css - How can I convert a HTML table to an image?

Question

I want to to convert a HTML table to a PNG or GIF image. I'm using Perl under Linux operating system.

I use the TinyMCE editor. The user can edit a HTML table (using CSS classes and other CSS formatters), and I want to save this table as an image.

What is the simplest way to do this?

Answer 1

You can accomplish this with a few command line tools.

$: html2ps table.html > table.ps
$: ps2pdf table.ps 
$: convert table.pdf table.png

On my Ubuntu system I installed these with:

apt-get install html2ps
apt-get install ps2pdf
apt-get install imagemagick

The conversion isn't likely to be identical to what you see in your web browser.