saving a tkinter canvas

[Elaine Jackson]

Newbie. Playing with the 'turtle' module and wondering if there's a way to save
the graphics you make with it. The documentation itself has nothing to say about
this, nor (as far as I can tell) does the FAQ list at python-dot-org. Any
pointers would be very much appreciated.

(In related news, I would also like to find out what's going on with "bounding
boxes" in image files - not having them is keeping me from including images in
latex files.)

Peace

[Mickel Grönroos]

Re: saving a tkinter canvas

On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Elaine Jackson wrote:
[color=blue]
> Newbie. Playing with the 'turtle' module and wondering if there's a wayto save
> the graphics you make with it. The documentation itself has nothing to say about
> this, nor (as far as I can tell) does the FAQ list at python-dot-org. Any
> pointers would be very much appreciated.[/color]

You can save Tkinter.Canvase s as PostScript using the
Tkinter.Canvas. postscript() method.
[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>> import Tkinter
>>> root = Tkinter.Tk()
>>> canvas = Tkinter.Canvas( root)
>>> canvas.pack()
>>> rect = canvas.create_r ectangle(10,10, 100,100, fill="blue")
>>> retval = canvas.postscri pt(file="saved. ps", height=100, width=100, colormode="colo r")
>>>[/color][/color][/color]

/Mickel

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