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Subject:Re: Screen Capture for X-Windows From:Steve Fouts <sfouts -at- ELLISON -dot- SC -dot- TI -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 28 Jun 1993 15:11:18 CDT
> I'm looking for a software package that can capture X-window screens on a
> UNIX platform and save it in a format that I can import into Ventura
> (.eps, tif, sld, etc.) for software documentation.
> I've used "SnapShot" for PC-Windows documentation and I've gotten
> spoiled; the idea of doing screen dumps, adjusting for grey scale, and
> ending up wth huge .eps files is no longer appealing. Does anyone have any
> suggestions?
> Susan Sellew
> sss -at- creare -dot- com
I suggest that you try XV 3.00, a shareware type utility written by John
Bradley. Commercial, government, and institutional users must use registered
copies at $25 per workstation or terminal. For that you get a really nice
little utility that can capture bitmaps of your X-window stuff, manipulate
them with a nice interface that lets you crop a pixel-width at a time! This
plus it will save in GIF, PM, PBM, X11 Bitmap, Sun Rasterfile, BMP, PostScript,
IRIS, JPEG, and TIFF formats.
Plus! (Jeeze I sound like this guys salesman) you can download it, compile
it, and run it for a while to see if you like it or not. Now how much would
you pay? Nope, still $25 a copy. Jeeze, this guy must have a real job.
It is available for anonymous ftp at ftp.cis.upenn.edu from
/pub/xv/xv-3.00.tar.Z
This is source code that you'll have to compile, but for open windows you
can compile it virtually straight out of the box.
For more info contact bradley -at- cis -dot- upenn -dot- edu
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* _ ___ * Steve Fouts
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* _ /\ |\ _ * "People who spend most of their natural lives riding
* / / \ _| \ \ * iron bicycles over the rocky roadsteads of this parish
* ( * ) \/_|__* ) * get their personalities mixed up with the personalities
* \_/ _/ \_/ * of their bicycles..." -- Flann O'Brien
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