Convert html to .bmp .jpg or .tiff

[mike3411]

Anyone know an open source / freeware utility to convert an html document (including embedded images) into an image or series of images? Any standard format would be fine.
I've been trying to print from a web browser and use the windows document writer but it's only outputting a single page.

Also tried some commercial demos, but they have had problems with long html files and output format.

Any suggestions would be appreciated...

 

[skrilla]

How many pages do you need to convert? Can you take screenshots?

In the past, I have had to create images out of a few HTML pages. I used the Firefox addon called Screengrab. It is very useful if you have a long page that requires scrolling - it will take a "screenshot" of the whole thing.

 

[stealth2009]

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[thirtythree]

Originally posted by: mike3411
I've been trying to print from a web browser and use the windows document writer but it's only outputting a single page.

Try a different browser. I remember this always happening with either Firefox or IE 6, but it worked in the other browser.

 

[mike3411]

Originally posted by: skrilla
How many pages do you need to convert? Can you take screenshots?

In the past, I have had to create images out of a few HTML pages. I used the Firefox addon called Screengrab. It is very useful if you have a long page that requires scrolling - it will take a "screenshot" of the whole thing.

Very long documents. The commercial demos I tried wouldn't do more than ~10k pixel height.
There were a couple Firefox plugins like Screengrab and Pearl Crescent that had higher limits, but they still wouldn't work for longer documents.

 

[mike3411]

Originally posted by: stealth2009
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Are you sure that would work? It just looks like a general screen-capture program.

Originally posted by: thirtythree

Originally posted by: mike3411
I've been trying to print from a web browser and use the windows document writer but it's only outputting a single page.

Try a different browser. I remember this always happening with either Firefox or IE 6, but it worked in the other browser.

Hmm well I don't really have many other browsers =D but I'll try in Opera. I think it's just a function of the windows document writer, when on tif format it only outputs one image. Exporting as .mdi might work but I've had troubles past that step...

 

[thirtythree]

Originally posted by: mike3411
Hmm well I don't really have many other browsers =D but I'll try in Opera. I think it's just a function of the windows document writer, when on tif format it only outputs one image. Exporting as .mdi might work but I've had troubles past that step...

Ah, you may be right. I haven't messed around with the different formats. If you have Acrobat, you could also print to a PDF then save as whatever image format you want.

 

[mike3411]

Originally posted by: thirtythree

Originally posted by: mike3411
Hmm well I don't really have many other browsers =D but I'll try in Opera. I think it's just a function of the windows document writer, when on tif format it only outputs one image. Exporting as .mdi might work but I've had troubles past that step...

Ah, you may be right. I haven't messed around with the different formats. If you have Acrobat, you could also print to a PDF then save as whatever image format you want.

Yup that's what I did for the time being. Its kind of a weird extra step but it works alright, and there are open source html <-> pdf and pdf is easy to output as tif jpg etc.