Michael Heironimus <mkh01@earthlink.net> [2002-10-12 19:19:02 -0500]: > On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 04:24:17PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > http://ursine.dyndns.org/~baloo/screen.xwd > > By the way, in the future you might limit your screenshots to the > window you're referring to, and use a nice browser-friendly format > like JPEG. Somebody using dial-up who went to view your screenshot > might get quite a surprise when they realized they were downloading > a file that large. I agree. For me that 3.8MB file I am now happy to say is "small" but for a phone line user it would be painful. But it was cool to see your desktop setup. :-) My I suggest using 'xwd > snapshot.xwd' and then clicking on the window to capture? That way you show only the pertinent details. Your cursor will change to a crosshair to indicate you need to select a window to capture. Make sure the window is on top or you will capture the pixels of any overlapping graphic. After screencapture converting the image to JPEG or PNG or whatever is straightforward and away you go. Also for other people reading this and thinking I am advocating only using image dumps for show and tell. The low tech cut-n-paste works best most of the time. But only if the charsets are the same and mutt relies upon the box drawing characters if they are available. So in this case it would not work reliably and the image capture was about the only way to say "Hey, look at this." :-) > I think the "import" program from ImageMagick can automatically make > JPEG screenshots from the command line. Yes. And since I had the file, I did some experiments. I thought I would share them. convert screen.xwd screen.jpg convert screen.xwd screen.png ll -h screen.jpg screen.xwd -rw-r--r-- 1 bob bob 3.8M Oct 12 16:38 screen.xwd -rw-r--r-- 1 bob bob 235k Oct 12 19:56 screen.jpg -rw-r--r-- 1 bob bob 234k Oct 12 20:14 screen.png A big savings going to the newer formats. However, the particular JPEG and PNG sizes can vary widely depending upon size and many other factors. YMMV. Bob
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