[ale] Thinking of html rendering

[Christopher Fowler]

I did this back in 95.  That was the last time.

I setup a printer in Linux that would send the PS output to gs.  Then gs
would convert that into a GIF, JPG, whatever.  You then place that under
SMB share and then set it up in Windows.

On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 18:49 -0500, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> All,
> 
> The other thread about HTML rendering reminded me that I need a CLI
> level mechanism to print (and/or convert to tiff) html files.
> 
> ie. This will be invoked via the "system()" call and I can't have any
> interactive requirements.
> 
> I do care a lot about the quality of the rendering and sad as it is,
> the closer to IE like it is the better.  ie. We do these conversions
> for our clients and most of them want to know what a page would look
> like from IE.
> 
> This is going to be integrated into a Windows platform, so I would
> need something that I can run under cygwin but that should not be a
> problem since I can always recompile the source.
> 
> FYI: We're currently trying to use the standard microsoft HTML
> rendering engine but on a small (but real) percentage of the html
> files it has a multi-minute delay to render/print a single page.  So
> when we hit these files our rendering rate drops from 10s of thousands
> per hour to hundreds per hour.
> 
> Thanks
> Greg
> 
> Thanks
> Greg