Re: Postscript file generation

Is it also possible to write directly to an Image? If not there is still 
ghostscript. But it would be faster.

I am searching for an easy way to create thumbnails from Websites for my 
  content management system.

best regards,

Christian


Richard Philips wrote:
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> I think it would make sense to use Mozilla as a tool without GUI, 
> completely driven by JavaScript.
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> Converting HTML + CSS + MathML  to postscript would be just one - be it 
> a very spectacular - benefit.
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> I am good at programing in Python and there is something called pyXPCOM.
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> I look into that.
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> Richard
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> Jeff Putney wrote:
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>> I would like to write a command line utility that takes a URI as input 
>> and renders to a postscript file.  I've not done any mozilla hacking, 
>> so I am not quite sure how to go about doing this.  From what I 
>> gather, I'll need to use XPCOM to setup a postscript rendering context 
>> and then use some XPCOM object to load and render the URI.  In theory 
>> this should be fairly straight forward.  Mozilla already has all the 
>> functionality I want.  However I am not familiar with how to write a 
>> program that can use XPCOM, nor which objects I will need to use 
>> outside of gfs/src/ps. I have read some of the XPCOM introduction 
>> which gives info on writing XPCOM objects, but not so much on writing 
>> a program that uses XPCOM objects, especially information on linking 
>> and probably where shared objects should be installed for dynamic 
>> loading.
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>> Any insight whatsoever would be greatly appreciated.  I understand 
>> that this may be a non-trivial task, but given that mozilla already 
>> does this, it should be 'a simple matter of programming', or at least 
>> I hope it will be.
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>> --jeff
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