Hello Marcin, Your question may have already been answered here: http://markmail.org/message/zd2nwsztxl4xwbhm.
However I think the last time I tried this was in 3.4 so things may have changed. In my experience the vtkPostScript writer does a better job although it has been quite a while since I've tried gl2ps. Good luck, Peter. On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 8:23 AM, Marcin Sliwowski <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to figure out how to save a visualization in Paraview directly > to ps/eps format. > > I have compiled from source paraview 3.6 with the configuration option > VTK_USE_GL2PS set to ON. > > There are many hits in the mailing list archives regarding trying to use > vtkGL2PSExporter to achieve this but I couldn't find anything that I could > make work. > > I know that I can just use WriteImage("test.eps", > Writer="vtkPostScriptWriter") in the python shell to get what I am asking > for. > > However, I wonder if GL2PS could provide a better looking eps file, and > having spent a couple of hours on this, I would really like to get to the > bottom of this. > > I have looked at the vtkGL2PSExporter class reference at > http://www.vtk.org/doc/nightly/html/classvtkGL2PSExporter.html and from > there followed the vtkGL2PSExporter (Tests) link which provides examples of > unit testing that is done on the class. One example is actually titled "test > vector EPS output" > > However, even after doing a: from paraview import vtk in the python shell, > when I try to follow the test example and do exp = vtk.vtkGL2PSExporter() I > get the following error: > > AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'vtkGL2PSExporter' > > Can anyone shine any light on how to actually utilize the vtkGL2PSExporter > in Paraview to export an .eps, my impression is that it has to be done in > the Python Shell, and I am not very familiar with Python. > > Thank You, > Marcin Sliwowski > > _______________________________________________ > Powered by www.kitware.com > > Visit other Kitware open-source projects at > http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html > > Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: > http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView > > Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: > http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview > >
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