jnelson@gauche.zko.dec.com (Jeff E. Nelson) (12/07/90)
I want to capture a Xwindows screen display in color and convert it to greyscale Postscript. It appears that the pbmplus tools can do this: xwdtoppm file.xwd | ppmtopgm | pgmtops > file.ps The problem is that I can't seem to locate an xwd that xwdtoppm likes. I did find one, but when I ran it's output through xwdtoppm, I get the message: xwdtoppm: unknown XWD file version: 117440512 Assistance in accomplishing my goal of capturing a color display and converting it to greyscale Postscript is greatly appreciated. I sorta assume xwd is the "missing link," but if you have other ideas, please let me know. In case it matters: this is on a DECstation 3100 running Ultrix 4.0 and the DECwindows session and window managers. However, the xwd program I found was on a VAX 6000-series machine running Ultrix 3.1; I pointed the DISPLAY variable back to the DS3100 to perform the screen capture. -Jeff E. Nelson -Digital Equipment Corporation -Internet: jnelson@tle.enet.dec.com -Affiliation given for identification purposes only