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Date: 24 Sep 2006 09:12:43
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Subject: How to Capture Positions, Display on Website
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I want to go through some games and capture positions to an image (JPG,
GIF, PNG, whatever). What is the best way to do that? Used one chess
program, but doing a screen capture ended up with a blurry "photo".
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Date: 25 Sep 2006 20:29:13
From: Dave (from the UK)
Subject: Re: How to Capture Positions, Display on Website
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[email protected] wrote:
> I want to go through some games and capture positions to an image (JPG,
> GIF, PNG, whatever). What is the best way to do that? Used one chess
> program, but doing a screen capture ended up with a blurry "photo".
>
Thinking about this, I'm surprised nobody has written something to do
this in a non-interactive way, which would allow you to do this very
quickly, without messing about with print screen and the windows clipboard.
I can't believe it would be too hard (under UNIX anyway) to write a
program which does this. There are software programs around which can
move one image to a specific (x,y) on another image
http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/
and given there are plenty of bitmaps of chess pieces, it would not seem
a difficult to write a bit of software to do it. It would not be too
hard to run the program on a pgn file and have it produce a graphic for
every position in the game. You only need to select the ones you want then.
I don't know if there is any software around which could parse a PGN
file and determine what is on each square quickly. Obviously open-source
programs like winboard and xboard can do this, but extracting the bits
one needs from all the other code might make it more difficult than
writing from scratch.
It's clearly not a 5 minute job, but I don't think it would be rocket
science.
Perhaps Sanny could get his team of programmers on this...How about it
Sanny?
--
Dave (from the UK)
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It is always of the form: [email protected]
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Date: 25 Sep 2006 07:59:46
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Subject: Re: How to Capture Positions, Display on Website
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You can use Snagit http://www.techsmith.com/snagit.asp
or EasySnap Studio http://www.rikisoft.com/screen-capture-easysnap.html
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Date: 25 Sep 2006 07:59:45
From:
Subject: Re: How to Capture Positions, Display on Website
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You can use Snagit http://www.techsmith.com/snagit.asp
or EasySnap Studio http://www.rikisoft.com/screen-capture-easysnap.html
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Date: 24 Sep 2006 17:28:53
From: Johnny T
Subject: Re: How to Capture Positions, Display on Website
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[email protected] wrote:
> I want to go through some games and capture positions to an image (JPG,
> GIF, PNG, whatever). What is the best way to do that? Used one chess
> program, but doing a screen capture ended up with a blurry "photo".
>
You should be able to use print screen program. Make sure to set your
computer to 256 colors this will make a much smaller image for you to
use. Then just crop, and don't change the size of your image.
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Date: 24 Sep 2006 16:50:36
From:
Subject: Re: How to Capture Positions, Display on Website
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[email protected] wrote:
> I want to go through some games and capture positions to an image (JPG,
> GIF, PNG, whatever). What is the best way to do that? Used one chess
> program, but doing a screen capture ended up with a blurry "photo".
What graphics software are you using? If you have the position visible
in your chess program, all you need to do is press the "PrtScn" button,
and the image should be copied to the Windows clipboard EXACTLY as it
appears on your screen.
If you then paste that image into your image editing software, and save
as a JPG with reasonable compression, the image should not be blurry.
Witness....
http://members.aol.com/jvmerlino/Board.jpg
http://members.aol.com/jvmerlino/Board2.jpg
The first image is with mid-level JPG compression, and is only 32 KB in
size.
The second image is with almost no compression, and is 80 KB in size.
The differences between the two are very subtle, but the first one
certainly can't be called "blurry".
jm
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Date: 25 Sep 2006 12:38:27
From: David Richerby
Subject: Re: How to Capture Positions, Display on Website
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<[email protected] > wrote:
> If you then paste that image into your image editing software, and save
> as a JPG with reasonable compression, the image should not be blurry.
JPEG is designed for photographs. Line art, such as chess diagrams,
is much better done with either GIF or PNG: good compression without
any blurring at all.
Dave.
--
David Richerby Radioactive Newspaper (TM): it's like
www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~davidr/ a daily broadsheet but it'll make you
glow in the dark!
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Date: 25 Sep 2006 12:39:15
From: Ange1o DePa1ma
Subject: Re: How to Capture Positions, Display on Website
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David,
Do you know of a good piece of software for printing diagrams on paper and
index cards?
-- adp
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Date: 25 Sep 2006 19:18:45
From: David Richerby
Subject: Re: How to Capture Positions, Display on Website
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Ange1o DePa1ma <[email protected] > wrote:
> Do you know of a good piece of software for printing diagrams on
> paper and index cards?
Sorry, no. Perhaps somebody else does?
Dave.
--
David Richerby Sumerian Tree (TM): it's like a tree
www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~davidr/ that's really old!
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