Rendering a Web Page

[lzcd]

Greetings,

This probably fits more into the "wouldn't that be a kinda cool thing to do" category rather than anything thats likely to make you money, save your dog from fleas or impress your boss... but:

Does anybody know of a (pref'bly 'nice' or 'cool') way of rendering a web page into a bitmap?

I was dreaming a of web site where each one of the links to the major subsections was a small rendered scene of the intended page as it currently stands.

There's also a few occations where a virtual 'screen dump' of a web page as a graphic might prove useful for things like slideshow presentations etc.

Thank you for your pondering time.

[merlyn]

With the right add-ons, ImageMagick (through PerlMagick if need be) can go from HTML to any bitmap format.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

[$code or die]

Does PerlMagick work on Perl 5.6?

I recall reading here recently that it didn't.

Update: I just checked the PerlMagick page and it doesn't say anything about it not working on 5.6. Maybe we should ignore this post?

[OeufMayo]

PerlMagick / ImageMagick is working fine with my perl 5.6, I needed to recompile it though...

I'd be interested to know how to use merlyn's trick to render HTML with PerlMagick

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