RE: [PHP] Automatically creating an image of another website
| From: | Adrian Teasdale | Date: | Mon, 14 Jul 2003 19:37:55 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] Automatically creating an image of another website | ||
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OK, thanks for this suggestion Jason. I'll try it and see and then see if I
can find any alternative
Best regards
Adrian
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Wong [mailto:php-general@gremlins.biz]
> Sent: 14 July 2003 20:34
> To: php-general@lists.php.net
> Subject: Re: [PHP] Automatically creating an image of another website
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> 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.
>
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