[Paraview] vtkGL2PSExporter issues

[Peter Brady]

Thanks for your reply.  I was able to accomplish what I needed using
the vtkPostScriptWriter.  Perhaps it's better integrated with the PV
source than gl2ps?

On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Dominik Szczerba <dominik at itis.ethz.ch> wrote:
> I can only say I was very pleased with gl2ps results, but from a custom vtk
> code, not PV.
>
> Dominik
>
> Peter Brady wrote:
>>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I've managed to get paraview to write out eps data via the python
>> interface using the vtkGL2PSExporter.  But now I appear to have some
>> other issues.
>>
>> 1.  The files are very large.  If I turn the Compress option on they
>> are small but then I am unable to read them.  Any thoughts?
>>
>> 2.  The quality is not particularly good.  I've tried playing with all
>> the options that the vtkGL2PSExporter has but none of them seem to
>> generate a high quality picture.  (I'm doing a 2D contour plot and the
>> resulting eps image is quite pixelly).  Anyone know how to fix this?
>>
>> 3.  My black contours show up.  My gray contours show up.  But if I do
>> a gray scale, even though the contours show up nicely in the rendering
>> window, they are not present in the eps image.  (Although I'm pretty
>> sure they do get written to the eps file since it is approx 5MB, which
>> is quite large for a blank image).  Is there a way for me to set the
>> color scale in the exporter so everything shows up?
>>
>> If anyone has experienced similar issues and has some thoughts or
>> suggestions, I would be very interested to hear them.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Peter.
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