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From: mlm@odi.com (Mitchell Model)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: converting window dumps for use on Macs
Message-ID: <1989Oct10.154636.3269@odi.com>
Date: 10 Oct 89 15:46:36 GMT
Organization: Object Design, Inc.
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Does anyone have any procedures or programs for converting an X window
dump to something that can be read in by something on the Mac?  I
tried taking the output of
	xwd | xpr -device ps
and doing various things to it.  I even edited the file to have an
EPSF-type header, changed the filetype on the Mac, etc., and tried a
number of applications on it.  The best I was able to do was to
convince Persuasion to read it into a slide, but it was (of course)
rotated 90 degrees and therefore didn't fit on the page.

What I really want is to get it into a paint or draw style format so I
can manipulate it and included it in a document.  I was trying for a
Q&D solution by using postscript, but a more generally useful solution
would be a conversion of the xwd output into MacPaint bitmap format.
I once had a description of MacPaint bitmap format; if there aren't
already converters from xwd to the Mac, maybe someone could supply
the MacPaint bitmap format (or at least a reference to where it could
be found)?.  Thanks.



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