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driver
select a graphics driver
Calling Sequence
driver(driver_name) current_driver=driver()
Arguments
- driver_name
string, driver to be selected.
Description
This function is used to select a graphics driver, or with no arguments to get the current graphics driver name. The selected driver can be one of the followings:
- "X11"
output to the screen of the computer.
- "Pos"
output into Postscript format.
- "Rec"
output to the screen of the computer. Same as
X11
.- "Fig"
output into XFig format.
- "GIF"
output into Gif format.
- "PPM"
output into PPM format.
Remark
To convert "GIF" or "PPM" files to other image format or for building animation one can use the "convert" program for ImageMagic (http://www.imagemagick.org/)
To redirect the graphic output to a GIF file (which will be written in the current directory), you can use the following example:
For example if one has generated a sequence of Gif files named img*.gif
it is possible to build an animated Gif file (named anim.gif) by
convert -delay 10 img*.gif anim.gif
Authors
J.Ph.C.
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