Josh has released the rendering engine (PagePrint). As long as you're using a relatively recent version of firefox or mozilla, it should work with relatively little hassle.
http://blog.joshuaeichorn.com/archives/2006/08/21/webthumb-rendering-engine-released/

I installed it on my laptop to test out today in about 5 minutes. The only extra thing I needed to install was the Xvfb package. I also need to get some fonts for the output to look nice, but it works well for creating pdfs.

der.hans wrote:

Am 28. Aug, 2006 schwätzte alex@crackpot.org so:

Quoting Shawn Badger <sbadger@cskauto.com>:

Does anyone know of a CLI app that can capture a web page to a jpg or
better a pdf? I need to capture a dynamic page on daily basis and e-mail
the captured image to various people. I have tried using wget, but it
saves some weird results. I suspect that is because the page I am
polling is generated with PHP.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

wget downloads/saves the source text of the page, so if you want a jpg or pdf, I don't think that will help you.

This app is web-based, not CLI, but it might be worth looking at : http://bluga.net/webthumb/index.php

Josh is here in town ( one of the people behind AzPHP ), so maybe you can
convince him to let you use it on your company's intranet.

Also, there are some extensions for Firefox that will run scripts. Maybe
you could setup Firefox to pull up the page and save it to PDF. A script
run from cron could then poll for new files to mail out.

PrefBar is the extension I can think of off the top of my head. Not
available from the Firefox website, but still worth looking into.

Is there a command line option to Firefox to save a URL to PDF?

ciao,

der.hans
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