Is it also possible to write directly to an Image? If not there is still ghostscript. But it would be faster.
I am searching for an easy way to create thumbnails from Websites for my content management system. best regards, Christian Richard Philips wrote: > > I think it would make sense to use Mozilla as a tool without GUI, > completely driven by JavaScript. > > Converting HTML + CSS + MathML to postscript would be just one - be it > a very spectacular - benefit. > > I am good at programing in Python and there is something called pyXPCOM. > > I look into that. > > > Richard > > > > > > > > Jeff Putney wrote: > >> I would like to write a command line utility that takes a URI as input >> and renders to a postscript file. I've not done any mozilla hacking, >> so I am not quite sure how to go about doing this. From what I >> gather, I'll need to use XPCOM to setup a postscript rendering context >> and then use some XPCOM object to load and render the URI. In theory >> this should be fairly straight forward. Mozilla already has all the >> functionality I want. However I am not familiar with how to write a >> program that can use XPCOM, nor which objects I will need to use >> outside of gfs/src/ps. I have read some of the XPCOM introduction >> which gives info on writing XPCOM objects, but not so much on writing >> a program that uses XPCOM objects, especially information on linking >> and probably where shared objects should be installed for dynamic >> loading. >> >> Any insight whatsoever would be greatly appreciated. I understand >> that this may be a non-trivial task, but given that mozilla already >> does this, it should be 'a simple matter of programming', or at least >> I hope it will be. >> >> --jeff >> > >
