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Subject:Re: UNIX Screen Captures From:"Matthew B. Hicks" <matt -at- UNIDATA -dot- UCAR -dot- EDU> Date:Sat, 13 Jan 1996 11:53:11 -0700
On Fri, 12 Jan 1996, Marvin W. Miller wrote:
> The trick is that you must have a word processor or page layout tool that will
> directly import Sun raster files. Framemaker does this very nicely.
Nonsense. Any of a variety of utilities and filters will convert raster
files to many other formats. XV is one such tool. The PBMplus utilities
are another. Yet another answer is to use a screen-capture utility that
allows you to save in formats other than rasters. As I recommended to
Steve, xgrab is such a utility. Xgrab allows you to save your screen
captures in several formats including XBM and PostScript. There's no need
to kludge it through a word processor.
