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- From: kk@hpl-opus.hpl.hp.com (Konstantinos Konstantinides)
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 16:37:34 GMT
- Subject: Re: Need 'xwd' -> PostScript
- Message-ID: <63300088@hpl-opus.hpl.hp.com>
- Organization: HP Labs, High Speed Electronics Dept., Palo Alto, CA
- Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!rpi!usc!sdd.hp.com!hpscdc!hplextra!hpl-opus!kk
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
- References: <1992Aug12.190118.1@isvax.lmsc.lockheed.com>
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- In comp.sys.hp, hebert@isvax.lmsc.lockheed.com (Rick Hebert, Lockheed-ESC, Houston, 713writes:
-
- > 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.
- >
- > -Rick hebert@lmsc.lockheed.com
- > Error: no .sig file found, rebuilding kernel to provide...
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- I strongly recommend you to get "xgrab" from export.lcs.mit.edu in contrib.
- It supports xwd , postscript (color too) and other xbm formats and
- has a very good user interface.
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- To compile, you need the Athena widgets.
- These are available from hpcvaaz.cv.hp.com in ~ftp/pub/MitX11R5
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- K. Konstantinides
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