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From: scfisher@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Steven Fisher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: How to print the screen
Message-ID: <6744@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
Date: 1 Apr 91 20:27:34 GMT
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In article <hart.670537043@blackjack> hart@blackjack.dt.navy.mil (Michael Hart) writes:
>Someone asked me a question today.  Not wanting to expose the
>level of my ignorance, I said I'd get back to 'em.  Soo, here
>I am :-)

>How does on print/dump the screen, in b&w, without having either
>a screen printer, or a color printer?  They want to have the
>screen graphics show up in black and white.  Mostly, this will
>be just windows and pop up menus, no really detailed modeled 
>graphics or tiny objects.

>Is this possible using some combination of ipaste/snapshot/icut
>whatever?  Can it be dumped to your garden variety laser printer,
>like an Apple LaserWriter IINTX, or a Kyosera?

>thanx for your help

First, capture the screen using ipaste/snapshot/icut, etc.  Then, use
the routine "tops", from 4Dgifts;

tops filename | lp -

and it will convert the screendump held in the file filename to
postscript, and send it to the printer.


-steve