Litehtmltopng

litehtmltopng (litehtml engine)

litehtmltopng is simple html render to png image designed to helper the litehtml HTML rendering engine.

Also demonstrated:

• cairo work with freetype
• cairo scaling pictures

Building

You can build litehtmltopng with Vinsual Studio 2008 and newer. Note: this project contais some git submodules:

• freetype - used to draw fonts
• cairo - 2D graphics library
• litehtmlcpp98 - fork litehtml HTML rendering engine

Please be sure the submodules are fetched, or download them from github and copy into libs subfolder.

• litehtmlcpp98 and litehtmltopng should be compiled with define LITEHTML_UTF8 for all platforms

Why fork litehtml?

Used litehtmlcpp98 because while in fork implemented cairo_f container allows minimal commons dependencies for Windows, Linux Embedded, Android and other platforms.

Download binaries

You can download the binary files from freetype cairo

Using litehtmltopng

Before running litehtmltopng copy the files freetype.dll (from libs\freetype) cairo.dll (from libs\cairo) and litehtml.dll (libs\litehtml) into the same folder where litehtmltopng.exe .

Additionally

Basis of the project https://github.com/litehtml/litebrowser

Reference links

• litehtml wiki
• An example of Cairo and FreeType in C
• cairo doc
• cairo samples
• graficheskaya-biblioteka-cairo
• cairo tutorial