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From: steven@pacific.csl.uiuc.edu (Steven Parkes)
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Subject: Re: How can I dump a LARGE window to a file?
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Date: 4 Apr 91 17:52:51 GMT
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|> You could, of course, write a window dump program that put the target
|> window on top, snarfed as much as was visible, then moved the target window
|> around (and allowed it to do whatever expose processing it was going to do)
|> taking snapshots and compositing them together to form an image of what the
|> whole window would look like if it were all visible.

Shades of how Daisy printed schematics