Hi Roni, thank you so much! This works perfectly. I didn't know about the import command, this is very convenient.
Thanks again and kind regards Eike Roni Choudhury <[email protected]> writes: > Hi Eike- > > You have to let *convert* know the image type coming in on stdin: > > *xwd -root | convert xwd:- screenshot.jpg* > > You may also be interested to know about the *import* command, which comes > with ImageMagick: > > *import -window root screenshot.png* > > That command will take a screenshot and automatically convert to an output > format based on the file extension you choose. > > Hope this helps, > > roni > > On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 6:25 AM Eike <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Hello, >> >> I'm used to do screenshots with xwd and imagemagick like this: >> >> xwd -root | convert - screenshot.jpg >> >> Currently (17.03pre95306.a24728f (Gorilla)) with imagemagick 6.9.6-2 I >> cannot convert xwd dumps to jpgs anymore: >> >> $ xwd -root | convert - screenshot.jpg >> convert: no decode delegate for this image format `' @ >> error/constitute.c/ReadImage/504. >> convert: no images defined `screenshot.jpg' @ >> error/convert.c/ConvertImageCommand/3257. >> >> I tested with the version of commit fa6c6dae7 (which is 6.9.5-10) >> successfully but with the update to 6.9.6-2 (commit 241cd0e5d) it >> stopped working. So it looks like it is not supported anymore with >> imagemagick 6.9.6? >> >> I could not find related info doing a quick search on the web. Does >> anyone know more about this? >> >> Thanks and regards >> Eike >> >> -- >> gpg: AD7AC35E >> finger print: 137F BB0B 1639 D25F DC5D E59C B412 C5F5 AD7A C35E >> _______________________________________________ >> nix-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev >> -- gpg: AD7AC35E finger print: 137F BB0B 1639 D25F DC5D E59C B412 C5F5 AD7A C35E _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
