[kde-linux] HTML previews

[albert.bradley at contractor.thomson.com]

Hi again,

I was able to get the previewtest application to run, but I find it's limited in the same way that Konqueror is, e.g. not being able to display certain flash (which FireFox is able to display properly), and so on.  Plus, the preview app seems generally not to render as well as Konqueror; it puts funny grey rectangles where the full-size konqueror window puts the correct graphics.

So I'm still looking for a good solution.

One method would be:
1. bring up FireFox with the link, in a sufficiently large window size using -width -height
2. grab pixels
3. close Firefox


#1 and 3 I could handle (say from java or perl);
2 (grabbing the pixels) is more problematic.

Is there any way to do this in KDE from a program-controlled setting?  (e.g. from java or perl)

Thank you in advance,

  -= miles =-



-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Krammer [mailto:kevin.krammer at gmx.at]
Sent: Wed 10/11/2006 1:13 PM
To: kde-linux at kde.org
Subject: Re: [kde-linux] HTML previews
 
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....


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

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Kevin Krammer, KDE developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring