Ewan Dunbar wrote:
>
> On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Martin Gisser wrote:
> > Ewan Dunbar wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Martin Gisser wrote:
> > > > xwd -silent -name "Desk 0" | xwdtopnm > pager.pnm
> > > >
> > > > but that gives me only the green channel :-( :-(
> > >
> > > Try looking at it in The GIMP or some other program, and/or converting it
> > > to a different file format. XV doesn't seem to like xwds. I could be
> >
> > I made my "green channel only" diagnosis by using the GIMP.
>
> Right. So take all conversion out of the pipe. Do `xwd -silent -name "Desk
> 0" -out pager.xwd`. Or maybe you just have to redirect stdout to
> pager.xwd. In any case, don't convert it. I've had the same problem. Then,
> look at it in The GIMP. In my experience, it works. Convert from there. A
> pain, I know. But, like I said, IIRC -- and I could be wrong -- xwd will
> also save to different file formats.
HURRAY for the Gimp! It works with
xwd -silent -name "Desk 0" -xy -out pager.xwd
---------------------------^^^---------------
Sorry, I'm still quite a newbie... just didn't dare to think the Gimp could
read XWD files. BTW, what does IIRC stand for?
Now there are problems left :-)
1.) How to raise the Pager window before taking the shot
2.) To isolate the XWD-->something_else conversion out of the Gimp code.
I can't believe this xwdtopnm desaster!!
Throw that f*'n thing out of your distribution, SuSE!
Isn't there any tiny tool out there that could do the job?
I guess I'm doomed to write one myself. Yeah, it's time to get into C etc.!
Thanks for your help!
Martin
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