# Script to render SWF to an image?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/script-to-render-swf-to-an-image/242687>\
**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [October 29, 2007, 3:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/script-to-render-swf-to-an-image/242687 "2007-10-29T15:17:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![ZenBlender](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@ZenBlender](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ZenBlender)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 3:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/script-to-render-swf-to-an-image/242687/1 "2007-10-29T15:17:03Z")

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I’m looking for some way to render an SWF to an image on the server side. For example, I might have a SWF that I pass some information to, and rather than displaying it as a Flash object on a web page, I’d like to create just a single frame as an image. Does anything like that exist? Thanks!