Taking snapshots of webpages is an often and highly usable programming task. But the general purpose 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 Control is designed to capture and convert html webpages into images, using the functionality of Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. It exports many functions, which can help you to config the snapshot request and customize the output images.


Supported output formats includes JPG, JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, BMP, TGA, and PCX. Vector image formats like EMF and WMF are also supported. 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. Thumbnails of the capturedimages 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.


Features:


- Get snapshot images rendered by either Microsoft IE or Mozilla Firefox.
- Convert webpages into muti-page PDF documents.
- Just by calling SnapUrl() and SaveImage(), you can take a snapshot of a webpage into various images, such as BMP, JPG, JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIF, TGA and PCX.
- Convert html to vector image format like EMF and WMF.
- Self contained ActiveX control with no third party dependencies.
- By calling SnapHtmlString(), you can take a snapshot for a html string.
- Support custom gdi output of the resulting image.
- Support saving resulting image both to file and in memory.
- Support saving both full-size web page and thumbnail one.
- Take a snapshot of a whole webpage into one image without scrollbars.
- You can get all contents in a web page, such as title, links and so on.
- Make grayscale or B&W images with efficient algorithms to keep the quality.
- Support JPEG compression level, compression method selection of TIFF and GIF.
- Support setting color depth in images while keeping the quality of the image as much as possible.