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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
> 
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Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de



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