Ubuntu Linux: How to Convert from HTML to JPG

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Here is an easy way to convert from HTML to JPG. Actually, I’m converting the HTML to PDF and then from PDF to JPG.

First, install the following packages:

sudo apt-get install python-pisa imagemagick python-imaging

Then simply:

xhtml2pdf report.html
convert report.pdf report.jpg

Note: if you receive an error message in python “AttributeError: ‘NoneType’ object has no attribute ‘bands’” while trying to use the xhtml2pdf command, then you will need to apply this patch: http://hg.effbot.org/pil-2009-raclette/changeset/fb7ce579f5f9

In other words, edit Image.py and move line 1501 self.load() to 1497, just before the if self.im.bands == 1: