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mark hill
Adobe Illustrator Export (Beta)
Sep 7th, 2005, 11:19pm  
AIExport for beta has just been released here:

http://www.mark-hill.co.uk/AIExport

This is a conversion of William Allan Martin's original alpha code. Please refer to the original alpha docs until we get the new ones finished. Currently only the main changes are listed on the beta site (enough to get you going anyway).

http://pantheon.yale.edu/%7Eawm9/aiexport
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Allen
Re: Adobe Illustrator Export (Beta)
Reply #1 - Sep 24th, 2005, 5:38pm  
Thank you!
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Lucio
Re: Adobe Illustrator Export (Beta)
Reply #2 - Nov 15th, 2005, 1:26am  
The example of AIExport (Beta) works in Processing 95. Yet, if used in a script together with the video library, it leads to the message:

java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: processing.core.PApplet.dataPath(Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/String;

How can I fix it?
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mark hill
Re: Adobe Illustrator Export (Beta)
Reply #3 - Nov 15th, 2005, 10:34pm  

Post or email your code and I'll look into it. I've not started with the newer releases of BETA, so I'll try to see if its version specific or whatever.

Thanks.
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Lucio
Re: Adobe Illustrator Export (Beta)
Reply #4 - Nov 17th, 2005, 2:32pm  
Thanks. This is the code I was trying with.

Lucio

import processing.video.*;
AIExport ai;

int numPixels;
int blockSize = 10;
Movie myMovie;
color myMovieColors[];

void setup()
{
 size(700, 700);
 noStroke();
 background(0);
 myMovie = new Movie(this, "drawing_quick.mov");
 myMovie.loop();
 numPixels = width / blockSize;
 myMovieColors = new color[numPixels * numPixels];

// 2 layers
ai = new AIExport( this, 2 );
ai.monitorOff();
ai.setContinuousRecordingFrameRate( 2 );
ai.turnTransparencyOn();
}

// Read new values from movie
void movieEvent(Movie myMovie)
{
 myMovie.read();
 for(int j=0; j<numPixels; j++) {
   for(int i=0; i<numPixels; i++) {
     myMovieColors[j*numPixels + i] = myMovie.get(9*i, 9*j);
   }
 }
}

// Display values from movie
void draw()
{
ai.run();
  for(int j=0; j<numPixels; j++) {
   for(int i=0; i<numPixels; i++) {
     fill(myMovieColors[j*numPixels + i]);
     ai.ai_rect(3.6*i*blockSize, 3.6*j*blockSize, 0.9*blockSize, 0.9*blockSize);
   }
 }
}


void keyPressed(){
     if( key=='e' ) ai.exportOneFrame();
     if( key=='s' ) ai.takeSnapShot();
     if( key=='d' ) ai.dumpSnapShots();
     if( key=='r' ) ai.toggleContinuousRecording();
}
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mark hill
Re: Adobe Illustrator Export (Beta)
Reply #5 - Nov 17th, 2005, 7:46pm  

This should work (well it does on 93) Smiley

If you want to take a snapshot press s, and when you want to save press d, also you can toggle continous recording, but if you want a sequence of files use exportOneFrame.

Code:


 
import processing.video.*; 
AIExport ai; 
 
int numPixels; 
int blockSize = 10; 
Movie myMovie; 
color myMovieColors[]; 
 
void setup()  
{ 
  size(700, 700, P3D); 
  noStroke(); 
  background(0); 
  myMovie = new Movie(this, "3cr.mov"); 
  myMovie.loop(); 
  numPixels = width / blockSize; 
  myMovieColors = new color[numPixels * numPixels]; 
 
 // 2 layers 
 ai = new AIExport( this, 1 ); 
// ai.monitorOff(); 
 ai.turnTransparencyOn(); 
} 
 
// Read new values from movie 
void movieEvent(Movie myMovie)  
{ 
  myMovie.read(); 
  for(int j=0; j<numPixels; j++) { 
    for(int i=0; i<numPixels; i++) { 
 myMovieColors[j*numPixels + i] = myMovie.get(9*i, 9*j); 
    } 
  } 
} 
 
// Display values from movie 
void draw()  
{ 
ai.run(); 
   for(int j=0; j<numPixels; j++) { 
    for(int i=0; i<numPixels; i++) { 
 ai.ai_fill(myMovieColors[j*numPixels + i]); 
 ai.ai_rect(3.6*i*blockSize, 3.6*j*blockSize, 0.9*blockSize, 0.9*blockSize); 
    } 
  } 
} 
 
 
void keyPressed(){ 
 if( key=='e' ) ai.exportOneFrame(); 
 if( key=='s' ) ai.takeSnapShot(); 
 if( key=='d' ) ai.dumpSnapShots(); 
 if( key=='r' ) ai.toggleContinuousRecording(); 
}
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mark hill
Re: Adobe Illustrator Export (Beta)
Reply #6 - Nov 18th, 2005, 9:18pm  
I'm getting reports in of code not working in the newer Beta releases.

To do anything about it, I need samples of code not working to try and track them down.

It's looking like there are changes in Beta I'm unaware of as some of you report field not found type stuff, but I need to check.
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splat
Re: Adobe Illustrator Export (Beta)
Reply #7 - Nov 20th, 2005, 8:02am  
Yes...

"java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: rawShapeRecorder
at processing.opengl.PGraphicsGL.render_triangles(PGraphicsGL.java:430)"

The newest Beta (95) has caused issues. Reverting to 93 works fine.

Also, there seem to be issues with rectMode() when using default settings placement seems off (and files opened in AI will crash not save). Using CORNERS seems to eliminate this issue.
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mark hill
Re: Adobe Illustrator Export (Beta)
Reply #8 - Nov 20th, 2005, 10:33pm  
I will try to look at  the obvious compatibility issues that arise out of using AIExport on the newer releases of Processing.

I'm a bit under the hammer at the moment, so I apologise for any hold ups!

I'm still on p93!

p.s Give me some stripped down examples of where the errors are popping up, as it'll make tracking easier.
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Lucio
Re: Adobe Illustrator Export (Beta)
Reply #9 - Nov 22nd, 2005, 9:47pm  
Great!
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fry
Re: Adobe Illustrator Export (Beta)
Reply #10 - Nov 22nd, 2005, 10:27pm  
there were some api changes in 95 for how files are loaded and some other bits underneath (in case you were accessing non-documented fields) so it's likely that things were thrown off a bit.
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st33d
Re: Adobe Illustrator Export (Beta)
Reply #11 - Mar 1st, 2006, 2:03pm  
Spotted a bug which can be worked around but is kind of annoying. It makes working on limited access computers at school really annoying because you can't alter the processing folder because it's protected in Applications.

The path for loading and saving files is obviously changed to the Processing application folder because that is where the AIExports are usually saved. But when one needs to draw resources from the "data" folder in one's sketch you find that you get an openstream() exception. This is because all of Processing's resource loading and saving commands have been altered by the library.

The workaround is to have a computer with admin access so you can stick all of your data files in the Processing directory.

But it would be nice if someone could patch the library.
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kidult
Re: Adobe Illustrator Export (Beta)
Reply #12 - Mar 1st, 2006, 5:35pm  
Why not run the processing application from the Desktop. Its an executable. I do my work primarily on limited access computers and although we may have different limits I think in general since proceessing doesnt require and installation and most limited access computers permitt installation prcoessing and you have contorl over what you download on your user account desktop you should be able to run aiexport fine. Do you have the same issues w/ using the save image/screenshot functions?
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mark hill
Re: Adobe Illustrator Export (Beta)
Reply #13 - Mar 3rd, 2006, 5:39pm  
What happens when you specify a different path when using setFilename()?

Sorry not in front of the code to test, to see Whether this would work.
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st33d
Re: Adobe Illustrator Export (Beta)
Reply #14 - Mar 6th, 2006, 12:40pm  
setFileName() doesn't change the file finding, I put it before my data folder reading routines and it doesn't care. It's everything that should be in the Data folder that can't be accessed. loadFont, loadStrings, loadImage don't work unless the stuff is in the Processing executable foder.

As for sticking Processing on the desktop -> I have a machine I can work from, I've become a dab hand at guessing admin passwords.

I've just tried exporting as an application and it works fine it seems. The data files get packed into the .jar. I think as an app, I would be using a file browser to pull in the source files anyway. So it's still a bug, but I think we can all live with it until it's been found. Generally usage of libraries applies specifically applications.

I tried reading the "folder" variable and it's set to the Processing executable folder. I tried reading it outside of an AIExport sketch and I couldn't get it to appear. Besides which, I think that's just the executable location, not the data folder location.

Text also doesn't seem to work. Any ai.ai_text() I put in corrupts the file. I'm using illustrator CS to open the file and it says that some legacy text needs converting. Then it refuses to open the file.
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