[Paraview] export to vectorial image format

[David E DeMarle]

Sven,

Despite the limitations, would you please push that patch to github?
Once there distribution, upkeep and maintenance will be easier.

thanks,

David E DeMarle
Kitware, Inc.
R&D Engineer
28 Corporate Drive
Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
Phone: 518-371-3971 x109



On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 8:23 AM, Sven Buijssen
<sven.buijssen at tu-dortmund.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I happen to have a small patch for the git master branch that adds vector
> graphics output (EPS, PS and SVG) to the Save Screenshot dialog and uses
> vtkGL2PSExporter as a backend, too. Actually, it's just an updated version of
> the patch for this matter I posted on this list back in 2007. But as holds for
> the Python approach it has a few drawbacks:
>
> * Only 3D View support
> * Builtin mode and client/server mode support (but using merely 1 server
> process, empty file when using more)
> * No support for Manta/EyeDom/other views
> * No multi-view support
> * No support for mandelbrot source
> * No support for text/annotate time source (a rectangular box is drawn instead),
> one can resort to a 3D Text source, though
> * No support for Volume rendering
> * No support for Slice representation (try Surface representation of a slice
> filter output)
> * No support for PointSprite representation
> * No support for SurfaceLIC representation, even crashes ParaView on export
> * In display tab of object inspector, "Interpolate scalars" needs to be ticked
> off for every visible object; otherwise object is rendered gray
> (see http://www.vtk.org/Bug/view.php?id=1630)
> * Requires an old version of the colorbar implementation or colorbar will be
> rendered gray
>
> So, don't get your hopes up too much about vtkGL2PSExporter.
>
> Sven
>
>
> Hom Nath Gharti wrote, On 03/31/11 14:05:
>> You might try to run the script below to see if your image quality is good
>> enough to use vtkGL2PSExporter
>>
>> rw=GetActiveView().GetRenderWindow()
>> exp=paraview.vtk.vtkInstantiator.CreateInstance('vtkGL2PSExporter')
>> exp.SetRenderWindow(rw)
>> exp.SetDrawBackground(0)
>> exp.SetSortToSimple()
>> exp.SetFileFormatToEPS()
>> exp.SetFilePrefix("test")
>> #exp.Write3DPropsAsRasterImageOn()
>> exp.Write()
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 6:41 PM, David E DeMarle <dave.demarle at kitware.com
>> <mailto:dave.demarle at kitware.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Sorry, ParaView doesn't have true vector graphics output. Please add
>>     your vote to the existing user voice request for it.
>>
>>     (http://paraview.uservoice.com/forums/11350-general/suggestions/313565-add-vector-graphics-output-i-e-postscript-?ref=title)
>>
>>     The pdf writer in ParaView uses Qt to write a raster image. VTK's
>>     vtkGL2PSExporter is not exercised by ParaView at all and it is likely
>>     not to support many of our rendering techniques if it was added as an
>>     new exporter option. 2D views are more likely to be supported, but we
>>     haven't yet had the time to do so.
>>
>>     David E DeMarle
>>     Kitware, Inc.
>>     R&D Engineer
>>     28 Corporate Drive
>>     Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
>>     Phone: 518-371-3971 <tel:518-371-3971> x109
>>
>>
>>
>>     On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Nima Emadi <deeepsky at gmail.com
>>     <mailto:deeepsky at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>     > Dear all,
>>     > I'd like to export a paraview vector field plot into a vectorial image
>>     > format (e.g. eps) to generate high quality images which are not huge
>>     > in size for publication purposes.
>>     > I already compiled paraview 3.10 with gl2ps=on. So according to old
>>     > messages in the email list I should be able to save vectorial images.
>>     > Could anybody give me instructions how to do that?
>>     >
>>     > Thanks,
>>     > Nima.
>
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