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[Craig Thomas]

Joseph Crawford wrote:
> Hey guys,
> 
> I found something today that was rather interesting and i would like to 
> feed my brain and figure out how to do something like this
> 
> http://webdesignbook.net/snapper.php?url=http://www.josephcrawford.com&full 
> <http://webdesignbook.net/snapper.php?url=http://www.josephcrawford.com&full>
> 
> you can change the url in the querystring and it will take a live 
> screenshot of the page.
> 
> Any direction on what i should research would be great.  obviously i 
> would have to use image manipulation, but i am not sure how the screen 
> would be captured.
> 

For *nix systems there is this:

http://khtml2png.sourceforge.net/

I can't vouch for it as I have never used it, but seems like a good 
start if not a solution...