[kde-linux] HTML previews

[Kevin Krammer]

On Tuesday 10 October 2006 19:44, albert.bradley at contractor.thomson.com wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to generate small previews of web pages.  e.g. right now, I'm
> trying to use khtml2png to grab an 800x800 image and then using convert to
> shrink them to 200x200.
>
> However, khtml2png has been problematic, and the fact that it pops up a
> window to do the bitblt from seems cumbersome, given that the KDE file
> manager is capable of generating HTML previews seemingly without effort.
>
> (in particular, khtml2png may be having problems with XDMCP, which is how
> I'm required to access the particular server...)

Hmm, maybe the khtml2png author can just keep the window hidden, I don't see 
any technical reason to actually show it.

> Is there some way to use the preview engine that KDE does as a stand-alone?
>  i.e. some command line I could type to tell it to just generate a certain
> sized preview from a URL?

Good question.
I guess it should be possible to create a program that creates preview jobs or 
directly loads the preview plugin, however I am afraid no such program exists 
yet.

Hmm, after looking through some KDE sources I found a quite primitive test 
program for KDE's preview system:
http://tinyurl.com/ebrml

hth,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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