[PD] pd -> svg

[Jonathan Wilkes]

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>Also, I put this library together a little while ago, as a part of WebPd : 
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>https://github.com/sebpiq/pd-fileutils
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>It should work out of the box, converting pd patch to SVG

Thanks.

The demo below fails to load properly on Firefox and IE (whatever version on windows 7)

http://sebpiq.github.io/pd-fileutils/?gist=5054711


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>2013/5/5 philippe boisnard <philemon1 at mac.com>
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>Hi
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>>an example to create html/svg from pd
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>>cheers
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>>Le 5 mai 2013 à 10:53, Jonathan Wilkes a écrit :
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>>> Used can2svg from Mats Bengtsson and got a nice result.  You can open it in a browser, zoom it, select text.  It's about 3x larger than pd file.  Probably wouldn't be too difficult to parse and turn most of the pddplinks into real links.
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>>> What happened to pdpedia?  If it's still around maybe I can script this to do all the pd-ext help files and make a nice online resource.  It'd probably be more powerful to parse pd files directly to svg but that's a bigger project.
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>>> -Jonathan
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>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika at yahoo.com>
>>>> To: PD List <pd-list at iem.at>
>>>> Cc:
>>>> Sent: Friday, May 3, 2013 1:40 PM
>>>> Subject: [PD] pd -> svg
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>>>> A few points:
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>>>> * you can open svg in a browser
>>>> * you can _zoom_ svg in a browser for decent results (it's a vector drawing)
>>>> * in safari you can select text in an svg (but not Firefox because of a bug,
>>>> although you can stil <ctrl-c> it)
>>>> * much (but not all) of tk canvas has corresponding drawing instructions in
>>>> svg.  unless i'm missing something the subset of tk canvas commands used by
>>>> Pd all have corresponding instructions in svg
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>>>> Here's what I want to do (in Debian Wheezy):
>>>> 1) Open pd-extended
>>>> 2) Create new patch
>>>> 3) Create [f]
>>>> 4) Right click to open up float-help.pd (PDDP revised version)
>>>> 5) Click print and save to test.ps
>>>> 6) in cli type:
>>>> pstoedit -f plot-svg test.ps test.svg
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>>>> But I get this error:
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>>>> **** Warning: glyf overlaps cmap, truncating.
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>>>> Anyone know what this means?  It ends up cropping the top and bottom of the
>>>> patch.  Google search for the error doesn't help much.
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>>>> In the future it'd probably be better to parse a *.pd file directly to
>>>> convert to svg, but if I can convert a ps to svg like this I think I can script
>>>> it and get some nice looking online searchable documentation with very little
>>>> work. :)
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>>>> -Jonathan
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