Say I have a range – something like a 400x400 rectangle at 60, 60 – which is dynamically generated by a separate program. I'm wondering how it's possible to crop my document to that range in the command line?
Everything I've read has suggested I'd need to add a rectangle to the document, resize the document to that rectangle (resize to selection), and then remove the rectangle.
But I'm having trouble with adding and removing that rectangle. I found the ToolRect verb, but I can't seem to find anything related to actually drawing that rectangle (or removing it).
So, am I doing this wrong or is there just no way to add (and select) the rectangle using only the command line? Using another program is also fine, but I haven't had much luck with that (I couldn't get the python modules installed for the only possibly helpful thing I found..).
In this email discussion from 2012, someone said:
There is no way to pass parameters to verbs (with the current
implementation, they don't take parameters by design).
In case they add this capability later, the required verbs to crop the page would be:
EditSelectAll
SelectionGroup
ToolRect (requires parameters, i.e. where to crop)
EditSelectAll
ObjectSetClipPath
FitCanvasToDrawing
FileVacuum
FileSaveAs (requires a parameter, so that we don't have to overwrite the original)
Since Inkscape can edit any valid SVG, I'd rather look into other available SVG libraries, like this one for Python.
If you are OK with rasterising your image, take a look at this question. Inkscape unfortunately ignores the --export-area option when exporting to svg or pdf.
My – admittedly, unsatisfying – solution was to create a separate program to add a viewbox to the SVG text.
The program I made was implemented into a separate part of my project, so I don't have a good command line version, but if you plan on making one yourself, whatever XML editing library you have for your language of choice should be all you need. I used xmldom for Node.js with relative ease.
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I'm making a poster (sort of) and would like to do these things, but I'm not sure if AsciiDoc or AsciiDoctor can do them, and if so, how:
Background image that can be stretched to the poster's dimensions
A rectangle with some transparency and a border, basically a bright frame, with text in it.
An image with text in it.
Text inside an image inside a rectangle.
(Bonus question: Is it possible to free-form specify where something goes, e.g. x=80%, y = 20% for something in the top right corner?)
I'm not sure that it makes sense to use AsciiDoc to source poster output, as opposed to a desktop publishing tool or a graphics program.
But if you are converting to HTML, you should be able to accomplish most of this with clever sourcing and some CSS/JavaScript on the front end. That is, you can source some of the metadata you want to impose on the final image, then have front-end code do the manipulation and imposition. For instance, you can provide a caption, classes, a title, and other info in the source, but AsciiDoc is intentionally agnostic about how that stuff is handled in output.
However, unless you need to create these things as part of technical documents, especially ones getting built/generated recuringly with automation, you're likely better off with a specialized tool.
Does anyone know of macro or custom command I can make to quickly annotate the area of a polyline in autocad?
I'm doing a project where I need to measure the lot and house size of several city blocks. I've got a drawing going but I don't want to measure and write out the area of each site, that will take to long. I've seen custom commands in the past that quickly do this kind of thing but I don't know how to make my own.
And I'm desperately avoiding doing it by hand one at a time as most likely I will need to make adjustments to my design later on.
The best method I can think of is to utilize the MTEXT command and use a FIELD to link the Area of the Polyline to the MTEXT box.
Type FIELD at the command line, choose Object, select your Polyline and you will see the Area property.
Here is a link on the CADTutor site that covers it a bit more in depth along with a link to a forum post that has this automated via a Lisp routine.
http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/archive/index.php/t-46628.html
I have an existing component that draws Direct2D content to an ID2D1RenderTarget and I would like to save that drawing to an image file. The questions here, here and here, although they helped me, did not provide a clear answer as how to do it.
My nullth idea was to try the official MSDN method. Unfortunately, it is not available in Win7.
My first idea was to modify the drawing routine to make it accept the RenderTarget as a parameter and use ID2D1Factory::CreateWicBitmapRenderTarget to draw directly into a IWICBitmap, but it turns out to be quite difficult for me (because it would be necessary to modify not only the drawing routine itself, but also the drawing callbacks of all users of that component (the code, written in Delphi, uses Embarcadero's TDirect2DCanvas, and thus did not need to manage all Direct2D resources, like render target or brushes)).
My second idea was to create an ID2D1Bitmap, fill it with what is already drawn using ID2D1Bitmap::CopyFromRenderTarget and then draw that ID2D1Bitmap to a WicBitmapRenderTarget (this is about what was done here). I had the same kind of problems as those who asked the questions I link to: different resources affinities, as briefly explained Kenny Kerr.
So is it possible under Win7 without having to implement my first idea, and how would you do it?
Direct2D 1.1 is supported on Windows 7 if you install the Platform Update. Unfortunately, that doesn't solve your problem without first creating two more of them: 1) it's still pre-release/beta, and 2) it adds another installation dependency for you to worry about.
I have a set of really big images out of which I need to crop little snippets. These snippets are all exactly the same size but don't follow a strict pattern so I can't do this programatically.
Ideally I would like to open up one of the big files and be able to point and click on say, the top left corner of a snippet and have that automatically be saved to disk without even having to enter a file name, and then continue on with the rest. (Of course this would be the ideal way which I know is probably way off the real possible way!).
I started doing this in Photoshop CS4 but cropping a snippet, saving, undoing (to get to the full image), and starting over again takes way too long.
Maybe someone has a better way to do this in photoshop or in some other software.
Thanks for reading!
Instead of cropping and undoing, you could:
make (or resize) a selection
copy the selection to a new image
save the image
close the image
You might need to split it into two actions, I don't know enough about programming Photoshop.
Thank you everyone for your input.
I ended up doing this with a suggestion a colleague of mine came up with. It consisted of creating a Photoshop "slice" over the first region I wanted to crop and then cloning that region over the rest of the other sections. After that, using Save For Web (and ofter hitting Continue when PS complained about how that image was way beyond Save For Web's capabilities) I could save all images at once.
This was the fastest and easiest method I could find. Until then I was going with Mark Ransom's method.
I want to create something like a leaflet/magazine using Latex. Is it possible to place text on top of an image and style the text freely?
Any links to examples of something like this?
I usually do something like
\usepackage{tikz}
...
\begin{tikzpicture}
\draw (0, 0) node[inner sep=0] {\includegraphics[width=4cm]{imagefile.png}};
\draw (1, 1) node {Hello world};
\end{tikzpicture}
A very good toolset for manipulating images is pgf/TikZ pdf doc.
See \pgfimage for examples. It allows to mix text and image freely. There are many ways to do it. One of them is to use layers (p. 220 of pgfmanual). The pgf manual contains many simple examples, and is very precise.
Another solution is to use the lpic package: the homepage contains some examples.
You can find other examples for pfg and TikZ here and here for many impressive examples.
You can also define the text after the image and then offset it using negative vertical space. Because it follows after the image in the LaTeX source, it will be drawn on top of the image instead of underneath it.
\includegraphics[...]{...}
\vspace*{-20ex} % Tune this to the image height.
\begin{center}
Text
\end{center}
\vspace*{20ex} % The spacing above but without the minus.
Another solution is the textpos package which allows you to specify boxes at absolute positions on the page. The boxes can overlap, so you can put the figure in one box, and text in another box on top of it.
I realise that the question is old and answer is accepted, but for completeness would like to propose an alternative approach for making leaflets in LaTeX.
Specifically, the leaflet document style served me really well for this purpose.
A good blog post wrt background image can be found here. There are a couple of packages that are required to use in order to make the proposed approach work, but were not mentioned in the blog post:
\usepackage[usenames,dvipsnames]{xcolor}
\usepackage{transparent}
As already suggested, you can annotate the different parts of the figure using TikZ. However, sometimes it might even better to use numbers to reference the different parts and explain them in the figure caption.
To easily get the precise relative positions (which is often tedious) and to generate LaTeX code automatically, you could use the new web-based LaTeX Overlay Generator, which I built for such cases. This is just a small interactive tool, which helps you to find the right locations.
Another way to do this, admittedly not using LaTeX, would simply be to edit the image with photoshop or gimp or something like that. I guess your option in terms of typesetting mathematics might be fairly limited doing it this way.
Otherwise I'd endorse using tikz.
Are you sure you want to do it in LaTeX? Desktop publishing software might be more suited to your needs... Something like scribus might be easier than tikz in terms of learning curve, depending on what you want to do.
I'd like to add on to #midtiby's answer...
You can also specify the text position using a relative position, like so:
\usepackage{tikz}
...
\begin{tikzpicture}
\node[inner sep=0] (image) at (0,0) {\includegraphics[width=4cm]{imagefile.png}};
\node[above=0 of image] {Hello world};
\end{tikzpicture}