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Date:      Thu, 15 May 1997 15:17:32 +0100 (BST)
From:      Mr M P Searle <csubl@csv.warwick.ac.uk>
To:        fullermd@narcissus.ml.org (The Devil Himself)
Cc:        Shimon@i-connect.net, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: URGENT:  Printing an X11 screen.  How?
Message-ID:  <7214.199705151417@finnan.csv.warwick.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.970513072414.21875A-100000@narcissus.ml.org> from The Devil Himself at "May 13, 97 07:26:21 am"

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> On Mon, 12 May 1997, Simon Shapiro wrote:
> 
> > 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?
> Well, the way I do it is:
> a) open another window.
> b) run vi (or your editor of choice)
> c) do the cut 'n' paste thingy (highlight, paste into editor w/ middle
> mouse button)
> d) save the file to something.
> e) lpr -h (file)
> 
> Prob won't work too well for graphics, but for text, it works great.
> If you have multiple screenfulls to print, just pipe the initial output to
> more (or less), and paste it over a screen at a time.
> 

ImageMagick can do it (by loading a .xwd format file.)
(I thought netpbm could as well - maybe you have an old version?)




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