Erik Hatcher wrote:
>
> On Jul 23, 2005, at 11:45 PM, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:
>
>> Erik Hatcher wrote:
>>
>>> One interesting idea I've had for our application that might work with
>>> Piggy Bank also is to take a snapshot the page itself as a graphic and
>>> keep attached to the resources from that page as a thumbnail. It
>>> looks like Otis has done this with Simpy:
>>>
>>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/otis/27642021/
>>>
>>> We have a lot of non-graphical objects to collect (poems, manuscripts,
>>> etc) and having a visual of the page it was on would likely be a big
>>> hit with users (though we also have scans of the actual manuscripts
>>> that we can use also).
>>>
>>
>> Hmmm, interesting. One of the future features of PB is being able to add
>> binary content along with its metadata (pictures, for example) at that
>> point, what these pictures represent is really just an
>> implementation/customization detail.
>>
>> But I have to be honest, I wouldn't know how to make a 'screenshot' of
>> an HTML page directly. (I know a company has been modifying gecko to
>> print over a bitmap canvas instead of the screen memory, but I wouldn't
>> be that happy to go down that path)
>
>
> I've come across this option:
>
> http://www.babysimon.co.uk/khtml2png/index.html
Interesting.
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Stefano Mazzocchi
Research Scientist Digital Libraries Research Group
Massachusetts Institute of Technology location: E25-131C
77 Massachusetts Ave telephone: +1 (617) 253-1096
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 email: stefanom at mit . edu
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