From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 13 00:57:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA07774 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 13 May 1997 00:57:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA07761 for ; Tue, 13 May 1997 00:57:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id RAA15749; Tue, 13 May 1997 17:27:24 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199705130757.RAA15749@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: URGENT: Printing an X11 screen. How? In-Reply-To: from Simon Shapiro at "May 12, 97 11:56:18 pm" To: Shimon@i-Connect.Net (Simon Shapiro) Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 17:27:23 +0930 (CST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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.) > Simon -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[