arvind@rcsuna.uucp (Arvind Sabharwal) (09/24/90)
Thanks to all the people who graciously responded to my questions about printing GIF and XWD (X11 window dump) pictures to our color Laser Tektronix Phaser PX printer. Here is the summary: I) mark@motown.altair.FR (Mark James) and "David B. Lewis" <david@ics.COM> suggested: The PBM-Plus suite of programs (by Jef Poskanzer, available by ftp from expo.lcs.mit.edu (18.30.0.212) in contrib/pbmplus.tar.Z) contains the following programs: giftoppm - convert a GIF file into a portable pixmap xwdtoppm - convert a XWD file into a portable pixmap ppmtops - convert a portable pixmap into color Encapsulated PostScript ppmtopgm - convert a portable pixmap into a portable graymap pgmtops - convert a portable graymap into Encapsulated PostScript Examples: (1) GIF to colorPS: giftoppm <file> | ppmtops | lpr -P<printer> (2) X11 Window Dump to monochromePS: xwdtoppm | ppmtopgm | gmtops | lpr People who use XGRABSC instead of XWD will experience problems. I have reported the bugs to Bruce Schuchardt <servio!bruce@uunet.uu.NET>, author of XGRABSC, and he is looking into it. Temporary solution: xgrabsc -W | xwud & ....A window appears on the screen xwdtoppm | ppmtops | lpr -P<printer> ....Select the new window II) Other Solutions: (1) garnett@cs.utexas.EDU (John Garnett) suggested: >try the FBM >package mentioned in the frequently asked questions (FAQ) posting. (2) Cristy <cristy%ESSUN3%ESVAX@dupont.COM> suggested: >XtoPS can be found in contrib/ImageMagick.tar.Z on expo.lcs.mit.edu. It will >do what you want. (3) davidh8@pogo.wv.tek.COM (David Haigh) and the local Tektronix rep (Steve Holland) were very eager to help me with some home-brewed code. David mailed me their own XtoPS converter (over CSNET!). (4) klong@bcm.tmc.edu called me up about some code he has written that does what I wanted. Thanks to one and all for their contributions. Arvind Sabharwal ___ Phone: (313)986-1959 Fax:(313)986-2661 Computing Systems Dept. .___/___\_ CSNet: arvind@gmr.com GM Research Labs /_________\ UUCP: sharkey!cfctech!rphroy!rcsuna!arvind Warren, MI 48090 USA o o Internet: arvind@ss0.eng.wayne.edu