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Re: Show HN: simple web utility for converting html to image

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Post by lukeholder »

This is nice, but I find webkit2png http://www.paulhammond.org/webkit2png/ (brew install webkit2png) a more simple and flexible way to quickly generate images (and thumbnails) of webpages.

This is nice, that it hosts them for you immediately, although dropbox live links are pretty easy.

Inception: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/103062/webkit2png.png

Re: Show HN: simple web utility for converting html to image

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Post by sdoering »

Well, nice, really nice idea. Tried it and was frustrated by the poor quality, of the screenshot it produced. Grainy and blurred fonts, nothing I would wanna use.

And the software had obvious problems parsing my css-styles. Some headlines were way of...

Hope you might be able to fix these issues. If not, you are (at least in my case) not usable...

Re: Show HN: simple web utility for converting html to image

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Post by kimura »

sdoering wrote: post #4

Well, nice, really nice idea. Tried it and was frustrated by the poor quality, of the screenshot it produced. Grainy and blurred fonts, nothing I would wanna use. And the software had obvious problems parsing my css-styles. Some headlines were way of... Hope you might be able to fix these issues. If not, you are (at least in my case) not usable...

Thank you for the feedback. We might have to start generating .png outputs - that will definitely solve the quality problem. Do you mind sharing the site/input you used?

Re: Show HN: simple web utility for converting html to image

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Post by carbuncle »

kimura wrote: post #5
sdoering wrote: post #4

Well, nice, really nice idea. Tried it and was frustrated by the poor quality, of the screenshot it produced. Grainy and blurred fonts, nothing I would wanna use. And the software had obvious problems parsing my css-styles. Some headlines were way of... Hope you might be able to fix these issues. If not, you are (at least in my case) not usable...

Thank you for the feedback. We might have to start generating .png outputs - that will definitely solve the quality problem. Do you mind sharing the site/input you used?

You should add a loader, or at least a feedback that the processhas started. I clicked on the button 2 or 3 times before realizing that my browser was waiting for your side.

Plus, the PNG doe not perfectly reflect our site (alignment problems , ...). Input site : http://d-sight.com

Finally, clicking on our screenshot brings us to "realtywarp.com"

Other wise it's a nice tool-to-have. I would probably use it around once a month.

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