render HTML (convert to bitmap)

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Published on 2010-04-13T18:46:53Z Indexed on 2010/04/13 19:03 UTC
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Can somebody recommend the best (and preferably portable) way to render HTML documents onto a bitmap? As far as I understand my main 2 options are WebKit and Gecko, but I wasn't able to find a good starting point on how to do it. When I last tried doing this 5 years ago, I ended up using Gecko to send the document to a printer, which is not really what I need. I need rendering to a in-memory bitmap.

To clarify: server side, no Java, no .NET, batch processing, performance, not interactive, no Javascript.

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