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Week 26: Export Image

Did you know you can export the image of your Max patch as a .png file?

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by Cycling '74 on July 18, 2011

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Daams

Hello,

Do you know if is possible to send a message to max to export image ?

like something like that , in a message to max
;max exportimage

because i can!t do that.

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Andrew Pask

There is no message to Max which does this.

Cheers

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Pedro Santos

That's not what Emmanuel Jourdan wrote more than two years before here:
https://cycling74.com/forums/exporting-patch-as-image

There's a message to Max called exportimage:

exportimage message to max with syntax ";max exportimage patchername [pathname] [dpi] [x y width height]" where params in brackets are optional, patchername is a name previously used for the openfile message to max to open a patcherr, dpi is the resolution of the resulting image, and x,y,width,height specify the portion of the patcher to export.