Re: Create thumbnail from webpage

2006-01-30 Thread Mike Blezien
Has any one successfully installed Webthumb on a Linux/RH 7.3 ? Been trying to get this too work, but it keeps hanging after displaying: bash: pnmscale: command not found bash: pnmtojpeg: command not found then it just hangs here? It create a empty jpg file, but just stalls out. we installed

Re: Create thumbnail from webpage

2006-01-30 Thread Ing. Branislav Gerzo
Mike Blezien [MB], on Monday, January 30, 2006 at 07:44 (-0600) made these points: MB bash: pnmscale: command not found MB bash: pnmtojpeg: command not found I never tried this utility, but know about that, if you get some thumbnails from it, let us know. For those commands not found, it easy

Re: Create thumbnail from webpage

2006-01-30 Thread Mike Blezien
Ing. Branislav Gerzo wrote: Mike Blezien [MB], on Monday, January 30, 2006 at 07:44 (-0600) made these points: MB bash: pnmscale: command not found MB bash: pnmtojpeg: command not found I never tried this utility, but know about that, if you get some thumbnails from it, let us know. For

Re: Create thumbnail from webpage

2006-01-30 Thread Ing. Branislav Gerzo
Mike Blezien [MB], on Monday, January 30, 2006 at 08:30 (-0600) typed the following: MB I have the two files aboved installed but get this error when running the MB wethumb script from the command line: MB pnmscale: EOF / read error reading magic number MB pnmtojpeg: EOF / read error reading

Create thumbnail from webpage

2006-01-29 Thread Mike Blezien
Hello, I need to create a thumbnail image of a webpage to be displayed in the browser. is there a perl module available that has this capability or can this be done with ImageMagick or GD? Been looking for about a day on this subject but not much luck. Basically we capture a remote webpage,

Re: Create thumbnail from webpage

2006-01-29 Thread Chas Owens
On 1/29/06, Mike Blezien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I need to create a thumbnail image of a webpage to be displayed in the browser. is there a perl module available that has this capability or can this be done with ImageMagick or GD? Been looking for about a day on this subject but not

Re: Create thumbnail from webpage

2006-01-29 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Mike == Mike Blezien [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mike I need to create a thumbnail image of a webpage to be displayed in the Mike browser. is there a perl module available that has this capability or Mike can this be done with ImageMagick or GD? Been looking for about a day on Mike this subject

Re: Create thumbnail from webpage

2006-01-29 Thread Mike Blezien
Chas, Chas Owens wrote: On 1/29/06, Mike Blezien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I need to create a thumbnail image of a webpage to be displayed in the browser. is there a perl module available that has this capability or can this be done with ImageMagick or GD? Been looking for about a day

Re: Create thumbnail from webpage

2006-01-29 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Mike == Mike Blezien [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mike ..we should also be able to pick up the front page of the web site and create Mike a thumb-nail image of it .. That's probably from a PHB, or a web designer, who doesn't seem to understand that there's no *one* rendering of the front page.

Re: Create thumbnail from webpage

2006-01-29 Thread Mike Blezien
Thanks, I think you head that one on head :) Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Mike == Mike Blezien [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mike ..we should also be able to pick up the front page of the web site and create Mike a thumb-nail image of it .. That's probably from a PHB, or a web designer, who

Re: Create thumbnail from webpage

2006-01-29 Thread JupiterHost.Net
I appologize for being a bit vague here, but I am trying to clarify this with a client for myself. the way it was stated too me: ..we should also be able to pick up the front page of the web site and create a thumb-nail image of it .. now I am assuming they mean the entire page content and

Re: Create thumbnail from webpage

2006-01-29 Thread Mike Blezien
Thanks for the info. what exactly would be the best pharse to Google for this?? JupiterHost.Net wrote: I appologize for being a bit vague here, but I am trying to clarify this with a client for myself. the way it was stated too me: ..we should also be able to pick up the front page of the

Re: Create thumbnail from webpage

2006-01-29 Thread Chas Owens
On 1/29/06, JupiterHost.Net [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: unless a browser on the server has a take a screen shot of url feature API you can (and most likely will) have to: Happily Firefox starting with version 1.5 has just such a feature (it uses the infrastructure of the new canvas tag). -- To

Re: Create thumbnail from webpage

2006-01-29 Thread Brano Gerzo
Mike Blezien [MB], on Sunday, January 29, 2006 at 16:17 (-0600) wrote the following: MB what exactly would be the best pharse to Google for this?? webthumb -- ...m8s, cu l8r, Brano. [Serology: Study of English Knighthood] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional