OT question about printing documents....

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I have a need to convert fairly standard webpages to jpeg format(don't ask
why!). I would have thought there would be lots of free utilities floating
around that do this. So far can't find a single one.
It seems a bit silly to pay money for something that a printer driver does
everytime it's used...i.e. convert data from a source program to a bitmap
the printer can understand. So anyone know of a free little prog that can do
this?
By the way, I already tried the workaround of using the printscreen key to
take a snapshot of a window and then converting the snapsnot to a jpeg.
Works, but kinda sucks when I've got lots of long webpages to convert.

TIA
 
"Hg" said:
I have a need to convert fairly standard webpages to jpeg format(don't ask
why!). I would have thought there would be lots of free utilities floating
around that do this. So far can't find a single one.
It seems a bit silly to pay money for something that a printer driver does
everytime it's used...i.e. convert data from a source program to a bitmap
the printer can understand. So anyone know of a free little prog that can do
this?
By the way, I already tried the workaround of using the printscreen key to
take a snapshot of a window and then converting the snapsnot to a jpeg.
Works, but kinda sucks when I've got lots of long webpages to convert.
Click to expand...

HG-

I seem to recall that the Printscreen key only copies the visible screen,
but that Control-Printscreen grabs a whole window. If true, you would
still need to paste it into a document.

Can you choose print-to-PDF in the print dialog? Depending on which OS
I'm using, I can print to a postscript file or to a PDF file. Another
program converts postscript to PDF. I believe the same capability is
available for Windows machines, but don't know the specifics.

Fred
 
By the way, I already tried the workaround of using the printscreen key to
take a snapshot of a window and then converting the snapsnot to a jpeg.
Works, but kinda sucks when I've got lots of long webpages to convert.
Click to expand...

I seem to remember that there was a pseudo printer driver that could
print to TIFF. While typicaly a compressed non-lossy standard, while a
tad bulky it's commonly supported and can easily be converted to .jpg.

Alternativly speaking.. I believe photoshop will beable to read a
postscript file and render it as an image. Not knowing what you got
it's hard to make an accurate reccomendation.
 
zakezuke said:
I seem to remember that there was a pseudo printer driver that could
print to TIFF. While typicaly a compressed non-lossy standard, while a
tad bulky it's commonly supported and can easily be converted to .jpg.

Alternativly speaking.. I believe photoshop will beable to read a
postscript file and render it as an image. Not knowing what you got
it's hard to make an accurate reccomendation.
Click to expand...

TIFFWork ... it will convert to many formats, including TIFF and JPEG ...
but it's not free. (There is a somewhat limited free/trial version that
blanks out a portion of the image, see the 'Download Trial' page.)

http://www.informatik.com/tiffwork.html
 
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