From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 13 02:04:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA10803 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 13 May 1997 02:04:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.116.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA10798 for ; Tue, 13 May 1997 02:04:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.31.2]) by Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (RBI-Z-5/8.6.12) with ESMTP id LAA27460; Tue, 13 May 1997 11:05:32 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.8.5/8.6.9) id LAA03556; Tue, 13 May 1997 11:05:04 +0200 (MEST) From: Christoph Kukulies Message-Id: <199705130905.LAA03556@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Subject: Re: URGENT: Printing an X11 screen. How? In-Reply-To: <199705130757.RAA15749@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from Michael Smith at "May 13, 97 05:27:23 pm" To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 11:05:04 +0200 (MEST) Cc: Shimon@i-Connect.Net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: Christoph Kukulies 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.) netpbm (I believe) has xwdtopnm. You can do a xwd | xwdtopnm | > > > 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