Render page as a picture

Question

I have question to Java or C# programmers. I want to render some pages in various browsers mainly Firefox and IE and save it as a picture. I have not any serious experience in Java/.Net. Is there any libs/tools for such tasks? I thought about some FF extensions for example but I don't know how to do it in IE. Is the in .Net some libs for dealing with it? Maybe some ActiveX? Any sugestions?

Answer 1

I'm not sure what your end goal is, but perhaps http://browsershots.org/ offers the functionality you're looking for? It would appear they offer both an XML-RPC interface and also the source code freely.

Edit: It looks like the source code link isn't properly hooked up currently.

Answer 2

http://www.vesic.org/english/blog/winforms/render-html-to-quality-jpeg/

Answer 3

You can use the FireFox Screengrab extension - it's very handy!

"Screengrab! is an extension that makes it easy to save a web-page as an image – it’s a screen capture tool for Firefox!

With it, you can save anything that you can see in a browser window – from a small selection, to a complete page."