Re: Create thumbnail from webpage

On 1/29/06, Mike Blezien <mickalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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,
> --
> Mike(mickalo)Blezien
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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.
.

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