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All rights reserved. * * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License * ("GPL") version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation. * See the file LICENSE.GPL at the root directory of this source * distribution for additional information about the GNU GPL. * * For using Coin with software that can not be combined with the GNU * GPL, and for taking advantage of the additional benefits of our * support services, please contact Systems in Motion about acquiring * a Coin Professional Edition License. * * See http://www.coin3d.org/ for more information. * * Systems in Motion, Postboks 1283, Pirsenteret, 7462 Trondheim, NORWAY. * http://www.sim.no/ sales@sim.no coin-support@coin3d.org * \**************************************************************************/ // ************************************************************************* /*! \page hardcopy_overview An overview of the hardcopy support. The main API for HardCopy support in Coin is the abstract class SoVectorizeAction. SoVectorizeAction will extract geometry from an Inventor scene graph, and project the geometry onto a specified page. Since postscript and other vector based file formats do not support z-buffer or depth clipping, all geometry is rendered using a simple painter's algorithm (geometry is sorted based on distance to camera). SoVectorizePSAction inherits SoVectorizeAction, and will output a Postscript file. Texture-mapped polygons are not supported, since this is not supported by the vector file formats, at least it's not supported in Postscript. Gouraud shading is not supported in the Postscript language (at least not for V2.0), but an approximation is implemeting using an algorithm that divides the triangle into several small (flat-shaded) triangles. The gouraud shading quality (the number of sub-triangles) is controlled by an epsilon value. The gouraud shading function is written by Frederic Delhoume (delhoume (at) ilog.fr), and is free (public domain) software. Typical use of SoVectorizePSAction is shown in the following piece of code: \code SoVectorizePSAction * ps = new SoVectorizePSAction; SoVectorOutput * out = ps->getOutput(); if (!out->openFile("output.ps")) { return -1; // unable to open output file } // to enable gouraud shading. 0.1 is a nice epsilon value // ps->setGouraudThreshold(0.1f); // clear to white background. Not really necessary if you // want a white background ps->setBackgroundColor(TRUE, SbColor(1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f)); // select LANDSCAPE or PORTRAIT orientation ps->setOrientation(SoVectorizeAction::LANDSCAPE); // start creating a new page (A4 page, with 10mm border). ps->beginPage(SbVec2f(10.0f, 10.0f), SbVec2f(190.0f, 277.0f)); // There are also enums for A0-A10. Example: // ps->beginStandardPage(SoVectorizeAction::A4, 10.0f); // calibrate so that text, lines, points and images will have the // same size in the postscript file as on the monitor. ps->calibrate(viewer->getViewportRegion()); // apply action on the viewer scenegraph. Remember to use // SoSceneManager's scene graph so that the camera is included. ps->apply(viewer->getSceneManager()->getSceneGraph()); // this will create the postscript file ps->endPage(); // close file out->closeFile(); delete ps; \endcode It is also possible to have several viewports and/or layers on a page. This is useful if your application has several layers of geometry, for instance some annotations in 2D on top of a 3D scene graph. To create several layers, the beginViewport() and endViewport() functions can be used. \since Coin 2.1 \since TGS provides HardCopy support as a separate extension for TGS Inventor. */ // ************************************************************************* /*! \class SoHardCopy SoHardCopy.h HardCopy/SoHardCopy.h \brief The SoHardCopy class is a static class for initializing the hardcopy support. \ingroup hardcopy */ // ************************************************************************* #include #include // ************************************************************************* static SbBool hardcopy_isinitialized = FALSE; static void hardcopy_cleanup(void) { hardcopy_isinitialized = FALSE; } /*! Initialization of the hardcopy support happens automatically from SoDB::init(), so the application programmer should normally not have to worry about it. */ void SoHardCopy::init(void) { if (hardcopy_isinitialized) { return; } SoVectorizeAction::initClass(); SoVectorizePSAction::initClass(); hardcopy_isinitialized = TRUE; coin_atexit((coin_atexit_f*)hardcopy_cleanup, CC_ATEXIT_NORMAL); } /*! Returns name of the hardcopy extension. */ const char * SoHardCopy::getProductName(void) { return "Systems in Motion hard-copy support for Coin."; } /*! Version number will always match Coin version number. */ const char * SoHardCopy::getVersion(void) { return COIN_VERSION; } // *************************************************************************