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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><div style="font-size: 14px; ">Hello,</div><div style="font-size: 14px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; ">I am trying to save the matrix structure visualization from (-mat_view_draw) to a file (jpeg, ps, or anything else). </div><div style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><div style="font-size: 14px; ">I saw the post: "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: medium; ">help in capturing matrix patterns to files,"</span></div><div style="font-size: 14px; ">but adding the options did not work for me:</div><div style="font-size: 14px; "> –mat_view_draw –draw_type ps </div><div style="font-size: 14px; "> </div></span></div><div style="font-size: 14px; ">I have been trying to do this with the example file: ksp/examples/tutorials/ex1.c</div><div style="font-size: 14px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; ">I included "petscdraw.h"</div><div style="font-size: 14px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; "><div style="font-size: 14px; ">$ mpiexec ex1 -mat_view_draw -draw_type ps</div><div style="font-size: 14px; ">[0]PETSC ERROR: --------------------- Error Message ------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 14px; ">[0]PETSC ERROR: Unknown type. Check for miss-spelling or missing external package needed for type</div><div style="font-size: 14px; "> see<a href="http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-as/documentation/installation.html#external">http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-as/documentation/installation.html#external</a>!</div><div style="font-size: 14px; ">[0]PETSC ERROR: Unknown PetscDraw type given: ps!</div><div style="font-size: 14px; ">[0]PETSC ERROR: ------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 14px; ">[0]PETSC ERROR: Petsc Release Version 3.2.0, Patch 3, Fri Sep 30 10:28:33 CDT 2011 </div><div style="font-size: 14px; ">[0]PETSC ERROR: See docs/changes/index.html for recent updates.</div><div style="font-size: 14px; ">[0]PETSC ERROR: See docs/faq.html for hints about trouble shooting.</div><div style="font-size: 14px; ">[0]PETSC ERROR: See docs/index.html for manual pages.</div><div style="font-size: 14px; ">[0]PETSC ERROR: ------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 14px; ">[0]PETSC ERROR: ex1 on a macosx-gn named habbalf.jpl.nasa.gov by habbalf Wed Mar 21 14:56:30 2012</div><div style="font-size: 14px; ">[0]PETSC ERROR: Libraries linked from /Users/habbalf/issm/trunk-jpl/externalpackages/petsc/install/lib</div><div style="font-size: 14px; ">[0]PETSC ERROR: Configure run at Tue Mar 6 11:39:23 2012</div><div style="font-size: 14px; ">[0]PETSC ERROR: Configure options --prefix=/Users/habbalf/issm/trunk-jpl/externalpackages/petsc/install --PETSC_DIR=/Users/habbalf/issm/trunk-jpl/externalpackages/petsc/src --PETSC_ARCH=macosx-gnu --with-mpi-dir=/Users/habbalf/issm/trunk-jpl/externalpackages/mpich2/install --with-debugging=1 --download-c2html=1 --with-shared-libraries=0 --download-mumps=yes --download-scalapack=yes --download-blacs=yes --download-blas=yes --download-plapack=yes --download-parmetis=yes --download-f-blas-lapack=yes</div><div style="font-size: 14px; ">[0]PETSC ERROR: ------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 14px; ">[0]PETSC ERROR: PetscDrawSetType() line 147 in src/sys/draw/interface/drawreg.c</div><div style="font-size: 14px; ">[0]PETSC ERROR: PetscDrawSetFromOptions() line 278 in src/sys/draw/interface/drawreg.c</div><div style="font-size: 14px; ">[0]PETSC ERROR: PetscViewerDrawGetDraw() line 109 in src/sys/viewer/impls/draw/drawv.c</div><div style="font-size: 14px; ">[0]PETSC ERROR: MatView_SeqAIJ_Draw() line 752 in src/mat/impls/aij/seq/aij.c</div><div style="font-size: 14px; ">[0]PETSC ERROR: MatView_SeqAIJ() line 781 in src/mat/impls/aij/seq/aij.c</div><div style="font-size: 14px; ">[0]PETSC ERROR: MatView() line 757 in src/mat/interface/matrix.c</div><div style="font-size: 14px; ">[0]PETSC ERROR: MatView_Private() line 4881 in src/mat/interface/matrix.c</div><div style="font-size: 14px; ">[0]PETSC ERROR: MatAssemblyEnd() line 4965 in src/mat/interface/matrix.c</div><div style="font-size: 14px; ">[0]PETSC ERROR: main() line 89 in src/ksp/ksp/examples/tutorials/ex1.c</div><div style="font-size: 14px; ">application called MPI_Abort(MPI_COMM_WORLD, 86) - process 0</div></div><div style="font-size: 14px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; ">Thank you for your assistance,</div><div style="font-size: 14px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; ">Feras</div></span></div></body></html>