Well ... basically to me the way to go is really with SVG as a starting point. Because once you have SVG, you can use one of hundred different tools to convert to PNG, JPG or any image format you can dream of.

2013/5/15 Claude Heiland-Allen claude@mathr.co.uk

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Hi Jérôme,

On 15/05/13 15:09, Abel Jérôme wrote:

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Hi list,

I'm following the thread about "Pd > svg" : http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2013-05/102452.html

It gives me energy to make another tool. Sometimes I need to take screenshots of a lot of patchs to show on a website or with a panorama.

So I've made a tool with "scrot" program in GNU/Linux : http://jeromeabel.net/files/code/pd/pd-works/scripts/pd2png.zip

I don't know if there are better solutions, simplier, cleaner and cross-platform.

• Jerome

GridFlow has a Pd patch to take screenshots of other Pd patches using X11 (so: GNU/Linux, BSD, etc, possibly OS X, unlikely to work on Windows), which works for really tall patches (longer than the screen) by snapping the visible parts in sequence with automated scrolling and re-assembling into a single image:

gallery: http://gridflow.ca/help/

the screenshot making patches: http://gridflow.ca/help/screenshots2.png http://gridflow.ca/help/screenshots.png

An example very tall image: http://gridflow.ca/help/%23convolve-help.png

Not sure if it also works for really wide patches, not sure if it magically opens subpatches and screenshots them too, as I've not tried it myself...

Claude

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On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 8:17 PM, Jonathan Wilkes jancsika@yahoo.com wrote:

On 05/15/2013 11:46 AM, s p wrote:

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Well ... basically to me the way to go is really with SVG as a starting point. Because once you have SVG, you can use one of hundred different tools to convert to PNG, JPG or any image format you can dream of.

Exactly. It's just a shame that all these browsers went to the trouble of supporting the display of svg, yet blogging tools and cms's don't seem to support it by default (or if they do, it's through a plugin that generates it on the fly using javascript). Perhaps there are security implications?

Maybe... SVG can have JavaScript embedded. I suspect however, that CMS support is lagging because IE<9 doesn't support it and that's still roughly 6% of the browsers.

András