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Re: Backend independent print function
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Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso |
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Re: Backend independent print function |
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Sat, 12 Jun 2010 10:37:51 -0500 |
On 12 June 2010 09:26, Shai Ayal <address@hidden> wrote:
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> We have opengl based printing using gl2ps from the fltk backend.
> The main big this not yet implemented is off-screen printing -- i.e.
> printing w/o opening a window. I am not sure how to go about this,
> since gl2ps needs an opengl context to work, and to create an opengl
> context, you usually have to open a window...
VTK faces this cross-platform problem too (it also uses OpenGL). I
can't be too helpful about it, except that I think they use something
called "mangled mesa" to do offscreen plotting, or did.