Re: Capturing screen output

["A.Sajjad Zaidi" <sajjad@example.com>]

Ive also seen a Gnome applet, which after clicking enables you to select an
area on the screen which it saves as an image file. Cant remember its name
though. I think it came with Gnome Helix.



"Stephen J. Turnbull" wrote:

> I don't know who linux@example.com is, so I deleted it.  Forward if you
> think it would be of interest.
>
> >>>>> "Antony" == Antony Stace <antony@example.com> writes:
>
>     Antony> Whats the best way to capture screen output to a
>     Antony> postscript file and jpg file.
>
> The "grab" function built into xv(1), or the import(1) program from
> the Imagemagick distribution are both simple.  However, both do a fair
> amount of implicit processing under some circumstances, and
>
>                        xwd | xwdtopnm | pnmtops
>
> might be preferable if you want to do processing on the raw data.
>
> The GIMP has complex versions of the function, and there are probably
> GNOME versions of the straightforward window-capture apps for the
> commandline-impaired.
>
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