That's a great trick! My knowledge of Grace is not that extensive.
You know what would be even better - if the
relax_disp.plot_disp_curves user function created this script and
dropped it into the directory with the Grace files! I've now shifted
the code into the
specific_analyses.relax_disp.disp_data.plot_disp_curves() function.
Such a script could easily be created at the end of this function -
best by calling a special function in lib.software.grace.
What would be good would be to generate one script for the PNG files,
maybe called 'grace_to_png.sh' just to be more informative to the user
that this is for conversion and that it is a shell script, one for EPS
files called possibly 'grace_to_eps.sh', and a third called
'eps_to_pdf.sh'. The plot_disp_curves() function can even make them
executable for the user. I suggest that the *.tmp files be removed by
the script at the end.
The only problem is that I tried this and received error messages and
broken files:
Unknown device: DEVICE "PNG" FONT ANTIALIASING ON
Unknown device: DEVICE "PNG" OP "compression:9"
File modifications are disabled in safe mode: PRINT
File modifications are disabled in safe mode: PRINT
disp_:70@N agr
The EPS files are created successfully. I'm not sure why the PNGs
failed, maybe it's not compiled in. JPEG and SVG are present in the
print options through the GUI though, so maybe scripts for these
formats can be very easily created as well. A simple loop over 'PNG',
'EPS', 'SVG', and 'JPEG' could create separate scripts for each format
and make them executable, and then at the end the 'eps_to_pdf.sh' can
be created. The script generation could be documented in the user
function docstring. What do you think?
Cheers,
Edward
On 13 June 2013 14:31, Troels Emtekær Linnet <tlinnet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi.
I got tired of opening each xmgrace file to see the plot.
I found that to export to png, you need to:
Add this to the end of the xmgrace file
#Print out to
@PRINT TO "/home/you/output.png"
@HARDCOPY DEVICE "PNG"
@DEVICE "PNG" FONT ANTIALIASING on
# Make white background transparent
#@DEVICE "PNG" OP "transparent:on"
@DEVICE "PNG" OP "compression:9"
@PRINT
Then issue an "HARDCOPY" with xmgrace
xmgrace -hardcopy xmgracefile.agr
Script to make both png and eps for a folder with xmgrace files
Write in: xmgrace_png
and put in your bin folder
#!/bin/bash
for gracefile in *.agr; do
filename=$(basename "$gracefile")
extension="${filename##*.}"
filename="${filename%.*}"
TMPPNG=${filename}_png.tmp
cat $gracefile > $TMPPNG
echo "#Print out to" >> $TMPPNG
echo '@PRINT TO "'"${PWD}/${filename}.png"'"' >> $TMPPNG
echo '@HARDCOPY DEVICE "PNG"' >> $TMPPNG
echo '@DEVICE "PNG" FONT ANTIALIASING on' >> $TMPPNG
echo '# Make white background transparent' >> $TMPPNG
echo '#@DEVICE "PNG" OP "transparent:on"' >> $TMPPNG
echo '@DEVICE "PNG" OP "compression:9"' >> $TMPPNG
echo '@PRINT' >> $TMPPNG
xmgrace -hardcopy $TMPPNG
TMPEPS=${filename}_eps.tmp
cat $gracefile > $TMPEPS
echo "#Print out to" >> $TMPEPS
echo '@PRINT TO "'"${PWD}/${filename}.eps"'"' >> $TMPEPS
echo '@HARDCOPY DEVICE "EPS"' >> $TMPEPS
echo '@DEVICE "EPS" OP "level2"' >> $TMPEPS
echo '@PRINT' >> $TMPEPS
xmgrace -hardcopy $TMPEPS
echo "$filename $extension"
#eps2png -resolution 200 $TMPEPS
#epstopdf $TMPEPS
done
Then just make "chmod +x xmgrace_png
and in the folder, issue an:
xmgrace_png
sit back and relax
If you want to convert eps to pdf
bash ;
for epsfile in *.eps; epstopdf $epsfile; echo "Making pdf: $epsfile"; done
Troels Emtekær Linnet
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