One solution might be to take a look at ImageFolio. It seems to do
everything that Michael wants.
http://www.imagefolio.com
Rey...
Team Allaire...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Raymond B." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2001 9:36 PM
Subject: RE: What a task!
> Haven't really been following this thread, but at it's highest level your
> problem seems to break down into these three steps. (If you want quick
fixes
> skip to the bottom.)
>
> 1. Render the HTML
> 2. Convert rendered screen to image
> 3. Resize image
>
>
> RENDER THE HTML
> ---------------
>
> You might check out http://www.mozilla.org/ for mozilla's HTML rendering
> engine if you want something you can bring into your own code. There are
> some other engines that are open as well, I'll leave them to you to find.
>
> Alternately there's closed source such as the popular IE. Which you decide
> to use counts heavily on the next step.
>
> CONVERTING TO AN IMAGE
> ----------------------
>
> The whole purpose of the exercise is to get the render (R) to output to a
> bitmapped image (I). Theoretically the easiest way would be get R > I;
> somehow I doubt it's going to be as easy as a 'mozilla --url=www.foo.com >
> bar.jpg' though.
>
> Given the mozilla source you may be able find where you could redirect the
> screen display though. I'm not overlly familiar w/ IE but it might have
some
> COM objects accessable to pull the information from.
>
> RESIZE IMAGE
> ------------
>
> So many programs and algorithms to accomplish this, choose whichever
suites
> you (http://www.imagemagick.org/ is one of my favourite utils for this).
>
> CONCLUSSION
> -----------
>
> I realise this isn't exactly detail specific, but if you were floating
> around wondering how to even begin tackling the problem this might provide
> some grounding.
>
> QUICK FIXES
> -----------
> http://www.html2jpg.com has a win9x/IE5 specific program to accomplish
step
> 1 and 2 if you're on that platform.
>
> http://www.tdb.uu.se/~jan/html2ps.html converts to PS, w/
> http://www.imagemagick.org/ it's only a step away from a properly sized
> jpeg and it's not platform specific. (I don't have a clue how the html2ps
> script renders the HTML though)
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: May 18, 2001 19:28
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: Re: What a task!
>
>
> How many thumbnails are there going to be? It might be more cost effective
> to train a peon (no offense to any peons out there;-)) to use a screenshot
> program....
>
> jon
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Lugassy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, May 18, 2001 8:03 PM
> Subject: What a task!
>
>
> > I got this assignment recently:
> >
> > I need to create a thumbnail view of the front/home page of a given
site.
> that should be done automaticlly, ofcourse.
> >
> > for example: I run this: <CF_THUMBSITE site="http://www.imvamp.com";;>
> > somehow I need to grab all of the site content and PICTURE IT as it were
> > on a browser.
> >
> > this gots you thinking, ha?
> >
> > I know http://www.girafa.com does something similiar.
> >
> > if anyone can solve this, I'm hearing! :)
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > -=Michael
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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