Create Thumbnail from HTML File

[dhrehor]

Wondering if anyone knows an easy way to generate thumbnail pics (jpeg or gif) from an HTML file. Prefer to be able to do this in bulk on a local machine.

In other words, I have a directoy on my local drive with about 50 html files. If I click on one it will launch IE and show the web page in my browser. I want to make a thumbnail picture of that web page and preferably do this in bulk with all 50 files.

Thanks

Don

 

[trollacious]

Are you saying you want to do a screen capture of the page and make a thumbnail of that?

Lee

 

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[dhrehor]

Trollacious,

I am looking to take an html file and create to jpegs or gif of it. one ia small thumbnail and one a full size graphic that a user will get when they click on the thumbnail.

These html files are local to my network and will not be pulled via a url.

I would prefer bulk, but if I have to click one at a time, I will.

Hope this clarifies what I am searching for.

Thanks for the replies

Don

 

[trollacious]

CTRL-PrintScreen will do a screen capture, then you can paste the clipboard into your favorite graphics editor program. I use Irfanview for most of the graphics manipulation I do because it loads fast and has a wide variety of features easily available (and it's free). For more complex stuff, I use Gimp, but that and Photoshop are overkill for what you're talking about here.

Lee

 

[dhrehor]

Trollacious,

Don't really want to do the CTRL-PrintScreen since that will also display my header and task bar at the top and bottom. These thumbnails are for incorporation to other web pages and would not look professional with the bars at top and bottom.

Don

 

[rickwells]

Do a screen capture on each. Then open in image manipulation app, crop off top and bottom and save. I reckon total 25 - 30 seconds per file. That's about 25 minutes work for the large files and much less to then convert to thumbnails.

 

[kpetursson]

I did a quick google search for print to jpg, which is esentially what you want to do. maybe this will help

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=print+to+jpg&meta=

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[feherke]

Hi

Maybe HTML2JPG ? Never tried, just saw it's site a couple of days before.
"HTML2JPG creates a BMP, JPG or PNG image with the whole 'vertical' content of the webpage.
HTML2JPG produces an image of the size that you specify.
HTML2JPG can operate in batch-mode and generate hundreds of images without your intervention."

Feherke.

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http://www.thumbshots.org/

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