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Would be useful for hiding UI components that don't make sense for fallback images.

Also, it could help with rendering multiple sizes of the same chart.

Great idea. Here is the output I am getting with this command:

depict http://www.google.co.uk -s 'body' test.png

For my MacOS configuration, here is my 'uname -a'

Darwin diamond 12.4.0 Darwin Kernel Version 12.4.0: Wed May 1 17:57:12 PDT 2013; root:xnu-2050.24.15~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64

What can I do to help you debug / reproduce this?

Such a tool could take an html element as a parameter, and output a screenshot of that image after the page has been rendered.

Worth looking into:

• https://github.com/brenden/node-webshot

If the state of the visualisation is not encoded in the url, but requires human interaction, then it would be useful to be able to simulate a click on a particular link on the page.

eg

depict --click '#id'

where #id refers to the a element.

File paths are the issue.

On my home machine, depict lives in /usr/local/lib/node_modules/.
On my work machine, depict lives in /usr/local/share/npm/lib/node_modules/

Not sure if this is possible, but it would be great if you could specify the browser width you'd like. Currently, it returns the mobile version of the site I want since I'm guessing the media queries think the depict browser is tiny.

It would also be nice to put a delay on it so it can wait for data to load.

Here's my quick solution: mhkeller/depict@cfad8e1

CasperJS is buggy, and args currently must be parsed twice, which is a downer.

Currently, depict spawns a child process to run a custom casperjs script, which does most of the work. Argument parsing in CasperJS is a disaster, so that is done in the parent process.

Ideally, everything would stay within depict. This may be possible using phantomjs-node and phantomjs, shedding the casperjs dependency.

Depict would have some duplicate functionality with casperjs, but it would be only what depict needs (and hopefully more stable).

https://github.com/substack/node-optimist

Default is 5000 ms ?

This is submitting to github the issue that I mentioned to you on Twitter.

Create an option to boost the resolution of the output fallback file.

eg

depict --dpi 200

There's a current (recent) bug in phantomjs 2.0 on OSX
alexscheelmeyer/node-phantom#115

For now, I just installed old version of phantomjs:

brew install homebrew/versions/phantomjs198