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

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Post by balakk » Tue, Dec 04, 2012, 12:06 PM UTC

Wow. At last, an azure-hosted site featured on HN front page.

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

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Post by ppadron » Tue, Dec 04, 2012, 12:28 PM UTC

If you need to host your own screenshot/html2png app, I've built this on top of PhantomJS: https://github.com/w3p/htmlshots. It uses PhantomJS's builtin webserver module to serve screenshots, so you don't need to spawn a new process for each screenshot request.

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

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Post by skakri » Tue, Dec 04, 2012, 12:41 PM UTC

As others mentioned - PhantomJS is way to go, it supports webfonts as well - http://www.grab.lv/_external/testpreview.png

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

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Post by jondot » Tue, Dec 04, 2012, 1:05 PM UTC

Should be easy enough doing with phantom.js http://skookum.com/blog/dynamic-screenshots-on-the-server-wi...

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

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Post by MichaelApproved » Tue, Dec 04, 2012, 1:12 PM UTC

Works well on the desktop but I couldn't get it to work on my iPhone and the UI was completely broken when I tried to load the page.

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

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Post by javan » Tue, Dec 04, 2012, 1:22 PM UTC

I made a similar thing with phantomjs and node: http://node-urlshot.herokuapp.com/

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

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Post by kimura » Tue, Dec 04, 2012, 7:17 PM UTC

Charlesmigli wrote: post #3

Doesn't phantomjs do the thing for you?

Yes, it does. I will to look into phantomjs to see how it handles css and flash.