[Catalyst] Tool for rendering web pages consistently though time ?

Andrew Rodland arodland at comcast.net
Thu Jan 22 01:19:03 GMT 2009


On Wednesday 21 January 2009 07:10:15 pm lanas wrote:
> That would be over two years.  This is for the making and updating of a
> user guide.  Currently the procedure is to take screenshots but then,
> it so happen that the original workstation witht he original resolution
> and fonts no longer exists, so the screenshots of the web pages are no
> longer exactly the same.  It'd be possible to dedicate a "do not touch"
> workstation for that purpose only but I'm looking for a more elegant
> solution which do not rely on any workstation hardware/resolution/fonts.
>

A unix box, Xvfb, firefox, a "page saver" extension, and a little automation? 
Then all the config details are under your control, and the "hands off" bit 
becomes less of a factor. Just a thought.

Andrew



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