Re: [Scid-users] Export boards to png images

[Christian B. <bar...@gm...>]

Hi Paulo,

* On 2006-03-13 Paulo J. Matos (poc...@gm...) wrote:
> [...]
> Is it possible in SCID to export a given board state to PNG (or jpeg,
> or any other format) to put it on a HTML page? If not, how one usually
> presents boards on webpages?

in addition to "epd2html" which was mentioned in another mail, I would
suggest to take a look at PmWikis ChessMarkup (which is very cool ;-)

  http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/ChessMarkup

Although the tool you find on this page is designed to be used
together with PmWiki (IMHO a very good wiki software), you can make
use of it for every non-PmWiki website. In that case it will work like
"epd2html" -- or so I guess.

All you have to do is calling the script "chessboard.php" with a
given position as an argument. Again you have to use
Forsyth-Edwars-Notation (FEN [1]).

  http://www.pmwiki.org/pmwiki/pub/chess/chessboard.php?fen=rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR

That scripts returns the position defined bei ?fen=xxx as a .gif file.
There are some other options, namely

  ?fen=[position]         A game position in FEN notation
  ?w=[width]              Width of GIF image (default 240 pixels)
  ?h=[height]             Height of GIF image (default same as width)
  ?light=[rrggbb]         Color of light squares (default "ffffff")
  ?dark=[rrggbb]          Color of dark squares (default "cccccc")
  ?border=[rrggbb]        Border color (default "999999")

To use this tool for webpages directly, just insert in your page:

  <img src="http://www.pmwiki.org/pmwiki/pub/chess/chessboard.php?fen=rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR">

Of course it would be good to install a copy of "chessboard.php" on
your own server (if it allows PHP-scripts).

Ciao

Christian

[1] http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/FEN