Simon Budig wrote:

> >> If anyone knows anything about a possible solution or has a slight idea,
> >> please respond to this mail.
> >
> > You could implement a device context (take one of the existing ones and
> > modify it?) to do this, I would think.
> >
> > As it is, we render into offscreen areas and blit them to the screen
> > most of the time... so this should not be a huge change.
> 
> Oh, yes please!  :-)
> 
> And please use this to offer a feature like "Save webpage as PNG" -
> that would be very useful for me.

What about using Xvfb (virtual framebuffer X server) on Unix/Linux for
that task ? You can obtain a XWD dump from the Xvfb framebuffer memory
at any time and then convert the format to PNG/GIF/JPEG etc. ...

... another solution may be to print the page and convert the resulting
print job via GhostScript etc. ...

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Bye,
Roland

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