Re: screen capture

[Alisdair McDiarmid <alisdair@wasters.org>]

On Fri, Nov 19, 1999 at 07:57:48PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote:
> Is there a Debianised program to capture the contents of a
> window to a BMP or jpg file?  If so what package should I
> install?

The imagemagick package provides the `import' command:

import(1)                                               import(1)

NAME
       import - capture some or all of an X server screen and
       save the image to a file.

SYNOPSIS
       import [ options ... ] [ file ]

DESCRIPTION
       import reads an image from any visible window on an X
       server and outputs it as an image file.  You can capture a
       single window, the entire screen, or any rectangular por­
       tion of the screen.  Use display (see display(1)) for
       redisplay, printing, editing, formatting, archiving, image
       processing, etc. of the captured image.

HTH, HAND,
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alisdair mcdiarmid                            alisdair@wasters.org
[funny how everything i swore i wouldn't change, is different now]