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From: rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler)
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Subject: Re: troubles using xwd/xpr/lpr
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Date: 31 Jan 89 13:18:28 GMT
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The R3 xwud and xpr have numerous deficiencies.  In your particular case, the
problem with xpr is that it is taking the most significant bit plane of the
image, and you probably want some other one (like the least significant) to get
a reasonable image.

I've rewritten xwud and xpr to do numerous things right.  xwud will correctly
remap colors, change depths, pick a visual, etc.  xpr will let you specify
which plane to use, doesn't require an xy format image, will do color->mono
conversion, and will even do a simple 5-level gray scale conversion for color.
Of course, I'm telling you things you probably don't want to know, since you
might not see the results until R4.  I'll have to think on this.