Hi Henrik, Hi Olivier,

thank you. I assume I have to stay at my old solution for the first time.

Regards
Sabine

2017-01-16 14:57 GMT+01:00 Olivier Auverlot [via Smalltalk] <
ml-node+s1294792n4929731...@n4.nabble.com>:

> Hi Sabine,
>
> Converting a PDF into a PNG with Pharo is not an easy task because you
> must write a PDF reader.
>
> With Artefact, the other approach is to draw on a form instead of
> generating the PDF instructions. For geometrics items, It's relatively easy
> but the respect of paper formats and the management of fonts could be very
> complex.
>
> The difficulty is to have the same result between the PDF document and the
> simulated document  written in a PNG file.
>
> Best regards
> Olivier
>
> 2017-01-16 12:05 GMT+01:00 Henrik Nergaard <[hidden email]
> <http:///user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=4929731&i=0>>:
>
>> See Form protocol (*Graphics-files), #writePNGFileNamed: , and
>> PNGReadWriter.
>> ----------------------------------------------------
>> | canvas |
>> canvas := FormCanvas extent: World extent.
>> World fullDrawOn: canvas.
>> canvas form writePNGFileNamed: 'imageOfWorld.png'
>> ----------------------------------------------------
>>
>> There are also some methods in morph (#exportAs:using: #exportAsPng), but
>> these will ask for the filename via the file dialog.
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>> World exportAsPng
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Henrik
>>
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>> Emne: [Pharo-users] Create png from pdf
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> currently, I create pdfs with Artefact and it works fine.
>> For displaying previews of the pdf reports, I use  Apache PDFBox to
>> generate pngs from the pdfs.
>> This works, too.
>>
>> But I would prefer to generate the pngs directly from pharo and do not
>> call external libraries.
>>
>> Stephane told me that "there is a form in a morph and it can be converted
>> in png".
>>
>> Can anyone give me a small entry point or has done similar and provide
>> some code snippet?
>>
>> Regards
>> Sabine
>>
>>
>>
>>
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