Htmlsnapshot can capture image of an existing webbrowser control and save it into jpg, bmp, gif, png etc.
You need to pass the object instance of the webbrowser control (IDispatch in C++).
In VB6, you can do it like below:
Dim snap1 As HtmlSnap2.CHtmlSnap
Set snap1 = CreateObject(“HTMLSNAP2.HtmlSnap.1″)
snap1.SnapWebBrowser WebBrowser1.Object, “c:web.bmp”
snap1.Clear
We also provide C# demo with our trial version.
We just released a new version of html to image
It fixes an issue when capturing javascript enabled page such as the google map.
Our htmlsnapshot component is designed to convert html or text content into image.
If a URL is not text/htm content, the snapUrl method may fail.
To solve this issue, we add a new method called IsGoodUrlForSnap.
It will return 1 on the URL which is text/html content. It can be called like below:
snap.IsGoodUrlForSnap(“http://www.google.com“)
For more details, please visit the home page of htmlsnapshot
Do you ever want to take a screen shot of a web page in your desktop or web application? HTML Snapshot ActiveX is a software component that can make html to image easier than ever before. It can download and parse web sites and save a screenshot of the page in GIF, JPG, JPEG, BMP, PNG, TIFF, WMF and EMF. You can choose to capture the entire page, or a thumbnail image of a specified size, and save it to a local folder.
The key benifits of using Html Snapshot are:
Html Snapshot has been used by thousands of enterprise customers since its first release in 2004. And it is being constantly improved by the company Guangming Software. Lot of new features and fixes are adding to the product.
Here below lists the high light features of the component.
Html Snapshot is free to try. Just try it out for FREE in your applications to convert html to image before purchase.
Related web links:
Guangming Software: http://www.guangmingsoft.net
Html Snapshot: http://www.guangmingsoft.net/htmlsnapshot/help.htm
Html Snapshot Download: http://www.guangmingsoft.net/htmlsnapshot/HtmlSnapSetup.exe
html to image is an end user product for normal users. It has a UI to batch convert a lot of URLs to image.
htmlsnapshot is a component that aims to be used by developers. It allows maxinum flexiblity by providing a set of methods
Htmlsnapshot is a component to convert html or url to image. It can be used to build large scale URL to image conversion system. Here, the large means the system is designed to convert millions of URLs to image in the future.
My recommendation for making a robust system is to use process based method. There are a main process in the system. It maintains the list of URLs and launch child worker process to do the actual html to image conversion. Such worker process creates only one Snapshot object. It processes some URLs (may be 1 or 10, can be predefined) and exit.
The benefit:
1. Each snapshot object will not affect each other. Htmlsnapshot itself is thread safe in general. The underline webbrowser control is complex and might have concurrency issue in rare extreme condition. So this can avoid the unknown issue around threading.
2. By wrapping snapshot function into a worker process, your main process will always have control to start/stop/terminate a worker process. Here your main process is a monitor and job dispatcher, it will be most robust. For example, it has the choice to stop the worker process when it is hung unexpectedly like downloading dialog pop up etc.
Some may worry the performance comparing to the in-proc method. I would say for large scale conversion jobs, the robustness is more important. And the time to launch a process is a lot faster than downloading from internet.