Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 10:04:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Simon Shapiro <Shimon@i-Connect.Net> To: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, (Michael Smith) <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>, Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Subject: Re: URGENT: Printing an X11 screen. How? Message-ID: <XFMail.970519210858.Shimon@i-Connect.Net> In-Reply-To: <199705130905.LAA03556@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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Hi Christoph Kukulies; On 13-May-97 you wrote: > > Simon Shapiro stands accused of saying: > > [Charset iso-8859-8 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > > > Once upon a time there used to be an wwd-xwud-xpr and somethingtopbm > that > > > could print an X window or a portion thereof. > > > > > > Now all I see is xwd and xwud, whose man page refers to xpr which is > > > nowhere to be seen. xtopbm from pbmnet only deals with bitmaps. > > > > > > I need, urgently to dump to a printer a number of X11 screens. How? > > > > Use xv to grab your screen/window, then print from there. (You'll > > need a postscript printer/interpreter, I use apsfilter.) > > netpbm (I believe) has xwdtopnm. > You can do a xwd | xwdtopnm | <any pnm filter like one that converts to > ps> Thanx. This is what I get when i try it: $xwd -frame | xwdtopnm | pnmtops > /tmp/xfmail.ps xwdtopnm: writing PPM file pnmtops: maxval of 65535 is too large for PostScript Broken pipe The xv option works just perfectly fine. I could investigate the above error but have no time now. Maybe later. Thanx! Simon
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