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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [July 26, 2009, 3:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/render-html-to-pic/172713 "2009-07-26T15:59:16Z")\
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**Author:**  [@blueomega](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/blueomega)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2009, 3:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/render-html-to-pic/172713/1 "2009-07-26T15:59:16Z")
So a need to do a complete print to an image of a website, server
side, and doesn’t really matters the price (ok it matters, if its not
to high :P). Runs a nix machine
So i found a a couple of options:
[Convert HTML To Image on Linux : JPG, JPEG, BMP, PNG with html2image for Linux](http://www.guangmingsoft.net/htmlsnapshot/html2image.htm) It has a ruby
samples and it works perfectly(4 lines of code), but i can’t find the
API and the available methods.
[Http://pearlcrescent.com/products/pagesaver/doc/#commandline](Http://pearlcrescent.com/products/pagesaver/doc/#commandline) Also
works, uses firefox to render, but i don’t know how it will handle
lots of multiple requests(performance wise), any idea?
[khtml2png download | SourceForge.net](http://khtml2png.sourceforge.net/index.php?page=about) similar to pearl
crescebt, but for konqueror
with headless server
[http://www.hackdiary.com/2004/06/13/taking-automated-webpage-screenshots-with-embedded-mozilla/](http://www.hackdiary.com/2004/06/13/taking-automated-webpage-screenshots-with-embedded-mozilla/)
and
[http://www.blogs.uni-osnabrueck.de/rotapken/2008/12/03/create-screenshots-of-a-web-page-using-python-and-qtwebkit/](http://www.blogs.uni-osnabrueck.de/rotapken/2008/12/03/create-screenshots-of-a-web-page-using-python-and-qtwebkit/)
i need to use python ☹
[http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgi?RubyGecko](http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgi?RubyGecko) MozSnapshooter
seems to work, didn’t have time to try it, any one used it?
seleniumhq ([http://seleniumhq.org/](http://seleniumhq.org/)) uses ruby and has an interface
that can grab a screenshot. does any one know of samples with selenium
(any example should do)?
Does any one know alternatives?
Does any one used one of them?
Performance wise, what should i use?
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**Author:**  [@blueomega](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/blueomega)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2009, 6:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/render-html-to-pic/172713/2 "2009-07-26T18:10:22Z")
That’s an interesting problem. If you don’t mind me asking, why do you
need
to take screenshots of your websites?
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**Author:**  [@blueomega](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/blueomega)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2009, 7:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/render-html-to-pic/172713/3 "2009-07-26T19:25:18Z")
During vacations i was invited to add features to a project (need
money for erasmus :P), already in use in some schools(full district),
for children between 6~10 years. The project is a page were student
can do or submit assignments(painting, writing), share information,
etc, with some social networking. It is also menth to support parents,
teachers and school management. this at a basic level.
as i said i was invited to work on it, and do some research and
wrought features (interface doesn’t really matter, just the logic).
like i said, they can do projects on it, and i need to get a thumbnail
of it (might be text, might be a picture, might be anything else,
there are planed more stuff).
the page has areas were project can be exposed\promoted(for the class,
school, district), that’s were the image generator really matters, i
need thumbnails of the image generated
So i need to create a preview of every new project or change in
project, right after i save it. i dont need the complete page (i will
crop the page borders), but i need the complete project (or the head
of it)