webpage screenshot?

Is it possible to fetch a webpage and take screenshot of it like it displays
in browser and then store it in jpg/gif

thanks

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"Java Boy" wrote:
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> Is it possible to fetch a webpage and take screenshot of it like it displays
> in browser and then store it in jpg/gif[/color]

You will need a web browser and a screen-grabber application. They will both
have to be scriptable so you can call them from your PHP script.

But how you do this really depends on what sort of operating system your
server is running. Try asking in a Windows/Unix/BSD/whatever newsgroup.

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On a windows platform (not free - demo versions with warnings ont the
images):
http://www.guangmingsoft.net/htmlsnapshot/help.htm
http://www.html2jpg.com/download.htm (blackbox version)

On a Linux Platform with a graphical environment and a browser (free, see
licence) :
http://marginalhacks.com/Hacks/html2jpg/

I tried all of these and included them in an interface to manage links in
our intranet (php, mysql).
They can get a screenshot of the visible portion of the page (you set the
sizes) or get a screenshot of the whole document (which can be many
screens).


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