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This will take multiple steps.
  1. First download a copy of the webpage using LWP::Simple
  2. Convert the HTML to PS.
  3. Convert the PS (PostScript) to either a PDF or Gif.
You'll simply have to google each of the above steps to find out how to do them.

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Re^2: Website screenshot
by Trimbach (Curate) on Jan 06, 2007 at 05:38 UTC
    2. Convert the HTML to PS.

    And after that you'd end up with a PDF or a gif of something that looked like this: 

    <html>
<head><title>This is an unrendered web page</title></head>
<body>
.
.
.
</body>

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    That's not exactly what the OP is trying to do... :-D

    Gary Blackburn
    Trained Killer

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      Actually there is a program called html2ps that translates the rendered html to ps. I haven't had much luck getting it installed - but it would serve to do the trick.

      my @a=qw(random brilliant braindead); print $a[rand(@a)];
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        True, but the key word here is "rendered html." Rendering the HTML of the page you want to screen capture is the most important (and most non-trivial) step, and it's that step that was omitted in the post I responded to. :-D

        Gary Blackburn
        Trained Killer

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        I tried a similar thing a few years back, getting the page with wget, then using html2ps, then piping it to imagemagik. Unfortunatly it renders the 'screen' over multiple images. I never found a way to have it actually thumbnail it on one page (or after a certain screen size)
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