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- From: story@sgi.com (David (Duis) Story)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: How do I dump a window to a color postscript printer?
- Message-ID: <pc251no@twilight.wpd.sgi.com>
- Date: 2 Sep 92 23:14:11 GMT
- References: <1992Aug31.025607.18478@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
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- In article <1992Aug31.025607.18478@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> spm2d@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU (Steven Miale) writes:
- >We currently have an SGI running IRIX 4.0.1, and wish to convert
- >a given window to color postscript so that it can be printed.
-
- The most straightforward way is to use "snapshot" to take a snapshot
- of the screen, saving it to an SGI RGB file. If you are running 4.0.1
- or later, you should simply be able to lp that RGB file to the
- printer.
-
- so:
-
- snapshot
- lp snap.rgb
-
- Done.
-
- Cheers,
-
- David Story Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- story@bent.wpd.sgi.com Mountain View, California
-
- I've changed my name, so duis@sgi.com may bounce, please use story@sgi.com.
-