I think it would be nice if it was a minimal library and small commandline app. 
This way I could use it for something I've been thinking about for a while: an 
OSX Preview plugin so you could preview a patch right in the Finder.

It would make sense for this to be something bundled with pd, like pdsend.

On May 15, 2013, at 2:33 PM, [email protected] wrote:

> From: Abel Jérôme <[email protected]>
> Subject: [PD] pd2png : screenshots of patchs
> Date: May 15, 2013 12:36:17 PM EDT
> To: [email protected]
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > GridFlow has a Pd patch to take screenshots of other Pd patches using X11 
> > (so: GNU/Linux, BSD, etc, possibly OS X, unlikely to work on Windows)
> > which works for really tall patches
> 
> Yes, you're right, I saw this idea in gridflow. I will try it.
> 
> > Well ... basically to me the way to go is really with SVG as a starting 
> > point. Because once you have SVG, you can use one of hundred different 
> > tools to convert to PNG, JPG or any image format you can dream of
> 
> With inkscape you can convert .ps into .svg :
> inkscape pd.ps --export-plain-svg=pd.svg
> 
> I don't know if we can command Pd to print patchs in .ps (in a command line). 
> It could strong and cross-platform.
> 
> Jerome

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@danomatika
danomatika.com
robotcowboy.com





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