NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #18/NN_1992_18.iso/spool/comp/sys/hp/9295

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From: [e-mail] (Rick Hebert, Lockheed-ESC, Houston, 713/283-5109)
Subject: Re: Need 'xwd' -> PostScript
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Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 15:46:30 GMT

In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (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
>>
>> 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.
>>
It turns out that you have to do a lot of fancy stuff to get "xgrab" to
work because you need some of the X11R? widgets that HP doesn't provide.
Any, I grabbed "xwd2ps" which converts an XWD into PostScript and *does*
handle color!  This works fine for windows that don't use 3D graphics
from Starbase.  The "xwd" command returns a blank screen when the graphics
are 3D starbase.

xwd2ps can be found in 'export.lcs.mit.edu' in the 'contrib' directory.
The compressed tar file is pretty small, around 160k I think.

Thanks for all those who helped.
-Rick   [e-mail]