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2. Convert the HTML to PS.

And after that you'd end up with a PDF or a gif of something that looked like this:

<html> <head><title>This is an unrendered web page</title></head> <body> . . . </body>

That's not exactly what the OP is trying to do... :-D

Gary Blackburn
Trained Killer

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Re^3: Website screenshot
by Rhandom (Curate) on Jan 07, 2007 at 04:13 UTC
    Actually there is a program called html2ps that translates the rendered html to ps. I haven't had much luck getting it installed - but it would serve to do the trick.

    my @a=qw(random brilliant braindead); print $a[rand(@a)];
      True, but the key word here is "rendered html." Rendering the HTML of the page you want to screen capture is the most important (and most non-trivial) step, and it's that step that was omitted in the post I responded to. :-D

      Gary Blackburn
      Trained Killer

      I tried a similar thing a few years back, getting the page with wget, then using html2ps, then piping it to imagemagik. Unfortunatly it renders the 'screen' over multiple images. I never found a way to have it actually thumbnail it on one page (or after a certain screen size)