Re: [PD] pdpedia - creation of png images of patches

2007-09-22 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Andy Farnell hat gesagt: // Andy Farnell wrote: btw, Pd does recognise print, Frank also helped me get this going But: It uses old style netreceive which is suicide to run on a server. A problem with running on a server is that with -nogui you seem to be unable to do a lot of the

Re: [PD] pdpedia - creation of png images of patches

2007-09-22 Thread Andy Farnell
Yes, stupid me, print is part of pd-gui not pd. I was thinking this: The diagram is the program - The program is the diagram. Surely a Pd file contains everything needed to make a printout of it, better than an ascii diagram, perhaps use Gimp GD or somehow convert each line #X obj X Y

Re: [PD] pdpedia - creation of png images of patches

2007-09-22 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Andy Farnell hat gesagt: // Andy Farnell wrote: I was thinking this: The diagram is the program - The program is the diagram. Surely a Pd file contains everything needed to make a printout of it, better than an ascii diagram, perhaps use Gimp GD or somehow convert each line #X obj X

Re: [PD] pdpedia - creation of png images of patches

2007-09-22 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Sat, 22 Sep 2007, Frank Barknecht wrote: A problem with running on a server is that with -nogui you seem to be unable to do a lot of the dynamic patching tricks and especially the print command I couldn't get to work without gui. have you tried something like sys_vgui(.x%lx.c print

[PD] pdpedia - creation of png images of patches

2007-09-21 Thread ild0012
i just got an idea how to easealy create antialiased images of patches, as someone had proposed this as a pdpedia feature erlier on this list. in order to do it automaticly i first thougt of adding [loadbang]-[;pd print patch.pd( to each patch (by just echoing a few lines to it) but apparently

Re: [PD] pdpedia - creation of png images of patches

2007-09-21 Thread Andy Farnell
btw, Pd does recognise print, Frank also helped me get this going But: It uses old style netreceive which is suicide to run on a server. The attached patch was used to print out live snapshots of graphs in running Pd patches. Send two commands on the socket, first one open the patch you want,

Re: [PD] pdpedia - creation of png images of patches

2007-09-21 Thread Andy Farnell
Nice. I did this a little while ago too with the help of Frank and Miller in order to print out entire directories of patches. You might want to add this awk script into the chain (assuming it's still needed), it corrects the pointsize and position of object text in the postscript file. On