[vtkusers] Exporting render window to vectorial format

[Carlos Martinez]

On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Matthijs Sypkens Smit wrote:

> On Thursday 08 January 2004 10:37, Carlos Martinez wrote:
> 
> > I need to export render window contents to a vectorial format to print
> > them on printers or plotters.
> >
> > I have read that on nightly version there is a class named
> > vtkGL2PSExporter to export the contents to Postscript. Is there another
> > solution to this problem? Have somebody tried this?
> 
> There is a class vtkPostScriptWriter. This might be what you're looking for. I 
> assume it's used in the same way as vtkPNGWriter of vtkJPEGWriter. In that 
> case you case use it to write out the contents of a renderwindow as a 
> postscript file.
> 

I have read about it but I think that the result is a raster image not a 
vectorial image. Then, if I want to print the result on a big format 
printer (A3, A2, ...) I think this image will be scaled and I don't want 
it. It should be printed in a good quality as in A4 or A5.

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