Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!pacbell!pacbell.com!mips!nec-gw!sparkle!achan
From: achan@sparkle.nec.com (Amy Chan)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: xwd
Keywords: xwd
Message-ID: <378@nec-gw.nec.com>
Date: 31 Aug 90 16:29:37 GMT
References: <15119@csli.Stanford.EDU>
Sender: news@nec-gw.nec.com
Organization: NEC-AM TDD, San Jose, California
Lines: 19

In article <15119@csli.Stanford.EDU> poser@csli.Stanford.EDU (Bill Poser) writes:
>
>	I often want to generate a hardcopy image of several windows,
>which can be done with the -root option to xwd. However, this results
>in an image of the entire display, which is not always what I want.
>I would like to be able to specify either that I want an image
>containing a list of windows, or to be able to specify a rectangle
>within the root window that I want dumped. This might actually be useful
>within other windows as well as it would provide a way of leaving out
>an unwanted caption or something like that.
>

Bruce Schuchardt(bruce@slc.com) wrote a program 'xgrabsc' to allow
capture of arbitrary portions of the screen, and write its output
in multiple formats. The sources are in articles 209 and 210 of 
comp.sources.x.

Amy Chan
achan@tdd.sj.nec.com