Convert a HTML file to TIFF programmatically?

[Dominic]

Hi guys,

In .NET, how can I convert a HTML file to TIFF efficiently?

One possible way is that I can first use word automatation to load the
HTML up and then print it to TIFF. Is that right? However, even if it
is technically feasible, it can take long time to do the conversion,
especially the HTML is complicated.

Is there any other more efficient way? Thanks!

How about converting HTML to JPEG? (The HTML is big, and I'm afraid
that the converted TIFF may be huge....)

Thanks
Dominic

[Sean Chapman]

according to a co-worker, heres what u want to do:
make sure the html is either xhtml or xml->friendly html. then use apache
FOP to convert it to whatever. apparently its best at pdfs.. and pdfs are
cooler than tiff/jpg... much cooler.... much much cooler...
hope that helps

"Dominic" <do****@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Hi guys,

In .NET, how can I convert a HTML file to TIFF efficiently?

One possible way is that I can first use word automatation to load the
HTML up and then print it to TIFF. Is that right? However, even if it
is technically feasible, it can take long time to do the conversion,
especially the HTML is complicated.

Is there any other more efficient way? Thanks!

How about converting HTML to JPEG? (The HTML is big, and I'm afraid
that the converted TIFF may be huge....)

Thanks
Dominic

[Greg Ewing [MVP]]

Dominic, here's a list of site which offer free and not free products which
do what you want.

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Web/..._20694278.html

--
Greg Ewing [MVP]
http://www.citidc.com

"Dominic" <do****@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Hi guys,

In .NET, how can I convert a HTML file to TIFF efficiently?

One possible way is that I can first use word automatation to load the
HTML up and then print it to TIFF. Is that right? However, even if it
is technically feasible, it can take long time to do the conversion,
especially the HTML is complicated.

Is there any other more efficient way? Thanks!

How about converting HTML to JPEG? (The HTML is big, and I'm afraid
that the converted TIFF may be huge....)

Thanks
Dominic

[Dominic]

Thanks for your answer. I'm afraid that I didn't express my question
clearly. I actually want to do the conversion programmatically in C#.

"Greg Ewing [MVP]" <gewing@_NO_SPAM_gewing.com> wrote in message news:<OA**************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl>...

Dominic, here's a list of site which offer free and not free products which
do what you want.

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Web/..._20694278.html

--
Greg Ewing [MVP]
http://www.citidc.com

"Dominic" <do****@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Hi guys,

In .NET, how can I convert a HTML file to TIFF efficiently?

One possible way is that I can first use word automatation to load the
HTML up and then print it to TIFF. Is that right? However, even if it
is technically feasible, it can take long time to do the conversion,
especially the HTML is complicated.

Is there any other more efficient way? Thanks!

How about converting HTML to JPEG? (The HTML is big, and I'm afraid
that the converted TIFF may be huge....)

Thanks
Dominic

[Zhao Sheng]

Here is what you need
http://www.guangmingsoft.com/htmlsnapshot/help.htm
HTML Snapshot ActiveX Component
HTML Snapshot ActiveX Component uses the internet explorer's
functionality to take (capture) a snapshot of a given URL. It hosts the
web browser control on windows to download webpage and then capture it
as image. It can be easily integrated into applications written in
languages that support ActiveX Compoent such as Visual C++, Visual
Basic, Delphi, C++ Builder, .Net languages and Scripts.

Thanks

[htmlsnapshot]

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