Re: graphics data in unevaluated cell
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- Subject: [mg7170] Re: [mg7134] graphics data in unevaluated cell
- From: John Fultz <jfultz>
- Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 01:58:09 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Wolfram Research, Inc.
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
seanross at worldnet.att.net wrote: > > Suppose I have a notebook which generates a graphics image. I save the > notebook and open it later. The graphic image is displayed on the > screen. Is there any way I can export it to a file without re-executing > the code that created it? HTMLsave is out because it doesn't work in > 3.0. I have no applications that read postscript, so that is out. I > know that the postscript code is there in the notebook, I just don't > know how to access it and assign it a symbol name so I can convert it to > a GIF file and export it. Display[] can accept a cell expression as well as a graphics expression. Here's function that pulls the cell expression from the notebook and ship it off to Display[], thus not requiring you to re-evaluate the graphic in the kernel: DisplayNotebookGraphic[filename_String, x_Integer, filetype_String] := Display[filename, Cases[NotebookGet[EvaluationNotebook[]], Cell[GraphicsData[___], ___], -1][[x]], filetype] This function must be run in the same notebook that the graphic is in. The first argument is the filename you want to Display[] to. The second argument indicates which graphic you want to save (the first, second, third, etc. graphic in the notebook, from top to bottom). The third argument is the file type. This example takes the second graphic in the notebook and displays it as a GIF to C:\temp\test.gif: DisplayNotebookGraphic["C:\\temp\\test.gif", 2, "GIF"] Oh, and this function returns exactly what Display[] returns, which is the entire Cell[] expression, so you'll probably want to evaluate this with a semicolon after it or tweak the function definition so it returns nothing. Hope this helps! John Fultz Front End Group Wolfram Research, Inc.