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From: dean@image.soe.clarkson.edu (Dean Swan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: Re: Screendump from Smalltalk-80
Message-ID: <1989Nov10.161050.19508@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>
Date: 10 Nov 89 16:10:50 GMT
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From article <10446@thorin.cs.unc.edu>, by shan@tlab1.cs.unc.edu (Yen-Ping Shan):
> 	Does anyone have a Smalltalk-80 program that can generate postscript 
> screendumps?   
> 	I am preparing a document with LaTex, and would like to include quite 
> a few Smalltalk screen images.  What's the best way to do it?
> 	Thanks.
> 		---Shan---

A good place to start would be the printForm method.  I think it's in class
Form, but I don't remember off hand.  It generates output for an Epson
compatible printer, but it's a good place to start ( unless it's a primitive
, but I don't think it is.)

Realize though, that bit maps in postscript are nasty little things that
take forever to print.  If you're working in TeX (or LaTex - roughly the
same thing) you would probably be better to just convert the DisplayForm
to a TeX bit map.  I don't know much about TeX, so you'll have to check
with someone more knowledgeable for details.

-Dean Swan
dean@sun.soe.clarkson.edu

Oops! (no pun intended) Did I say postscript bit maps were "nasty little
things" ?  I meat to say that they are god-awful HUGE things. :-)