printing protovis output (programmatically)

Question

Dear all,

I'm pondering switching to protovis for visualizations. One thing that keeps me skeptical however - since protovis creates its output as a div in a browser, I wonder if there is any at least semi-automatic way for me to create a bunch of images at once without opening each one and pressing "print" manually.

So the question would be:

• do you think I can use a browserless JS engine like V8 to execute the code and print the result?
• can I automate opening and printing within a browser?
• is there another way to get automated images from protovis?

Thanks, Nicolas

Answer 1

Have a look at this Google Groups thread about this very topic.