Re: Unix screen capture tool

[Frank Saucier <Frank_Saucier -at- WARREN -dot- MENTORG -dot- COM>]

For UNIX screen captures I use the Snapshot tool that is part of
OpenWindows and the FrameMaker Capture tool (File > Utilities > Capture)
that is part of FrameMaker 4.0 for UNIX (I listed a portion of the man
pages for Snapshot below). I use xv to convert the Snapshot raster files
to the format I need (JPEG, GIF, TIFF, XBM, ...). I don't think xv liked
the format of the FrameMaker Capture files.

Frank

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SNAPSHOT(1)              USER COMMANDS                SNAPSHOT(1)

NAME
     snapshot - capture some or all of a screen  and  save  to  a
     raster file

SYNOPSIS
     snapshot [ -d default directory ] [ -f default filename ]  [
     -g ] [ -l filename ] [ -n ] [ -v ]

AVAILABILITY
     Available with the OpenWindows environment.  For information
     about  installing  OpenWindows,  refer  to  the  OpenWindows
     Installation and Start-Up Guide.

DESCRIPTION
     snapshot is an OpenWindows XView utility that  allows  users
     to  save images from their workstation screens into a raster
     file. The user may choose to take a picture of a single win-
     dow,  the  entire  screen, or any rectangular portion of the
     screen.

     snapshot can also be used to load and display Sun rasterfile
     or  GIF  formatted  files.   It  is  also capable of viewing
     images of a different depth then the  screen,  for  example,
     displaying color images of a monochrome screen. The image is
     appropriately dithered before it  is  displayed.  Compressed
     images will be unpacked and loaded automatically.

     Images can be saved to disk in  Sun  rasterfile  format,  or
     printed  on  a PostScript printer. There are various printer
     options (see below).

     If it also possible to  drag  and  drop  rasterfile  or  GIF
     images  onto the snapshot drop zone and these will be loaded
     automatically. Similarily, it is possible to drag  and  drop
     from snapshot to another DeskSet application such as filemgr
     or printtool.

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Date:    Thu, 15 Dec 1994 16:24:49 ISTman
From:    Mark Levinson <mark -at- SD -dot- CO -dot- IL>
Subject: UNIX screen capture tool

On a related note, does anyone out there know of a good screen capture utility
for UNIX?

** Check out xv, from John Bradley (bradley -at- cis -dot- upenn -dot- edu), (215) 898-8813 -
   1053 Floyd Terrace, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010, USA.  You can probably download
   it free for a trial.  Quite useful and powerful.

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