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Posted by Troels Emtekær Linnet on June 13, 2013 - 17:25:
Sure why not :-)

And I am soon in the mood for the Tollinger/Kay equation.
And solve the 64 bit problem in windows.

Can you guide me in the direction where I should look for the 64 bit problem?

Best
troels

Troels Emtekær Linnet


2013/6/13 Edward d'Auvergne <edward@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Would you like to try to give this a go?

Regards,

Edward


On 13 June 2013 16:35, Troels Emtekær Linnet <tlinnet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I am happy that you think it is great. :-)
>
> As soon there is a file type, which can fast be opened by a image viewer, I
> am happy.
>
> It works for PNG here, and it is very probably a compilation issue.
> I have PNG as a possibility to print in my xmgrace menu.
>
> I found the commands here:
> http://ringo.ams.sunysb.edu/index.php/Xmgrace
>
> This is for EPS and PNG, but I havent found options for JPEG yet.
>
> I would say the "more the merrier".
> It take's time to create scripts, but no time to delete.
>
> Best
> Troels
>
>
>
>
> Troels Emtekær Linnet
>
>
> 2013/6/13 Edward d'Auvergne <edward@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> 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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