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From: jw@pan.UUCP (Jamie Watson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: xpr HP LaserJet hack
Message-ID: <841@pan.UUCP>
Date: 30 Nov 89 07:08:35 GMT
References: <2900@uceng.UC.EDU>
Reply-To: jw@pan.UUCP (Jamie Watson)
Organization: Adasoft AG, Solothurn, Switzerland
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In article <2900@uceng.UC.EDU> schriste@uceng.UC.EDU (Steven V. Christensen) writes:
>I applied the MIT fixes to the X11 source, and found some patches to
>make xpr work with an HP LaserJet printer. I thought, "gee, neat! That's
>what I need!!"

After having tried several different hacked versions of xpr, and trying
to hack it myself for a while, I finally discovered a much easier way to
get window dumps printed on a LaserJet - just use pbm, like this:

    xwd | xwdtopbm | pbmtolj -r 100

Works like a charm.  Not the fastest of all possible solutions, but it
also offers you the ability to fiddle with the window dumps using other
pbm filters, if you want.

If you don't have pbm yet, a new version was recently posted in
comp.sources.misc.  It really is very nice.

jw