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From: vjg@cbnews.ATT.COM (vincent.j.guinto)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: sun screendumps?
Keywords: screendump, raster
Message-ID: <13402@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Date: 22 Jan 90 18:10:27 GMT
References: <1990Jan20.143629.20609@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Reply-To: vjg@cbnews.ATT.COM (vincent.j.guinto,79146,cb,3s247,614 860 6254)
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In article <1990Jan20.143629.20609@ccu.umanitoba.ca> rahardj@ccu.UManitoba.CA (B. Rahardjo) writes:
>In article mleisher@nmsu.edu (Mark Leisher) writes:
>>/usr/local/pssun on Suns dumps a saved rasterfile into postscript.
>>Look at pixrect stuff for dumping the screen to disk.
>
>Hmm, I couldn't find that program on our system..... 
>I guess it is a local program on your system. 
>Could you mail me the source code ? or the executable ?
>
>We have 4 rasterfile -> ps ... none of them works as I espected.
>(too slow, 45 minutes) (can't print the postscript, offending commands)
>on the old Laser Writter.
>Maybe I have to write my own :-(
>
>thanks,
>Budi
>-- 


I fit both sides of this: I've used pssun to convert screendumps
to PostScript on Sun OS 3.<something>, with great results - 
the PostScript output can be used for other purposes with a
negligible amount of tweaking.

However, I now want to do the same with newer Sun OS (4.<something>),
and apparently the pssun utility is no longer available. Other
approaches haven't panned out, because the PostScript generated
has problems that make it unusable in my other applications.

I would love to have someone tell me where to find a
pssun-equivalent program that will run on SPARC stations using
the newer Sun OS versions. By equivalent, I mean EXACTLY
equivalent!!!

Any ideas? 

Sorry I can't be more exact about the OS versions I'm talking 
about; I don't have access to either system right now.
I do know that the old one (with pssun) started 3.<something>,
while the new one (without pssun) is 4.<something>. The
hardware has upgraded, too, from a 3/60 to a SPARC station.

I would appreciate any help!


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Vince Guinto                                 att!cblph!vjg
AT&T Bell Laboratories
Columbus, OH