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 on this subject but not
much luck.
Basically we capture a remote webpage, then need to take that data and create a
thumbnail(snapshot) of it.
TIA,
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Mike(mickalo)Blezien
snip
When you say "we capture a remote webpage" do you mean that you are
capturing an image of it or just downloading the HTML? If the former
then GD or ImageMagick will easily be able to resize it to a
thumbnail; however, if you mean the later then you will first need to
render the HTML. I don't know of any modules that do that (but you
might search CPAN), but you should be able to feed the HTML into
Firefox and do a screen capture. At that point you can just resize
the image.
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 create a thumbnail of
it. I've search CPAN for the last couple of hours on this, but no luck. maybe it
can be done on the fly. I was hoping to get a lead on this to see if it's even
possible too do. :)
Thx's
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Mike(mickalo)Blezien
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