Re: tkined to gif/jpg..

Juergen Schoenwaelder (schoenw@cs.utwente.nl)
Wed, 17 Apr 1996 09:19:37 +0200

Hi!

Garry Grimes <grimesg@ul.ie> wrote:

> I'd like to be able to take items from a canvas widget (in this case from
> tkined) and save them as GIF/TIF/JPEG or whatever format. I have used the
> postscript option of the canvas command but I really need the same thing
> for a picture format.
> If anyone has any information on how this could be done or extensions to
> allow it I would appreciate a response.

The usual solution to this problem is to create a PostScript dump and
convert with ghostscript it into something useful for you. You will
find some example code how to create GIF images in the file movie.tcl
which is included in the scotty distribution.

Juergen