Comments on: Ubuntu Linux: Generate Thumbnail Image of External URL http://www.sematopia.com/2007/10/ubuntu-linux-generate-thumbnail-image-of-external-url/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:10:34 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Marcus Herou http://www.sematopia.com/2007/10/ubuntu-linux-generate-thumbnail-image-of-external-url/comment-page-1/#comment-61760 Marcus Herou Thu, 14 Feb 2008 10:47:11 +0000 http://www.sematopia.com/?p=219#comment-61760 I can recommend this article: http://oltsm.blogspot.com/2007/07/ruby-website-screencapture-howto.html It took me something like half a day to get it working fully and (almost) seamless. Now it has been rolling as a cronjob for a couple of days with no errors. All thumbnails at tailsweep.com is generated with this one. I can recommend this article: http://oltsm.blogspot.com/2007/07/ruby-website-screencapture-howto.html
It took me something like half a day to get it working fully and (almost) seamless. Now it has been rolling as a cronjob for a couple of days with no errors.
All thumbnails at tailsweep.com is generated with this one.

]]> By: George A. Papayiannis http://www.sematopia.com/2007/10/ubuntu-linux-generate-thumbnail-image-of-external-url/comment-page-1/#comment-60726 George A. Papayiannis Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:09:20 +0000 http://www.sematopia.com/?p=219#comment-60726 Hey guys, Yeah - I was lucky to get this to work initially. It did work with Firefox also. After I wrote this post I starting getting a bunch of strange errors, I managed to get it working again, but it was still a headache. Unfortunately, I can't remember the errors or what else I did to make it work, as I haven't touched it since. All the best, George Hey guys,

Yeah – I was lucky to get this to work initially. It did work with Firefox also. After I wrote this post I starting getting a bunch of strange errors, I managed to get it working again, but it was still a headache. Unfortunately, I can’t remember the errors or what else I did to make it work, as I haven’t touched it since.

All the best,
George

]]> By: Marcus Herou http://www.sematopia.com/2007/10/ubuntu-linux-generate-thumbnail-image-of-external-url/comment-page-1/#comment-60634 Marcus Herou Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:27:32 +0000 http://www.sematopia.com/?p=219#comment-60634 Are you really sure it will work with firefox? The -remote command for instance is not available in firefox... The perlscript as well calls the mozilla binary not the firefox one. I got it to work with various results after I installed the "old" mozilla-browser package for edgy. Any further ideas ? Seems like a smart way of doing it with xvfb. Kindly //Marcus Are you really sure it will work with firefox?
The -remote command for instance is not available in firefox… The perlscript as well calls the mozilla binary not the firefox one. I got it to work with various results after I installed the “old” mozilla-browser package for edgy.

Any further ideas ? Seems like a smart way of doing it with xvfb.

Kindly

//Marcus

]]> By: alper http://www.sematopia.com/2007/10/ubuntu-linux-generate-thumbnail-image-of-external-url/comment-page-1/#comment-56013 alper Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:05:55 +0000 http://www.sematopia.com/?p=219#comment-56013 You must be really lucky that it worked at first time. When I try to run webthumb, I get errors due to xvfb not being able to start because of "error opening security policy file /etc/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy". Do I need to install an additional package for xvfb to run properly? Do I need Xorg to be installed? You must be really lucky that it worked at first time. When I try to run webthumb, I get errors due to xvfb not being able to start because of “error opening security policy file /etc/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy”. Do I need to install an additional package for xvfb to run properly? Do I need Xorg to be installed?

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