Comments on: Webthumb Rendering Engine Released

By: Joshua Eichorn

Joshua Eichorn — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:24:26 +0000

I have a forked version of this code base (greatly refactored) that I use for webthumb. It runs on xulrunner and thats the route i recommend for anyone that wants to update things. But i’m not going to be releasing my fork since it doesn’t handling printing and I rather not put webthumb out of business.

By: Marques

Marques — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:56:11 +0000

Has anyone made an attempt to updated pageprint so that it uses the firefox rendering engine instead of seamonkey? I am in process of moving to a new server that has Centos 5 install and their are no RPMs available for seamonkey. Joshua I would imagine that your server/OS is at EOL and wanted to know if you were planning on tackling this issue?

By: Joshua Eichorn

Joshua Eichorn — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 21:23:00 +0000

George: I don’t run that svn so there isn’t a lot i can do.

I believe that svn has been moved to http://svn.clear-health.net/svn/pageprint/

Also note i’m not longer maintainer that code (I’ve forked things locally) but i’ll answer questions if i can.

Environment wise you can runs things on a server but you need an minimal X environment installed (depending on how firefox/mozilla/seamonkey is built some gnome stuff too). You just match things up with Xvfb and you should be good.

By: George P.

George P. — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 21:09:25 +0000

Hey Joshua,

I tried the link above to download from svn, but it didn’t work. Could you please let me know were I can download this from? Also, would pageprint work in a server environment with no gnome?

I really appreciate your efforts,
George

By: Joshua Eichorn

Joshua Eichorn — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 17:08:53 +0000

With new versions of firefox you have to set MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME or you get a segfault.

By: Anugrah Widya

Anugrah Widya — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 15:32:09 +0000

dear joshua,

i would like to run your webthumb in my server,
but i always get segfault when running you binary build PagePrint-bin,

[root@molinux webthumb]# ./PagePrint –snapshot http://www.petitmerci.local petitmerci
string(115) “/var/www/html/widi/webthumb/PagePrint-bin -i PagePrint46b88fd9d0924 –snapshot http://www.petitmerci.local petitmerci 2>&1″
Url: http://www.petitmerci.local, Output: petitmerci
Starting PagePrint
Profile path is: /root/.PagePrint
Loading URL: http://www.petitmerci.local

Configuration:
minWidth: 640
maxWidth: 1024
minHeight: 480
maxHeight: 768
smallWidth: 80
smallHeight: 60
mediumWidth: 160
mediumHeight: 120
medium2Width: 320
medium2Height: 240
largeWidth: 640
largeHeight: 480
browserWidth: 1024
browserHeight: 768
outputFullSnap: 1

sh: line 1: 12127 Segmentation fault /var/www/html/widi/webthumb/PagePrint-bin -i PagePrint46b88fd9d0924 –snapshot http://www.petitmerci.local petitmerci 2>&1

the line number of segfault always change.

and for info, currently i’m using fc6 as testserver (where webthumb will put)

hope you can help to solve this

By: marques

marques — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 11:07:14 +0000

Josh, how do you execute pageprint from a php script? I can create thumbnails from the command line, but if I try to exec(./pageprint), my server gets in a endless loop forcing me to reboot.

By: Joshua Eichorn

Joshua Eichorn — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 16:39:09 +0000

Charles:
http://svn.clear-health.net/svn/pageprint/trunk/

By: Charles Duffy

Charles Duffy — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 16:27:02 +0000

How do I actually check out that repository? The WebSVN instance browses just fine, but I don’t see a URL which can actually be plugged into subversion itself.

By: Joshua Eichorn

Joshua Eichorn — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 16:09:48 +0000

Nomola: you need to make your XVFB screen larger, its at 800×600 and the mozilla window is at 1024×768