teexjrl@ioe.lon.ac.uk (Jack Levy) (01/16/91)
Does anyone know of a (preferably public-domain) program that will grab part of an X-windows screen and turn it into printable form, such as PostScript? Jack Levy Computer Centre, University College London Janet email to: J.Levy@uk.ac.ucl or teexjrl@uk.ac.lon.ioe
dvb@emisle.uucp (David Van Beveren) (01/17/91)
In article <1991Jan16.101014.12683@ioe.lon.ac.uk> teexjrl@ioe.lon.ac.uk (Jack Levy) writes: > >Does anyone know of a (preferably public-domain) program that will grab part of >an X-windows screen and turn it into printable form, such as PostScript? > Look at man pages for xwd and xpr. (On the X11R4 tapes) These two used together will give you what you need. dvb David Van Beveren INTERNET: emisle!dvb@ism.isc.com EIS ltd. Professional Software Services UUCP: ..uunet!emisle!dvb voice: (818) 587-1247
kaleb@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley) (01/18/91)
In article <1991Jan17.151147.783@emisle.uucp> dvb@emisle.UUCP (David Van Beveren) writes: >In article <1991Jan16.101014.12683@ioe.lon.ac.uk> teexjrl@ioe.lon.ac.uk (Jack Levy) writes: >> >>Does anyone know of a (preferably public-domain) program that will grab part of >>an X-windows screen and turn it into printable form, such as PostScript? >> >Look at man pages for xwd and xpr. (On the X11R4 tapes) These two used together >will give you what you need. > There are also xwd2ps and XtoPS, readily available at your favorite archive. We find them to be much nicer, primarily because they generate EPSF, which we can use on our color printers. -- Kaleb Keithley Jet Propulsion Labs kaleb@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov Offensive quote coming soon to a .signature file near you.
klute@tommy.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Rainer Klute) (01/18/91)
In article <1991Jan16.101014.12683@ioe.lon.ac.uk>, teexjrl@ioe.lon.ac.uk (Jack Levy) writes: |> Does anyone know of a (preferably public-domain) program that will grab |> part of |> an X-windows screen and turn it into printable form, such as |> PostScript? Try xwd together with xpr to get a window to PostScript. If you use xsnap with xpr you can transform any rectangular part of the screen to PostScript.. -- Dipl.-Inform. Rainer Klute klute@irb.informatik.uni-dortmund.de Univ. Dortmund, IRB klute@unido.uucp, klute@unido.bitnet Postfach 500500 |)|/ Tel.: +49 231 755-4663 D-4600 Dortmund 50 |\|\ Fax : +49 231 755-2386