saving a tkinter canvas to gif

[Mickel Grönroos]

On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, biner wrote:

>   Is there any way to save a canvas created with tkinter to a gif (or
> any other graphic) without using PIL (I cannot build it on our unix
> machine)?

Have you tried the postscript method of Tkinter.Canvas?

> base=Canvas(root,width=50,height=50)
> base.create_rectangle(0,0,50,25,fill='red')
> base.create_rectangle(0,25,50,50,fill='blue')
> base.pack()

base.postscript("file.ps")

/Mickel

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