Render Images
Ian Wood
revlist at azurevision.co.uk
Tue Mar 14 08:49:32 EST 2006
In the docs for import/ export snapshot:
"To export a snapshot of a specific (non-stack) object, use the form:
export snapshot from [rect[angle] ] of chunk to ...
Where chunk is any chunk expression resolving to a control, or any
expression evaluating to a control reference."
As usual it took me a little trial and error to turn the docs into
actual code, in this case by trying to be too complex - now to see if
it'll work on groups...
Ian
On 14 Mar 2006, at 13:43, Chris Carroll-Davis wrote:
> Ian -
>
> Thanks so much - that's perfect! I am writing a multimedia app
> that needs to display text in many, many languages. Whilst Unicode
> goes a long to help, it is not a panacea - e.g. can you display
> Cambodian and Thai on your machine? I'm writing a utility that
> means that as long as our translators can correctly see the text
> (as text) on their machine we can export the text as a graphic to
> display correctly within the app on anyone's machine.
>
> By the way - where did you find this syntax? Is there a document
> I'm missing? I checked through the Rev docs and User guide pdf but
> couldn't find any reference to it...
>
> Thanks again!
>
> Chris
>
>
> On 14 Mar 2006, at 13:09, Ian Wood wrote:
>
>>
>> On 14 Mar 2006, at 12:35, Chris Carroll-Davis wrote:
>>
>>> A question: the release blurb for 2.7 says: "Render an image
>>> from any object on-screen, preserving the alpha channel, then
>>> transform and save." Now this seems to be exactly what I
>>> need!... I would like to convert some formatted text (i.e. a
>>> field) to a PNG file with transparency. Can I do this in 2.7?
>>> Can't find reference to this in docs.
>>
>> import snapshot from fld "test"
>> or
>> export snapshot from fld "test" to file "test.png" as PNG
>>
>> Having made sure that the opaque of the field is set to false
>> first so that there is actually some transparency to capture. This
>> is VERY powerful as it takes the info from the object directly -
>> it doesn't matter if there are other objects on top. A dream come
>> true for some of my apps...
>>
>>> I can achieve a similar effect by exporting (via snapshot) text
>>> on a white background then displaying resulting image using the
>>> "multiply" or "screen" inks (which are brilliant, btw) but that
>>> limits my options for colours in text.
>>
>> If you just want to show text over other colours you can use a
>> regular text field with the opaque set to false - no limitations
>> on colours, and works in older versions of Rev.
>>
>> Ian
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