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Date:      Tue, 13 May 1997 17:27:23 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        Shimon@i-Connect.Net (Simon Shapiro)
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: URGENT:  Printing an X11 screen.  How?
Message-ID:  <199705130757.RAA15749@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.970513000217.Shimon@i-Connect.Net> from Simon Shapiro at "May 12, 97 11:56:18 pm"

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Simon Shapiro stands accused of saying:
[Charset iso-8859-8 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...]
> Once upon a time there used to be an wwd-xwud-xpr and somethingtopbm that
> could print an X window or a portion thereof.
> 
> Now all I see is xwd and xwud, whose man page refers to xpr which is
> nowhere to be seen.  xtopbm from pbmnet only deals with bitmaps.
> 
> I need, urgently to dump to a printer a number of X11 screens.  How?

Use xv to grab your screen/window, then print from there.  (You'll
need a postscript printer/interpreter, I use apsfilter.)

> Simon

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