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FrameMaker's Capture and Import functions do a good job of
capturing screens on X Windows or Motif platforms. There is also
a utility named SnapShot that is more flexible than FrameMaker's
Capture function. I don't have the vendor name handy, but, if
your system administration people are unfamiliar with it, I can
find out the vendor's name.
One word of warning about FrameMaker Capture. If you use
it on a color capable workstation, FrameMaker captures the color
data with the screen image. There is a utility named fmcolor that
strips the color data and leaves a MUCH smaller xwd file. fmcolor
is supplied with FrameMaker. The FrameMaker Reference manual
describes fmcolor in its appendix on FrameMaker Utilities.
Good Luck!
Chuck Banks
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