Re: [PLUG] render html to png image - thanks!

2009-05-28 Thread Keith Lofstrom
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > Are there any open source tools out there that can render an html > page to a png (or other) image, automatically? On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 01:07:40PM -0700, Dan Young wrote: > http://khtml2png.sourceforge.net/ Thanks for all the suggestion

Re: [PLUG] render html to png image

2009-05-28 Thread Tony Rick
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Bill Barry wrote: > > > The attachment didn't get through, but when I tried the above mentioned > command the png image looked exactly like the webpage as rendered by > Firefox. > Compare with http://scratchcomputing.com/tmp/freetuit/063.html I think the goal is

Re: [PLUG] notSoOpenSuSE

2009-05-28 Thread Patrick J. Timlick
I have never run Suse, but if I look at /etc/fstab in my Ubuntu I see a couple of lines: # /dev/sda1 UUID=35148e2b-3719-4ccf-a1f5-e08491f76871 / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1 I have used UUID to have USB drives be mounted in the right places. If you have similar in your

Re: [PLUG] render html to png image

2009-05-28 Thread Bill Barry
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Tony Rick wrote: > On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Bill Barry wrote: > > > Anything that can render a webpage to a png must have behind it the > whole > > rendering engine and so is subject to what that rendering engine can > > render. There is a program tha

Re: [PLUG] render html to png image

2009-05-28 Thread Tony Rick
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Bill Barry wrote: > Anything that can render a webpage to a png must have behind it the whole > rendering engine and so is subject to what that rendering engine can > render. There is a program that uses webkit to convert html to pdf > http://code.google.com/p

Re: [PLUG] notSoOpenSuSE

2009-05-28 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Wayne E. Van Loon Sr. wrote: > > When I edit the line /root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC-part2/ > to /root=/dev/sda2/ > and edit  /resume=/dev/sda1 /and then hit the escape key to end editing, > I can see the line displayed on the screen just as it was before I > ed

Re: [PLUG] notSoOpenSuSE

2009-05-28 Thread Wayne E. Van Loon Sr.
Thanks Ed, Matt, and Word Wizard for your response. M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: > This looks familiar. Didn't we run into this at a Linux clinic a > couple of months ago? > Yes, and I thank you for your help. But as I recall, we were never able to get it to boot on any machine other than the

Re: [PLUG] render html to png image

2009-05-28 Thread Dan Young
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > Are there any open source tools out there that can render an html > page to a png (or other) image, automatically? http://www.burtonini.com/blog/computers/mozilla-thumbnail-20040614.xhtml http://khtml2png.sourceforge.net/ -- Dan Young ___

Re: [PLUG] render html to png image

2009-05-28 Thread Jeff_W
> Are there any open source tools out there that can render an html > page to a png (or other) image, automatically? Yes, I know you > can display the page on a screen, then screen capture the image, > but I am looking for something I can automate, perhaps as a script > that spiders a directory.

Re: [PLUG] render html to png image

2009-05-28 Thread Bill Barry
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > Are there any open source tools out there that can render an html > page to a png (or other) image, automatically? Yes, I know you > can display the page on a screen, then screen capture the image, > but I am looking for something I can au

Re: [PLUG] render html to png image

2009-05-28 Thread Tony Rick
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Tony Rick wrote: > I found this: > http://www.guangmingsoft.net/htmlsnapshot/html2image.htm > > Not free, but cheap (ignore the big $ number on this page; under the Buy > link it says $29.95 single user license. I tried it on Eric's first intuit > page, and it w

Re: [PLUG] notSoOpenSuSE

2009-05-28 Thread Word Wizard
On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 22:45 -0700, Matt McKenzie wrote: > Get the UUID of the disk... ls /dev/disk/by-uuid -lah Word Wizard ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] render html to png image

2009-05-28 Thread Tony Rick
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > Are there any open source tools out there that can render an html > page to a png (or other) image, automatically? Yes, I know you > can display the page on a screen, then screen capture the image, > but I am looking for something I can au

Re: [PLUG] render html to png image

2009-05-28 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Yeah ... I normally use PDFs rather than PS myself, but IIRC it's an extra pipe in the script. :) The Gimp will also make a bitmap from a vector graphic, but it's not a command line tool. I've actually had a number of instances where I more or less *had* to convert a vector graphic to a bitmap. I

Re: [PLUG] render html to png image

2009-05-28 Thread Carlos Konstanski
On Thu, 28 May 2009, John Jason Jordan wrote: > Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 08:06:44 -0700 > From: John Jason Jordan > Reply-To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help;civil and on-topic" > > To: plug@lists.pdxlinux.org > Subject: Re: [PLUG] render html to png image > > On Thu, 28 May 2009

Re: [PLUG] render html to png image

2009-05-28 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Thu, 28 May 2009 00:34:19 -0700 "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" dijo: > Hmmm ... if you can get HTML -> ps done, I think you can go from ps to > PNG using ImageMagick. I've used Inkscape to convert PS to PNG. I'm pretty sure Inkscape uses ImageMagick to produce bitmaps. Inkscape can also import PDF

Re: [PLUG] notSoOpenSuSE

2009-05-28 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
This looks familiar. Didn't we run into this at a Linux clinic a couple of months ago? Yes, openSUSE defaults to grub. Here's a chunk of /boot/grub/menu.lst from my machine title openSUSE 11.1 - 2.6.27.21-0.1 root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.21-0.1-default root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata

Re: [PLUG] render html to png image

2009-05-28 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Hmmm ... if you can get HTML -> ps done, I think you can go from ps to PNG using ImageMagick. On 5/27/09, Tony Rick wrote: > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > >> Are there any open source tools out there that can render an html >> page to a png (or other) image, automatica