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HtmlCapture ActiveX Control, Web Snapshot In A Few Lines Of Code
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Dec 27, 2007 17:14:27 |
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Taking shots (images) of web-pages is an often and highly usable programming task. There are scores of possible usages, from large web-archiving suits to small one-time testing scripts; but the general purpose snapshot tools (either PrintScreen or specialized software) aren’t very good for the task. If you want one powerful yet compact solution for the problem which can be used virtually with any programming language, take a look to HtmlCapture and fall in love with it!
HtmlCapture is a small self-contained (no third-party dependencies) DLL with ActiveX control, so it can be used from any ActiveX-ready languages (comprehensive samples for the most popular provided). The basic usage is as easy as few function calls, but there are also many options and tuning possibilities. Programmer has wide selection of options for «what to save» — the entire page or only a part, whether to include images, applets, objects and so on; as well as for «how to save» — numerous image formats available, both raster (bmp, jpg, tiff etc.) and vector (emf, wmf). Support of an image formats is really full-featured, it means you can set a JPEG compression level, GIF compression method, create multi-page TIFF images — and all those settings are easy and well-documented. | | | Learn more about HtmlCapture ActiveX Control… |
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