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- From: sts@mfltd.co.uk (Steve Sherwood)
- Subject: Re: Printing a color x-screen to bw postscript printer
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.151950.13507@mfltd.co.uk>
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- Reply-To: sts@mfltd.co.uk
- Organization: Micro Focus Ltd, Newbury, England
- References: <Bz3qDJ.F7F@gdls.CSCTMD.COM>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 15:19:50 GMT
- Lines: 35
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- In article <Bz3qDJ.F7F@gdls.CSCTMD.COM>, mishins@gdls.CSCTMD.COM (Phil Mishins) writes:
- |> Hi X-gurus,
- |>
- |> I am trying to print out an x-window captured screen from a 256-color
- |> X-server ( DeskViewX) to a b&w postscript printer. All I get is a page
- |> of toner!
- |>
- |> I tried:"xwd -xy -display 0550_01:0|xpr -device ps|lpr"
- |>
- |> Does anyone have suggestions?
- |>
- |> Thanks in advance.
- |>
- |> Phil
- |>
- |> (my address: ilium.troy.msen.com!gdls!mishins%gdpy01 )
-
- Try xgrabsc. This will capture any portion of an x screen, and output it as
- postscript. It works very well, and the output quality is better than anything
- else that I have tried.
-
- Ftp it from many places including
-
- wuarchive.wustl.edu
- unix.hensa.ac.uk
- nic.funet.fi
-
- Steve
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