Run PhantomJS powered rendering server on Heroku, which produces PNG out of HTML.
This project is heavily inspired by: https://github.com/vgno/highcharts-png-renderer
git clone git@github.com:jussikinnula/phantomjs-html-to-png-on-heroku.git
brew install phantomjs
npm install
npm start
curl -X POST -d '{ "html": "<html><body><h1>Hello World!</h1></body></html>", "width": 640, "height": 480, "format": "png", "onload": false, "timeout": 50 }' http://localhost:5000
html= input HTML to convert into imagewidth= width of the PhantomJS headless browser (e.g. translates to width of rendered image)height= height of the PhantomJS headless browser (e.g. translates to height of rendered image)format= supported formats are: png and jpg (gif could possibly be used if running the backend on supported systems)onload= boolean true or false -- use PhantomJS capacity to detect when the page has been rendered (this doesn't work with HTML pages with SVG)timeout= if onload is false, use this timeout instead to determine when to take the screenshot from HTML (50ms works for most of the cases, you can tune it down based on the type of HTML used)
heroku create --region eu
heroku buildpacks:add https://github.com/stomita/heroku-buildpack-phantomjs
heroku buildpacks:add https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-nodejs
git push heroku master
You should include all the fonts needed under .fonts directory, instead of loading web fonts. PhantomJS is not always fast enough to load web fonts. The fonts should be in TrueType format.