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As my question on the same topic (but specific to PHP) doesn't seem to yield much help, I would like to know if there are free Windows binaries (preferably those which don't require .NET runtime environment) which could take as input (on the command line) some tabular data and output an image?

Edit: By tabular data I mean an HTML table.

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some tabular data, and output an image?> ----- So are these image paths and rendering an image? Can you explain further please? –  REA_ANDREW Apr 6 '09 at 14:27
Do you mean drawing a graph? –  Greg Apr 6 '09 at 14:29
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I wrote my own solution with Delphi using TWebBrowser, a wrapper to MSHTML.

But you can try this for free

http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2008/11/03/thumbnail-preview-of-web-page/ or http://cutycapt.sourceforge.net/

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http://www.converthtmltoimage.com/ http://www.guangmingsoft.net/htmlsnapshot/help.htm

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The first one doesn't seem to work even with its own test cases. Second one has too big a watermark and too big a price tag. –  dharm0us Apr 6 '09 at 15:34
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This isn't for Win32, but in case anyone finds this while looking for Mac resources, LittleSnapper does this very well.

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It looks like ImageMagick can do it, if you install html2ps (a perl script).

If it is fairly basic table, you could likely just use ImageMagick to render the text with a little coding.

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They also have binaries to PHP https://github.com/mreiferson/php-wkhtmltox.

In general, it's a command line util.

Just download the installer suitable to your OS here, download.

From command line, execute:

wkhtmltopdf myfile.html myhomepage.jpg

Please note that you need first to save your HTML to file.

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