[NMLUG] capturing snapshots of long HTML pages

[lwwoody at comcast.net (Larry W. Wood)]

On Thursday, March 4, 2004, at 09:12  AM, Jody Harris wrote:

> If there's no solution like that, I may try printing to PS, then 
> seeing if I can get ImageMagick to stitch the pages for me.  Once I've 
> got the monolithic PS file, I could convert that to gif or jpg.

Here's a thought:

Find a printer driver (postscript) that allows custom paper sizes.  It 
doesn't have to be for a printer that you have, since you won't 
actually be printing from it.  Set the paper size to something like 
8.5" x 40" (or 50" or whatever  --  long enough to prevent the 
insertion of page breaks).  Print to file.  Convert the resulting 
monolithic PS file to whatever (ps2pdf, for instance, or to gif/jpg if 
you have that capability).

I tried this with my printer driver (LexmarkE320 on MacOSX) and it 
works!  Hint:  Lexmark has drivers for just about every 
unix/unix-like/linux version that exists (and, of course, for Windumb, 
also).

Disclaimer:  Just a thought.  No guarantees it will work for you.  Good 
luck!     --  Woody