Printing Render and or Scenario files

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2 total messages Started by Andrew D. Fernandes Thu, 05 Nov 1992 17:01

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Author: Andrew D. Fernandes
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1992 17:01

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I was wondering if there was any way to print off those beautiful Render
images without having to convert to a bitmap on the way.  The internal
"save" option of the module saves the scenes in something called
a Scenario file format (I'm supposing that SGI knows about this considering
they copyrighted it!)... and it looks like something awaiting direct 
translation to colour postscript.

So: question: am I stuck with either taking pictures of the screen or 
rasterizing to rgb or tiff files to get my data in full colour onto the
pages of "Nature"? Or can I make use of the scenario file format... or was
that to be supported in "the future"?

Thanks,
-Andrew. (andrew@platinum.uwaterloo.ca)

Re: Printing Render and or Scenario files

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Author: Rousculp
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1992 21:24

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In <Bx95yA.A97@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> adfernan@cayley.uwaterloo.ca (Andrew D. Fernandes) writes:

>I was wondering if there was any way to print off those beautiful Render
>images without having to convert to a bitmap on the way.  The internal
>"save" option of the module saves the scenes in something called
>a Scenario file format (I'm supposing that SGI knows about this considering
>they copyrighted it!)... and it looks like something awaiting direct 
>translation to colour postscript.

>So: question: am I stuck with either taking pictures of the screen or 
>rasterizing to rgb or tiff files to get my data in full colour onto the
>pages of "Nature"? Or can I make use of the scenario file format... or was
>that to be supported in "the future"?

>Thanks,
>-Andrew. (andrew@platinum.uwaterloo.ca)

I have had sucess in printing the scenario files with Inventor.
A couple of modifications were necessary though.
1) put "#Inventor V1.0 ascii" as the first line
2) replace occurances of "cxGeoObj" with "Separator"
save the file and read into Inventor's SceneViewer. The print
command under the File menu converts the graphics to PostScript
and prints or saves to a file.

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