METOOTECH Posted June 18, 2006 Share Posted June 18, 2006 Hi, I was wondering if there is an easy short way to create a thumbnail of a web page to use as an anchor.... of course one without the page header, footer and scroll bar, just the page. The webtv I used a bunch of years ago stored thumbnails of web pages or mini web pages as links in their favorites pages. Yeah, I know you can capture or print the screen and use photo shop to crop and resize it to a thumbnail, but I was thinking that there mignt be a way to do it with code of some sort??? LMK........ METOOTECHP.S. The ones on webtv were static, they were captures and did not change as the page was changed... you had to delete it and re-save to change the thumbnail. When I first got Windows XP, the PC html files were mini pages that were live, but after installing Servicepac2 this feature was removed, they say for security... what a loss it was for me finding files, now I have to read the file title text under the blue IE icon... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boen_robot Posted June 18, 2006 Share Posted June 18, 2006 It would have to be some sort of VERY sophisticated server side scrpting code (an extension to the language... no matter which one we have in mind), for which I don't have a clue how to prepare.In other words: I don't think it's possible, or at least not as easy as anyone would expect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott100 Posted June 18, 2006 Share Posted June 18, 2006 Yes this must be possible.Look at aspnetguy's sig, you can see how your page looks in safari right? You type in the url and the page gets saved as a image:http://www.snugtech.com/safaritest/It would probably work the same as that but it's over my head too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
METOOTECH Posted June 19, 2006 Author Share Posted June 19, 2006 Well, I think I have been thinking wayyyyyyy outside the box on these posts... Safarotest is obviously a server side program, and it works great.... So I guess I'll let them make the jpg captures of the web pages and I'll copy the thumbs to a file and resize... saves me from doing it in photo shop! Thanks for the link to Aafaritest Scotty... I told you that you were a GENIUS metootech Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
METOOTECH Posted June 19, 2006 Author Share Posted June 19, 2006 This asp capture script is not exactly what we are looking for but it's a step in the right direction.... maybe it can be modified??? METOOTECHi got the code here: http://64.39.14.230/dh-asp/view.aspThis is the website responsible for the link i posted above - http://www.websupergoo.com/abcdrawhtml-1.htmTHE CODE:<HTML><HEAD><link rel="stylesheet" href="mystyles.css" type="text/css"></HEAD><BODY><form name="form1" method="post" action="view.asp"><table border="0" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="3"> <tr> <td><input type="image" name="image" src="image.asp?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Egoogle%2Ecom&w=400&h=300&sw=800&sh=600&sl=0&st=0" width="400" height="300"></td></tr><tr><td><hr></td></tr><tr><td> Click on the image to zoom in. Change the URL to preview other web pages.</td></tr><tr><td> URL <input type="text" name="url" value="http://www.google.com" size="80"></td></tr><tr><td> % Scale <input type="text" name="scale" value="50" size="8"> Center X <input type="text" name="x" value="400" size="8"> Center Y <input type="text" name="y" value="300" size="8"> <input type="submit" name="" value="Apply"> <input type="submit" name="reset" value="Reset"> </td></tr></table></form></body></html> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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