Re: Peace Everybody (Postscript???)

["Chayim I. Kirshen" <chayim i kirshen home com>]

Actually, my goal is rather simple.  I am creating a small billing program for
my personal use (obviously, to be released in Open-Source for the rest of the
world if they should want it).  I need to find a way to print the contents of
my window on paper.  Other then the menubar, the windows contents will be a
series of boxes, a jpeg/gif, and some text.  Ideas?

Chayim


> Programmatically or do you just need a tool that does screen captures?  If
> the latter, you can use either xv or the screen capture feature of the
> Gimp.  Those will produce a raster image that you can then convert to
> Postscript (which will really only be a vector wrapping around a raster
> image).
> 
> If you need to do so from within your program, look at the Gimp screen
> capture plug-in or xwd to see how they do it.
> 
> Keep in mind that screen dumps are at 72DPI and printing is not, so your
> image on paper is likely to be significatnly smaller.  You may need to
> scale it up in size before printing.
> -- 
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> The Graphics Muse           |  not your day.  Tomorrow's not looking good 
> mjhammel@graphics-muse.org  |  either. -- Dilbert
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