[petsc-users] Saving graphical matrix structure to a file

[Matthew Knepley]

On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Habbal, Feras (353G-Affiliate) <
Feras.A.Habbal at jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am trying to save the matrix structure visualization from
> (-mat_view_draw) to a file (jpeg, ps, or anything else).
> I saw the post: "help in capturing matrix patterns to files,"
>

The easiest thing to do is use screen capture for that window.

    Matt


> but adding the options did not work for me:
>  –mat_view_draw –draw_type ps
>
> I have been trying to do this with the example
> file: ksp/examples/tutorials/ex1.c
>
> I included "petscdraw.h"
>
> $ mpiexec ex1 -mat_view_draw -draw_type ps
> [0]PETSC ERROR: --------------------- Error Message
> ------------------------------------
> [0]PETSC ERROR: Unknown type. Check for miss-spelling or missing external
> package needed for type
>  see
> http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-as/documentation/installation.html#external
> !
> [0]PETSC ERROR: Unknown PetscDraw type given: ps!
> [0]PETSC ERROR:
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [0]PETSC ERROR: Petsc Release Version 3.2.0, Patch 3, Fri Sep 30 10:28:33
> CDT 2011
> [0]PETSC ERROR: See docs/changes/index.html for recent updates.
> [0]PETSC ERROR: See docs/faq.html for hints about trouble shooting.
> [0]PETSC ERROR: See docs/index.html for manual pages.
> [0]PETSC ERROR:
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [0]PETSC ERROR: ex1 on a macosx-gn named habbalf.jpl.nasa.gov by habbalf
> Wed Mar 21 14:56:30 2012
> [0]PETSC ERROR: Libraries linked from
> /Users/habbalf/issm/trunk-jpl/externalpackages/petsc/install/lib
> [0]PETSC ERROR: Configure run at Tue Mar  6 11:39:23 2012
> [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
> [0]PETSC ERROR:
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [0]PETSC ERROR: PetscDrawSetType() line 147 in
> src/sys/draw/interface/drawreg.c
> [0]PETSC ERROR: PetscDrawSetFromOptions() line 278 in
> src/sys/draw/interface/drawreg.c
> [0]PETSC ERROR: PetscViewerDrawGetDraw() line 109 in
> src/sys/viewer/impls/draw/drawv.c
> [0]PETSC ERROR: MatView_SeqAIJ_Draw() line 752 in
> src/mat/impls/aij/seq/aij.c
> [0]PETSC ERROR: MatView_SeqAIJ() line 781 in src/mat/impls/aij/seq/aij.c
> [0]PETSC ERROR: MatView() line 757 in src/mat/interface/matrix.c
> [0]PETSC ERROR: MatView_Private() line 4881 in src/mat/interface/matrix.c
> [0]PETSC ERROR: MatAssemblyEnd() line 4965 in src/mat/interface/matrix.c
> [0]PETSC ERROR: main() line 89 in src/ksp/ksp/examples/tutorials/ex1.c
> application called MPI_Abort(MPI_COMM_WORLD, 86) - process 0
>
> Thank you for your assistance,
>
> Feras
>



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