Precise bitmaps
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg54703] Precise bitmaps
- From: "Jan G. Korvink" <korvink at t-online.de>
- Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 01:29:46 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Dear All,
I am battling to obtain a "precise" Raster[] of some Graphics[] objects.
There seems to be no straightforward way to do the conversion, so I tried:
Export[ /tmp/myfile, Graphics[myGraphics], ImageSize -> {xmax,ymax}
myBitsPerUnit ]
g = Import[ /tmp/myfile ]
from which I can unpack the Raster[]. Unfortunately the Raster[]
contains extra white space around the object, and no matter what I
select for "myfile" (I have tried all bitmap formats) I get a
consistently bad result. Furthermore, the Export/Import route is pretty
bad, since it is slow for large pictures.
What works is to use Adobe Illustrator as the rendering engine. But this
is not nice!
I do not want to implement a renderer, unless absolutely necessary, and
it seems silly since Mathematica has such an animal.
Can anyone suggest an alternative route?
Thanks in advance, Jan