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- From: klimt@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Wolfgang Klimt)
- Subject: Re: Need 'xwd' -> PostScript
- References: <1992Aug12.190118.1@isvax.lmsc.lockheed.com>
- Originator: klimt@hphalle0a.informatik.tu-muenchen.de
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- Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 07:21:30 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.072130.3427@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
- Reply-To: klimt@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE
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- In article <1992Aug12.190118.1@isvax.lmsc.lockheed.com>, hebert@isvax.lmsc.lockheed.com (Rick Hebert, Lockheed-ESC, Houston, 713/283-5109) writes:
- > Can anyone help me find a way to print from an Xwindow directly (or
- > indirectly) to PostScript. I currently am using X11R4 (no shit) and
- > would like to print to a PostScript color printer. I've tried
- > 'xwd' but it ends up with a file in PCL format, so I guess a PCL
- > to PostScript program would work too. I also have a HPGL to PostScript
- > program so I guess a PCL to HPGL would work also.
- If you have got the full X11R4 release, there must be a program named
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- xwd2ps
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- it is part of the contrib software and does exactly what you need.
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- The other program you may use is xpr, but i fear it doesn't support color
- images on postscript-printers.
-
- if this fails, you may use pbmplus which is able to convert most
- pixmap-formats into each other. There is also one tool included that
- produces ps-output (no tool for the opposite way of course...).
-
- it is contained in the contrib package of X11 (contrib/clients/pbmplus)
- or may be copied by anonimous ftp from
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- ftp.informatik.tu-muenchen.de
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- directory /pub/X11/contrib/clients/pbmplus
-
- or, of course, from some other servers you may know.
-
- hope that helps
-
- Wolfgang
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- Wolfgang Klimt (klimt@informatik.tu-muenchen.de)
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