Program that convert html to image

Question

Is there a ready-to-use program, that I can run from my web application, to convert an HTML file to an image? Preferably using Webkit, or another mature browser engine?

I tried wkhtmltoimage, but it doesn't render backgrounds correctly (while wkhtmltopd works fine). Is there one that works?

Answer 1

You can try webkit2png:

Tested in Ubuntu:

$ sudo apt-get install python-qt4 libqt4-webkit python-pip xvfb
$ wget https://raw.github.com/millisami/python-webkit2png/master/webkit2png.py
$ chmod +x webkit2png.py
$ sudo xvfb-run --server-args="-screen 0, 1024x768x24" ./webkit2png.py -o google.png http://www.google.com

This will create an image named google.png

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UPDATE

Another easy way is using phantomjs:

$ phantom rasterize.js http://www.google.com google.png

_{Download and unzip the binary archive. rasterize.js is in the example directory.}