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ZdAmp YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 2	textfile input & pdf output questions Jan 12th, 2007, 4:52am   Hi, I'm pretty newbee at all this so I have some basic questions. Is it possible to let processing read a textfile as input? And if I only want the 60th frame printed with the pdf output, how do I do that?

eskimoblood Senior Member Offline Posts: 341	Re: textfile input & pdf output questions Reply #1 - Jan 12th, 2007, 8:58am   For textfile reading use loadString: http://processing.org/reference/loadStrings_.html To save the 60th frame use : Code: if(frameCount==60){ beginRecord(PDF, "frame-####.pdf"); // draw something endRecord(); }
	Andreas Köberle {eskimoblood}

ZdAmp YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 2	Re: textfile input & pdf output questions Reply #2 - Jan 12th, 2007, 11:30am   will try that. thanks for the quick reply!

Bears and Barges YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 2	Re: textfile input & pdf output questions Reply #3 - Jan 16th, 2007, 3:14pm   I have a fairly similar query, is it possible, and if so how, to open/display a pdf file in processing?

JohnG Ex Member	Re: textfile input & pdf output questions Reply #4 - Jan 16th, 2007, 3:42pm   Unfortunately I think processing can only save PDFs, not read them.

Bears and Barges YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 2	Re: textfile input & pdf output questions Reply #5 - Jan 16th, 2007, 6:01pm   Oh well, Thanks for the reply though