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From: ries@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM (Marc Ries)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Motif xwd
Message-ID: <470@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM>
Date: 12 Apr 90 22:40:42 GMT
References: <26221e16:57comp.windows.x@tronsbox.UUCP>
Reply-To: ries@venice.sedd.trw.com (Marc Ries)
Organization: TRW Systems Engineering & Development Division, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <26221e16:57comp.windows.x@tronsbox.UUCP> tron1@tronsbox.UUCP (HIM) writes:
>Ok .. Here is what I did.
>"xwd -root >/tmp/root.xwd"   (I tried the -xy option as well)
>At the time, I was running the SYS V 386 server in 800x600x16 color mode.
>The resulting ".xwd" file was to be converted to a GIF.
>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" !
>Does anyone have a converter that will handle color xwd files ??

 Along the same lines, I wanted to get some HP Motif screen dumps
 into a PC-based document, via:

   xwd -root | xwdtoppm | ppmtogif > xwd.gif

 I transferred the resulting file (without mods) to a floppy via
 the HP300 Dos floppy sub-system.

 On my PC, neither Hijaak or Grafwk would do anything with them (Hijaak giving
 an file error message and Grafwk reading the file but not displaying
 any picture).  I checked the headers of the gif files and they "looked"
 GIF87-ish and where about the right size (40-60K).

 Any ideas?


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Marc Ries
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