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From: erc@pai.UUCP (Eric Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: xwd to postscript again
Summary: Try Portable Bitmap library (PBM)
Message-ID: <477@pai.UUCP>
Date: 21 Apr 89 14:14:31 GMT
References: <843@garcon.cso.uiuc.edu>
Organization: Prime Automation, Inc., Burnsville, MN
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In article <843@garcon.cso.uiuc.edu>, page@ferrari.ece.uiuc.edu (Ward Page) writes:
> 
> Thanks to everyone who sent me the xpr suggestion.  However, I failed to mention
> that I am running xwd and xpr under X10.4 not X11.  Under my version of xpr
> -dev lw or ps is not supported (I am running Ultrix 2.?).  Therefore, is there
> a filter that converts an X10.4 xwd to postscript, OR an X10 version of xpr that
> supports -dev ps or lw, OR a conversion program that takes X10 xwd dumps and
> converts them to X11 xwd format (I have access to an X11 system with xpr).
> Again, any help is greatly appreciated.
> 
> 
> Ward Page
> University of Illinois
> page@ferrari.ece.uiuc.edu


Try Jef Poskanzer's PBM code.  PBM is an ASCII-based monochrome image
format.  The PBM package (which was distributed over Usenet) contains
a number of programs to convert various formats to PBM and then to
convert PBM images to various formats.

The way it works is this:

1) Use xwd to get an xwd image file for a window under X10 (PBM also
converts X11 xwd format).

2) Use xwdtopbm to convert your xwd image to PBM format,

% xwdtopbm foo.xwd > foo.pbm

3) Use pbmtops to convert the PBM file to PostScript.  (I don't have
a PostScript printer, so your mileage may vary.)

% pbmtops foo.pbm > foo.ps

4) Click your heels together and repeat "there's no place like home,"
"there's no place like home."

I hope this helps.  PBM was distributed over Usenet at least once.
It is also available for anon. FTP, I think.  The X11 R3 release
from the MIT X Consortium also had a version of PBM.  Since you said
you have access to X11, look there first.  I'm running a rather old
version ( 31 Oct 88), so I suggest you find the latest and greatest.

In the README, Jef Poskanzer's email address was:

jef@rtsg.ee.lbl.gov

or

{ucbvax, lll-crg, sun!pacbell, apple, hplabs}!well!pokey

Good luck and have fun,
-Eric


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