Diagramming Software- Big Batches

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Howdy all,
I'm looking for software that can print (or save as graphic file)
many games in a pgn file and do it all at once. I have some pgn files
that have 300+ games, and I'd like to print diagrams of all (or some of
the games), but I don't want to spend ten hours loading each game
individually then printing it. I can already do this.
Any software recommendations?

Thanks
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Chemical Engineering
Purdue University

 

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Aaron Deskins wrote:

> Any software recommendations?

No recommendations, but I'm curious as to what you actually are after?
(And perhaps you need to say what platform you're on - Mac?)

> I have some pgn files that have 300+ games, and I'd like to print diagrams
>of all (or some of the games),

Diagrams of all games? This means a new page for each game, with some
header information, followed by a board diagram for each move or halfmove, or
every Nth move, until the page fills up, and then continues on the next
page until the game is over? No move information, just diagrams?

Or does it mean something else?

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I have pgn files that contain problems (Mate in 2, etc.). The setup of
each problem is in the header for each game. I'd just like to print them
up rather than looking at them on a computer. I'd prefer multiple number
of games per page, as this would be more efficient. As for my system,
I'm primarily a Windows person, but I have access to just about any
operating system out there.

Anders Thulin wrote:

> No recommendations, but I'm curious as to what you actually are after?
> (And perhaps you need to say what platform you're on - Mac?)
>
> > I have some pgn files that have 300+ games, and I'd like to print
> diagrams
> >of all (or some of the games),
>
> Diagrams of all games? This means a new page for each game, with some
> header information, followed by a board diagram for each move or
> halfmove, or
> every Nth move, until the page fills up, and then continues on the next
> page until the game is over? No move information, just diagrams?
>
> Or does it mean something else?
>

 

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On Tue, 17 May 2005 at 19:08 GMT, Aaron Deskins wrote:
> I have pgn files that contain problems (Mate in 2, etc.). The setup of
> each problem is in the header for each game. I'd just like to print them
> up rather than looking at them on a computer. I'd prefer multiple number
> of games per page, as this would be more efficient. As for my system,
> I'm primarily a Windows person, but I have access to just about any
> operating system out there.

I have a Unix shell script (somewhere; I'd have to find it) which I
used to produce worksheets for my students. Here is an example of
its output (it generates PostScript, and ImageMagick's convert
makes a pdf or png file):

<http://cfaj.freeshell.org/chess/M2b.01.pdf>

If that's the sort of thing you are interested in, I could modify
it for you.

The script takes a file of FEN positions, e.g.:

4r3/2p1qpk1/p1p1pN2/3pP1p1/1r3Q2/1P2P3/P1Pn2PP/R5K1 w - - 0 24
2r2rk1/4pp2/p2p2pQ/qp1P1b1p/2P4P/1P6/P2RBPP1/2K4R b - - 0 19
1n3knr/r1Nbp1b1/p2pPp1p/q2N4/1p1P4/1P1QBBP1/P4P1P/2R1K2R w K - 0 1
3r2k1/1pp2ppp/p1p5/4pN2/P3PnP1/1q6/1P1P3P/R1B2K2 b - - 0 23
rnbk1b1r/pp3ppp/2p5/4q3/4n3/8/PPPB1PPP/2KR1BNR w - - 0 10
2q3k1/5p2/8/1b2Q1pp/3B4/5PP1/5PKP b - - - -
8/1p3p1k/2b2Bpr/8/8/P6R/1Pq3P1/4Q2K w - - - -
5Q2/ppq1r2k/4b3/2p4r/3p4/2P5/PP4RP/5RK1 w - - 0 1
4rr2/ppp3pk/2nbq2p/7Q/3P4/N1P5/PP1B1pRP/R4K2 b - - 0 21

This can be extracted easily from a PGN file:

grep '^[FEN' FILE.PGN | cut -d '"' -f2 > FILE.FEN

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Wow- that looks great. I would really appreciate it if you could find
the program and perhaps modify it.

Thanks

Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:


> I have a Unix shell script (somewhere; I'd have to find it) which I
> used to produce worksheets for my students. Here is an example of
> its output (it generates PostScript, and ImageMagick's convert
> makes a pdf or png file):
>
> <http://cfaj.freeshell.org/chess/M2b.01.pdf>
>
> If that's the sort of thing you are interested in, I could modify
> it for you.
>
> The script takes a file of FEN positions, e.g.:
>
> 4r3/2p1qpk1/p1p1pN2/3pP1p1/1r3Q2/1P2P3/P1Pn2PP/R5K1 w - - 0 24
> 2r2rk1/4pp2/p2p2pQ/qp1P1b1p/2P4P/1P6/P2RBPP1/2K4R b - - 0 19
> 1n3knr/r1Nbp1b1/p2pPp1p/q2N4/1p1P4/1P1QBBP1/P4P1P/2R1K2R w K - 0 1
> 3r2k1/1pp2ppp/p1p5/4pN2/P3PnP1/1q6/1P1P3P/R1B2K2 b - - 0 23
> rnbk1b1r/pp3ppp/2p5/4q3/4n3/8/PPPB1PPP/2KR1BNR w - - 0 10
> 2q3k1/5p2/8/1b2Q1pp/3B4/5PP1/5PKP b - - - -
> 8/1p3p1k/2b2Bpr/8/8/P6R/1Pq3P1/4Q2K w - - - -
> 5Q2/ppq1r2k/4b3/2p4r/3p4/2P5/PP4RP/5RK1 w - - 0 1
> 4rr2/ppp3pk/2nbq2p/7Q/3P4/N1P5/PP1B1pRP/R4K2 b - - 0 21
>
> This can be extracted easily from a PGN file:
>
> grep '^[FEN' FILE.PGN | cut -d '"' -f2 > FILE.FEN
>