[Zope] Preview/Thumbnail for rendered DTML

Max M maxmcorp@worldonline.dk
Thu, 15 Feb 2001 17:33:56 +0100


From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of Arno
Gross

>Is there a way to produce a thumbnail as a preview
>of a rendered DTML document?

On windows I have seen it done through COM and IE. Which makes thumbs. you
know when you browse your Win machine that it can show previews of html
pages. That mechanism can be used. It's probably not trivial though.

My guess is that it will take about 10-20 lines of Python in an external
python method:

Getting an instance of IE through COM
opening the right page through an URL
getting the method that returns a a thumbnail image
Converting it to gif
saving the gif in Zope

The problem is which 10-20 line it should be ;-)

Regards Max M