Wednesday, April 22, 2026

Re: ImageMagick: delegate failed 'html2ps etc'

On 2026-04-19, Olafur Jens Sigurdsson <ojs@lappid.net> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 19, 2026 at 06:43:22PM +0200, dan wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I would like to use ImageMagick to convert an html file to image doing: >> >> convert index.html index.tiff >> >> But I get this error: >> >> covert: delegate failed `'html2ps' -U -o '%o' '%i'` @ error/delegate.c/InvokeDelegate/2005 >> covert: unable to open file '/tmp/magick-fYTDsb123etc': No such file or directory @ error/constitute.c/ReadImage/621 >> convert: no image defined `index.tiff` @ error/convertcc/ConvertImageCommand/3234. > > I do believe this is because the html2ps is abandonware and is nowhere to be found in any OpenBSD ports. the chromium-based browsers have a headless mode which can render to an image fairly well, e.g. iridium --headless --disable-gpu --screenshot=/tmp/out.png \ --window-size=3840,2160 "$url" (note that "unveil" restrictions apply, you can write to /tmp or ~/Downloads but not most other dirs). (there's also --print-to-pdf). -- Please keep replies on the mailing list.

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