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From: steele@mountaindew.rtp.dg.com (Michael Steele)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: X11 window dumps to postscript
Message-ID: <1991Jun11.202802.27950@dg-rtp.dg.com>
Date: 11 Jun 91 20:28:02 GMT
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In article <2843ECBE.1486@deneva.sdd.trw.com>, rroux@betelgeuse.sdd.trw.com (Ray Roux) writes:
|> I'm looking for a way of producing encapsulated postscript from an X11
|> screen dump.  I have some windows that I want to get a snap shot of and
|> include them in a LaTeX document.  I tried the following sequence with
|> limited success:
|> 	xwd | xwdtoppm | ppmtopgm | pgmtops > file.ps
|> 
|> The problem here is that the window trim is removed and that the
|> bounding box isn't correct if I use the scale option of pgmtops.  I've
|> heard there is another set of bit manipulation routines (Fuzzy Bitmap
|> Manipulation FBM) but haven't been able to locate it.

Under X11 R4 you can do an:
	xwd -frame | xpr -dev ps > filename.ps

I beleive xpr comes on the MIT R4 contrib tape.  This series of commands will 
capture a window, including the frame and will then convert it to postscript.

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