Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Brian McAllister" <[email protected]> · Thu, 05 Dec 2002 16:49:28 -0500

>>> On 12/5/2002 at 15:24:59 CST, Garrett D Rinehart wrote:

  > What do any of you use to get an x-window printed on a PS printer from
  > Linux? I need something non-interactive that I can just call from my
  > Tcl/tk script.
  >
  > On Solaris, the "xwd | xpr | lpr" worked great. My RedHat Linux 7.3 has
  > xwd, but not xpr. For that matter, I've searched and searched and I
  > cannot find any reference to xpr under Linux on the CDs or the
  > web. Doesn't it exist? Is there something else that would do what I
  > want?

I have successfully used "import", which is part of the ImageMagick
package.  It will do the grab and dump directly to PostScript (or many
other image formats).

Here's the command I used to make printing work from stripTool on Linux:

import -frame -window %d -page 581x752+20+20 -rotate '-90>' - | lp -d%s -o nobanner

The "-page" may not be needed. I think it was so the image would be scaled
properly to fit the page.  "-rotate" gets you landscape orientation.

The standard "xwd" doesn't handle 24-bit displays, so it probably
wouldn't work well even if you did have "xpr".

- brian

Aside to the developer(s) of stripTool:

  Please make the command used to grab and print configurable. Of all the
OSes I've used, only SunOS and Solaris have "xpr".

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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