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Uses latest start of the art technologies. ASP Classic, HTML with Tables. No abuse control at the moment (although I have set a CPU and bandwidth limit in IIS).

Has simple api where you can generate a PDF of a page. I have a client who needs this and I have been shoving it off to my own server but now I can just use this instead as a more generic solution. Supports saving the PDF in landscape.

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It doesn't even work with style sheets. Can you specify what it works with?

I believe "start of the art" is a pun, since he's using lame tech.

Oh, OK that makes sense. Never heard of that before:)

It was late I meant state of the art, teach to to write anything after midnight.

It worked pretty well with http://nytimes.com just now.

Turned out I had javascript, flash and some other things turned off. It uses Abcpdf component to create the pdf, I just found that a bunch of options are turned off by default.

how do you take the screenshot of the website? can this be used to make png / jpeg to get a thumbnails of websites?

Also finally how do you create pdf, is it some pdf printer?

Which library is used to render the PDF file?

http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/ ?

I doubt why you need "HTML Tidy for Linux"

Something the w3c validator now offers, never noticed it before so I tried it out, my html is best just w3c never agrees with me.

I think webkit would be a better renderer.

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