save as png?

[nx10]

save as png?

[nx10]

Thank you for your suggestion.
I designed the server in a way that will allow rendering to different formats. PNG and other raster graphics will be possible as I already depend on cairo to calculate font metrics ahead of time.
But the the focus for the project right now is on reliability and stability as well as making embedding in editors (vscode, atom, ...) possible.

After that "save as PNG" is definitely something I want to implement. "Copy to clipboard" to quickly paste plots anywhere would be interesting as well.

[nx10]

Great suggestions as always. I will implement it like that soon.

[nx10]

I implemented the changes a while ago, a full list of all available shortcuts can be found in the readme. Plot scaling is not yet working in the browser rendered PNGs (I opened a new issue for that #35).

[nx10]

The client is now able to save PNG plots. You can try it by pressing ctrl+R

[r2evans]

I appreciate adding the feature, thank you!

Do you think it wise to override a standard shortcut for browsers? I think Ctrl+R is fairly common for reloading the page.

[nx10]

You are right, do you have a suggestion for a different shortcut?

[r2evans]

Thoughts (either or both):

• add another button next to the download button

  

• if you can arbitrarily assign keyboard shortcuts, is there a reason you need to use Ctrl? I know some websites allow non-modified keyboard shortcuts, but that's not a browser-based thing. When I open httpgd::httpgd() in FF or Edge, these are the only unmodified keys that evoke any effect for me:

  • FF 80.0.1: / (quick find); ' (quick find, links only)
  • Edge 85.0.564.51: - and _ (decrease httpgd zoom); = and + (increase httpgd zoom)

  With that, perhaps: save as Svg; save as Png; Delete? (It would be useful to have these as tooltips over the buttons too, for easy just-in-time learning.)