[IPython-dev] Export notebook to image >>> not editable print view

[Damián Avila]

Working in a ipython notebook plugin for an ide, I realize that the 
print view of the notebook is functional notebook, and hence, it is 
editable.
For a print view, it would be a better options to get an non-editable 
notebook. There was a little discussion in github around this topic 
(<https://github.com/ipython/ipython/issues/1292>https://github.com/ipython/ipython/issues/1292). 
Brian propose to generate a static html for the print view. Then, I 
proposed another way, so I bring the discussion here:

We can capture the notebook into a png (and other format) images using 
qwebkit inside PyQt (we have the last one as dependency for Qt console). 
In this way, first, we can support another ways of export the notebook, 
such as images...
Then, we can import this notebook images inside PyQt objects and 
displayed into the javascript enviroment...
I wrote a little script to capture a complete image of the notebook and 
show the image inside a web browser and it is displaying great, like the 
notebook itself.

Another way to have a non editable print view would be an export to a 
raw html (https://github.com/ipython/ipython/issues/860), but we have to 
deal with MathJax, CodeMirror and Markdown.

What do you think about the "image" way to generate a non-editable view 
of the notebook? I think it would be easy to implement.

Regards.

Damián.
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