Render Images

[Ian Wood]

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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