[vtkusers] saving the window to a file

[David Doria]

On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 6:00 AM, Bill Chivas <billno123 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> i want to save the window to a file (e.g. tiff format). I know there is the
> vtkTIFFWriter but i wanted also to have an option for the resolution of the
> saved image.
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks

I believe you're looking for vtkWindowToImageFilter.

There is an example here:
http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples/Cxx/Utilities/Screenshot

Note this line:
  windowToImageFilter->SetMagnification(3); //set the resolution of
the output image

David