Taking snapshots of webpages is an often and highly usable programming task. But the general purpose webpage snapshot tools 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 HtmlCapture.
HtmlCapture ActiveX component is designed to
convert html to image and html to PDF, using the functionality of
Microsoft Internet Explorer and
Mozilla Firefox. It exports many functions, which help you easily create html snapshot or web page thumbnail of the captured image.
Supported output formats includes PDF, JPG, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, BMP, TGA, and PCX. Vector image formats like EMF and WMF are also supported. That is to say, HtmlCapture can be use to convert html to pdf, html to jpg, html to jpeg, html to png, etc. The output image can be further customized. For example, you can set the method, the compression level, the color depth, or the resolution of any snapshot. Web page thumbnails can also be created.
More than 30 samples written in all kinds of common languages are given to help you start creating your own projects immediately. These languages include Visual C++, C#, Visual Basic, Delphi, C++ Builder, Java, JScript, Perl, VBScript, ASP, ASP.net and PHP.
Click to a list of all sample demos The followings are two html thumbnails in jpeg format.
Click on the thumbnails, you can see the full snapshots in png format.