Hi all,

We just opened a web service that allows to render Pd patches as SVG images.

Usage is simple. Just use the following url https://enzienaudio.com/a/dave?fetch=<patchUrl> replacing <patchUrl> by the url of your patch.

For example, here is a patch hosted on a github repository : https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mhroth/ZenGarden/master/test/MessageInteger.pd and here is the url of its rendered image https://enzienaudio.com/a/dave?fetch=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mhroth/ZenGarden/master/test/MessageInteger.pd

I think this could be really useful on http://forum.pdpatchrepo.info as many people post pictures of patches, while this service could save you from having to make a screenshot.

The whole thing is open source. The service uses pd-fileutils to parse / render the patches (https://github.com/sebpiq/pd-fileutils) and the source code of the service is there : https://github.com/sebpiq/pd-to-image-service

This is still alpha, and we'd be really happy to get your feedback and contributions. If you find any bugs, if you want to improve the look of the rendered SVG, or anything else, please head there https://github.com/sebpiq/pd-fileutils and file an issue or send a pull request!

Cheers!

Really nice stuff!

Thanks Gilberto!

And thanks for the bug reports!

Once again this is very early proto, so if anybody else finds bugs ... and there is many for sure ... please report them here : https://github.com/sebpiq/pd-fileutils/issues

Thanks!

@sebpiq Amazing work

Will try to find time to investigate and see if there's a way to use it on this forum.

Cheers~

Thanks! I'm sure there is! For example, automatically rendering an image when somebody posts a patch could be nice. But it still needs some work. It is not fully ready for prime time ... I'll do a bit of work on it in the next days though!