[comp.sys.next] printing the screen

wpg@mendel.acc.Virginia.EDU (William P. Gardner) (08/18/90)

I am trying to create an image of a hypertext application for an
article.  What I would like to do is to have the image of a screen with
various windows open on it, where the windows will hold text (some of it
in reverse video).  Nothing more complex than that, I don't need to or
plan to actually make a working hypertext application.  A friend
suggested that we do something with texteditor objects in a NeXT
interface builder.  Sounds like a swell idea, but to make it work I need
to be able to print the resulting screen.  Is there a simple way to do
this?  RTFM is presumably the right answer, but the local documentation
is incomplete and unindexed.  Even better would be to get the postscript
code for the screen image in a file.  I notice that there are some full
screen images in a book called _The_NeXT_Bible_, although they may
simply be photographs of the screen.  Thanks in advance for any help.
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azure@portia.Stanford.EDU (Lai Heng Chua) (08/19/90)

The Scene application in NextDeveloper/Demos does it.
You can capture the entire screen and save as bitmap
(or eps) or particular windows.

There appears to be several multimedia applications for
the NeXT.  Does any of them read Hypercard stacks from
the Mac?  There is a lot of hypermedia work invested in
those stacks. 

DJBQC@CUNYVM (David Bressler) (08/30/90)

In scene there is an option on the main menu called snapshot.  You can use

that to take pictures of the screen and have them printed out.