Converting html to jpg.

I've seen once program which was able to convert any url to JPG file.
Once I tried it on cnn.com website and it created the nice jpg, even that
the page was scrollable, so it was not using printscreen or anything like
that.
Any idea how these things get done?
K.

re: Converting html to jpg.

* "Krakatioison" <Krakatioison@huh.com> scripsit:[color=blue]
> I've seen once program which was able to convert any url to JPG file.[/color]

Maybe you can call this tool to create the screenshots:

<URL:http://sourceforge.net/projects/iecapt/>

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<URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>

re: Converting html to jpg.

Herfried,

I thought that I has seen this tool on internet (ready) however I cannot
find it anymor, you the King of the search should be able to that.

(Because I am curious too how it was)

Cor

re: Converting html to jpg.

Herfried,
I would kiss you if I could...thanks a lot
K.




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> * "Krakatioison" <Krakatioison@huh.com> scripsit:[color=green]
> > I've seen once program which was able to convert any url to JPG file.[/color]
>
> Maybe you can call this tool to create the screenshots:
>
> <URL:http://sourceforge.net/projects/iecapt/>
>
> --
> Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
> <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>[/color]



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re: Converting html to jpg.

Well,
I was too fast to react with the kissing :)
They didn't released any files in that group yet. (link you gave me.) :(
k.



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re: Converting html to jpg.

* hirf-spam-me-here@gmx.at (Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]) scripsit:[color=blue][color=green]
>> I've seen once program which was able to convert any url to JPG file.[/color]
>
> Maybe you can call this tool to create the screenshots:
>
> <URL:http://sourceforge.net/projects/iecapt/>[/color]

Sorry, here is the right link (it's the 2nd time I post the wrong link):

<URL:http://iecapt.sourceforge.net/>

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Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
<URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>

re: Converting html to jpg.

Try Html Snapshot Component
http://www.guangmingsoft.net/htmlsnapshot/help.htm
Directly save the web page at a given URL into image in bmp, jpeg,
tiff, gif or png format. i.e. html to image, html to jpg function you
are looking for.
Directly convert html string to images.
Support saving the whole html page to image without scrollbars.
Create thumbnail images from large images.
Get links, title, cookie or html source of a page
Get the html document DOM interface
Make gray or black and white images
Reduce color number in images while keeping better quality.
Examples in VC, Delphi, VB, VB.Net, C#, ASP, ASP.Net, PHP, Perl,
Python, Cold Fusion, VB and Java script as well as Java are provided.
Support JPEG compression level and TIFF compression method selection