Software for exporting an epd file to images?

[James Constance]

Can anyone recommend software for exporting the positions in an epd file to image files (jpg, bmp, png...) ?

Thanks

James

[Vinvin]

Can anyone recommend software for exporting the positions in an epd file to image files (jpg, bmp, png...) ?

Thanks

James

The Arena interface ( http://www.playwitharena.com/ ) exports as BMP : menu position -> export.

This old utility does the job too : http://www.rebel.nl/epd2diag.htm

[Albert Silver]

Can anyone recommend software for exporting the positions in an epd file to image files (jpg, bmp, png...) ?

Thanks

James

I do not doubt there are many, but you could do this also with ChessBase Reader, the free version. Paste a FEN (it does not read EPD files), and then at the top, click on File, then Save and Save Position. The diagram appearance and size it saves will correspond to the one on screen. The format is PNG.

http://en.chessbase.com/pages/support

[James Constance]

Many thanks Vincent and Albert. I was hoping for something that did the whole epd file at once to multiple images, but I expect this is unlikely.

[yurikvelo]

Many thanks Vincent and Albert. I was hoping for something that did the whole epd file at once to multiple images, but I expect this is unlikely.

batch conversion can be easily made in simple script, using any command line converter, e.g. https://pypi.python.org/pypi/fen

If you plan using it for http sites, there is no need to generate static image files, just generate FEN-links <img src=http://fen2png.example.com?fen=8/8/1p4Q ... p/4n2k/2q5 w - - 6 92>

http://www.fen-to-image.com/image/36/do ... P/RNBQKBNR

[James Constance]

Thanks, Yuri.

[Guenther]

Can anyone recommend software for exporting the positions in an epd file to image files (jpg, bmp, png...) ?

Thanks

James

http://rebel13.nl/windows/epd2diag.html

[Ferdy]

Can anyone recommend software for exporting the positions in an epd file to image files (jpg, bmp, png...) ?

Thanks

James

Have a look on this thread.
http://talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.ph ... 08&t=59255

Jesse mentioned
https://sourceforge.net/projects/fen2eps/

This works for me.



eps viewer can be downloaded from here.
http://epsviewer.org/download.aspx

[Jesse Gersenson]

whole epd file at once to multiple images

Here is a quick script which uses fen2eps and pgn-extract.

Get fen2eps https://sourceforge.net/projects/fen2ep ... n2eps/1.1/
and compile it with

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g++ fen2eps.cpp -o fen2eps

Install pgn-extract, currently it's in the Debian repositories.

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apt-get install pgn-extract

Convert pgn file to list of fens and then convert each fen to a numbered png file.

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# add fen position as a comment after each line and save as output.pgn
pgn-extract --fencomments -o output.pgn Aronian.pgn

# extract the FENs to a file named 'fenlist'. this is an uqly hack which uses 
# \n to add new lines...which'll only work in some shells.
cat output.pgn | sed 's/{/\nxxxxx/g'|sed 's/}.*/yyyyy/g' | grep xxxxx | sed -e 's/xxxxx //g' -e 's/ yyyyy//g' | grep -v xxxxx > fenlist

# run a while loop, once for each line in fenlist, send the FEN to fen2eps and output
# [incrementing number].eps and convert this to [incrementing number.png 

index=1;cat fenlist | while read list; do (( index++)); echo "$list" | ./fen2eps > "$index".eps && convert "$index".eps "$index".png;done

[James Constance]

Thanks, Ferdinand and Jesse - I'll give it a try.