Exporting
MatrixPro can export visualizations in one of the following formats:
- LATEX
- Export the current view in LATEX format.
The Complete document checkbox selects whether or not to export a complete
LATEX document or just a document fragment.
Exporting in LATEX creates a TeXdraw representation of the current view.
TeXdraw can be found at http://ctan.org.
- SVG
- Export the animation in SVG format.
Exported SVG animations can be viewed with the Adobe SVG
Viewer browser plug-in that can be obtained from
http://www.adobe.com/svg.
The SVG can be configured (Fig. 6).
It can be compressed with gzip that is supported by Adobe's SVG plug-in,
an animator panel can be included (Fig. 7),
and the animation can be scaled. If the animator panel is not added to the animation two more options
are available: the length of the pause between
steps (in seconds), and the length of one step of animation (in seconds).
Figure 6:
SVG export dialog
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Figure 7:
Animator panel in SVG animation
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- PNG
- Export the current view or the animation in PNG format.
You can select whether to export the
current view (default) or the entire animation as a series of pictures. If the
picture series is selected, the files will be named <name><step>.png.
For more information about exporting TeXdraw pictures and SVG
animations, see the tutorial at
http://www.cs.hut.fi/Research/MatrixPro/tutorials/export_tutorial.shtml.