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From: mouse@LARRY.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU
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Subject: Re:  Any bitmap file creating command?
Message-ID: <9011221136.AA02093@Larry.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
Date: 22 Nov 90 11:36:14 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.

Surely it should be pretty easy to take xwd and replace the dumping
code with a call to XWriteBitmapFile.  (Not that I've looked at xwd's
guts, but it can't be all that bad.)

> 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?

Why not just use a pipeline like this?

xwd | xwdtopbm | pbmtoxbm

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