Re: HP Screen Capture Tools

[Stuart Burnfield <slb -at- FS -dot- COM -dot- AU>]

I use ImageMagick for screen capture and batch conversions.

It has a GUI but you can do a lot of work from the command line, such
as: format conversion; compression; adding borders, comments and special
effects; cropping, flipping and rotating; and much more.

For example, I used it recently to compress a directory of TIFFs:

for i in *
do
        convert $i $i
done

ImageMagick is copyright but free. It runs on almost every UNIX around.
It's also available for Windows NT and Windows 95, but you need X server
software to use it fully, so it's really not suitable for Windows-only
shops.

According to the man page it handles 50+ graphics formats, including
XWD & GIF. For more info, see:
http://www.wizards.dupont.com/cristy/ImageMagick.html

You can download IM source or precompiled binaries from:
ftp://ftp.wizards.dupont.com/pub/ImageMagick/

I used to use XV (also good software) but for me, ImageMagick is better.

Regards
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Stuart Burnfield (slb -at- fs -dot- com -dot- au)        Voice: +61 9 328 8288
Functional Software Pty Ltd             Fax:   +61 9 328 8616

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