Htm2Pic

 How to take snapshots of web pages 
 How to resize captured images
 How to convert html to multi-page PDF/TIF documents
 How to add watermarks to existing images

How to take snapshots of web pages 

    Switch to “Web Page Thumbnailer” tab and type in the URLs you want to capture in the “URL List” memo box, one URL per line. Lines with leading “#” will be treated as comments. You can use the Hotkey: CTRL + ‘/’ to comment/uncomment multiple lines that you selected. This is a very practical function and should be easy to understand especially when you have some programming experiences. You may also press ALT + ‘D’ to delete a whole line. URLs can be loaded from a text file by clicking the ”load list” button. The “grab from IE” button allows you to collect URLs in the address bar  of all existing IE browser windows. A great time saver, isn’t it ?

    In most case, you don’t have to change any of the settings above. Just press CTRL + SHIFT + ‘C’ or click the “Take snapshots!” button and Htm2Pic will get it going. You can view detailed on-going status in the “running logs” group box during capturing.

    Htm2Pic creates both full-length snapshot and thumbnail one, thus you can set the output folder respectively as well as the output format.  If you don’t wanna create thumbnail images upon capturing , just leave the output folder for thumbnails blank. Most web pages are 800 pixels in width which is the default value for “capture width”, set it to a larger value if your page oversteps.

    The “crop height to” value is effective when creating thumbnail images. It would be perfect to crop height to 600 pixels from a 800 pixel wide page if you are creating 400*300 thumbnails. In this case ,you get the part you want and avoid getting a distorted one. If you do not want to crop ( create thumbnails from the whole large image ), set “crop height to” to zero. Htm2Pic has two resizing options while creating thumbnail images, by percent or by fixed width & height. The “delay” option is very useful when some of the elements in your page takes addtional time to render after the HTML document is loaded completely such as FLASH content or web pages using AJAX.

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How to resize captured images 

    Let’s stay on the “Web Page Thumbnailer” main tab, but switch to the “Image List” sub tab, here you can add a list of images to be processed. Click the “add file(s)” button and a image file selection dialog box will popup, in which you can select multiple images at one time.(use CTRL and/or SHIFT to do so) . You may have noticed that the resizing option group box on the top of the panel is still activated, thus these settings will be applied to all images you’ve added to the “Image List”. Click on an image file to see thumbnail preview or double click to open it using your default image viewer.

    By clicking on “Make Thumbnails”, Htm2Pic would create thumbnail images on the fly.  Check the output folder when finished , you should see your expected result. (TIP: check “Open output folder for thumbnails when done” in the “Options” tab and the output folder would be opened automatically upon completion)

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How to convert html to multi-page PDF/TIF documents 

    Htm2Pic’s rendering core is so flexible that you can convert HTML into multi-page PDF/TIF documents with almost no effort while taking snapshots of web pages. Here’s how you can do it: Switch to the “Options” tab, tick the “Convert snapshots to multi-page PDF/TIF when done” checkbox and specify your desired output filename. Easy enough ? Then go back to thumbnailer and try adding some sites, hit the start button, try it out yourself. 

    As an alternative, creating multi-page PDF/TIF documents from your customized local image list is also supported. Just switch to the “Image List” sub tab located in the ”Web Page Thumbnailer”, you’ll two button named “Make multi-page PDF” and “Make multi-page TIF” on the right hand of the tool bar. Well, you know the rest.

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How to add watermarks to existing images 

     Adding watermarks to images is an often and highly usable demand. But almost none of the other providers offers this feature while Htm2Pic handles the task perfectly. Switch to the “Watermark Generator” tab and you’ll see all that you need, anyone with a brain can understand the settings with little effort I think. Only one thing to explain when it comes to placing an image as watermark, tick the “transparent enabled” check box and set corresponding transparent color if you don’t want the image background to be merged along. For example, set transparent color to black if your image background is black. Since PNG images may have transparent background color, Htm2Pic would first convert it into a 24bpp Bitmap and then place the watermark based on your settings.

    The watermarked image preview area is scrollable as it shows full-size image without resizing. Press the “add watermark(s) !” button and all images would be watermarked into output folder.

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