Introduction

Introduction of HtmlCapture ActiveX Control.

HtmlCapture uses the functionality of Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox to take (capture) snapshots of given URLs. It hosts a web browser control to download web page and then capture it as image.

HtmlCapture is a small self-contained (no third-party dependencies) ActiveX control, so it can be used from any ActiveX-ready languages (comprehensive samples for the most popular provided). The basic usage is as easy as few function calls, but there are also many options and tuning possibilities. Developer has wide selection of options for "what to save" - the entire page or only a part, whether to include images, applets, objects and so on; as well as for "how to save" - numerous image formats available, both raster (bmp, jpg, tiff etc.) and vector (emf, wmf).

It can be used to convert not only webpages but also plain text files or Web Archive Format (*.MHT) files into BMP, JPG, GIF, PNG, TIF, TGA, PCX, WMF and EMF images. You can choose to capture the entire page, or a thumbnail image of a specified size, and save it to a local folder. And one of the most powerful feature of HtmlCapture v2.0 is that deleloper can choose either FIREFOX or MSIE as the rendering engine.

If you hope to

Get images rendered by either MSIE or FIREFOX;
Get not only raster images but also vector ones;
Save webpages into multi-page PDF or TIFF documents;
Save part of a web page to image;
Selectively show ActiveX, image, java applets, scripts and videos on a web page;
Control the compression quality of JPEG or change the compression method of TIFF and GIF image;
Control the color depth of the resulting image while keeping the quality of the image;
Control the DPI of the resulting image;
Get gray scale or B&W images with efficient algorithms to keep the quality;
Send custom cookies, http headers, referers, user agent string, credentials to webpages programmatically;
Get rich samples written in Visual C++, Visual Basic, Delphi, C#, C++ Builder, Java, JScript, Perl, VBScript, ASP, ASP.net or PHP;

No Doubt, HtmlCapture v2.0 is just what you want.

Some exmaple snapshots captured by HtmlCapture v2.0 are listed below.

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More details about HtmlCapture, please refer to Features and FAQ.