Hallöchen!
What is the best way to export VTKs to PDF? The GUI window of SfePy's viewer (the MayaVi 4.0.0 window) can write nicely to PNG but when it comes to PDF, the resulting file is unreadable by Evince of Acrobat Reader. Similarly, the SVGs cannot be imported into Inkscape, and the EPS files are not accepted by GhostScript. Thus, all vector formats seem to be broken.
Is there another way?
Tschö, Torsten.
-- Torsten Bronger Jabber ID: torsten...@jabber.rwth-aachen.de or http://bronger-jmp.appspot.com
On Thu, 22 Dec 2011, Torsten Bronger wrote:
Hall�chen!
What is the best way to export VTKs to PDF? The GUI window of SfePy's viewer (the MayaVi 4.0.0 window) can write nicely to PNG but when it comes to PDF, the resulting file is unreadable by Evince of Acrobat Reader. Similarly, the SVGs cannot be imported into Inkscape, and the EPS files are not accepted by GhostScript. Thus, all vector formats seem to be broken.
Is there another way?
If it behaves the same bad way with pure mayavi (run its executable, open the file, add e.g. Surface module...), it would be good to report it to enthought mailing list. If pure mayavi works, we have a bug in sfepy...
You could try installing and using paraview, but I am not sure if this would help - cannot try right now.
thanks for reporting this! r.
Hi,
Paraview can not export PDF/EPS/SVG. I found only this plugin
http://www.pdf3d.com/products.php,
but it is not for free (perhaps).
Vladimir
On 12/22/2011 10:23 AM, Robert Cimrman wrote:
On Thu, 22 Dec 2011, Torsten Bronger wrote:
Hall�chen!
What is the best way to export VTKs to PDF? The GUI window of SfePy's viewer (the MayaVi 4.0.0 window) can write nicely to PNG but when it comes to PDF, the resulting file is unreadable by Evince of Acrobat Reader. Similarly, the SVGs cannot be imported into Inkscape, and the EPS files are not accepted by GhostScript. Thus, all vector formats seem to be broken.
Is there another way?
If it behaves the same bad way with pure mayavi (run its executable, open the file, add e.g. Surface module...), it would be good to report it to enthought mailing list. If pure mayavi works, we have a bug in sfepy...
You could try installing and using paraview, but I am not sure if this would help - cannot try right now.
thanks for reporting this! r.
On 12/22/11 11:25, Vladimír Lukeš wrote:
Hi,
Paraview can not export PDF/EPS/SVG. I found only this plugin
http://www.pdf3d.com/products.php,
but it is not for free (perhaps).
You are right. It can save a screenshot (bitmap) but it can also export to pov, vrml, x3d or x3db files, which might be useful.
r.
On 12/22/11 10:23, Robert Cimrman wrote:
On Thu, 22 Dec 2011, Torsten Bronger wrote:
Hallöchen!
What is the best way to export VTKs to PDF? The GUI window of SfePy's viewer (the MayaVi 4.0.0 window) can write nicely to PNG but when it comes to PDF, the resulting file is unreadable by Evince of Acrobat Reader. Similarly, the SVGs cannot be imported into Inkscape, and the EPS files are not accepted by GhostScript. Thus, all vector formats seem to be broken.
Is there another way?
If it behaves the same bad way with pure mayavi (run its executable, open the file, add e.g. Surface module...), it would be good to report it to enthought mailing list. If pure mayavi works, we have a bug in sfepy...
You could try installing and using paraview, but I am not sure if this would help - cannot try right now.
thanks for reporting this!
I have tried saving pdf at my work workstation (gentoo linux, mayavi 4.0.0) and it works (except small black rectangle instead of the text with variable name). At my laptop with kubuntu 11.10 it does not work (it's a fresh install so I am not sure if it is set up correctly).
What is your platform, Torsten? It's definitely a mayavi/vtk installation issue, that should be reported to "enthought-dev (at) enthought dot com".
r.
Hallöchen!
Robert Cimrman writes:
On Thu, 22 Dec 2011, Torsten Bronger wrote:
What is the best way to export VTKs to PDF? The GUI window of SfePy's viewer (the MayaVi 4.0.0 window) can write nicely to PNG but when it comes to PDF, the resulting file is unreadable by Evince of Acrobat Reader. Similarly, the SVGs cannot be imported into Inkscape, and the EPS files are not accepted by GhostScript. Thus, all vector formats seem to be broken.
Is there another way?
If it behaves the same bad way with pure mayavi (run its executable, open the file, add e.g. Surface module...),
Surface module!! This is what I needed to know ... I just wondered why MayaVi didn't show anything. ;-)
it would be good to report it to enthought mailing list.
It is a MayaVi bug.
Tschö, Torsten.
-- Torsten Bronger Jabber ID: torsten...@jabber.rwth-aachen.de or http://bronger-jmp.appspot.com
On 12/22/11 12:27, Torsten Bronger wrote:
Hallöchen!
Robert Cimrman writes:
On Thu, 22 Dec 2011, Torsten Bronger wrote:
What is the best way to export VTKs to PDF? The GUI window of SfePy's viewer (the MayaVi 4.0.0 window) can write nicely to PNG but when it comes to PDF, the resulting file is unreadable by Evince of Acrobat Reader. Similarly, the SVGs cannot be imported into Inkscape, and the EPS files are not accepted by GhostScript. Thus, all vector formats seem to be broken.
Is there another way?
If it behaves the same bad way with pure mayavi (run its executable, open the file, add e.g. Surface module...),
Surface module!! This is what I needed to know ... I just wondered why MayaVi didn't show anything. ;-)
Yeah, the default to show nothing is not something a new user expects :).
It is also possible to specify filters/modules on the command line, e.g.:
mayavi2 -d cylinder.vtk -m Axes -m Surface
r.
Hallöchen!
Robert Cimrman writes:
[...]
I have tried saving pdf at my work workstation (gentoo linux, mayavi 4.0.0) and it works (except small black rectangle instead of the text with variable name). At my laptop with kubuntu 11.10 it does not work (it's a fresh install so I am not sure if it is set up correctly).
What is your platform, Torsten?
Lubuntu 11.10.
It's definitely a mayavi/vtk installation issue, that should be reported to "enthought-dev (at) enthought dot com".
I will do that.
Tschö, Torsten.
-- Torsten Bronger Jabber ID: torsten...@jabber.rwth-aachen.de or http://bronger-jmp.appspot.com
On 12/22/11 13:04, Torsten Bronger wrote:
Hallöchen!
Robert Cimrman writes:
[...]
I have tried saving pdf at my work workstation (gentoo linux, mayavi 4.0.0) and it works (except small black rectangle instead of the text with variable name). At my laptop with kubuntu 11.10 it does not work (it's a fresh install so I am not sure if it is set up correctly).
What is your platform, Torsten?
Lubuntu 11.10.
There is something peculiar with mayavi package installation also in kubuntu, as when I press the ok button of our viewer, it exits with a segfault.
It's definitely a mayavi/vtk installation issue, that should be reported to "enthought-dev (at) enthought dot com".
I will do that.
Thanks!
r.
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