[Paraview] exporting selection labels to an SVG as editable/movable text-objects

[David Lonie]

Hi Dr. Grothausmann,

This is currently not possible. Some portions of VTK/ParaView still
use methods of drawing text that are not fully compatible with the
GL2PS export mechanism, and unfortunately the selection label renderer
is one of them.

I'll take a look at this case and fix it for the next release. I've
opened a bug report for the issue:

http://paraview.org/Bug/view.php?id=14231

In the meantime, the best solution I can come up with is to manually
add a text source with appropriate text for the labels you care about.
This will be tedious for a large number of labels, but will allow
finer control over label positioning.

Thanks for the report,
Dave

On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 10:36 AM, Dr. Roman Grothausmann
<grothausmann.roman at mh-hannover.de> wrote:
> Dear mailing list members,
>
>
> Is it somehow possible to export selection labels (created with the
> Selection Inspector) to an SVG as editable/movable text-objects? When I use
> Export Scene from the File-menu the labels are not exported. When I save a
> screenshot, they are exported but of course cannot be edited/repositioned.
> Or is there any other way to display labels to polydata points (from point
> data) such that overlapping labels can be avoided or manually repositioned?
> I found many vtk*label* or vtk*text* filter but none seems to do this from
> what the description says.
>
> Any help or hints are very much appreciated
> Roman
>
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