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From: andreess@mrlaxs.mrl.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen)
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Subject: Re: HDF to Postscript ? (NCSA)
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Date: 6 Mar 91 23:09:17 GMT
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In article <2527@njitgw.njit.edu> elie@sensors.njit.edu (Elie I. Mourad) writes:
>I am trying to get outputs of ximage & imagetool to a B&W postscript printer.
>Any ideas ? 

What I do (since I've been too lazy to write hdftoppm or the equivalent
so far) is get an xwd dump of the image window, convert that to ppm, then
to pgm, then to ps (with Jef Poskanzer's pbmplus package).  Something like 
this:

cat file.xwd | xwdtoppm | ppmtopgm | pgmtops >file.ps

Marc

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