[Paraview] export to vectorial image format

Fri Apr 29 14:49:33 EDT 2011

I've just pushed Sven's patches to github.

You can git clone from:
https://github.com/demarle/ParaView/branches/vector-graphics-export
To get it.

And then build from source.
When you do, turn on VTK_USE_GL2PS in cmake.

Once built, save screen shot will have new ps, eps and svg vector
graphic formats.

Thanks for the patch Sven!

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

On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Nima Emadi <deeepsky at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sven,
> Could you please give me instruction on how to use of your patch in order to
> export vector images?
>
> Thanks,
> Nima
>
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Nima Emadi <deeepsky at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Apparently Paraview does not generate vectorial images at the moment.
>>
>> Would it be possible to generate such an image by first exporting to a
>> 3D format (like POV or X3D) and then converting the scene to a
>> vectorial format using another application? any suggestion ...?
>>
>> Best,
>> Nima
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 3:51 PM, David E DeMarle
>> <dave.demarle at kitware.com> wrote:
>> > 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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