[Astan]

Hi guys, kindly, i have a question for you.

I have searched a lot on the internet but i haven't found answers to my question, so i'm sorry if my question is trivial but i've not found alternatives.

i would like to write a bash script that, once the post processing in paraview in over, automatically wrote a document in latex with the results i set to save.

i really appreciate if anyone could give me advice or explain me how to do it.

Really Really thanks to everyone for the time spent to read this post.

Astan

[tomf]

Hi Astan,

Not sure if your post-processing already involves a python script, because than you can build the report as you are generating the images. You just need to write LaTeX code to a .tex-file while generating the images.

If you are only doing this after manually making the images, the bash option could work, but I am not that sure how to do it. I would start with listing all images in a folder and than use that list to generate LaTeX code to include the images.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Tom

[Astan]

hi tomf, first of all, thanks you very much for your answer.

I use a python script to do the post processing, could you kinldly give me more details about the process of writing a .tex file and make it compatible with my python script?

thanks you in advance,

Astan

[tomf]

Hi Astan,

Obviously it depends a lot on how you have everything set-up, but I can show you some skeleton code or at least the idea that I use.

I have a default LaTeX file, which sets up the report, I will not go into that detail. I expect you know how to work with LaTeX.

within that I have:

\begin{document}
<some stuff>
\include{results}
<other stuff>
\end{document}

Within the pythonscript I have something like:

with open('results.tex','w') as texFile:
    <lots of ParaView code>
    SaveScreenshot('image.png')
    texFile.wrtie(''\\begin{figure}[htb!]\n\\centering\n\\includegraphics[width=0.9\\textwidth{image.png}\n\\caption{image showing bla bla bla}\\label{fig:image}\n\\end{figure}\n'')

So basically for every image I want in the report I add a line to the tex file. You can run the report creation from the ParaView script as well, or do it manually afterwards.

I cannot really give more information than this, so you would have to search a bit if something is unclear.

Regards,
Tom

[Astan]

Hi tomf, thanks you very much, that's a good starting point, what i need!

I will try to develp the code using your guidelines!

Thanks you again for the support!

Astan