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October 30, 2013 15:16
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Strange behaviour of node-canvas that I can't understand. I expect this code to write 10 .png files each of which contains a "Page [n]" text. Instead, I get one .png only called page11.png (??? the last should be 10) with "Page 8" in it! There must be something about timing that I am missing.
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{ | |
"name": "test", | |
"version": "0.0.1", | |
"author": "Gianfranco Cecconi <[email protected]>", | |
"description": "Does what it says on the tin", | |
"contributors": [ | |
{ | |
"name": "Gianfranco Cecconi", | |
"email": "[email protected]" | |
} | |
], | |
"keywords": [ | |
"test" | |
], | |
"dependencies" : { | |
"canvas": ">=1.1.1", | |
"optimist": ">=0.6.0" | |
}, | |
"license": "MIT", | |
"engines": { | |
"node": ">=0.10.18" | |
} | |
} |
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var fs = require('fs'), | |
Canvas = require('canvas'), | |
argv = require('optimist') | |
.usage('Usage: $0 --out [output folder]') | |
.demand([ 'out' ]) | |
.alias('out', 'o') | |
.argv; | |
for(var page = 1; page <= 10; page++) { | |
var canvas = new Canvas(200, 200), | |
ctx = canvas.getContext('2d'); | |
ctx.font = '30px Impact'; | |
ctx.fillText("Page " + page, 50, 100); | |
canvas.toBuffer(function (err, buf) { | |
if (err) throw err; | |
fs.writeFile(argv.out + '/page' + page + '.png', buf); | |
}); | |
} |
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