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Send a PNG of a red square to STDOUT using node.js and convert
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| /* converttest.js: Send a PNG of a red square to STDOUT | |
| * ex. node converttest.js > test.png | |
| */ | |
| var convert = require('child_process').spawn("convert", ["svg:", "png:-"]), | |
| svgsrc = '<svg><rect height="100" width="100" style="fill:red;"/></svg>'; | |
| convert.stdout.on('data', function (data) { | |
| process.stdout.write(data); | |
| }); | |
| convert.stdin.write(svgsrc); | |
| convert.stdin.end(); |
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It does not work for me on Win7. Most probably because of a bug in the #spawn of Node.