[Tkinter-discuss] Text to postscript

[Michael Lange]

Hi,

On Mon, 17 Jun 2019 12:16:49 +0000
Vasilis Vlachoudis <Vasilis.Vlachoudis at cern.ch> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Canvas has this nice method to convert it to postscript, which is
> perfect for printing. Is there something similar for Text(), I could
> not find anything internal but if there is something external to
> convert to html, ps, pdf it would be nice.

maybe you could use tkimg to create a "screenshot" of the widget in
postscript format.
To enable tkimg's "window" handler once it's installed you just need to do
something like

    root.tk.call('package', 'require', 'img::window')

early in your code.

IIRC by default tkimg's "window" handler will include only the visible
part of the widget, but here:

https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Img

George Petasis posted a recipe that seems to be able to capture the whole
contents of a canvas widget. I don't know how well this actually works
though and if it can be done with a Text widget in the same fashion.


Best regards

Michael


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