you use to record sound, and then click Properties.
3.  Click the Levels tab, drag the volume slider to the right to increase the volume, and then click OK.
4.  Start Sound Recorder, and record the sound again.
 
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-us/help/58f5d06b-5ad2-434a-9f48-1871bf9fc7c61033.mspx#EI

All in one PDF control

Sunday, August 23rd, 2009

We have released “PDF toolkit Pro” product for a while. It is an “All in one PDF” solution for developers.

It is free to try. Download and try it, let us know your feedbacks

PDFToolkit is an all in one PDF ActiveX. It can split, merge, encrypt and decrypt PDF easily. It is a standalone component and does not depend on Adobe Acrobat, or even Acrobat Reader.
Babel Fish Translation

By choosing PDF Toolkit Pro, it will bring a lot of benifits below:

* PDF Encryption and Decryption:
Both encryption and decryption are done by PDFToolkit Pro ActiveX Component itself without the need of installing additional software such Acrobat PDF Reader
* PDF Split and Merge
PDFToolkit Pro can be used to split files by pages, you can split the file into single pages or save every a few pages as a new file, it also can be used to merge multiple PDF files or selected pages from one or more files into a PDF file, preservation of original links, and form fields.
* Convert Image to PDF
PDFToolkit Pro supports multiple page TIFF files. It also supports various TIFF encodings: LZW, CCITT G3/G4, RLE etc. It can be used to merge multiple TIFF files into one PDF file.
* Stamp Text and Image to PDF
PDFToolkit Pro can be used to stamp PDF files, you can stamp PDF files with images such as JPEG, transparent PNG, TIFF and GIFs. And you can stamp text on your PDF files with customized size, location, font and color.
PDFToolkit Pro can dump the PDF meta data information such as Author, Title etc. It also allows you to update such metadata information.
PDFToolkit Pro can fill PDF forms in a quick and simple manner. It also supports flattening the PDF file.

Free Download & Try Now Play the demo version before purchase without any risk!
Buy Now. Get the registration code instantly. $450 For Single Developer License

How to use proxy with Html2Image Liux:

Saturday, May 30th, 2009

Sometimes you may want to use html2image in an enviroment that needs to set proxy.

One of our customers shares his tip on this problem. here it is:

  • Configure the proxy options into ./html2image/greprefs/all.js.

Example below, this is the standard firefox proxy setting

pref(“network.proxy.autoconfig_url”,        “http://myProxy/myScript”);
pref(“network.proxy.type”,                  2);

If you have any comments on this solution, let us know!

 

Use side by side COM component in IIS ASP.Net

Saturday, April 25th, 2009

Many of our component are COM based.  There is a way to use the reg-free COM technology with ASP.Net. By doing so, you don’t need to register the COM in registry and use it in an isolated way.

Here are some more information to start with.

http://www.mazecomputer.com/sxs/help/iis6aspnet2.htm

http://www.bytescout.com/swfscout_example_asp_net_registration_free.html

How to capture html to image on x64 windows

Sunday, July 20th, 2008

X64 windows is becoming more and more polular platform. Htmlsnapshot component has supported html to image on windows x64 platform along with the industry trend.

There are mainly four x64 windows: XP x64,  Vista X64, Windows 2003 x64, Windows 2008 X64.  The first two are client platform while the last two are server version.

To convert html to image on windows x64 platform, there are two ways:

1. Convert html to image with the 32 bit component. To do this, html to image function must run under a 32 bit process. By default, htmlsnapshot will register itself as 32 bit component on Windows X64/

For example, you can run the simple vbscript demo with 32 bit mode like this:

c:\Windows\SysWOW64\cscript.exe Demo\VBScript\simple.vbs

2. Convert html to image with native 64bit mode. Since IE has been ported to x64, so htmlsnapshot can capture html to image with 64 bit IE.  To do this, first you need to manual register the 64 bit htmlsnapshot. In the installation folder, run below command:

regsvr32 x64\htmlsnap2.dll

Now, you can run the simple vbscript demo with 64bit mode like this:

c:\Windows\system32\cscript.exe Demo\VBScript\simple.vbs

Another thing to notice is that in order to capture html page with flash to image, you has to use the 32 bit mode. The reason is that the flash player doesn’t have 64 bit version yet.  Adobe is still working on this. Please read:

http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=6b3af6c9&sliceId=2

How to run html2image linux on Ubuntu64

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

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.

1. Install Ubuntu 64

2. Login into the server (you can use the text mode login here. This is suitable for headless server as well)

If you are in GUI mode, Ctrl+Alt+F2 will switch you to text mode.

3. Enter a folder, download html2image

wget http://www.guangmingsoft.net/htmlsnapshot/html2image.i386.tar.gz

4. Extract html2image

tar xvzf html2image.i386.tar.gz
cd html2image
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=./

4. Install 32bit application support libraries.

sudo apt-get install ia32-libs

5. Install Xvfb coming with the Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install xvfb

6. Run Xvfb

Xvfb :1 -screen 0 640x480x24 -nolisten tcp -audit 4 -auth X1.cfg & export DISPLAY=:1
Of course, you could try high resolution like 1024x768x24

7. Now you can run html2image, it should work
./html2image www.google.com a.jpg

Check if the a.jpg is created successfully.