I'm writing a mod for a game that uses lua/luajit as a scripting language and I would like to create a png file dynamically using lua. I've been googling for a png library/module but could only find ones that merely read pngs (like https://github.com/Didericis/png-lua or https://luapower.com/libpng), or create uncompressed pngs: https://github.com/wyozi/lua-pngencoder
On my search I have stumbled upon libpng and thought, maybe I could simply load that dll using ffi and use the functions that way. But the problem is that is waaaay too complicated for me, since I'm not familiar with C and furthermore libpng seems to be a huuuuuge complicated library.
So, is there any simple way (module/library) that I missed and didn't find on google?
I just need very simple functionality, create a png, set the pixels, save it as a compressed png file.
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I have a ID3D11Texture2D and want to write it to disk using literally any picture format (png, bmp, jpeg, ...).
I have already tried to read the docs https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/d3d11/nn-d3d11-id3d11texture2d, which are less than helpful, and i have found an NVIDIA tutorial of how to take individual ID3D11Texture2D and convert them into a video: https://github.com/NVIDIA/video-sdk-samples/tree/master/nvEncDXGIOutputDuplicationSample
However, I dont find anything how to simply write it to disk in any format. I'm sure I'm missing something obvious, any hint would be appreciated.
To experiment, I used https://github.com/NVIDIA/video-sdk-samples/tree/master/nvEncDXGIOutputDuplicationSample, set the frames to capture to 1, and try to write the ID3D11Texture2D to file before encoding to video.
I have a solution for exactly this in the ScreenGrab module which captures a texture (if not already in Map-supporting memory), and then writes it out as a picture using WIC. It handles some edge-cases like "typeless" resources and MSAA as well.
The 'standalone' version is on GitHub here as part of the DirectXTex package:
https://github.com/microsoft/DirectXTex/blob/main/ScreenGrab/ScreenGrab11.h
https://github.com/microsoft/DirectXTex/blob/main/ScreenGrab/ScreenGrab11.cpp
Documentation is here.
ScreenGrab is also included in the DirectX Tool Kit for DX11 and DX12. There's also a basic DX9 version in the DirectXTex package as well.
ScreenGrab can write to any file container supported by WIC. It also has buit-in support for writing DDS files directly without using WIC.
In addition to using ScreenGrab (which is intended as a light-weight screenshot solution), you can also use the DirectTex library to capture a texture and then save it to DDS, HDR, TGA, or any WIC-supported file format.
I want to extract bezier paths from a png like this.
sample image
potrace doesn't support reading PNG files natively. You'd need to convert PNG images to another supported format first. http://potrace.sourceforge.net/faq.html#formats
However potrace is licensed under the GPL so while it does compile for iOS you may not want to use it as part of an app. Is it possible to compile potrace for iOS? There is a non-GPL version of potrace available, but it isn't free.
Depending on the complexity of the PNG images you want to convert, you may get less than ideal results anyway.
If you update your question with more detail about what you are trying to achieve it might be possible to give a better answer.
I like to convert an .jpg or .png file to an .svg format that can be displayed in UIImageView. Is there a way to do this in Objective-C?
You shouldn't use SVG images in Xcode:
it is recommended that you use PNG or JPEG files for most images in your app. Image objects are optimized for reading and displaying both formats, and those formats offer better performance than most other image formats. Because the PNG format is lossless, it is especially recommended for the images you use in your app’s interface.
Also, there's an SVGKit that according to many devs is buggy so use it at your own risk.
SVG is an XML-based vector and in Xcode you can also use vectors but using a PDF format and follow this tutorial.
In a nutshell:
Generate PDFs With the #1x Asset (During compile time it will generate #2 and #3)
Set the Scale Factors to Single Vector:
Drag and Drop Your PDF Into the All, Universal Section
Refer to Your Image by Its Name, Like for any PNG File
[UIImage imageNamed:#”Home”]
Also, stackoverflow (perhaps) related answer
To convert PNG to SVG (Which is a very sensible and valid thing to do) you need an app or library called a "tracer". It will trace the outlines of shapes, gradients, etc and convert them into vector representations.
For simple cases, this is easy for a computer to do; for complex cases (e.g. gradients), this is a very hard AI / Computer-Vision problem and you'd need to spend $$$ on high-end coding solutions and/or find PhD-level research that solves the problem!
A free tracer that does a very good job is built-in to Inkscape (open-source) - google "inkscape trace" for tutorials on how to use it, and to generate a .svg file that you can use. This is a manual process.
To use this in-app, you need to find a tracing library for iOS. The libraries that Inkscape uses are all open-source, so you could try converting them to iOS - they're written in C, so it could be quite easy.
I have a large PNG that I want uncompressed to a file, but I don't have the memory capacity on the device to expand the PNG in memory, then to a file.
Is there a native iOS method to uncompress a PNG for each scan line? Alternatives?
Libpng - Reading image data - http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng-1.2.5-manual.html#section-3.8
For non-interlaced PNGs
png_read_rows(png_ptr, row_pointers, NULL, number_of_rows);
As and idea how to start:
Take a look how is doing Java the png decompressing algorithm. Java should have open-source those files. Maybe has the iOS too idk. Just get the uncompress algorithm idea. It should be around 1k-5k lines of code.
When you know how to do it, than implement at iOS but read a chunk of file and than export to a file, read another chunk and process and export it. I know it is easy to say and at least theoretically it is working. Maybe is public in some site. Libpng can be a good starting point.
Png is a looseness compression like zip. There as I have remember runtime is built a data table. Those table depends how big is, maybe need to be swapped to to disk, which will makes longer the decompression process.
Good luck!
i have tried to open some JPEG files in Delphi with TImage component. i also added the Jpeg unit. i can open most of jpg files and there is no problem.
but when i try to open some JPGs, the program just throw an exception.
i also tried to load that images in design mode, but there is some problem. in design mode the exception is:
Access violation at address 402672A1 in module 'vcljpeg70.bpl'. Write of address 08E84000
Why i cannot open that JPGs? they are not corrupted. i checked them in some tools like savantools EXIF viewer.
here is the URL of one of that images:
http://xs842.xs.to/xs842/09340/backpic435.jpg
Thanks so much
PS:
My Delphi version is 7. Borland Delphi 7
The reason you may be encountering this problem is due to the file type. Delphi has issues displaying JPEG images that have been encoded using CMYK, rather than the default RGB encoding. CMYK is a format that is generally used for Print design, try and always encode your images to RGB format to avoid this issue with Delphi.
Patch for Delphi jpeg.dcu
Bye.
Interesting. Neither Internet Explorer nor Google Chrome will display that JPEG image you linked to. I do not get 404 Not Found errors, I simply get an image placeholder, indicating that the image could not be opened/displayed correctly.
FireFox does display the image.
Are you certain that there is not something fishy, or at least slightly unusual, about the JPG files involved?
UPDATE: The file linked to in the question opens in PaintShop Pro (an old version 6.0 installation) - if I then simply re-save as a Standard Encoding JPEG, IE and Chrome both display the newly saved image as I'd expect. There would definitely appear to be something a bit "odd-ball" about the encoding of the original JPEG that some JPEG apps can handle but not all, including some "major players", not just Delphi. :)
Check out the Free Image library for alternative JPEG support in Delphi if the native one has problems. Free Image is an open source lib that lets you work with JPEG/PNG/... from Delphi/BCB/and others. Very nice library IMHO.
http://freeimage.sourceforge.net/
I've looked at the file with a hex editor, and found 3 JFIF headers. After extracting each part, I found 2 thumbnails and an image. Nothing special, because embedded thumbnails seem to be part of the EXIF2 standard.
The thumbnails themselves load fine in Delphi, and converting the file to something readable can be done with almost every piece of software that I've tried.
Anyway, this page will give you very detailed information about the picture, and what headers are inside (just paste the url of your image in the textbox):
http://www.monster-submit.com/resources/jpeganalyzer/
I get the same error. This appears to be a bug in Delphi's JPEG lib. You should report it to QC.
SimDesign's NativeJpg can open that file. It's a JPEG library written entirely in Delphi, and the author has been good about adding support for new extensions and color spaces when we've run into them. In addition to a TGraphic descendant for TImage support it exposes lots of lower-level interfaces for manipulating JPEGs, though I haven't used them.