[Qgis-developer] saveAsImage() in printcomposer

[Richard Duivenvoorde]

I stumbled upon this wish of a user:

https://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/1528

This user wants to use the HtmlImageMaplugin based on a printcomposition 
build in composer. That is with a legend, scalebar and possible 
annotations etc

The plugin itself is not very complex: rip an image of current canvas, 
and html-ify the active layer.

Question now: can I do the same for the printcomposer (can't find a 
'saveAsImage()' around there :-)
It's not clear to me if I should paint the different composer-items one 
by one myself, or that I can take the 'ground-paint-device' and "...copy 
the  saveAsImage from the qgsmapcanvas...and make it public via the 
python interface....) (though those are pretty big steps for me anyway...).

Can somebody shed some light on this?

Regards,

Richard Duivenvoorde