Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 11:05:04 +0200 (MEST) From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: Shimon@i-Connect.Net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: URGENT: Printing an X11 screen. How? Message-ID: <199705130905.LAA03556@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <199705130757.RAA15749@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from Michael Smith at "May 13, 97 05:27:23 pm"
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> 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> > > > 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 [[ > -- Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
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