Re: UNIX Screen Captures

["Susan Self @ignite" <susan -at- ALSYS -dot- COM>]

Steve Evanina asked:

     Does anyone know the best way to capture UNIX X-Windows screens? The
     final output will be via Word 6.0.

     We have tried various UNIX programs with little to no success in
     transferring them to Windows.

     steve -dot- evanina -at- sciatl -dot- com

An approach not already mentioned but which I have used successfully in
converting a UNIX/Motif FrameMaker document to Word 6.0 is as follows:

1. Capture the X Windows screen using the FrameMaker capture utility or xwd
   so that you have the image in an .xwd file.

2. Use the ImageMagick freeware "convert" command to convert the .xwd
   file to a .tif file.

3. Import the .tif file into your Word 6.0 document.

You can ftp ImageMagick from ftp.x.org in the directory
contrib/applications/ImageMagick.

Susan Self
Thomson Software Products
susan -at- thomsoft -dot- com