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From: nordenswan@csc.fi
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: frame grapper to postscript wanted
Message-ID: <1991Mar7.094643.1@csc.fi>
Date: 7 Mar 91 09:46:43 GMT
References: <9103042230.AA02226@lasso.RZ-Berlin.MPG.DE> <1991Mar4.183356@wsl.dec.com>
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In article <1991Mar4.183356@wsl.dec.com>, klee@wsl.dec.com (Ken Lee) writes:
> In article <9103042230.AA02226@lasso.RZ-Berlin.MPG.DE>, hermann@lasso.rz-berlin.mpg.de writes:
> |> Does anyone of you out there have, use or know of a publicly available
> |> frame grabber that converts contents of color windows to Postscript
> |> files ? I am running  DECwindows on a DECstation 5000-200.
> 
> The DECwindows session manager "print screen" option can dump all or
> part of your screen to a PostScript file.  From the command line, "xwd
> | xpr" will do similar things.  Look at the man pages for xwd and xpr
> for command line options.
> 


What are the software versions requred for this?. I am running Ultrix/UWS 4.1
on a DECstation 5000-200 PXG and my session manager does not allow me to switch
on the color option in the customize printscreen menu nor do i find any
rerferences to commands xwd or xpr at the manual pages. 


Antti Kilpinen
Partek Corporation, Corporate R&D
Pargas,
Finland
E-mail: akilpinen@finabo.abo.fi