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From: barnett@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com (Bruce Barnett)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Printing color sun screen dumps on a postscript printer
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Date: 2 Mar 89 11:56:30 GMT
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In article <5987@sdcsvax.UCSD.Edu> hidley@odin.ucsd.edu (Greg Hidley) writes:
>
>We here at UC San Diego have been very unsuccessful at being able to
>provide support for printing (on postscript printers) screendumps from
>color sun displays. We use the commands:

Some tips on this.

On suns with the overlay plane (3/60, 3/110, 4/xxx)
a sunview screen may have some of the display on the B&W plane, and other
parts on the color planes. The default is to use the B&W plane for most
windows, and the color planes for the canvas windows.

When you do a screendump, you can specify either plane.
You may, therefore, only get half of what you want.
You can start up SunView using just the b&w plane, or just the color plane.
see sunview(1).

There is also a known bug that if anything moves on the screen (like the
minute hand on a clock) during the screendump, the image may be corrupted.

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	Bruce G. Barnett 	barnett@ge-crd.ARPA, barnett@steinmetz.ge.com
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