Creating Graphics from HTML

snow · February 5th, 2007, 01:59 PM

Does anyone know if it is possible/how to create an image from HTML output automatically? Basically I'm generating an HTML table to represent a timetable - I then want clients to be able to download the generated table as a GIF or whatever...

If it can't be done, any other suggestions for automatically creating the image would be very welcome!

moojoo · February 5th, 2007, 02:36 PM

PHP etc can convert things into gifs and stuff. i.e. text, add effects blah blah blah using ImageMagik. Also can output PDF's.

Ryan Fait · February 5th, 2007, 06:44 PM

I recommend PHP as well. While it's not the easiest thing in the world, it's quite flexible.

snow · February 5th, 2007, 07:11 PM

ack, no luck - the client's servers use J2EE and I've developed the rest of the application using Java technology - I'll just have to see if there's anything handy in the API

Thanks guys.

Ryan Fait · February 6th, 2007, 05:34 AM

Good luck