CSSBoxWebVector

WebVector is an HTML to SVG, PDF or PNG convertor. It converts a HTML document into a vector image in SVG format, a PDF document, or a bitmap image in PNG format. The Standard Vector Graphics (SVG) files can be further edited by a variety of vector graphics editors such as Inkscape.

Latest release

The latest release is WebVector 3.5 released on Oct 1, 2019. See the downloads page for more information.

Requirements

WebVector requires a Java 8 Runtime Environment or newer installed in your system. It has been tested on Linux and Windows platforms.

Installation and running

• Download WebVector and save the webvector-<version>.jar file to any folder.
• Switch to the folder containing webvector-<version>.jar
• In Windows explorer, just double click the webvector-<version>.jar. On other platforms, run java -jar webvector-<version>.jar
• You sould see the WebVector window.

Command Line Interface

WebVector has a simple command line interface. For converting a web page to an image just type:

java -jar webvector-<version>.jar <url> <output_file> <format>

where

• <url> is the URL of the page to convert, e.g. http://www.sf.net/ for a website or file://C:/myfile.html for a local file.
• <output_file> is the file name where the result will be stored, e.g. myoutput.svg.
• <format> is pdf, svg or png.

Type java -jar webvector-<version>.jar help for more options including the output size and paging.

Examples

See the examples of a PDF document, SVG file or a PNG file generated by WebVector.

Credits

WebVector is based on the CSSBox Rendering Engine.

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