[Gmsh] Print a image file

[Christophe Geuzaine]

David Colignon wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I don't think it is possible:
> 
> http://www.geuz.org/pipermail/gmsh/2005/001599.html
> 
> ...
> The problem is that Gmsh cannot save an image if the OpenGL window is 
> not shown on screen. 

Dave, Nader - that's true with the precompiled version. However, if you 
really need this feature, you can configure Gmsh with --enable-osmesa 
and link it with Mesa (http://www.mesa3d.org): this will enable 
offscreen rendering. You can then add printing commands in scripts and 
produce pictures in batch mode.

Note that there are some limitations with offscreen rendering at the 
moment: most notably text strings are not printed. Also, it has only 
been tested on Linux so far.



 > There are ways to do offscreen rendering, but last
> time I looked it was very complicated and not easily portable across 
> different architectures.
> ...
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Dave
> 


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