Thumbnail of a webpage

Anand Pillai pythonguy at Hotpop.com
Sat May 31 10:45:14 EDT 2003


I think what he means is the thumbnail shown on Windoze 
, when the user selects an html file in explorer. Windoze
shows a thumbnail preview of the file similar to an image.

Perhaps you could find out how windoze does this and
implement it in python using the win32 extensions.

Anand Pillai

Ian Bicking <ianb at colorstudy.com> wrote in message news:<mailman.1054338587.1169.python-list at python.org>...
> On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 19:07, Harald Massa wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I think I saw it somewhere in a Python librarie
> > 
> > Generation of thumbnails of a webpage
> > 
> > 
> > That is ... I want thumbnails of HTML-Pages. Has anybody done this before, 
> > with linkings in Python?
> 
> Nothing specific that I know of.  I would advise using htmldoc (a
> command-line program) to create a PDF, then using Ghostscript to turn
> that into an image.
> 
>   Ian




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