Re: Automatically creating an image of another website

On Tuesday 15 July 2003 02:57, Adrian Teasdale wrote: > Thanks for the reply. I was told that using html2ps and ps2gif via php > pipes (if that's the right word) would let php go to a site and "browse" > the page, print it off as postscript and then convert the postscript file > to a gif. not sure if that is possible which is why I posted to the list. > Any suggestions would be appreciated! :) In theory that would work. But in practice the output from html2ps is very primitive and ugly to boot. Don't expect anything resembling a screenshot of a browser rendered page. NB html2ps may have improved in the months since I last tried it so try it and judge for yourself. -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.biz Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * ------------------------------------------ Search the list archives before you post http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general ------------------------------------------ /* /* Halley */ (Halley's comment.) */