How Can I Capture a HTML document as an image?

[uteotw]

Hi

I'm very impressed with new GDIPlus management and SreenCapture management UDFs.

I'm looking for a way, save a whole page browsed in IE as an image.

Using _ScreenCapture_CaptureWnd() only captures what is drawn on the window, so if the page is longer than the IE window not everything will be saved in the image.

After a bit of search around the web I've found this page http://www.codeproject.com/KB/IP/htmlimagecapture.aspx explaining that MSHTML has a IHTMLElementRender interface which include a DrawToDC() function http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/a...273(VS.85).aspx

Update: Another page gives another example which seems better as it handles opacity http://www.nathanm.com/ihtmlelementrender-opacity

I tried to understand how to use MSHTML within AutoIt and looked around the fourms

http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.ph...2&hl=mshtml

http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.ph...2&hl=mshtml

But I'm not that good and my attempts fail miserably.

1. Could some just show how to MSHTML interface/function after creating $oIE object

2 I guess it would be neat to add this as a new function in IE.au3 or ScreenCapture.au3

Thanks

uteotw

Edited December 23, 2007 by uteotw

[GaryFrost]

Moved to general help and support

[uteotw]

Bump ... truly sorry about that ... I'll let it die if nobody is able to help.

[DaleHohm]

There was a related discussion of this here: http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=55885 It is certainly possible to do since there are tools mentioned in that post that use GDIPlus to accomplish it.

I personally have no need for it as I use PDFCreator and a product called PaperPort that offers a custom printer driver.

Dale