[Radiance-general] xglaresrc

[Peter Apian-Bennewitz]

Greg Ward wrote:

> Hi Judy,
>
> In what way do you qualify as a "newbie??"
>
> Unfortunately, there is no output facility from ximage.  The only way 
> to get the image is with a window capture.  Fortunately, X11 has a 
> utility for this, called xwd.  If your image file were named "35b3", 
> you could call the following command once it was up:
>
>     % xwd -name 35b3 -out 35b3.xwd
>
> The xwd program looks up the window by name, then dumps its contents 
> to the file 35b3.xwd.  Unfortunately, none of the mainstream programs 
> will recognize the little-used "X-window dump" format, so you'll have 
> to load it into GraphicConverter or somesuch and save it out in a more 
> conventional format.
>
> -Greg
> (Definite oldbie)
>
xwd -name 35b3 | xwdtopnm | ra_ppm -r > 35b3.pic

-Peter
(middlebie)

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