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From: kaleb@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X-windows screen dump
Message-ID: <1991Jan17.172846.26305@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov>
Date: 17 Jan 91 17:28:46 GMT
References: <1991Jan16.101014.12683@ioe.lon.ac.uk> <1991Jan17.151147.783@emisle.uucp>
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In article <1991Jan17.151147.783@emisle.uucp> dvb@emisle.UUCP (David Van Beveren) writes:
>In article <1991Jan16.101014.12683@ioe.lon.ac.uk> teexjrl@ioe.lon.ac.uk (Jack Levy) writes:
>>
>>Does anyone know of a (preferably public-domain) program that will grab part of
>>an X-windows screen and turn it into printable form, such as PostScript?
>>
>Look at man pages for xwd and xpr. (On the X11R4 tapes) These two used together
>will give you what you need.
>

There are also xwd2ps and XtoPS, readily available at your favorite
archive.  We find them to be much nicer, primarily because they generate
EPSF, which we can use on our color printers.

-- 
Kaleb Keithley                      Jet Propulsion Labs
kaleb@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov

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