[comp.sys.sgi] How to print the screen

hart@blackjack.dt.navy.mil (Michael Hart) (04/02/91)

Someone asked me a question today.  Not wanting to expose the
level of my ignorance, I said I'd get back to 'em.  Soo, here
I am :-)

How does on print/dump the screen, in b&w, without having either
a screen printer, or a color printer?  They want to have the
screen graphics show up in black and white.  Mostly, this will
be just windows and pop up menus, no really detailed modeled 
graphics or tiny objects.

Is this possible using some combination of ipaste/snapshot/icut
whatever?  Can it be dumped to your garden variety laser printer,
like an Apple LaserWriter IINTX, or a Kyosera?

thanx for your help



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scfisher@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Steven Fisher) (04/02/91)

In article <hart.670537043@blackjack> hart@blackjack.dt.navy.mil (Michael Hart) writes:
>Someone asked me a question today.  Not wanting to expose the
>level of my ignorance, I said I'd get back to 'em.  Soo, here
>I am :-)

>How does on print/dump the screen, in b&w, without having either
>a screen printer, or a color printer?  They want to have the
>screen graphics show up in black and white.  Mostly, this will
>be just windows and pop up menus, no really detailed modeled 
>graphics or tiny objects.

>Is this possible using some combination of ipaste/snapshot/icut
>whatever?  Can it be dumped to your garden variety laser printer,
>like an Apple LaserWriter IINTX, or a Kyosera?

>thanx for your help

First, capture the screen using ipaste/snapshot/icut, etc.  Then, use
the routine "tops", from 4Dgifts;

tops filename | lp -

and it will convert the screendump held in the file filename to
postscript, and send it to the printer.


-steve