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From: inoue@sunburst.crd.ge.com
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Any bitmap file creating command?
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Date: 21 Nov 90 14:57:31 GMT
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I wonder if there is an X command that creates bitmap files
from windows if the windows are one-plane depth.

Inside an application which it has drawable ID's inside, we can use the
XWriteBitmapFile function.

What I want to have is like 'xwd'; command, clicking a window by a mouse,
and bitmap file output.  We can get PostScrpt files using
'xwd' and some other commnads, but I want to get bitmap files so that
I can use the window image in Xlib based application.
Any command, or any alternative way to do that?

I am also curious; are there any methods to translate from a PostScript 
file to a bitmap file, or vice versa?

I want to know about translation between drawable(window or pixmap),
bitmap files and PostScript. Any reference about that?

Thanks.

					T.I.(Takeshi Inoue)
					GE. CR&D
					(518)372-3743