Re: offscreen rendering with gl-render - pls advice

[Ben Abbott]

On Jan 18, 2010, at 5:28 AM, Shai Ayal wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 3:59 AM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
> (1) use G2PS, and ghostscript for off screen rendering
> 
>        http://www.geuz.org/gl2ps/
> we are using gl2ps already to produce postscript when you print using the 
> fltk_backend. However, you still need a "screen" with OpenGL setup on it 
> (called "context" in OpenGL lingo) before using gl2ps. This means that you 
> cannot run octave on a headless terminal (unless you use gnuplot)
> 
> 
> (2) I'm becoming a fan of pgf/tikz, which would require a latex install to 
> render to ps/pdf/etc.
> 
>        http://sourceforge.net/projects/pgf/reviews/
> 
> Looks nice, but apart from the LaTeX run-time requirement, someone needs to 
> code it (It is a completely new backend not based on gl-render/OpenGL), not a 
> small task.
> 
> Shai

Good point. What I like about the approach is that the tools to produce LaTeX, 
ps, pdf, and all bitmap formats from TikZ are available for all systems.

Ben