Re: [PHP] Re: Create image from HTML

2009-01-10 Thread Per Jessen
Daniel Brown wrote: > You can use xvfb (X Virtual Frame Buffer) on *NIX systems without > running X itself, a stripped down Mozilla navigate to and display the > page, and then snap a "screen" shot of the buffer. Not very > economical, but it would work. I did just that a while ago, it worked p

[PHP] Re: Create image from HTML

2009-01-09 Thread Al
Christoph Boget wrote: Does anyone know if it's possible, using PHP, to take HTML (either as an input or from a URL) and generate an image (essentially, create a screenshot) of that HTML/page? I've looked around but was unable to find anything and I'm just not sure if it's that there really is

Re: [PHP] Re: Create image from HTML

2009-01-09 Thread Daniel Brown
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 11:51, Nathan Rixham wrote: > > only way would be if you had php running on a server with a GUI, a program > for grabbing screenshots, and some form of API to control from php (and > recieve output) That's not entirely correct (though it's the most widely-accepted solut

[PHP] Re: Create image from HTML

2009-01-09 Thread Nathan Rixham
Christoph Boget wrote: Does anyone know if it's possible, using PHP, to take HTML (either as an input or from a URL) and generate an image (essentially, create a screenshot) of that HTML/page? I've looked around but was unable to find anything and I'm just not sure if it's that there really is n