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From: brian@padouk.ima.isc.com (Brian R. Holt)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Motif xwd
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Date: 10 Apr 90 20:49:12 GMT
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In article <26221e16:57comp.windows.x@tronsbox.UUCP>,
tron1@tronsbox.UUCP (HIM) writes:
|> "xwd -root >/tmp/root.xwd"   (I tried the -xy option as well)
|> 
|> neither the origional "xwdtopbm" or the one supplied by ISC with my MOTIF 
|> system handle that file! (I want to go xwdtopbm | pbmtogif) 
|> 
|> The error is "cannot handle bitplanes !=1" !

Yup, that's what I said. You will need to get the pbmplus package 
(from expo.lcs.mit.edu), and then use the xwdtoppm to convert it 
to a portable pixmap file. Then, you can use ppmtogif to convert
it to gif. pbm is for monochrome bitmaps only. ppm can handle
color pixmaps. 

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