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From: shiva@well.sf.ca.us (Kenneth Porter)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
Subject: High-level screen capture
Keywords: PostScript documentation bitmap efficient
Message-ID: <25804@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: 30 Jun 91 22:06:29 GMT
Distribution: comp
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I need to create compact/fast PostScript illustrations for a PM
application's documentation.
 
Is there a way to capture a high-level description of a PM
screen? I know that there are numerous screen-capture programs
that take a snapshot of the bitmap (I currently use one), but
this is huge and takes forever to print as an included
illustration in PostScript.  I'd rather have a high-level
description such as what one would get when writing to a
PostScript printer's presentation space. PM looks like it could
almost do this, if one could slide the printer driver between
the desktop and the video driver and force a screen repaint,
but there are just enough differences between the presentation
spaces to cause trouble, and I know of no way to intercept the
graphics calls from the applications and redirect them to the
printer driver.
 
Ken (shiva@well.sf.ca.us)